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If someone has joined and their audio is fluctuating, can you remotely turn their audio up or down on a per-user basis?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:06:09

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John WallacePANELIST

Cannot control participants' machine audio, but can use Zoom mix to adjust volume and apply compression per user with a dedicated meter and adjustable ratio within the app.

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6:08to kind of troubleshoot it. And what if you've got someone that's joined the meeting, let's say that is their audio is fluctuating a lot. If you as the engineer want to remotely turn their audio up or down is there any way to do that on a on a per user basis i can't control their machine audio but you know i can go into the actual zoom mix here and i can turn it up

6:36turn it down okay i can apply compression uh so you can see there's a little meter here um or you can if i really dig into this uh you're going to see compression kind of go and then whatever ratio so you have the ability to make some in-app changes to the audio that's coming over zoom that's great i think this is this is a fantastic example of a person that clearly has video

7:00production experience but also has the audio background because i know you've mixed live shows before so it's great you've got the best of both worlds you've got that knowledge because i often find with a lot of production tools without calling any specific tools out that you can very much tell when when when the people that have made an app are more video than audio

7:20centric and it just seems that there are a lot of production tools where the audio part is not as fully fleshed out or fully thought out uh which is always frustrating but so this is incredibly cool to see and this is this looks like a very i can see a lot of people that are just starting out maybe that don't have the budget for a lot of expensive expensive subscription-based tools which

7:42A lot of them that are out there are fantastic, don't get me wrong. But I think for a lot of people that are maybe just starting out that want to start a podcast, for example, or maybe they're running sound and video at a small church and they don't have a huge budget. And sometimes, you know, all these subscription tools can get really expensive.

8:02You know, these costs start to add up over time. And you're not charging right now for these apps? uh no this this app that you're seeing isn't like alpha so it's really early there's a lot of um functionality that's not that's still missing the core video obs plugin is free it's uh there's there's a full release of that it's um we got some people trying it out in the community getting some

8:27feedback from folks online it was kind of cool to see there's like 50 people using it in one day um so just from the zoom stat so you know it's it's great um i think that the obus plugin is like the gateway drug and then hopefully it'll drive people towards this platform and yeah eventually i'd love to be able to charge some sort of subscription and offer support but right

8:47now i'm just trying to figure out like how do i do this how do i maintain it um so as i'm growing i want to give people access to it and the ability to get feedback from actual people who are trying to use this in productions is invaluable absolutely so i'm looking at the website so it looks like it's i thought it was windows only but you now also have a mac version of this app what can you speak

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