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Welcome to Podcast Answers, the show where I help you start and grow your podcast, answering

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any podcasting questions along the way. That's right. Today is season three of this show,

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guys. We've been doing this show for three seasons and I'm super excited. I'm super glad

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to be back because I love giving you tips and tricks on how to start and grow your podcast.

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And today is no different. So guys, I'm super, super excited today. So I received a Rode

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interview pro. So last time we talked about the Rode PodMic that I got and I just really

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enjoy it. It is a nice new mic. It's the mic that I'm talking to you on it now. I have

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it running through my Rode cast. Can you tell I'm a Rode fan? I do like other mic companies

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too. So I do like companies like Sure. I do have a Sure SM7B in a different podcast studio

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that I use. But today I am going to be talking about the Rode Interview Pro and what I like

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about it and what is really cool. So what if you've never heard of it? It's a wireless

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handheld condenser microphone. So it is a condenser microphone, but it's great for interviews.

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It's great for being out and doing like man on the scene type things. So one of the things

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that I do like doing is going out and talking to people on the street, going in and interviewing

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people, not necessarily for this show, but for one of my other shows. And so this is

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a great solution. I recently before that I bought the wireless pro mics. The things that

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you see on all of the all of the content creators, they have a little square box with the muffly

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thing on the top. And they, they use that to a lot of times do their videos because

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they want to get good audio for for video. And they're not necessarily sitting behind

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a desk like I am with a Rodecaster Pro. So what they're using is a little receiver to

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wireless receiver, they plug that into their phone or into their camera or whatever they're

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recording on. And they then have a little transcender, transceiver, yes, there we go.

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A transmitter, that's the word I'm actually looking for is transmitter, they actually

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have a transmitter that they that they use and go with on their mission on their phone,

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or I'm sorry, not their phone, but on their self. And that comes with a lavalier mic that

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you can use, you don't have to, but it does come with a lavalier mic. And so one of the

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things that I like that and when I was thinking about doing interviews, the problem with doing

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that is you have to hand them the box and hold it and it doesn't look super professional.

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And it's just kind of awkward. So what I found is you can get a little stick, if you will,

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it's kind of a thing that that clips onto that wireless transmitter clips onto. And

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I still just wasn't super happy with that, especially if I was going to have three people,

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me a co host and an interview person. And so, well, that would work. So what I ended

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up doing is I ended up buying the Rode Interview Pro. Again, it's a wireless handheld mic,

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just like you'd see in anywhere else, like in a church or on a TV show or anything like

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that. It's just a wireless handheld mic. And just like the Rode Interview, or sorry, this

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is the Interview Pro, the Rode Wireless Pro, there's a lot of words in there, the Rode

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Wireless Pro, they hook together with the receiver. So this hooks to any Series 4 wireless

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receiver. So it uses a 2.4 gigahertz transmission to deliver incredible audio and range of up

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to 200 meters. And that's great. But what I do like about it is, so in the situation

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where I had a co host and the receiver itself, sorry, it has two channels on it, so you can

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plug two transmitters into it. And so that was perfect, because you can you can have

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those two transmitters. But what if you're actually going to have three things. So if

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I was going to have a guest, and me and a co host, the thing I like about this is it

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has 32 bit onboard float, 32 bit float onboard recording is integrated into all three of

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those devices. So this itself has a record button on it, this wireless pro or interview

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pro has a record button on it. And if I press it, it records right to the device itself.

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So even if I am not receiving it to my phone or to my camera, I can record that that track

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on it. Same thing with the interview or the wireless pros, they have 32 bit float recording

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that's onboard also. And so that's why I like it because you can use it as a standalone

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field recorder. But also, you can hook it to any of the things that are compatible,

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the Series 4 Road Series 4 receivers compatible. So that means the wireless pro, the wireless

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ME, the wireless go to as well as consoles such as the road caster pro and the road caster

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duo. And so this is I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a quick sound test on this. So I'm gonna

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mute the mic that I'm on and unmute the other one. Alright, so now you're hearing me on

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the road interview pro and this is hooked to directly to my my road caster pro a lot

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of road words again, but I have it all hooked up to the road caster pro. And the thing that

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I like about it is, again, this is you're hearing this with no processing on the on

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the road caster at all. So it's going to be the straight sound that you're hearing right

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out of the mic. The same thing that you get with the onboard recording. It's going to

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sound that same way. So this is yes, this mic and it does hook to your road caster.

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So that is the nice thing too, because you can have it hooked to a road caster and talk

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to somebody and you could even use it as a third mic or whatever, because it is a wireless

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mic that hooks directly wirelessly without even a receiver. So you can get just this

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mic because when you buy the mic, it does not come with a receiver at all. It just comes

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with the wireless mic. And so you can if you have a road caster or road caster duo, you

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can hook this directly to it and use it as another mic input. And so it's really simple

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to to wirelessly hook to it. You click your mic button or the button to configure the

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channel. You scroll over to wireless. You click pair. You click the power button on

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the bottom of this and you're good to go. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and switch back

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to my road, the road pod mic. All right. So I'm now back to the road pod mic. And here's

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so that I will go back to that again so you can hear that again. But I wanted to have

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my hands free, free for a little bit. So again, that's the cool thing is you can hook it right

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to a road caster. You can hook it to a phone. So if you have it hooked to the the road,

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any road wireless receiver. So if you have it hooked to the interview pro, I mean, sorry,

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the wireless pro receiver pack, then you can also now hook that via lightning or US or

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USB-C to your phone and have a phone input right on your phone and have it wirelessly

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connecting to your phone. So if you're doing live shots in the field, if you're doing any

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field recording, I recorded a kind of pop quiz the other day and I had it with me and

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I use that hook to the wireless to my phone. So that way I had a good wireless signal.

