 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We're going to do an unboxing of the road wireless pro now These just arrived on my doorstep last night around six six thirty something like that I was just packing up everything in the studio. So I thought I'll tell you what I'll just go live and do an unboxing of them Tomorrow morning. So here we are tomorrow morning Now I've got to say that this is not a full review or anything like that. I've literally Just let me shut something down. There we go. I got a bit of feedback there. I've literally just got these I haven't even dug into the box. So it's not going to be a full review or a full test or anything like that That is going to come a little bit later But I did just want to open this up with you all here because when I took a little peek into the box I did just think what an amazing package. Oh, by the way, I've got to say right off the back But thanks to road for sending me this for review and testing. So with that said When you when you open the box instead of having lots of different packets of this and that you're greeted by this great presentation of these two cases and there is also this this cable here But I'll get into the cables in a little bit more detail in a moment But it's great to have these in a an actual Solid case that you can take with you wherever you're going. I have also got the wireless pro 2s and the wireless me's as well So they come in this sort of off packet like this So if I open these up, this is the wireless me's I'll be referring to these later and then also the road wireless pro 2 and I've got another one of the receive of that Is on this little contraption which is something that I've been using the wireless pro 2 for and is connecting to the Yolo live in stream So a bit of a weird mounting rig going on over here, but I'll talk about that a little bit later as well But the thing about those two systems the wireless me and the wireless go to is they do come with these sort of pouches But you then still are in the situation where you've got lots of other little cables that go with them So things like you know, the various cables to connect them to their For for charging or to connect to the computer You've got these little things for connecting to 3.5 mil jacks and so on And so you always end up with these other things that you've got to carry for this reason I always end up with Things like this these little cases that are just Cases that I've bought for holding various different things and to hold all the different cables for the different devices we own I think that this one actually is quite lucky. I've got this here. This is the road lovelier Go, which is a love mic, which I've been using for quite some time So anyway, you always end up though with all of these different cases Well, I love about the road wireless pro though is the fact that We've got these two cases and if we take a look inside there's one of them that's distinctly heavier than the other So I'm guessing what is in that? There's also another little tell that it's got this little USB C socket on the back But I've got to say that just straight out of the box These feel really nice tactile and feel really sturdy and well-made as well. And if we open it up Then in here you can see that we've got the the wireless System contained in that and this is both a obviously a secure and protected carrying case. So that's the first thing but also it's got This thing here, which is a charging case and let me just see if I can make a slight adjustment Probably need a little bit more light on this. Sorry. I'm just seeing the the comment there Hey, hey Kenneth. They're great. See you from from Canada. Hello from Australia Wayne as well and oh, hello road as well in the the house and Yeah, sorry about that The the black background. Yeah, the lighting. I could have probably done a bit of a job I'll hold it like this so that you can see it's a little bit better though So the the thing about this is yeah, you've got that protection of the of the devices in this case But this is also a charging case as well as I mentioned It's got this this USB socket on the back and that's also used for transferring data So being able to get your information your recordings off the Off the devices you can just plug in using these the USB cable that was the one that just I just took out of the box That is the one to that these the fast data transfer cable to sync data with your with your computer and also do the Charging so a really nice solid little little device there. So then we've got this second Box though, which is sort of identical in size and shape And if I just open it up in here, we've got a whole load of of different accessories So let me just open some of these up So the first thing to note is that in the the top of this we've got a few different Things I was just looking if I'd got a plane board just one second Then somebody made a very good point What I'll do is I'll get this that's a bit better, isn't it? Hope you to see a bit better. So in here, let's take a look at what we've got then We've got that cable, which was the one that came out of the the box there. That's the syncing cable in here We've got a couple of cables. So USB-C to USB-C and then we've also got USB-C to lightning so for connecting Directly to your phone. So this is going to be for connecting the receiver To your phone for then obviously linking this to your at your at your phone your iPad Whatever it is, that's what the purpose of these cables here then also in the the bag we've got the the TRS connector So that's if you want to just take the output from the transmitter from the receiver rather and plug that into any device You can do that there and then we've got a load of other different things in here So first of all, we've