 Hello and welcome to the live stream. Today we're going to be taking a bit more of a deeper dive into all the great new road announcements that came out this week at NAB. I've already done a couple of videos about them, one covering the actual event itself or the announcement itself. And then another one apologizing for my slight mistake. But let's move on. I'll come to that in a little bit. Yeah, some really great new devices coming out. And I'm really, I just feel like the Rocaster Duo, which is one of them. I'll come to these all in order a little bit later, but it does seem like it's almost the perfect device for certainly my use case and a lot of the people that I work with as well. Just in terms of the fact that it's basically a repaired down Rocaster Pro 2. So I am super excited about that. And I'm also giving away one for exactly that reason. It just looks so awesome. But we'll come on to that in a moment. Let's just go through those different things that were talked about at the event again, and I'll just give a little bit more detail on each one. So the first thing that they announced in that announcement was the road wireless me, which essentially is a kind of smaller version or not smaller, paired down version in terms of functionality version of the road wireless go. And the thing that's different about it, first of all, is the price because it is about half the price. The road wireless me is 149, whereas the road wireless go is 299. So yeah, pretty much exactly half the price. So what are the differences in the specs then if we come over and take a quick look at those? The road wireless me from what I can make out, apart from the fact that it does seem to have better onboard processing, so it's got something called, what do they call it, gain assist. So it's easier to just automatically have the correct levels rather than making any adjustments. So the me is on the left, the go obviously is on the right here. But in terms of the other functionality, they seem pretty similar. The thing that the road wireless me doesn't have is the onboard recording from what I can make out from here. Certainly it's not said in there, but I have been mistaken this week by assuming things from emissions in road announcements. So I'm not sure about that, but it doesn't look to me like this has the onboard recording of the road wireless go. So that would be, you know, a big sort of difference there. Personally, for me, I would be looking to get one of these for use with the the roadcaster because you can now pair these with the roadcaster pro to the new roadcaster duo when it is released and also the stream X as well. So being able to pair these wireless mics directly with the device itself is is a great feature. And so I would be using this really for kind of like in studio use. I've got another wireless mic that I use sometimes when I'm doing things where I don't need to want this thing in my in my face. So that's kind of probably where I would be using this. I don't do a lot of out and about shooting. But for those that do then one of the other advantages of the road wireless me is the fact that it also has a microphone on the transmitter itself. So if you've got the transmitter sort of on top of your camera, for example, then you've got a built in mic on the transmitter as well as the wireless. So if you're doing like an interview or something like that, or you want to capture the audio at the camera source as well, then it can do that. Obviously, the road wireless go to comes with two transmitters as well. So that is another sort of difference. This is just basically one transmitter. But again, two mics one on the receiver. You can see a little bit of difference there in terms of, you know, it doesn't have the on screen display and things like that. But I think the wireless me is going to be really great for a lot of a lot of people. And I'll definitely be trying one out certainly for the the roadcaster functionality. And the functionality is now available on the roadcaster. They just released a beta firmware update, which basically allows you to just pair the road wireless mic directly with the roadcaster. You do, as I say, need to be on the beta. So if you're on the regular roadcaster firmware, then it won't be there just yet. But I'll leave a link in the description. I haven't done it yet, but I will go back and do it. And to the to the instructions from road as to how you can basically activate the the the the beta mode on your roadcaster. So I've been on that since it was available. And yeah, I've always found the beta releases to be pretty stable, not entirely, but pretty stable. So that's pretty pretty cool. Another thing that's being updated on the the road on the wireless go sorry is that you can now basically drag and drop the the audio files rather than having to use use road road connect is it road central to actually take the audio files off the local recordings. Now you can just sort of drag and drop them from the from the device itself. So it just sort of pairs with your Mac and then you can just drag and drop them like that. So you can get the wave files directly off if you are recording locally. There was another thing that was announced, which is pretty cool, which sort of brings this in line with a lot of other wireless devices. So when I was looking for a wireless mic, I actually went for the small rig for fellow, which is this one or for fellow is it, which is basically the two wireless mics and the receiver are in this little box. And this one doesn't actually have a built in battery. But what it does have is a USB socket on the side so you can basically just charge the devices from within there. So and road didn't have something like this. But as I've just shown, they basically just are releasing one of these. I haven't got actually the price for that just off hand. But this is basically a wireless charging case that also has a battery built in. I understand so you can basically charge them whilst you are carrying them around. So that is a nice little addition