On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:37:44 +0100 Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi LAU, > >As we're entering a 'tighter' lock-down in my area this week I will need >to attend online music lessons (bass). The suggested tool is zoom with >'original sound' option selected, but it seems this is not available on >Linux (nor in a web (chrome?) client) [1]. > >In the past setting the 'noise reduction' (or maybe it's echo >cancellation) to low seemed to work OK, but I'm wondering if anyone >knows of any work-arounds. > >Or any other platform (Discord seems to use Opus which sounds promising). >The one used for the last LAC seemed also quite nice, but I guess that's >not free (as in 'gratis')? As zoom is the tool selected by the music >school it should also be something relatively hassle-free for the >teacher and cross-platform (i.e. assume they will not be on Linux, so no >funky stuff like having to install a Mumble server etc. :-| ... Although >the offers on mumble.com seem quite reasonable, but has anyone used it >for music?) > >I _am_ already able to set-up e.g. my Zoom H5 (the device not the >software) or usb audio interface via JACK to have a decent mic/input at >the source and then pulseaudio-jack sink for audio I/O with these apps >(I actually helped my son do remote drum lessons which included piping >smplayer via jack to him locally and his teacher as well as the e-drum >line out with JACK). >But of course there's no much point in having decent quality at the >source if the software is doing funky stuff like noise reduction and >echo cancellation at the source :-| > >Any suggestion welcome. > >Lorenzo. Very interesting. Thanks for letting us know. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk http://yoshimi.github.io Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