got these things which are these magnetic clips and what they allow you to do is you can plug you can Sorry slide these onto the Transmitters and then these are going to just sort of snap onto any of your clothing So if I put my thing through here, it will just allow that to magnetically clip to anything So it's a really strong sturdy magnet It's not going anywhere and that's allow allows you to clip it to as I say your clothing or anything like that There I had it on the outside actually you can also have it if you want to sort of put this more discreetly Sort of inside your top or whatever then you can clip it on in in that way as well Again appreciate black top with black devices not the the best here, but anyway Hey Christian from Columbia great to see you here. We've got a global audience always always great to see And so then apart from that though, we've got these magnetic clips if I just put these down here They're obviously gonna stick together on me So I'll open it up. We've also then underneath this little this little flap in the top We've also got a little road cleaning cloth for your Devices or to keep the actual wireless pros nice and clean as well Then underneath here. We've also got some other accessories. So we've got these little clips I'll come on to that in a moment and the little windmuffs for we've got that which is the the desk and of course For these little things here, which are the road wireless Sorry the road lovelier to microphones So we've got two of those and so in here These are the little sort of windshields that you've got for these these microphones And then also you've got some slightly larger sort of dead cat style ones there So two for the love mics and then also The ones there for the top of the actual devices themselves So that is what is in this accessory case and as I say it's great to have a proper little case That just fits everything that you need for the entire system So you might not need all of this with you But certainly it's a great place to keep it all together and take it with you and yeah nicely matched So if I just take out all of these devices, you can see that they've got the little charging ports there in the bottom So they just all slot on I'm noticing that as soon as I take them out of the case They automatically switch on as well, which is great if I just peel the little fronts off They're pretty much identical in terms of the the size of the devices compared to the other ones in the range I'll just open this up. So they've got the same sort of glossy finish on them as all of the others Same size the same shape There's a couple of differences in terms of the the buttons that they have on them So comparing the buttons of the road wireless go to to the road wireless me and the the pros There is a couple of slight slight differences in terms of the buttons and the functionality But I'm actually going to get into all of that in a separate video The point about this was that somebody asked me the question before I received these as to you know They were thinking about buying one of the other road wireless systems and which one should they get And so there is a whole new sort of feature set with the road wireless pro And so there is obviously the me the pro and the go-to so what which one should you be considering and this was the question That was us So I thought it'd be worth just taking a look at some of the sort of price points of these things and what's included because You can see here that we have got like an absolute ton of accessories that come with this And for me my initial impression based on this alone is that you know if you were trying to choose between one of these three systems You're probably going to come down to either the me or the pro to just because of the amount of things that you've got With the with the pro versus the me too. So let's take a quick. Sorry as the go-to So let's take a quick look at what these look like So I'm just looking at all of these on the same site So this is actually b&h just for example because then we've got to sort of like for like a sort of comparison So here is the road wireless pro 2 and here is the road wireless go Then you've got the road wireless me now the me is just basically one transmitter and one receiver Although the receiver can be used as a mic. So great for you know content creators who are maybe using this on their mobile or whatever They've got a mic on their mobile. They've got somebody else on one of the other mics You can still capture both of those those audio So you still have got two effective mics in this system and you can see they're the price around $150 the go-to is Obviously two transmitters and a receiver like the pro But there are some differences now one of the big things with the pro that you've no doubt heard all about is This thing of 32-bit float and what does that actually mean if you're not not familiar? Well the devices are going to have some sort of limit in terms of what levels of audio they can capture and what can happen is That you know if somebody suddenly shouts or speaks loudly Then it may sort of clip off that and you can end up with a little bit of distortion to somebody's voice Similarly if somebody's talking really quietly or far away then it may not sort of pick that up And so what you might want to do then is you might want to sort of adjust that in post as it were when you're editing To sort of reduce that that volume or maybe boost up for those those lower volumes Well, that's that's fine, but if you are not actually capturing that Then what you end up with is just okay that distortion that happened at that louder volume is just going to be the same Distortion, but just now it's quieter So what you want to be able to do is actually capture that sort of whole range of