RODECASTER Pro — a Not-so Technical First Impression - Podcasting Equipment #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- So I've been podcasting for about a decade now.

I've recorded over 1300 episode

and have had over 60 million downloads.

And never have I been so impressed with a box. (laughs)

So yeah today we're talking about the RODECaster Pro.

RODE is an Australian company.

Good day mate!

And that was bad, take that out.

No leave it in, no take it out.

Anyway I'm just really excited because

this is my first impressions of this thing.

Thank you to RODE they sent me this to test out.

I've been testing it out for about a month and half now.

Using it in the studio here for my podcasting needs

for both Smart Passive Income and AskPat

and wow this thing blows me away.

I can't wait to share some of

my favorite high
lights with you.

This is not a video that's gonna go over all

the little bells and whistles

but there are a lot to talk about.

And I wanna talk about some of my favorite things.

So one of my favorite things is that the hizzard

can connect to the fleeb and the blamph.

Which are not real words, those are from Rick and Morty

and I'm not technical at all.

- I was wondering how plumbuses got made.

- So if you're expecting some like hardcore numbers

and all this like language in the space that you know

and you're a technical person then this is not for you.

I'm just a normal person reviewing this box and I love it

and I'm gonna share with you why I love it

'cause I'm here to just make things easier for you so yeah.

Ooh look at the plumbus.

All right so upon first viewing

it was a little overwhelming.

I'm like whoa there's a bunch of colors

and a bunch of buttons like what do I press?

What does this all mean?

But diving into it, even just for a few minutes

you start to understand how this thing is organized.

So you'll see here on the left hand side,

you have four microphones that you can plug in.

These are the volume controls for those mics,

these buttons down here.

You can just hear that channel alone

or you can mute that channel alone, which is kinda nice.

And then you'll see these other volume controls here.

This one is specifically for

a USB device like your computer.

So your computer audio can feed into this box

and you can record that in your show

which is pretty amazing.

You can connect your phone wired

or you can connect a Bluetooth device as well.

And then this side over here is just

your sound pad for different sound effects.

And you can actually drag and drop audio

on your computer to change what these buttons do.

And I have like my AskPat intro

and some funny sounds and like a horn noise.

These four knobs up here control

individual monitors or headsets that you can plug in.

So if you are interviewing with three other people,

it's you and three other people, four total.

You each can be on a microphone here,

you can each control your audio

and your monitor or your headphones here.

And then going into the little touch pad here

which is really nice.

You can see your levels which is really cool.

You can go to settings, you can change hardware

sort of universally, but you can also go into

each individual channel even by clicking

on these little buttons here.

And you can see 'em going

one, two, three, four to light those up.

What's really cool about that is they,

each channel has its own settings.

So you can go into the advanced settings

and have your compressor, your de-esser,

your noise gate, high pass filters.

What do those mean?

It doesn't matter, turn 'em all on

and you're gonna sound great.

You can also define like the voice,

so this voice for this person.

Maybe they have a deep voice, so you can set that.

And then they might have a strong voice or a soft voice

and you can set that and it just knows

what to do with those settings.

So again you don't have to go into

all these other crazy little boxes

that have a bunch of knobs

and you have to have them at certain settings.

Like this just does it automatically for you as well.

Another cool thing is if you have

a specific type of microphone, like a RODE, a PODMIC,

or some other specific RODE mics

they actually have settings built in

for those types of mics as well.

It's just kinda all built in here which is really cool.

And then this big green button here if I were to press that

it turns red, that means now I'm recording into the SD card.

This has nothing to do with

what's happening in the computer.

Literally again, I don't even need a computer

to bring with me if I were to go on the road,

bring four microphones,

I can interview up to three other people.

Record it right into this box,

I don't even need a computer, it's kinda crazy.

All right now size wise this isn't tiny.

There's a lot of other devices that I've used in the past

for podcasting like this Focusrite, the Scarlett 2M2

or 2i2 which is amazing, I love this,

I still use this at home

and it's quite compact, easy to travel with.

And even from sound devices here, this MixPre-3.

These two will get you really great audio

but it doesn't have all those other effects,

like the compressor and all those

other things to go along with it.

Those are just ways that you can connect

your XLR microphones to a USB computer.

This is so much more.

And then price wise for what you get, 600 bucks currently.

That's not bad at all considering all

the things that are involved with this.

But even a preamp like I've used before, like the DBX286S,

again all these numbers and things.

That cost over $250 and that adds some of those things

but then you need to connect it to another box

like one of these guys and it's just a lot, right?

This is all in one, it's convenient and I mean,

it's not super heavy either, it's just great.

Okay so you're hearing right now

the audio from a Shotgun mic

which is also from RODE, is it not?

Okay cool an NTG, but anyway don't worry about that.

