๐ŸŽง [๋งฅ๋ถยท๋งฅ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ] ์คŒ(Zoom) ๋ณผ๋ฅจ๋งŒ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•: SoundSource ํ™œ์šฉ๋ฒ• (KOR/ENG)

๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ธ€ ๋ฒ„์ „ (Korean Version)

์žฌํƒ๊ทผ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ฏธํŒ…์„ ํ•  ๋•Œ, ํ™”์ƒ ํšŒ์˜ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ์Œ์•… ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์šด ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ’ป ํŠนํžˆ ๋งฅ๋ถ์ด๋‚˜ ๋งฅ๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์คŒ(Zoom)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋‹นํ™ฉ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ โ€˜์คŒ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์˜ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋”๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ๋งฅ ์ „์ฒด ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์ด ๊ฐ™์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“ ๋‹คโ€™๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ .

์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ปค์„œ ์คŒ ์•ฑ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์ง ์ค„์˜€์„ ๋ฟ์ธ๋ฐ, ์˜†์—์„œ ํ‹€์–ด๋†“์€ ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ์Œ์•…์ด๋‚˜ ์•Œ๋ฆผ์Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ค ๊ฐ™์ด ๋š ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋‹ˆ ์ •๋ง ๋‚œ๊ฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ง์ด ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ˜…

์œˆ๋„์šฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋งฅ OS์˜ ์ˆœ์ • ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜จ๊ฐ– ๊ฐ€์ƒ ๋“œ๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„์™€ ๋ฏน์„œ ์•ฑ๋“ค์„ ์ „์ˆ˜์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์‹œํ–‰์ฐฉ์˜ค ๋์— ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ ์—”์ง„์„ ์˜ค์—ผ์‹œํ‚ค์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์คŒ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ๋งŒ ๋‹จ๋…์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์™„๋ฒฝํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

Mac computer setup on clean workspace table โ€“ Photo by Unsplash

๐Ÿ”Š 1. ๋งฅ OS์—์„œ ์คŒ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์ด ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ๊ณผ ๋ฌถ์ด๋Š” ์ด์œ 

๋งฅ OS๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์˜ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์ถœ๋ ฅ์„ ์ œ์–ดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๋ฏน์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๋น ์ ธ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠนํžˆ ์คŒ(Zoom) ์•ฑ์€ ๋งฅ OS์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์ œ์–ด๊ถŒ๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์คŒ ์„ค์ • ์ฐฝ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋””์˜ค ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋”๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์šฐ์Šค๋กœ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ์•ฑ ์ž์ฒด ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์ด ์ค„์–ด๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋งฅ ์ƒ๋‹จ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋ฐ”์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ „์ฒด ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฑด๋“œ๋ ค๋ฒ„๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์คŒ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ค„์ด๋ฉด ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์Œ์•…๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์กฐ์šฉํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๋‹ต๋‹ตํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ๐Ÿคฌ

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ 2. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ตฌ์›ํˆฌ์ˆ˜: SoundSource

์ด ๊ณ ์งˆ์ ์ธ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•จ์„ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด ์ค€ ๊ตฌ์›ํˆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ Rogue Amoeba ์‚ฌ์˜ SoundSource ์•ฑ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ๊ฐ€์ƒ ๋“œ๋ผ์ด๋ฒ„ ์•ฑ๋“ค์€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์ปค๋„ ๊นŠ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ณณ(HAL ํด๋”)์— ์ฐŒ๊บผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ์ถฉ๋Œ์„ ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋จน๋จนํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ๋ฒ„๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ SoundSource๋Š” ๋งฅ OS ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ์„ ํ•ด์น˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด๋ฐ”์—์„œ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์•ฑ์˜ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์„ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ œ์–ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋„์™€์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

  1. ์•ฑ๋ณ„ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ์ œ์–ด: ์คŒ(Zoom), ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ €(Chrome/Safari), ์Œ์•… ์•ฑ์˜ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋˜์–ด ์คŒ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋งŒ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊นŽ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  2. ์ถœ๋ ฅ ์žฅ์น˜ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์ง€์ •: ์คŒ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ—ค๋“œ์…‹์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ , ์Œ์•… ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์™ธ๋ถ€ ์Šคํ”ผ์ปค๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์›ํ™” ์„ธํŒ…๋„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  3. ์ดํ€„๋ผ์ด์ €(EQ) ์ง€์›: ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ์˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฐข์–ด์ง€๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์›…์›…๊ฑฐ๋ฆด ๋•Œ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ๋Œ€์—ญ๋งŒ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ •ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Bose speaker on desk next to computer setup โ€“ Photo by Unsplash

๐Ÿ’ก 3. ์•ฑ ์—†์ด ์„ค์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆœ์ • ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ํ™ฉ๊ธˆ ์„ธํŒ…๋ฒ•

๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์•ฑ์„ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋งฅ OS ์ˆœ์ • ์ƒํƒœ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์คŒ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋งž์ถ”๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด โ€˜์—ญ๋ฐœ์ƒ ๋ฐธ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์„ธํŒ…โ€™์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

  1. ๊ธฐ์ค€์  ์žก๊ธฐ: ์คŒ ๋ฏธํŒ…์„ ์ผ  ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ, ์ƒ๋Œ€๋ฐฉ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด ๊ท€์— ๋”ฑ ํŽธ์•ˆํ•œ ํฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์„ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  2. ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์Œ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ธฐ: ๋งฅ ์ „์ฒด ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์€ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‘” ์ฑ„, ์œ ํŠœ๋ธŒ๋‚˜ ์Œ์•… ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด ํ•˜๋‹จ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์›น ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šฐ์ € ์ž์ฒด ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋”๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์šฐ์Šค๋กœ ์กฐ์ ˆํ•˜์—ฌ ์Œ์•… ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋ ค์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  3. ์ตœ์ข… ๋งˆ๊ฐ: ๋ฐฉ ์ „์ฒด์— ์šธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ์Œ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์Šคํ”ผ์ปค์˜ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ ๋‹ค์ด์–ผ์ด๋‚˜ ํ—ค๋“œํฐ ์ž์ฒด ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ๋…ธ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๋ ค ๋งˆ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์•ฑ์„ ์„ค์น˜ํ•˜๋“  ์ˆœ์ • ๋…ธํ•˜์šฐ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๋“ , ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ๋งฅ์˜ ๋งˆ์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ๊ณผ ์•ฑ๋ณ„ ๊ฐœ๋ณ„ ์ถœ๋ ฅ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์คŒ ๋ฏธํŒ… ์ค‘์— ์Œ์•… ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌปํžˆ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ชฉ์†Œ๋ฆฌ ํญํƒ„์„ ๋งž์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ์พŒ์ ํ•œ ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ ๋ผ์ดํ”„๋ฅผ ์ฆ๊ฒจ๋ณด์„ธ์š”! ๐Ÿš€

Close up of audio workspace equipment on desk โ€“ Photo by Unsplash

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English Version

๐ŸŽง The Best Way to Control Zoom Volume Independently on Mac: SoundSource Guide (KOR/ENG)

When working from home or attending online meetings, balancing video call audio with background music can be surprisingly tricky. ๐Ÿ’ป One of the most frustrating things about using Zoom on a Mac is that lowering the Zoom volume slider also turns down the entire Mac master volume.

When a colleagueโ€™s voice is too loud, turning down the Zoom volume slider accidentally quiets your background music and system notifications as well. ๐Ÿ˜…

Unlike Windows, macOS lacks a native volume mixer for individual apps. After testing various virtual drivers and mixer utilities, I found the cleanest and most reliable ways to control Zoom volume independently without corrupting your system audio engine!

Mac computer setup on clean workspace table โ€“ Photo by Unsplash

๐Ÿ”Š 1. Why Zoom Volume is Tied to System Volume on Mac

By default, macOS does not provide a built-in audio mixer to adjust volumes per application.

The Zoom app is hard-coded to map directly to the macOS core audio control. So, when you move the audio slider inside Zoom settings, it doesnโ€™t just lower the appโ€™s sound; it directly changes the global macOS master volume in your menu bar.

This is why turning down Zoomโ€™s voice audio accidentally quiets your YouTube background music too. ๐Ÿคฌ

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ 2. The Cleanest Solution: SoundSource

The ultimate tool that solves this problem is SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba.

Free virtual audio drivers often leave leftover files in system folders (HAL library), causing conflicts with Zoom or making system audio sound muffled. SoundSource, on the other hand, allows you to control individual app volumes directly from the menu bar without causing system driver bugs.

  1. Per-App Volume Control: Separate volume sliders are provided for Zoom, web browsers (Chrome/Safari), and media players so you can lower Zoom independently.
  2. Individual Audio Routing: You can route Zoom voices to your headset while keeping background music playing through external speakers.
  3. Built-in Equalizer: You can apply EQ filters to clear up muffled or distorted voices during meetings.
Bose speaker on desk next to computer setup โ€“ Photo by Unsplash

๐Ÿ’ก 3. Native Workaround Without Third-Party Apps

If you prefer not to install extra utilities, you can balance your audio natively using this reverse-balancing method:

  1. Set the Baseline: During a Zoom call, adjust your Mac master volume until the speakerโ€™s voice is at a comfortable level.
  2. Lower Background Media: Leave the Mac master volume alone and lower the volume slider inside YouTube or your web browser player directly.
  3. Final Adjustment: Use the physical knob on your external speakers or headphones to set the final listening volume for the room.

Whether you use a dedicated app or this native workaround, the key is understanding how macOS handles master volume vs. app-level output. Enjoy a much better desk setup without audio volume surprises! ๐Ÿš€

Close up of audio workspace equipment on desk โ€“ Photo by Unsplash

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