You’re welcome!

Thank you Ygor! Much appreciated, and you are welcome, I'm glad the video was helpful :)

Awesome!! I'm so glad the video helped! And thank you so much, I appreciate it. Happy meeting-and-recording!

Hi there. Thank you so much, I'm glad the videos were helpful for you. I have been thinking about doing a "this is my setup" video, so, maybe I can do that soon, I always love seeing other people's setups! My setup has its pros-and-cons for sure, but I can cover those in that video........so, I'd say, look for it soon! Thank you again so much :)

@@MarcusHutsell awesome! looking forward to watching it. I'll keep an eye out for it.

Thank you. And you’ are welcome, I’m glad it helped :)

Hi there Derek. Thank you so much, I'm glad you found the video helpful and knowledgable. Cheers!

Thank you :)

Hi there. My apologies for my very delayed reply, it's been a busy few months and I've gotten a bit behind. Great, and difficult question!! There's probably 100 ways to do what you need, but I understand your problem, and, it's difficult to solve. Everybody wearing earbuds could work, but, the hard part is that if someone IN the room is speaking, (let's say "John") then everyone in the same room would hear their voice through the Teams meeting on a SLIGHT delay, because "John's" voice would go in to the teams meeting via John's own laptop, then sent through the internet and back to everyone else on their own laptops......so, "Suzy" would hear John acoustically in the room, and then hear John again maybe 1/2 second later in their ear, and that probably won't work, as it would be hard for the in-room participants to understand other people in the same room. It's very difficult when there are many people in the same room on the same virtual meeting, we have this problem with my own company where there are usually 3 or 4 people in a conference room on weekly meetings while everyone else is in their own offices or at home. Those 3 or 4 people just have to keep their own Teams meeting muted unless they are speaking. So, when it's their turn (let's say "Mike"), they have to unmute themselves, but at the same time, everyone else in the same room has to immediately mute themselves otherwise "Mike's" voice gets picked up by his laptop as well as everyone else's laptop and they're terrible echoing that happens. Honestly, in this type of set up, the *best solution might be to go a slightly different route altogether. For instance, have a single computer running the teams meeting, and either have a system of small push-to-talk-gooseneck mics that all go to a central audio mixer that sits on the table and that mixer feeds into the meeting via a USB audio capture card. That way the single teams meeting only gets a single audio feed from anyone that's speaking on their own microphone, and that single computer will never send its own incoming audio back to itself, which means you could/would need to hook up the single computer's output to a speaker in the room and hear the virtual participants. This is definitely more of an audio-engineering way of doing things, and would require equipment like specific mics that have push-to-talk buttons, and an audio mixer to accept all of those mics, and a USB interface that could connect to the computer to send the audio to Teams......but doing it this way would take care of your problems. Second option would be to still have a single computer running Teams, but have a Polycomm phone system with spider mics and call in to the Teams meeting for audio, while viewing the Teams meeting from the laptop (AKA, keep the audio INput to teams muted because you'd be using a speaker/conference phone system to call in to the meeting). This is basically the same as option 1 above using mics and a mixer, but using a speaker phone/conference phone system for audio. Not an easy solution, especially when you have that many people that want to be in the same room on the same meeting. My advise is to go with the "single computer" route to host the meeting, and figure out a way to feed multiple mics into a single audio interface to that single teams meeting.

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You're welcome, I'm so glad it helped :)

That’s about it :)

But some people need a little push to remember they don’t HAVE to use the AirPods as their microphone. ;)

Yeah, I really suggest people always wear some sort of headphones when having virtual meetings. On the flipside, I actually really enjoy my Airpods 2 for multiple uses, either in meetings, walking, working out, phone calls. For me, they're great, and they don't seal my ears. Never thought I'd like carrying them around, but, other than them collecting ear wax, they've been great for me! Cheers. :)

Hi there. I always assume that......."if you are not muted in the software (Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc), then assume you can be heard. A lot of those programs have their "automatic mic level" turned ON by default, which means those programs will raise and lower your mic volume depending on the volume of your voice, so, "speaking quietly" may still be heard. The only way to ensure you're NOT heard is to MUTE the audio input on the virtual meeting software.