because yes, some of the other sort of competitor devices do have, you know, come already in these built in cases. So like the DJI, whichever it is the model DJI wireless mic that has a case as well. That one looks a bit chunky, but nevertheless, it's a nice little addition. I don't believe that that works with the wireless me though. So they were specifically saying that it was for the wireless go to. But again, I don't want to assume too much, but it certainly looked like it was built for three devices, three microphones, you know, the two mics and the receiver rather. So I don't think that that works with the wireless me, but I could be wrong. So we'll have to wait and see till I've got it in my hands. I'm not going to I'm not going to confirm anything until I've actually held something from now on. So that was the, yeah, the the wireless mics and the ROCAS update as well to be compatible with those on the subject of microphones. They've also bought a really interesting product, which is the Podmic USB. And as the name suggests, it has USB capability, but actually it is a dual capability as USB and XLR as well. So this is a really good competitor, I think, for the microphone that I'm using, which is the Shure MV7. When I bought this microphone, when I was first starting my YouTube channel, I wanted something that basically I could use over USB with a computer, but then also have the option to use it over XLR with an audio interface like the ROCAS at some point in the future when I upgrade it. So it's nice to have that sort of dual option. And it's great to see that Rode have bought out something that does this as well. And in fact, when I was looking at this mic, I did look at two other mics. One of them was the, where is it now, the Podmic, sorry, the NT-USB Mini, which is a USB mic. And then I also looked at the actual Podmic itself, so the original Rode Podmic. And these are both $99 and obviously one being USB and one being XLR. Both of them, you know, by all accounts, very good mics. But I wanted the sort of the option to upgrade later with my audio interface and just have the one mic. So that's why I went, as I say, with the Shure here. But what's interesting about the Podmic, or sorry, the Podmic USB is, where is it gone? I haven't got it up here, the Podmic USB basically is $199. So the price point compared to the Shure MV7 is actually better because the Shure MV7 is $250. So it's $50 cheaper. But just like the Shure has got onboard processing, or sorry, you can adjust the things like compression and things like that from the Shure app, the Shure Motive app on the Mac or the PC. With the Podmic USB, you can also adjust all of the onboard processing as well. But I've got a feeling that it's going to be a lot more versatile and a lot more full-featured in terms of what you can adjust. So when you're adjusting the settings for the Shure MV7, you can adjust the compression to a little bit. You can adjust the presence and various other three different factors that you can adjust. Whereas I gather that the Podmic USB is going to have a lot more of that sort of Apex processing onboard that you have with the the roadcaster, for example, and the Streamer X and things like that. So I'm going to be really interesting to dive into exactly what you can change on the Podmic USB and I think it's really going to give the Shure MV7 a run for its money. So it would be great to see that and it's always always good to have competition on these things. So definitely excited to see that one. The other thing that's interesting about it is it's over USB. You can obviously connect it to your computer, but you can also connect it to your Stream Deck by plugging it directly into one of those USB sockets on the back. Sorry, not Stream Deck. I was looking at my Stream Deck. Your roadcaster. So you can plug it directly into your roadcaster using one of those USB sockets on the back, which means that basically you've now suddenly opened up the possibility of having either on the roadcaster Pro 2, a fourth mic, or if you're on that roadcaster duo which will come on two, which has got two mic inputs, then it could be a third mic for that. So it's just really interesting that we can use these sort of directly over USB with the smaller road devices, roadcaster devices. So great to see that. I've just realised I've completely neglected to say hello to a few people. So hello Parker. Great to see you here. Hello North Pole. Lovely picture there. And Aaron. Great to see you here. And Mervin too. Great to see you. And I wonder, eCome Live, I wonder if that is, it's either Paul or it's Doc or it's Katie. I'm getting it to could be Paul. Maybe he's logged in with a different account. Anyway, great to see you all here. So moving on, I'll come to the streamer next. There we go. He's Paul logged in with the wrong account. I figured as much. So then the big announcement though was for me at least the roadcaster duo. And I've got to say I just really love this because it's effectively a mini roadcaster Pro 2. I do wonder and somebody mentioned in the comments, I wonder why they've dropped the pro from the from the name because to me, it's basically a roadcaster pro just without, you know, with with with only two mic inputs effectively. So it's just interesting the sort of branding of it because to me it's still very much a pro device. And it's just interesting that they've they've sort of dropped that. You can see that it's got these little dilly sliders compared to the main roadcaster or roadcaster pro 2. It's only got the six smart pads rather than that rather than eight. But it does have that little jack there. You can see just underneath the smart pads at the front. It's got that TRRS. So sorry. Sorry, Melvin. I've got your name on it. I always do that. I always know it's one of the other. I know he's getting the wrong way around or at least I seem to flip. Sorry, Melvin. Great to see you here though. I'll try and embed that in my mind at some point. Anyway, the TRRS socket on the front there. That is so that