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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, we are doing it again. We are

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answering podcasting questions and talking all about new things, podcasting and all sorts of

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new things. So without further ado, here we go. So what's new today? Well, I have a couple

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things we're talking about today. And the first one is going to be just the fact that I got

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a new Rode wireless mic. Actually, this whole show is going to be about Rode actually. So

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the first thing is I got the PodMic USB and we'll be talking a little bit about that as

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well as the new Rode Wireless Go Gen 3. So if stick around, if either of those topics

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excite you, we're first going to be talking about the Wireless Go Gen 3. Rode just came

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out with their new version of their Wireless Go. So if you've seen it, it is the wireless

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pack where you you have it, a receiver you can put on your camera. You can it comes with two

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transmitters. So you can do video. I like to use it a lot when I'm doing my walking podcasts

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where I walk around and I talk because it's nice because it has onboard recording for us.

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I don't need to record into my camera, but it allows me to to do that recording into the Rode

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Wireless Go. And so I have the Wireless Pro though, which has 32 bit on board recording, 32 bit float

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onboard recording as well as it has time sync and a bunch of other different things like that.

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So Rode came out with a new version of that. That's the Wireless Go and that's Gen 3. And the cool thing

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about it, I guess one of the most, I guess they've leveled up the they've added the 32 bit on board,

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32 bit float onboard recording now. So essentially, if you're not familiar with that, the 32 bit on board,

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recording 32 bit float onboard recording allows you to essentially have have you just turn it on and

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it's recording, right? But the 32 bit float allows you to if it's levels are low, you can bring levels

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up without introducing a whole lot of noise. And if it's too loud and it peaks, you can actually bring

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that down and it's not going to clip in your editing. So that really helps as far as gain and making sure

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that you're getting levels 100% right. However, what the other thing that they have done on board is

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they've also made it lots of different colors. So in the past, it's just been the general black

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color that you get with that. And now they've made a whole host, you can go white, blue, orange, darker blue,

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green, purple, green, darker green, orange, brighter orange, pink, lavender, white, gray,

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all sorts of different colors. And so it's cool because if you want to just stand out a little bit

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different, personally, me, I like the colors. But again, I'm trying to kind of hide my pack when I'm

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doing it. So I don't necessarily want a bright color on there. But that's one of the things that you can do

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now. And again, this is now becoming closer to the wireless pro meaning or the because now that it has

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the 32 bit on board float. So again, it's just handy. It's nice if you're going to be doing any video

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recordings, because that allows you to take that out and record with it and not have too much issue as

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far as when you bring that back in. And with a 32 bit float allows you to go ahead and edit easily.

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Now, one of the other things, man, this podcast is actually going to be a whole lot about road

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today and in the future, because I also bought a road wireless interview pro, which is the handheld

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mic in their wireless system. I'm actually receiving that tomorrow. So you will probably get that on the

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next episode of podcast answers. However, with the holidays coming in here, it may not be till actually

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after the first of the year that we get another podcast answers in because I'm going to be doing some

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traveling and be out and about. So I will not have access to be recording. However, one of the things

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that we are going to talk about this week is my new road pod mic USB. So if you're watching the video,

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I'm actually using it now. And the reason I decided to get this mic is because a couple different fold.

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I already like road. I like roads products. I have a road caster pro I have the road wireless go the road

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interview pro I like road and I like their products. But it one of the things that I do like a right

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So what I decided to get this for was the fact that it's not only a USB mic, but it also is

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XLR. So it's the dual feature. So right now I'm actually talking in it. And I have it hooked to my road

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caster pro via the XLR.

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So what does that mean for you?

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Well, that means that that you can use it in an interface like this if I'm at home. The reason I got it though

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is because I want to have it when I travel.

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So before when I travel, I would take a XLR USB interface like the Scarlett 2i2.

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I would plug it into my laptop

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And do podcast recording right on that

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I didn't really want to handle all of that things anymore

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I don't have a road caster duo

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If I had a road caster duo, I probably would take that because that's nice and small

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You can do all the sound pads and everything on it, but I don't have one of those

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And so I was wanting to get something that I could take with me

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That would be USB and XLR so I could use it while i'm at home when i'm in the studio

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But then also when I was on the go, I wanted to be able to have the

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road caster

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I'm sorry the road caster, but the pod mic

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With me and just plug it in via usb

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And so the nice thing about it is if you're used to road and the way that they handle

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The big bottom the oral exciter all of those things that you

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A headphone jack right on it. So you can monitor your headphones. You can monitor your mic

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in zero latency coming right off of that as well as your computer so you can use that

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It's just like you're in the recording studio

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So i'm going to do a couple different tests. Like I said, you're using the usb or I mean i'm using the xlr right now

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I'm going to pause the recording and we're going to go over to the

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We're going to go over to the usb

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All right, and now you are hearing me through the road

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And there's too many road names the road pod mic usb

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Using usb and I have the dsp on it

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big bottom the oral exciter and the

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What was oh the compression on it?

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So this is this is what it sounds like

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from that and so

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When you're traveling because again, it's it's small

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It's easy to port to pack

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To take with you and it's usbc

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Which is nice because I know that the

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This one is nice usbc take it with you. It's easy to go

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Over to using it via xlr

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And again what i i'm just really enjoying the the flexibility with having it as a

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usb mic because I can take it with me to

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On trips and it's really easy because you just need the mic maybe a mic stand

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I mean, I don't think I'd try and handle this it does okay

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I mean again, I have the processing on right now. I can turn all the processing off

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uh, I'd say flat

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Windscreen it fits on it keeps the look

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I like that and so again, this is going to be my mic that i'm going to be doing

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At home and on the road because I can take the mic without having to worry about it, you know, because it is

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A usb mic and so it'll it will allow me to to do that

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So that's those are the

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The positives on it and it does a pretty good job. You can't use it both at once

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And so you can't use both at once so you do need to know that but it does allow you to to have it plugged in

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All right guys, well

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If this has been helpful to you I would love to help you start

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And grow your podcast too

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You can contact me by going to podcast answers.com slash contact and I would love to help you get your podcast set up

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Get your podcast started. You can do it for relatively cheap. This microphone is not that much

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It's just around 200 and it's well that's

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A little more expensive than some people want to spend on a mic

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It does a great job and it allows you to do it without all the other hardware

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You can just plug this mic right into your computer

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Get going right today and have no issue starting your podcast

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So if you want to do that if you want to start your podcast

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I would love to help you podcast answers.com slash contact

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