Organ Music During Zoom Sacrament Meeting

Is there a way to connect the organ directly into the sound system so the organ music comes through more clearly in a Zoom broadcast?

Currently the only sound coming through the broadcast is whatever the podium mic picks up. I've been able to adjust the sound via the Zoom app on my PC which has helped but it could be much better if there was a direct connection. I've looked around the organ and do not see any outputs (I even looked "under the hood" inside and didn't see anything obvious). Our stake PFR checked the sound system cabinet and didn't see anything there related to the organ. My building was built in the last 15 years and so it has a "line" output that allows me to connect directly into the system with a 3.5mm jack.

Any ideas would be really helpful!

This is discussed in this thread.

The short answer - probably not.

Hi, I total understand what your going through. While the music is by no means to the level of a professional broad cast I have found a few things that have improved the quality.
one: I stopped using the podium mic feed and started using a very basic Lapel USB microphone clipped to the podium mic stand. Under $20 on amazon.
Two: go to the audio settings while your zoom meeting is running (the menu down by the mic button). click on advanced and you will see a line that says "show in-meeting option to "enable Original Sound" from microphone". check that option. Below this line you will see a few more options. check " Disable echo cancellation" and check "High fidelity music mode"
During the musical numbers of your service turn on the "original Sound" option. There should be a button in the top left hand corner of your broadcast screen. When the speakers are presenting switch the "original sound" off and that will allow zoom to filter out the background noise while they are talking.
One other thing, in the audio settings I turn off the "Automatically adjust microphone volume" option and set the mic volume manually. I usually join the broadcast on my phone so I can listen to the feed and adjust the volume accordingly.
Hope this helps, it has made a big difference for our meetings.

Bypassing the podium mic/noise gate, all the chapels ambience is picked up. Not a very good sound, especially in a younger Ward.
Depending upon the nature of your camera/pc/phone setup, an elegant solution would be a small 3+ channel mixer that can handle line-level inputs of either -10dbmv or 0dbmv. and 1-2 mics. If your streaming equipment is normally set up in the rear of the chapel a couple of inexpensive wireless mics would do.
You want the mics used for music pickup to be independent of the house system and its built-in noise gate.
You'd want the mixer to handle all audio sources: the house and the music mics for the streaming feed.
You would want to drop the music pickup mics during all non-music periods.
You'd also benefit from headphones/earbuds to monitor the Zoom broadcast for even, clean, levels
NOTE, by having more than one mic for music pickup, you'll be set for, multiple instruments used in special musical numbers, and also for the wonderful Primary programs.

Zoom audio settings: low noise suppression gets audio through the pulpit mic, along with background noise, so pick your poison, or toggle between those as needed, or leave it on low but don't start your meeting until the meeting is starting, so the pulpit mic is dominated by the speaker and music, etc. New QSC touch screen LCDs in the attic rack have a webcast setting that can increase organ and choir mic volumes, in the chapel mix, separately from other things.

Old thread, recently relevant to my situation. Our Johannus WM-47 organ has aux out (6.3mm TS Left and 6.3mm TS Right); we take those cables into our Emtech EJ-8 crab box (I use 3.5mm TS on the other end so nobody plugs into the speaker level port by accident), point the volume dial on the EJ-8 at the last letter of the text above the volume dial (or the loudest you can go without hearing the organ volume in the chapel getting louder, as that wigs out the organist as to why it's so loud and they can't control it exactly as they are used to), and plug the EJ-8 XLR output into an XLR port on the floor behind the piano (or wherever). It only sends its signal into the system when the organ is playing. Organ sound in our system (which feeds the foyer, overflows, mother's lounge, Zoom Meetings, etc., is excellent. Some organs are also connected through the A/V rack, some pass by that way because the A/V rack is in the chapel, and some just go to the speaker loft. This probably doesn't help the person who started this thread way back when, but it might help someone.

We have a Rodgers organ that has aux outs. I've run those to a mixer, mixing in the audio out from the PA system. The organ comes through beautifully, once mixing levels are adjusted, on the monitor out (headphone jack) on the mixing console.

The mixing console also servers as a USB audio device. When I use sound recorders (Windows), connected to that USB audio device, again the organ sound comes through nicely. Hence, I know it is coming through the mixer and the USB audio conversion (digitization) unscathed.

But when I feed that combined mix into the enterprise Zoom app, it still quashes the organ sound. The microphones (e.g. at the pulpit) sound great, but no organ sound at all despite it being clearly in the sound mix. I've tried turning on "original sound for music", both with and without the hi-fi and steroe settings, made certain that echo cancellation was off, even turned off the automatic microphone level setting in Zoom. Zoom still persistently filters out music and only passes along the spoken word. Sometimes we hear a little blip of the organ music on Zoom, but then Zoom within a fraction of a second cuts it off.

Any ideas of what I should try next?

Don't know, but things you could try:

• Open Settings > System > Sound.

• Select your active microphone under Input.

• Look for Audio enhancements or Voice Focus and toggle it Off.

• Note: Enhanced versions require a Copilot+ PC with a Neural Processing Unit (NPU), but software-based versions are available for many other Windows 11 devices. 

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• Search for Control Panel and go to Hardware and Sound > Sound.

• In the Recording tab, right-click your microphone and select Properties.

• If available, click the Enhancements tab and uncheck Noise Suppression. 

Low filter on Zoom should let music through, as should original sound. Maybe also check your mic input for Windows and for Zoom (if one app uses a different input than the windows default, it can give different results or revert to the computer built in mic).

Thank you. Found the culprit. This computer has a B&O sound app that had "AI" based echo cancellation. Turned that off and voila, organ sound in Zoom with the "Original Sound for Musicians enabled.