1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 [Music] 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,520 Welcome back to podcast answers the show that I help you by answering any 3 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:21,680 podcasting questions along the way helping starting growing podcasts. That's 4 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,560 right. I help people start and grow podcasts. What you may not know is this is 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,120 the second time that I've recorded this episode. I started it and I actually 6 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,920 I forgot to hit record on my recorder. 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:34,640 So I decided to start over again. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:39,400 Those watching live actually got that live. 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,480 They get to see that live. 10 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:42,760 But what are we talking about today? 11 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,480 The Roadcaster Pro and why it is important 12 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:47,460 and why you would want one. 13 00:00:47,460 --> 00:00:49,360 I recently got one for this show. 14 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:52,120 And the reason I wanted to get one for this show 15 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,120 is it's gonna make my production a lot easier 16 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:56,460 when I actually remember to hit record. 17 00:00:56,460 --> 00:00:58,640 But that's besides the point. 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,320 So what I'm going to do today is I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what my 19 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,820 process before was. 20 00:01:05,820 --> 00:01:10,880 And then now my process is with the Rokester pearl. 21 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:12,800 Like why would I want one? 22 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:14,200 What good is it? 23 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:15,400 All that stuff. 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,840 So my previous process was this. 25 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:27,440 I had a basic USB XLR interface that took a mic into my computer via USB. 26 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:32,720 And then I stream live video and audio as I do this show. 27 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,560 So I use a software called Ecamm. 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:40,080 And the nice thing about Ecamm is it records my video and audio, but then it also gives 29 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,040 me an isolated audio track. 30 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:46,200 And so with that, then I take that into my editor, chop the ends, ship it out, ready 31 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:47,200 to go. 32 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,320 But, and then, because I'm of the school of I just hit record. 33 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:53,720 And that's actually what reminded me. 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,240 I looked over and hit, so I didn't hit record last time I said hit record. 35 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:04,120 So I hit record and I play my audio track, play my, all my sounds, everything is live 36 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,120 as I'm doing it. 37 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:11,060 So my intro song that you heard there is live as I'm recording the show because I like to 38 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:13,900 just be done with it as soon as I'm done hitting record. 39 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:16,360 I go ahead and ship the episode out. 40 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:22,240 But what, so, so what I was doing in the past as I had a software that I was using called 41 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,320 Farago to play my sounds to play my music, which I still use that sometimes from time 42 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,720 to time, but I was using that and then trying to control the audio with that. 43 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:33,720 I had my stream deck. 44 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:39,080 I was pushing a button that would fade between the next thing, the next, the audio levels, 45 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:44,000 and it just wasn't super easy to do. 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:50,840 And so I was able to, thanks to a few supporters of this show, I was able to get a roadcaster 47 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:51,920 pro. 48 00:02:51,920 --> 00:02:56,980 And so without further ado, I would like to talk to you a little bit about what that is 49 00:02:56,980 --> 00:02:59,460 and what makes it so cool. 50 00:02:59,460 --> 00:03:01,340 So here is the Rocaster Pro. 51 00:03:01,340 --> 00:03:06,060 It's a audio device that is like a mixing board. 52 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:08,460 Well, it's several different things. 53 00:03:08,460 --> 00:03:10,540 Firstly it is a mixing board. 54 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:16,860 And so it has four USB, I'm sorry not four USB. 55 00:03:16,860 --> 00:03:20,380 It has four XLR mics on the back of it. 56 00:03:20,380 --> 00:03:21,380 And they're not just XLR. 57 00:03:21,380 --> 00:03:25,700 So you can use a line in, you can put an instrument in there. 58 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:34,900 And then it has four headphones out on it and then two USB plugs on the back, two that 59 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:39,860 you can plug into your computer, which actually provide three different audio channels for 60 00:03:39,860 --> 00:03:43,140 it to, to provide audio into your computer. 61 00:03:43,140 --> 00:03:52,160 So with what I do is I now am able to have a physical slider that I'm able to push up 62 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:57,920 and down as I'm kind of to adjust my volume for all of my tracks. 63 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:07,200 And so what I do is I, excuse me, I have a mixer for my mic, a channel for my mic. 64 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:14,280 I have a channel for USB one, USB one chat, USB two chat or USB two, 65 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:16,960 the sound effects as well as the blues youth. 