audio and that's what 32-bit float allows It allows you to capture all of that and so in post production if you are finding that You know, it's it's it's too loud or whatever you can still actually access and it's and crucially It's it's distorting and clipping then you can actually sort of reduce the volume and you've still got all of the actual Information so that you're still getting a clean audio out So that's what that 32-bit float gives the other thing that the pro has versus the go-to is it also has this time sinking or ability timecode sync ability Which means that it's basically Sinking all of the these things on the go So when you bring it into your software, you can easily get all of these different things aligned You don't have to necessarily try and figure out, you know exactly where these multiple different tracks are they can just all be bought In in sync using this timecode So then there is other things here where as well like the extended range So it's got a longer range than the the wireless pro so then the wireless go I should say So that's another thing that is enhanced on the wireless pro And then it also has another feature which it shares with the me which is that it's got this gain assist So although it's got this 32-bit float that you can go and sort of recover Audio after if you found that it's clipping and it does have gain assist Which as I say the wireless me has as well, which is something that's intended to Allow you to sort of set it up and then it will control that for you So it's going to try and sort of limit that limit the the volume or the reduced the gain If it's finding that the audio is potentially going to be clipping in in broad terms So as I say that's something that it shares with the me and so When it comes to choosing between the me the pro or the the wireless to that's kind of one of the reasons Why I'm saying you're probably going to choose between the me or the pro because you're either going to be you know, just A sort of I don't say a beginner But just wanting something that's like a simple plug-and-play type thing So that's the would be the me and it's got the gain assist So it's going to automatically try and avoid it that sort of clipping issue for you Or you want something with maybe the dual dual transmitters And then you've got the gain assist if you need it on the pro or you can you have that deactivated and you can Just then rely on the 32 bit float to be able to go and adjust things in post So just on that basis alone then for me, you know, it would be the me or the pro But having said that you know, there is also this price consideration So just looking here on right here on bnh at the moment. It's a hundred and fifty thereabouts for the the me to one through 300 for the go-to and then 3400 sorry came my numbers wrong for the pro to so basically it's a hundred dollars more for the Pro versus the go-to. So obviously price is a factor But I can't get over just how much stuff is included in the pro to package because If you wanted to have the charging case like we like just comes with the pro to They did release one that is for the me specific. Sorry. That is for the the go-to specifically And that's like $80. So these are not cross-compatible. I understand so I don't think you can plug the wireless pros into the charging case for the The the I don't think you could plug the wireless go-to into the case for the pro But there is this separate case available as you can see specifically for the wireless wireless go-to But that's like another $80. So there already, you know, when you look at that the extra hundred dollars for the For the pro, I mean, it's already, you know, you've got the the charging case there And you've got this other little case for all of your accessories as well So it's already looking as you say Kenneth. It's already looking like a no-brainer And then we come on to the fact that it's got these lovelier mics with it as well Now as I say, I've been using the road lovelier go for quite some time already And so this is this one I mean even if you were just to add in a couple of pairs of or a couple of pairs a pair off of those They're already, you know, $80 each as well, but this doesn't have these with them It actually has their later model, which is this the lovelier to which is a higher quality microphone So those are again, you know, nearly $100 each So if you've got two of those is $200 then those magnetic clips That's something that sold separately at $20 each as well. So there's two of those in them And then there's even those little colored things. I'm not sure if it's quite the same set as this So maybe I'll just leave that out for now. But just with those magnetic clips the Microphone and the charging case as you say Kenneth for me the choice between the pro to sorry the pro and the The go-to sorry for getting all these numbers wrong is a bit of a is a bit of a no-brainer really because it's just got so much Value in there and I would think that you know, if you're If you're trying to choose between the two of them It just to make more sense to have all of these at these things to hand I did have a question which was How do the actual microphones inside? I know there are these differences with the the things that are included You know, obviously the things that we've just talked about there And we've also got this thing of the 32 bit float and the gain assist that you've got on the pro and on the me as well And so there are those differences But what what about the actual mics has there been any sort of change in that or is there any difference between them and essentially apart from that issue of the or not issue that's that feature of the Gain assist being added and some slight changes essentially the microphones in these devices Are the same