Try Cleanfeed first

Before using Zoom for your recording, check whether you can use Cleanfeed first. Cleanfeed is our preferred provider, since the audio quality is better and there's no video, so all your bandwidth is dedicated to audio quality.


If you cannot use Cleanfeed, you can use Zoom.

Setting up Zoom for recordings

 

  1. Connect your USB microphone to your laptop
  2. In Zoom, click the Settings (cog) icon, then Recording, then tick ‘Record a separate audio file for each participant who speaks’
    Doing this allows you to ensure the audio levels from each participant are similar during your edit. It also lets you easily edit out any coughs while someone else was speaking.
  3. Switch to the Audio section of the Settings window and Enable Original Sound from microphone and High fidelity music mode
  4. Now start your meeting
  5. When prompted tick, Test speaker and microphone to check everything is connected correctly
  6. Follow the instructions and when you’re happy, click Join with Computer Audio
  7. Once your meeting has started, press Record

    Note; during the meeting you will not hear yourself in the headphones, but you can see an indication of your levels in the green bar inside the microphone symbol above the word Mute
  8. When you have finished, just click End meeting
    Zoom will save your recording automatically and prompt you to open it. By default it will be saved as an m4a audio file, so you may need to convert it to mp3.