66 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:23,680 And the great thing about this is, is the rocaster pro has, uh, eight pads on the 67 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:24,000 side. 68 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,440 So think of them like kind of like a, a plastic button that you can push that 69 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:29,720 you can assign to do different things. 70 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,440 You can assign it to do voice effects. 71 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,760 You can assign it to do sound. 72 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,360 So what I can do is I can easily just hit that and you have sounds in the background. 73 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:42,160 So that's that's a good thing way to do that. 74 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:46,640 And then so what I was starting to say is there's several different USB channels. 75 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:56,880 And so what I can do is for me USB one, I have set to be my main application. 76 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,400 So that's going to be Ecamm live. 77 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,640 And so that sends all my whole mix goes out to Ecamm live. 78 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:11,760 But then if I have guests in Ecamm live that acts as a way to bring them back into my mixer board and into my mixer 79 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:17,720 So that's the way I can get audio from Ecamm live back in and then I have USB to chat 80 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:20,040 So if I'm gonna have a zoom call or something else 81 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:25,800 I can also bring that in as a separate audio channel and then I have a Bluetooth slider so I can bring some 82 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,440 I'll call in from my phone 83 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,960 then I have a 84 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:32,600 another USB channel that I use for 85 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:38,400 Bringing in things from Farago or extra sounds that I want to bring it off my computer 86 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:44,760 So I really have three different applications that I can bring in audio from and go out to on my computer 87 00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:50,380 With this new rogaster pro 2 and then the nice thing about it - again 88 00:05:50,380 --> 00:05:56,200 It has four different mic inputs. So if you have four different people that you are 89 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:03,560 interviewing or talking to you or whatever, you can bring them in to your mix really easily. 90 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,120 And then there's four different independent headphone volumes too. 91 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,120 So if you have four people, they can all have their own headphones that they're listening 92 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,440 to, the mix and what's happening in the mix. 93 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,120 And then they can control the levels on that. 94 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,440 And the great thing about this is it's so easy to do what they call routing too. 95 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,800 So if I don't want something to go to a specific headphones or a specific channel, I can turn 96 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:24,800 those off. 97 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,800 I can just do really audio routing however I want. 98 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,960 And then the nice thing about it too 99 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,600 is it has a multitrack. 100 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,280 So it has a, let's go back to the picture. 101 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,800 If you're watching us live on here, 102 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,360 it has a SD card slot on the back. 103 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,560 So you can just record right on the device. 104 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,520 You don't need to have any other software or hardware 105 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,680 on your machine that you're capturing the audio with. 106 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,240 it just records it right on the roadcaster pro two. 107 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:02,400 It has a big clock on the front so I can see exactly how long I've been 108 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,760 recording. I can set markers in it. So if I want to, if I say something that I 109 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,900 want to remember later, I can just tap that clock and it sets a marker. 110 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:14,900 So back when I'm editing, I know either this is something I said really good, 111 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,960 or this is where I made a mistake. So I should really edit that out. 112 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,680 And then for, for it, it also has multi-track. 113 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:31,000 And so on my recording, I get a separate file, separate audio file for each and every channel. 114 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,760 I get one audio file that's stereo that has everything in it. 115 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,480 And if I just want to take that, ship it off and we're good to go. 116 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:39,920 But then I also get a channel, every recording for my mic. 117 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,920 I get a recording for Ecam. 118 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,960 I get a recording for each channel. 119 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:50,680 And so later in editing, if I want to go back and edit something out like that, say somebody 120 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:53,560 I was interviewing had a dog barking. 121 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:58,240 I could go back and then I could take that their channel off when I'm talking. 