 Okay, so I'm going to make a couple of videos here showing you how to set up your audio settings so that you'll be able to do your podcast interview. First I'm going to show you how to make sure that the stuff is hooked up properly. So at the moment I have my audio interface plugged in to my computer through USB and a microphone plugged into that. So in order to check and make sure that that's working properly, I'm going to go to my application so I open up a finder window and I go to applications and I can scroll down to utilities and then audio MIDI setup. I click here and then on the left side in this window I will see all of the devices currently connected to my computer. My audio interface is this one here called iRig Pro Duo and then I've got my built in microphone, my built in speakers and then the zoom audio device is the software version of an audio interface. Basically it's zoom audio coming from the program zoom. So I can see that it's hooked up properly. Now I can set this up so that the iRig Pro Duo, which is where my microphone is plugged in now, is set as the default in and out if I wanted to do that and if so I would right click on that and say use this for a sound input or sound output. I don't need to do that right now but that's how I would set that up if that's what I needed to do. Once I have my audio MIDI setup stuff right I can then set up zoom to make sure that it is finding the things properly as well. So I will open up zoom and come to this little gear icon in the top right corner and I'm going to go to audio. Now in here I can set the microphone itself. Right now zoom is using the built in mic even though I have that other microphone connected right. So I can click here and instead say please use the iRig Pro Duo. That's the audio interface where my mic is plugged in. Now it's using that mic instead. So that's good making sure that the person on the other end will hear me through this mic rather than the built in mic. Next I push the advanced button down there at the bottom and I'm going to check this box that says show in meeting option to enable original sound. That will then give the other end, well my end and the other end the ability to make sure that it sounds as good as possible for the for the listener. And then also this high fidelity music mode. Check both of those boxes. Alright cool. Then once I'm in a meeting which I will just go ahead and start one for a second here. Hello. So I can come to the top left corner and you will see now in the in the window for zoom there's a turn on original sound. That option is not present unless I click that box a minute ago right. So I would then turn that on. Now at least in theory the person on the other end of this hypothetical zoom call is hearing it better audio quality than they were a minute ago. And then I would ask them to do the same. However you as the host need to set that up on your end to make it possible for them to even have that option. So you would then direct them to go to that top left corner. Say please push the turn on original sound button and at least supposedly it will sound noticeably better. The next thing we need to set up is the internal recording settings on zoom itself. So again I'm going to go to the settings menu here and then go to recording. And I'm going to make sure that I check the box that says record a separate audio file for each participant this second box down. That will make sure that I get an audio file for me and an audio file for the person I'm interviewing. Without that box checked I only get one audio file which useful is a little bit more of a pain to try to do editing and such. So it's better to make sure that I check that box first. Okay so record a separate audio file for each participant. Personally I like to have it I push this button here that says choose a location technically speaking if I don't check that it's just automatically going to go to this place that I've chosen here. Okay however I just like the reassurance that after it's done recording it goes okay I recorded it where do you want to put that for me it's just kind of like a reminder that yes it actually did record okay these other ones you don't have to turn on or off they don't matter too much. Although I do like this one the optimized for third video third party video editor simply because it just uses more standard file formats. Okay so when all is said and done I'm going to go back into a meeting again here. If I want to record my meeting I come down now to the bottom of the screen and I push record okay now it'll allow me to record to this computer or record to the cloud it may not let you do the cloud that's a more advanced setting that I have as a professor so I'm going to say record onto this computer okay I'm going to unmute myself hello this is me recording my meeting then I'm going to end it and it's going to then convert that to the proper files where to want to put it push save okay now here I am now the good the best part of all of this why we set all that up is so that right there's an audio folder and here's me okay and then here's the other person which nobody showed up right so there's going to be nothing in there except for that so then I would take those two audio files and I would put them into my editor to put them together make them sound nice and so on. Now some of that will be useful no matter what your situation is but those things at the end about using zoom itself to actually record the meeting and separate the audio files and all of that that's actually only a worst-case scenario if you can't do some of the more advanced things but I will save that for a separate video.