you can plug a microphone, sorry, a headset with a microphone into the front. And that is interesting because that then basically allows you to plug in yet another microphone device. So here is the roadcaster duo. It's got only two mic inputs in theory, although you can plug the pod mic into the pod mic USB into one of those sockets. And you can also plug a headset with a microphone into that front one. So you have actually still got technically for mic inputs. And when we talk about the headsets, they've also obviously got their own headset, which is, where is it gone? This one here, the NTH100M. So I use the NTH100M. I don't use it on the streams because I always think this looks a bit of a barrier between people on site. Like wearing big headsets like this on camera so much, but I do use them when I'm listening to stuff off camera as it were. But they also have the NTH100M, which is this one, which has a microphone. So I believe that the microphone can just plug into the regular one in any case. I don't think there's anything different in here. I might be wrong about that. But the the NTH100, basically you can plug the cable into either side. So it just it just unplugged from there. And then you can plug it into the other side, depending on which side you want the cable to go. So I believe that this is just the same, except you can just plug a mic into one of those sides. So if you had the NTH100M, as I say, with the the the Rocaster Duo, then this will plug into that front socket. So then that I'd give you that other mic input. So quite quite versatile there, I think. Everything big is pro or max. Yeah, that's true. I suppose it is to do with the size, but it is just a bit of a misnomer given the features. Incidentally, just in case you were looking at the size, I should have got this up earlier, but or got this prepared earlier. But the the difference in size between the Rocaster Pro 2 and the regular Rocaster. I did this kind of mock up just based on size of the faders size of the the dials and things like that. So I think what they've done is they've made the they've made the pads slightly smaller. But those faders, you can see how they're basically the same width, the actual fader sliders themselves, the little knobs on them. Those are in terms of this this mock up that I've done are exactly the same size as the originals. And the dials are the same size if you know the spacing is slightly different. And you can see that the connectors at the back there are kind of the same spacing apart on the same size. So that's how I came up with that. But what you'll see is that the the smart pads there are actually smaller. So they're not quite the the same size, but that's the sort of size of it. And yeah, that is just a it's a really nice size. I think that that's going to work really well on certainly on my my desk. And it's going to do a lot for a lot of people. The the other difference is between this and the Rocaster Pro 2, apart from the the the connectors on the back. It does have that thing on the front, but the pads are slightly smaller. But apart from that, it's basically doing exactly exactly the same as the Rocaster Pro 2. So if you look at the back, it still has those same connectors. Wrong one. If I show you the right thing, that might help. Let me get that wherever I put it now. Here we go. This is the one with the the connectors on the back. I pulled the right thing up. There you go. So it's still got those two USB sockets on the back and you do still have those three USB channels. And with it having the the faders on the front, it's got four faders. For me personally, you know, that would be one fader for Mike and then those three faders I would use for the three USB channels. Because those are the ones that I use the most. I don't tend to use the smart pads that much to be honest. I use them for audio for my intro and outro for my podcast, which I haven't recorded for a while, which I need to get around to. But apart from that, I'm generally using it for having one channel for Teams, one channel for Zoom, one channel for one channel for Teams and Zoom, one for Ecamm Live, and then one for System Audio and one for Discord. And at the moment, I bring System Audio in over a little hack to bring it in as a sort of fourth channel using a stereo pair coming in. What I will probably do with that now is I will bring that stereo pair into that connector on the front so that I've basically got separate channels then for Ecamm Live, Zoom, Teams, and then one for Discord, and then my System Audio will come in at the front on that effectively stereo input that you've got on the front. So that's the way that I would set this up. But yeah, it's also going to be great for the majority of my coaching clients who tend to be people who are using these devices for business as well, doing the same sort of stuff for online meetings and things like that. Incidentally, I am running my first event since COVID this year in Dallas, Texas. So if you are interested in learning about how to level up your digital presence on stage, then definitely check out that. I'll leave a link in the description. It's called the Digital Stage Revolution, and it's all about basically how now there is so much that we can just do purely online. And I'm teaching all of this at a in-person event. Go figure. But it's all about how to use all of this technology, so things like the Rocaster, the Ecamm Live, and then bringing in your presentations and stuff like that to really make an immersive experience all online. And so yes, this is an in-person event that I'm doing to teach this, which is a little bit too weird, isn't it? But there you go. So then we'll be going through, it's a four-day event. We'll be going through all of the different tools that you need and how to use them. But then it's also about how to use these and create the content around this, create a sort of content system as well to go with your business, and then also looking into course creation as well, which is something that is a great way to