122 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,680 So I don't hear things in the background or if they cough or sneeze or whatever. 123 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,700 It doesn't ruin my recording because I have that recording and I can, 124 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:10,320 I can use those audio later in, in whatever I want to do. 125 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:16,960 Now it retails for $6.99 and that's a great price for what you're getting with 126 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,920 this device because really you're getting an all in one audio solution. 127 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:27,640 Back in the day, when I first started doing podcasts, I had a mixing board. 128 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,080 So I could bring all my audio in. 129 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:33,320 I had to have a separate recorder that I had audio out of the mixing board going 130 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,200 into and recording my things. 131 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,440 If I wanted to bring in any guests, I had to have a separate computer for that. 132 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,840 And then have to have it do, be able to do a mix minus. 133 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:48,240 And then if I wanted to play sound cards, 134 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,560 I had to have my iPad plugged up to a channel 135 00:08:50,560 --> 00:08:52,760 and be able to push the sounds off. 136 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:54,480 And it was just a lot to do. 137 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,480 Back in the day, it was just so much, 138 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,160 it was so hard to be able to get what I wanted to get out 139 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,840 of a podcast and to be able to really produce a podcast. 140 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,400 And so this thing, when it came out, 141 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,520 when Rode set this out, set this up 142 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:12,960 and made it available for purchase. 143 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:21,680 It really changed the game as far as how I am able to do my podcast recording. 144 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,340 And so I just purchased this. 145 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:30,600 I just got this and it has changed the game because it also not only does I have 146 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:38,680 all of those, those devices in and out, but then it also has for each channel 147 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:45,900 with processing. And so it has a high pass filter where you so you can get out any low 148 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:50,000 rumbles that come through. You can kind of cut that frequency out of your channel. You 149 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:56,140 can do a de-esser. So when you say your asses, it's not so harsh coming across for, for your 150 00:09:56,140 --> 00:10:00,440 listeners. And then it has a noise gate. And this is one of the things that I really, really, 151 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:10,400 appreciate about it because it allows you to take your, your, your mic and essentially 152 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:18,480 a noise gate is if you're quiet and you're not talking, then there is a gate. 153 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,640 It basically just shuts your mic channel off. 154 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:27,320 And so any low rumbling, any burry thing, any small noises aren't going to be heard unless 155 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,000 unless you're actually talking above a certain level. 156 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,440 And then it will actually let the gate open and let it be able to, to, you'll really hear 157 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:36,440 that. 158 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,400 And so that is something that I really enjoyed about having this. 159 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:46,660 Cause I know for me, if you hear like, like, see, if I'm quiet right now and I like start 160 00:10:46,660 --> 00:10:53,280 to slowly like make noise in front of the mic, you don't hear that. 161 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,760 I can hear it, but it doesn't come across on the mic. 162 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:02,980 It is 100% silence because the noise gate is there and the noise gate shuts my mic off 163 00:11:02,980 --> 00:11:07,420 and keeps that from coming through to the listeners. 164 00:11:07,420 --> 00:11:09,040 And then it also has a compressor. 165 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:13,380 So I think that is as far as like anything louder than a certain point, it compresses 166 00:11:13,380 --> 00:11:19,180 that down and kind of makes it gives you that boomy radio voice, but it also allows it to 167 00:11:19,180 --> 00:11:21,940 not be so loud and soft in a certain area. 168 00:11:21,940 --> 00:11:26,220 kind of keeps more of a consistent audio going across when you're speaking. 169 00:11:26,220 --> 00:11:27,420 It has an equalizer. 170 00:11:27,420 --> 00:11:31,720 You can change some of the frequencies of that and then how your sound sounds. 171 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,820 And then it has what's called the, the aural exciter and a big bottom. 172 00:11:36,820 --> 00:11:42,260 So think of that as kind of your radio, boomy. 173 00:11:42,260 --> 00:11:45,300 It kind of adjusts the top frequencies and the low frequencies to kind of make, 174 00:11:45,300 --> 00:11:47,940 give you that, that radio sound. 175 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:51,640 And then you, so it has that on, on everything. 