[HN Gopher] Zoom improvements requested by music schools
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       Zoom improvements requested by music schools
        
       Author : chat
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-01-14 22:16 UTC (43 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (music.yale.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (music.yale.edu)
        
       | matt-attack wrote:
       | I thought the HiFi version sounded much more tinny and overall
       | worse.
        
       | filereaper wrote:
       | Just curious, are folks studying music remotely required to have
       | studio headphones or other gear that doesn't distort the original
       | recorded sound?
        
         | BadassFractal wrote:
         | If you're doing any kind of composition where mixing and
         | mastering are a mandatory component, you're strongly encouraged
         | to have a proper set of cans, or even better, a decent set of
         | monitors. The tech has gotten rather good these days, so you
         | can get a decent pair for not that much. But if the class is
         | primarily about the theory and the arrangement, and not so much
         | about the final mix, then I don't imagine a good setup will be
         | needed or even recommended.
        
       | BadassFractal wrote:
       | I remember experiencing issues earlier last year with Zoom
       | correctly transmitting the sub bass frequencies in a music
       | production class I was taking.
       | 
       | Perhaps that was a user error, but in a craft where getting your
       | frequencies right across the whole spectrum is paramount any kind
       | of lossy optimization can lead to undesirable results.
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       | I wonder if there are parts of Zoom's audio transmission that
       | optimize for the frequency range of the human voice, and
       | everything else gets mangled a little, along the lines of chroma
       | subsampling optimization in the visual world.
        
       | Moru wrote:
       | "The biggest problem is Latency". Try turning off video and
       | instead run Mumble with low latency settings. Should be way
       | better than zoom at least. Why do we always have to create
       | something new from scratch when we already have a solution that
       | just needs a bit of polish?
        
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