I'm gonna switch really quick

to what you're gonna listen to through the RODECaster Pro.

But a couple things, we're gonna go

to my computer really quick.

I'm gonna make sure that my settings are correct

and then I'm going to hit record here.

You'll hear my voice through Heil PR 40 here

and then I'm actually gonna press play on YouTube video

that'll feed through the RODECaster and insert itself

into the audio that you're gonna hear as well.

It's kinda all crazy how it's connected

and it's all gonna be recorded

in the micro SD card here too.

So let's go ahead and do that right now

I'm gonna go to the Apple systems preferences and hit sound.

And now I can see my output is the RODECaster Pro.

That means that the audio coming from the computer

is actually gonna go through here

and I'm gonna hear it here in my headphones.

So I'll put these guys on,

left right, right left, okay there we go.

Then I'm actually, I can actually hear myself right now

because the monitor is on and

I can adjust that here if I need to

and then the input is also the RODECaster Pro

in case I wanted to record simultaneously

using something like GarageBand

or Adobe Audition or Audacity,

I can do kind of simultaneous recording from there.

So here's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna hit record

on the RODECaster Pro, this will turn red.

I'm gonna press play after a little intro

on the YouTube video which will feed into here

and it'll be a nice little kinda little clip, so here we go.

Hey guys what's up, Pat Flynn here

and you're listening to me on the RODECaster Pro.

I'm gonna hit play on a YouTube video

about how to podcast with an iPhone or iPad.

It's Pat here, if you're looking to record a podcast

just with your iPhone or iPad.

What do you think of that, pretty cool right?

(air horn blows)

So yeah this sound board,

you heard me do a little (air horn blows)

promise not to abuse that in the future.

But there are some other things you can do here

like if you have an intro for your podcast

you can just play it.

(techno music)

- AskPat. - AskPat.com

(record scratches)

- What's up everybody, Pat Flynn here

and welcome to episode 5276.2 of AskPat 2.0.

Thanks so much for being--

See so you, instead of having to do that in post edit

you can actually have your sounds and your intros and stuff

and outros on the little sound board

or sound bank here which is pretty cool.

Okay so that was audio coming

from the computer into the RODECaster Pro

simultaneously with my voice over the Heil

or with the Heil mic here connected into channel one.

But now let's try the Bluetooth.

So this is gonna be the Bluetooth connection

from my phone into the RODECaster Pro.

We're gonna hear what that sounds like

and I'll comment on that as well.

So here you are listening to me on the Heil PR 40

and I'm gonna hit play on this video

and you should hear it come through.

Ratios or sizes, widescreen which is 16 by nine

or standard which is four by three.

But again check, some do different and custom sizes.

You can turn it up.

Contact the conference director or the owner.

Turn it down.

Or sometimes they'll have a packet

or a PDF file for you to read over.

(air horn blows)

Sometimes they also give you a template

and you can use that template to guide you and--

So overall first impressions, this is a 10 out of 10 for me.

And it's even more so because recently they came out

with a new firmware update which allows us

to now connect through podcast transfer.

Meaning your micro SD card can be read through your computer

so I can actually access this as a drive right now.

I have to click a couple things here to do that

but now I don't even have to take

the SD card out to transfer those files.

It does take a little bit more time

than if you were to plug it in directly

through a microchip reader or something like that

but man this thing is amazing.

The cool thing about that firmware update

was it literally feels like it was like a Tesla.

So I have a Tesla X and what's really cool about that

is like sometimes you'll wake up

and it'll be like now your Tesla does this thing.

Same thing just happened with this RODE.

This is, I feel, the Tesla of podcast equipment

and I'm just very impressed with it

and I can't wait to see what other updates

are gonna come out to make this even cooler.

Because there's a lot of things here

and we've only scratched the surface.

So make sure you subscribe because we're gonna do

some deeper dives on this thing

and some other things that you can do

that even I'm still figuring it out right now.

But overall just super impressed with this.

If you wanna check this out go through my link down below,

that is an affiliate link and that'll help you get access

to this and I get a little kickback for that

so thank you for that.

But RODE, very impressed.

Good on you for creating something amazing all in one

because it's just easy.

And the user interface, fantastic and the buttons,

it's just a beautiful piece of kit.

So thank you so much for watching this video,

I appreciate you, let me know what you think.

Have you gotten your hands on the RODECaster Pro yet

and if not what are you most excited about with this?

How might it help with your workflow?

It might not be for everybody, it is kind of expensive,

it's $600 bucks, but if you are serious about podcasting

and you're ready to take your step

into the next level of your show,

this would be the piece of kit to do that with.

So let me know what you think in the comment section below.

Thank you so much, please subscribe if you haven't already.

And of course as always Team Flynn for the win.

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