176 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:57,720 So you can you can sound professional and have all of that recording right all of that into your recording and 177 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,300 Do it so easily and so 178 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:06,620 Amazingly now the one thing that road just came out with is the 179 00:12:06,620 --> 00:12:10,380 Rocaster duo and it's a smaller version of the same thing 180 00:12:10,380 --> 00:12:16,560 So the Rocaster Pro is 699 the Rocaster duo is 499 and 181 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:22,760 It takes for those who are just doing solo shows and not doing anything 182 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:29,200 Where you need multiple mics the duo is for you. So essentially it has 183 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,980 two of the combo jacks in it so 184 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:38,680 Either USB, I mean XLR or an instrument in it and two headphones out 185 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,480 but all the rest is really the same and 186 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,820 Then it also is down to four channels whereas the the Rokaster Pro has 187 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,320 six faders on it. I forgot to say that on the brother, 188 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,120 Rook has to pro the pro has six faders on it. 189 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,960 And then two virtual channels. 190 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,720 So if you're using, let's say what channels one, 191 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:00,560 two, three and four for your mics, 192 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:02,960 you can still use the rest and have two virtual channels 193 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,100 by clicking the knob in there and then adjusting the audio. 194 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:07,680 You just don't have a fader on it, 195 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:10,960 but the duo takes that down to four. 196 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,340 And so, and it also brings the size down on quite a bit. 197 00:13:14,340 --> 00:13:18,120 And so there's less to less on your desk. 198 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,260 That was one of the complaints that I've heard about people with a 199 00:13:20,260 --> 00:13:24,940 roadcaster pros. It's, I mean, it's not a big device, but it does have, 200 00:13:24,940 --> 00:13:26,860 it does take up some room on your desk. 201 00:13:26,860 --> 00:13:32,300 And the roadcaster duo is a lot smaller because they don't have a physical 202 00:13:32,300 --> 00:13:36,420 record button on it as well as they don't have the, 203 00:13:36,420 --> 00:13:41,020 they only have as many sliders. So it does take up less room. 204 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:46,180 So it's less, it's more of a device for those people who are just doing solo shows and not 205 00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:51,500 planning to have any more than one or maybe two people on their podcast with them. 206 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:58,060 And then this also takes your, whereas the roadcaster pro has eight buttons on it. 207 00:13:58,060 --> 00:13:59,060 This only has six. 208 00:13:59,060 --> 00:14:02,180 Now they both have pages and what they call pages. 209 00:14:02,180 --> 00:14:04,980 So you can change from one bank to another. 210 00:14:04,980 --> 00:14:08,300 So you have eight buttons and you can click to the next one and you have another eight 211 00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:09,820 buttons and they're eight buttons. 212 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:11,380 I think that goes up to page eight pages. 213 00:14:11,380 --> 00:14:15,420 The, the duo only has six buttons. 214 00:14:15,420 --> 00:14:20,980 And so that is one thing, uh, that, that's different there. 215 00:14:20,980 --> 00:14:23,540 And now the duo actually adds something back to their original 216 00:14:23,540 --> 00:14:27,860 roadcaster pro had that the roadcaster pro two lost. 217 00:14:27,860 --> 00:14:30,540 And that's the headphone jack in the front. 218 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:33,500 So there's four headphone jacks on the back, but those are the, 219 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:34,900 the larger headphone jacks. 220 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:37,380 And then the, the one on the duo is in the front. 221 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:40,920 And that's more of like the one that you used to have for your iPhone or, 222 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:43,460 you know, something that was a smaller jack and the, 223 00:14:43,460 --> 00:14:46,980 instead of like a professional jack, it's the eighth inch jack instead of the 224 00:14:46,980 --> 00:14:47,820 quarter inch jack. 225 00:14:47,820 --> 00:14:52,360 And it also is available if you have a headset, like, 226 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,740 um, like the AirPods that had the mic in it, 227 00:14:55,740 --> 00:14:57,280 you can use that mic on it. 228 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:58,420 Or if you have a lot of mic, 229 00:14:58,420 --> 00:15:02,740 you can plug that right in the front and use that as an incoming mic also. 230 00:15:03,180 --> 00:15:07,340 So that is, that's kind of the quick overview of the 231 00:15:07,340 --> 00:15:09,040 ROCASTER Pro 2. 232 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,580 And it just, it makes it a lot easier for me 233 00:15:11,580 --> 00:15:14,740 because I'm able now to do the show all at once. 234 00:15:14,740 --> 00:15:18,620 I can hit record, I can go, and then as I'm done, 235 00:15:18,620 --> 00:15:22,700 I export the audio and I have the file all mixed together 236 00:15:22,700 --> 00:15:24,700 and I can easily slide my volumes up and down 237 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:26,760 as I'm monitoring them in my headphones. 238 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,140 And then another thing too is just the ability 239 00:15:30,140 --> 00:15:37,980 to be able to, to have separate audio things coming in from your computer easily and mixing 240 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:43,180 those around. Guys, if you've not checked out the roadcaster pro, I would suggest doing 241 00:15:43,180 --> 00:15:50,900 it because again, it's an amazing piece of hardware for a small, small fee. Guys, if 242 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:58,260 you enjoyed this podcast episode, if you've gotten anything out of this podcast, I ask 243 00:15:58,260 --> 00:16:05,260 that you consider giving back value to me and you can do that by going to podcast answers.com/buymeacoffee. 244 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:11,860 You can become a monthly subscriber. You can become a one-off. You can just donate back. 245 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:16,180 That's how we were able to accomplish and get this roadcaster pro because some amazing 246 00:16:16,180 --> 00:16:20,180 people have donated that. 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