On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:37:44 +0100
Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> 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@lists.linuxaudio.org https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Sat Mar 20 04:15:02 2021
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