Hi there Vanessa. That's a great question, I guess it depends on a few things. I'd initially say you need a wireless headset mic so that: 1. The mic will always be next to your mouth/voice 2. you could be wireless and move where you need. The challenges with this are: 1. Budget. Wireless mic options can get expensive 2. Most will require batteries or to remember to recharge the built-in battery 3. Are you even able to do your instruction, poses, etc WITH a microphone always attached to your head/ears, etc? 4. Some headset mics still have a cable that will need to attach to a body pack transmitter to transmit the wireless signal. Often these live on a belt-line, but smaller ones can be clipped to clothing up higher or between the shoulder blades depending on clothing. If you're going to be moving AWAY from your computer/microphone, I'd always recommend a wireless mic of some sort so the mic stays with you. This can get expensive of course if you went with a complete kit from a company like Shure, with a kit like this (keep in mind you should choose a frequency band that is good for your area: amzn.to/41v9VRd However, a more simple option would be to get a compact, 2.4GHz wireless mic system for transmission/receiving like the Rode Wireless Go or Rode Wireless ME and then add a headset mic that has a 3.5mm plug. This option still requires a small body-pack transmitter to be attached to you though, and you'd need to get BOTH the wireless pack/transmitter/receiver AND a headset mic. Rode Wireless ME: amzn.to/41yqprM Sennheiser headset mic: amzn.to/3A1psMT Or, cheaper option for transmitter amzn.to/3A1pCnt - This option comes with a lavalier mic which *MIGHT be enough for your posses depending on how much you bend/contort, etc, but I would think a lavalier mic for yoga might get too much brushing against clothing, etc. If you don't want to go wireless, that's definitely a challenge as you'd always need to point your voice towards a mic that is either on the floor or on a stand and you may not always be facing the mic. I hope some of that helps!! Good luck!

Thank you so much!

Hi there Nick. Thank you. I always gain stage my own mic most of the time. I'm also a sticker for proper audio levels, and a tinkerer, so, lately I've been running my mic (and camera) through OBS first, where I use some noise suppression and compression in OBS before sending my audio over to Zoom, then I turn off ALL of the Zoom audio functions and make sure "original sound" is on, that way Zoom isn't doing ANY processing. I also don't like the "let zoom automatically adjust the mic," as I think that's just too much of a variable that I can't control, and settings like that will usually gain UP the signal when you're not talking, therefore when you DO start talking, the vocal can get squashed and sound weird when Zoom tries to correct it for the now, louder signal. It's not a terrible feature, and is very useful for people that aren't technical and don't want to mess with settings, but for me, I stick to manual control :) As far as this mic being "better" than a large diaphragm condenser mic.......that's a personal choice, but again, most large diaphragm condensers are going to sound "better" when they're right up close to you, otherwise they'll pick up a lot more of the room-sound if you mount them too far away. I just really don't like a big microphone (or any microphone) right in front of me. I wanted my mic further away and out of frame. Having a mic right in front of me blocks my view, it blocks my hands from certain things in front of me, it's just more "stuff" in front of me, and I just really don't like that for meetings or in general. And I get a great sound with the videoMic NTG with it boomed just out of frame, right at about 16"-18" away from my mouth for recording and virtual meetings, works great!

@@MarcusHutsell thank you so much!

Hi there. Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with Vontage (did you mean Vonage?). If Vonage is an app or software that you use on your computer for virtual calls, etc, then, typically, as long as your bluetooth device (Airpods) can connect to your computer, then *most software applications can then see, and use that bluetooth device as an audio input/output. If Vonage is running on its own specialized hardware (AKA, not a windows computer or Apple computer), then I have no idea unfortunately as that would be hardware specific to Vonage. Long story short though, ......the point of my video is really to wear *some sort of headphones during virtual meetings, as it will cut down on echo, feedback, and limit how much the meeting platforms "mutes" you so that when you try to speak, your vocal isn't audibly cut off at the beginning by the meeting platform.

HI There. Thank you. Regarding your question about the "Rode Mini," are you referring to the Rode Video Micro?

@@MarcusHutsell rode NT-USB mini

@@ronormand Ah, yes. I haven't used that mic, but I just put out another video about 4 types of USB mics, where I talk about why *I choose a USB shotgun mic for my online meetings, because they can be a bit further way, and out of your video frame, but still sound pretty good and relatively isolated. Most mics, even the Rode NTG mini sound great, but you're right, they really need to be close to you. I was actually surprised that the FiFine USB Condenser mic for $35 sounded really pretty good even sitting just in front of me, on my desk, and I could almost keep it out of my video-frame. For $35, that FiFine mic is pretty good, even when it's about 1.5 feet from your mouth. My personal favorite is the Rode VideoMic NTG, because it's a shotgun mic, can be further away and our of my video frame, and it's direct USB.

@@MarcusHutsell Really appreciate your feedback and e found your video regarding USB mics. Looks like Rode NTG is perfect. I will test the Shure MV5 ($89) as some reviews looks great for the price, besides it is 5y old mic. Best!

Hi there. No, no sponsorships, no payment, no free products. But if you listen to what I’m saying in the videos, they are different. There is a good reason for wearing AirPods or other headphones while listening to an online meeting while using a different microphone for your input that meeting. Two different uses of the AirPods… Microphone or speaker? The microphone in the AirPods is not that great and will always sound thin and not high-quality, but they will sound fine to you in your ears. Just two different ways to use any microphone or speaker in virtual meeting software.

@@MarcusHutsell appreciate your response :)

@@deneshkumarmani You're welcome :)

Hi there. You are welcome, I’m so glad the video helped. I actually JUST put out a dedicated video on some headset mics as well. And I quickly cover this AirPod topic on that video, but I also have some examples of other headset mics too. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g7ilabeGrNbJqKM.html

Thank you for telling me I am wrong. I appreciate it. Have a great day! :)