Somebody compressed your compressed chat voice into the MP4 and then you took that compressed compression and compressed it again into the final product MP3. I would worry about sound quality and having it die in the weirdest places. I didn’t have to worry about data transfers, etc. It produces an mp4 file that I can convert to mp3 for publishing.ĭid you listen to it? There are reports of poor sound quality when you let the chat app company do the work. The main output from the mixer then goes to a second computer that records the mix. You then send an output from that computer to another channel of the mixer. This computer is used for the conference call. You plug your mic into the mixer, and send a feed from the mixer (mic only) to a computer. This is basically how professional studios do it. One of the best ways to record conferencing software is to use two computers and a little mixer. The disadvantages are: You MUST use headphones or you will get squealing acoustic feedback, and, your voice will echo back into your headphones, which can be very off-putting, especially as the echo delay can be half a second or more. With this setting it becomes “possible” to record both sides of the conversation by recording the output from the computer. This tells Windows to pass audio from the microphone through to the default output device. On some machines with some sound cards and some sound card drivers, it is possible to enable “listen to this device” in the Windows Sound settings for the recording device. Audacity can only record from one “thing” at a time. There is the sound going into your mic (your voice), and sound coming out of your computer (everyone else). The problem with recording any kind of conferencing software with Audacity is that there are two different “things” that have to be recorded. Can you think of a reason why the Zoom audio isn’t recording directly into Audacity?

Zoom conference call recording