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And it's great because you can pass it back and forth like any good interview person does.

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You really only need to have one and it works really well. And this has over 42 hours, sorry,

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for over 40 hours of 32 bit float recording on board on the device. Like I said, you have

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40 hours that you can just straight record to the device itself, which is awesome because

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if you are going out in the field and you're not doing any video recording, you're just

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doing audio recording, you can take this device and just hit record on it and you're recording.

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You're just straight recording it and then you can plug the device it unscrews the whole

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body kind of unscrews from the mic and you can plug right into that with your USB-C hook

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in your computer, use the Rode Central app and you have access to your files right there.

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Your audio files are right there. And so what's really cool is because then you can just easily

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edit it and get it out. And so you don't have to have a big setup in the field, you can

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just do your interviews quick, you can talk and it's just, it's perfect. And then the

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nice thing about it is because it is a condenser mic and it has, it's able to be, you get more

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of the sound, so it's more meant for interviews, it's less like directional. The pattern on

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it is a little bit more wide and so you can see, you can easily interview somebody and

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go with that and it works really well. And it's got up to 25 hours of battery operation

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from the integrated rechargeable battery. Now that's my one gripe about this and I will

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go ahead and switch back to it now so you can hear it again. All right, so I'm back

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on the interview mic now and it does have the gain assist and some other things to help

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you to help you to be able to get good sound, good levels. And so if you're out in the field

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and it's, someone's quiet or whatever, it helps boost that because it does have gain

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assist on it, but it also then has 32 bit float recording onboard, which is great because

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if you're not familiar with 32 bit float recording, what it does is it allows you to take those

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quiet things and bring them up really loud and not distort. Or if you do clip because

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someone is super loud, you can bring that down in post and it doesn't affect the quality.

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So again, 32 bit float recording on your device is amazing, but it does have gain assist also.

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So that really helps keep the, keep that, the things out of, it keeps your sound sounding

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well and easy to use for somebody that's not even necessarily a professional. So like you're

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hearing me now and like I'm kind of moving the mic around and I'm not having to be right

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on top of the mic. Like I'd have to be when I was talking on a, on a, another, a dynamic

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mic. But this, I can be almost kind of anywhere and you still get the same good quality sound

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out of it. And so again, it is an amazing device. So one thing I, again, the one thing

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I don't like about it is the on board battery is non changing, changeable, it's integrated.

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And so like any rechargeable battery, this eventually will suffer from, from loss of

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battery. So it will eventually not hold a charge. So that is one thing that I don't

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like about it because it does, you know, being almost, I think that's, I forget the price

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in the U S but it is a decent priced mic and you're going to have to rely on the battery

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that's in it and you can't change. You can recharge it, but you can't change. And so

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I'm going to go ahead and switch back now to the pod mic. Okay. So I'm on the back on

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the pod mic USB. And so that's one of the things that I don't necessarily like about

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it, but you could take an unscrew the body and plug in a, like a rechargeable battery

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pack. And that would work fairly well for, for keeping it charged while you were in the

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field. But again, it, with it being 40 hours of onboard, I'm sorry, of 25 hours of battery

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on board, you end up like right now, since it's new and fresh, that better lasts well.

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And so I don't need to keep recharging it very much. And I just really get a good sense

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of like the quality on that, that mic is really well. I like it again, because you can use

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the interview or the wireless pros Rose has the little boxes. You can use those, but it

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just, those are okay. If you're using a single, like you're recording a video and you're going

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to be out and you're going to be talking and just doing it yourself.

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But if you're trying to interview people, especially multiple people, now, if you have

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a sit down interview where you're sitting down and you're interviewing with somebody

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and you can actually put that mic on them and get it wired correctly, then it's okay.

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But again, if you're walking around, let's say even like a showroom floor, like you're

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at a conference and you're trying to get interviews for your podcast, this is the way to go. This

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is the way to go because it's easy to pass it back and forth.

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And you can, people don't look at you. They look at you more professionally because you

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do have a professional wireless mic. And so this is great. And again, the thing that I

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do like about it is the fact that you can just have onboard recording on it. So that

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way you don't have to have it paired to something and record on a separate recorder. You can

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record right on the device.

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So guys, I hope this helps. If you have any questions, I love to help people create and

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grow their podcasts. So if you have any podcasts questions, you can go ahead and hit me up

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at podcastanswers.com/contact. And I do want to thank Randy Black for watching on the show

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today. I hope we can podcast soon too. So he is saying that he great job and hope to

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be able to podcast together soon. That would be awesome. I would love to do that. I would

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love to podcast with you sometime. But if you, anybody has any questions for me, make

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sure you hit me up at podcastanswers.com/contact. And I would love to help you start your podcast

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until next time, have a safe week and keep podcasting.