so the microphone that you've got built into the transmitters Just up there at the top is going to be the same on on all of those But actually it's also apparently which I hadn't realized is the same as the go Lovely ago as well. So I'm guessing then that this lovely ago microphone here What they're saying is that that is pretty much the same same capsule as in the is in the wireless mics So that my question was well, how would it be then? How would you you choose then between using these lovelier to mics versus the this the built-in mic? Which one of those is better and apparently that you will get a richer fuller sound slightly with the with the wireless mic And also obviously you get that to versatility over placement there So, you know, you can you can easily sort of place it more discreetly and in different places without having to have that You know this sort of mounted on so you may not want something as large as that in sight And even if it's mounted sort of underneath here, you've just got those better options So there again is another reason that you know for the the relatively You know lower increase in price You're actually getting a better way to implement this system as well using the wireless mics. So yeah And just to answer that question then Kenneth I would guess that is going to be the same because of if you're not using the 32-bit float recording in the transmitter If you're not actually, you know doing anything with this in post-production I mean my whole thing for this channel It's called take one tech because I do everything in one tape with no edits I mean, this is obviously live But even my recorded videos are just live with no edits So I don't tend to go in and make these adjustments So it is something that was you know on my mind is like well, what would there be some benefit in? using these over the others and yeah, the actual raw sound out of the the Devices I would guess would be the same except that you have got that thing that I mentioned the gain assist Which is what it shares with the me so you could always turn that on so that it's automatically adjusting your your gain there The other thing the other way that you can use these obviously is that which I won't go through right now is you can pair them with the Rocaster duo or Rocaster Pro 2 as well Just looking at these lavalier go mics. They are different. Sorry the The lavalier 2 so compared to the lavalier Go this one has got the capsule which is kind of like that as you can see that is sort of vertical Vertically positioned these ones are they've got like a sort of side address type thing I say side address It's probably not the right terminology, but you can see that rather than being on the end the mic is actually pointing out so when it's sort of Sat on your your top there or wherever it is You would just need to make sure that it's actually pointing outwards rather than that pointing inwards, but the clips for this If I just open these up You've got a couple of ways that you can connect this it does come with these color connectors as I mentioned But this is just the way that these little things slip on so as I say just be conscious of the particular way that they're facing got to cover my eyes if I want this to focus Just be conscious of the way that this is facing But then you've got the little clip here which clips on to the the device like that So clips on to the mic and then this word if I just take off this little bit of cardboard here holding them all together As I say, I'm going to do a full review of of these in due course over the next week or so And also a full comparison of it with the the other Wireless devices as well But just to show you this and then you can obviously wrap that around the point of this by the way is that it gives you a nice little way to Let me come into this one These little clips is This is how you sort of wrap the cable around that so that then when it's on your your top or whatever You can then route this down the back So that little sort of loop around that you can do there is so you can neatly get the the cable Down into the Inside your clothes if you want to hide the at the cable away. So that is the the sort of small windshield There is also these larger ones here If I find the the correct one for that you can tell because the the sort of inside of these Dead cats is slightly different. So this has got the the sort of twist Twist grip that twist grip twist locking mechanism that goes into the top of the wireless This one is more of a sort of oval shape And so this is going to fit Over the top of these devices so That one was going to just slot into there So then yes, if you're outside in a windy environment, then you've got that on there These ones here though the the other ones they just sort of twist onto the top of the the wireless devices So there's a little sort of alignment thing Two little white lines on either side and then you just push that in there and turn it like that another feature of the wireless pro which the we don't have on the wireless go to and then on the the wireless me as well is The fact that you can actually use these for monitoring. So there is in the the Receiver there is a headphone out here at which you can use for for monitoring. So this can also support a Head zone a headset rather So you can actually use this This one does also have an input on it basically as well. So in effect that is three three mics rather than that just two The other thing about it as well is on the receiver here If I can find my camera if the actual connector there where you connect the love mics The love mics have got this thread So it means that when you put those in you've actually got a really sort of positive Locking of that where you can screw it. I screw it the right way. Maybe that might help You can screw that in and so that love mic is not going to be coming out of there because it's firmly fixed So I know that you know that can sometimes be an issue if you've got this clipped on somewhere And you've got a love mic then you know, it could technically be be pulled out So that's another nice little you know what you may say pro feature I know that there were people selling sort of aftermarket things to lock on to this that you could screw things into the Into the original wireless goes, but that is now sort of built into it So Kenneth how much of a difference does the gain assist help? Well, I'll have to put it through its full paces actually to be honest my use of gain assist with the wireless me I still haven't done a full test of that But that's the other device obviously has these which I do have I've been using the wireless me predominantly actually with my Roadcaster so when they Allow the wireless devices to be connected directly to the roadcaster and the wireless me is the the transmitter Is the one that I've been using with that now whilst you can actually activate gain assist on the on the wireless Me from the roadcaster so you do have the option to choose the profile I haven't actually been using it for that in the studio just because You know, I didn't feel I needed that sort of level of Control or whatever because I've just been setting this up and I'm in a pretty controlled environment But I will do a more Thorate test of of that in there in the field out and about as it were So as I say one of the things that I've been using the wireless go for is with this which is the Yolo box Yolo live rather in stream, which is for vertical streaming to Instagram and Facebook and Tik Tok and so on So that's the the wireless mic that I've been using along along with that So I guess what I should do is Although this is not going to be a full test what I will at least do is at least actually just plug it in and let's give it a Very initial test, but like I say, this is not a Intended to be a full Testing session. I will just plug it in and what I'm going to do is I'm going to plug it into the the Rocaster into the Rocaster duo. Where's it gone? Get this out of here. I'm going to plug it into the Rocaster duo Into the actually into the headset socket in the front And then I'm going to plug this into into here. Where are we now? Let me just plug that into the output and Then I'm going to try and what I'll do is I'll plug in one of the the love mics And then we can switch over to this this mic afterwards We'll see how it works over USB and these did just come straight on there immediately paired and so on so Yeah, it's just a pretty straight forward setup out of the box Let me just Test this test this mic. He says great forward set about the box Yeah, there we go So I'm just going to clip this love mic on on here Like this and then okay, what I'll do is if I just take this mic down And now I'll take that one up. So yeah, like I say, I have not done any adjustments to this You're it's coming over the the love mic now wirelessly from this Transmitter I've got the love here and then it's going into my Rocaster, but so don't take this as a As in full audio test because I'm sure I've got a load of processing going on on the the Rocaster Let me just take off everything. So There you can hear the sort of fun noise in the back That is the the input. Let me just take this Yeah, so we're now coming in over the wireless pro anyway So what I'll do though is I'll do a full test of this because as I say I need to dig into the settings And this is not going to be a fair fair test But this is what it sounds like Straight out of the out of the box and as I say at the moment I'm just connecting to the the Rocaster duo Through the the little port in the front Via the cable but as I say if in actual fact if you were connecting to the Rocaster Duo or pro 2 or the stream X in fact then what you would actually do is you would just Connect them, you know, you could connect them directly Although what this would allow you to do I suppose technically is then bring in two separate wireless mics into the the road Rocaster duo So I am actually going to leave it right there just at the moment because as I say the point of this was just to Give you my sort of initial Unboxing and just to share with you my sort of thoughts on the the three different devices there the me versus the let me Just bring this one up. The me versus the pro 2. Sorry the me Again, all of my terminology wrong this morning I do apologize the wireless me the wireless go-to and the wireless pro just to give you that Initial initial view of it and as I say this came as a real of a question somebody was asking You know, which one should they go for and right now? I would have to say, you know, it's going to come down to either the me and or the or the pro for just the sheer amount of accessories but Hello to to you dropping in tech for your needs This is certainly a tech for somebody's needs and my need as well. So you're in the right place But yeah, hope you found this interesting as I say I'll have a full more structured video coming a little bit later this week when I've really dived into this in a Bit more detail and I'll do these sort of full comparison with a comparison table between all three different devices as well So thanks for joining this rather unscheduled ad hoc live. This is not my normal time for going live It's normally on a Saturday morning 5 a.m. For me. It's 6 30 on a Monday morning for me here in Thailand So rather unscheduled and ad hoc, but never mind. I'm glad you glad you made it and I'll see you next time So if you want to check out some more of my road videos though You can check over here on the right hand side for those watching on the replay