sort of monetize your expertise as well as presenting your information online. So you can check that all out in the description. There's a link down there and then go and register your interest and then more details to follow on that. But it's in October, as you can see, in Dallas, Texas. And if you do want some more online training to teach you the skills associated with presenting well online, then I do also have the Take One Tech Academy as well. So this is basically a whole series of different courses. You can check the link to this in the description as well. So beginner's guides to all of the different tools that are associated with this. And then also some masterclasses, not least of which is my roadcaster masterclass, which I'll mention in a moment as well. And then also in-person events, workshops and things like that. I've got a number of workshops that are coming up. So first one is quite relevant to actually technical setup for virtual presentations and webinars. I'll be talking specifically about using the roadcaster in that workflow as well. And then some others that are all sort of related to this as well. And then there's some in-person accelerator courses as well where you sort of learn with a cohort. And then some other learning methods in terms of group coaching, in-person coaching. We click Q&As and so on. So this is all, I'm saying this because it is all relevant to the roadcaster pro 2. And as I say, this is what most of my clients, I would say that pretty much all of them have a roadcaster pro 2 as their audio hub. And it's just perfect for this. And I've just been really pleased with the fact that the duo does seem really well suited to this. And it's not so much, you know, a podcasting device as much. And it's also not just so much dedicated to being a streaming device as well. It is very much a, you know, it's all encompassing. It can do all of those things. But yeah, just ideal for this business use case. So I'm just blown away by it to be honest and really looking forward to getting one. And I'm also really looking forward to giving one away as well because I do just, I already believe in it so much. So yeah, if you want to enter the roadcaster duo giveaway, you can enter that link is down at the description. The draw is at the end of May and yet one lucky winner will be winning a roadcaster duo. And I hope you enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed my roadcaster pro 2. And I'm looking forward to it as much as I'm looking forward to getting my hands on mine. So let's come on to the one of the final announcements. In fact, there was another announcement which I should just mention very quickly. There's also going to be a bag for the roadcaster pro 2 and all of your different accoutrements that you might need to take. If you are on a sort of mobile podcast recording, if you're going out doing interviews and things like that, call it a way to carry it all. So that was another thing that was announced. I don't have pricing on that actually should have checked that, but I'm not sure about the pricing. I'll leave links to all these things in the description after the fact though. So will I be? Hi, Michael. First of all, great to see you here. Will you be sharing about how to utilize ECAM for presentations? Would love to see that. So I've got that all covered in the Academy. I've also done several videos on my channel about it. So there was one about I think four weeks ago, which was all about creating immersive presentations, Michael. And that was specifically about how to use ECAM with keynote to create those presentations. But certainly, yes, that that will all be covered in the event as well that I do in Dallas, just as it is in all of my other content as well. So, yeah, the next thing then that was was on the list was the one that I kind of made a bit of a slip up with with, which was the stream at X. So let's take a little quick look at this. This is the stream at X device. And I made an assumption based on the Rhodes video where they announced this that it may well be PC only for their to have full functionality. And it's because of the branding. It's a road X device. Road X is a sort of a sub brand, if you like, that they use. And it's all linked to their unified software, which is PC only. So and then when Ryan said, you know, that you'll be able to adjust all the settings on the stream at X with unified, I made the assumption that that meant it was only going to be able to use unified. So therefore PC only anyway, long story short, I felt like I was trying to get to the bottom of this for three days. But long story short, you will apparently also be able to control it all with road central anyway. So all of the onboard processing, you will be able to adjust with that. And when I say onboard processing and perhaps jumping ahead a little bit, because what it has here is it has a mic input. You can see the little dial on the left there. And so that enables you to plug in one microphone. And so you can see the connectivity at the back there. So you can plug in your microphone next to the microphone input or an instrument, by the way, it is, I'd say microphone. It's one of those Neutric combo jacks, which basically allows you to plug in an XLR cable. That's the big round part with the three little prongs. But then also you can see in the middle, you can also plug in a quarter inch jack as well. So that means you could technically also plug in any instrument or anything like that, just like you can on the Rocaster Pro 2. So next to that socket though, you've got two further sockets. One of them is a regular headphone socket. And the other one is one of those headset sockets, just like we've got on the front coming out on the Rocaster Duo as well. So that means that again, technically you could have an instrument or microphone input, but then have a second headset or mic input going in there as well. And also just as the PodMic will work with the Rocaster Pro 2 and the Duo plugged in over USB, the PodMic USB. I understand it will do here as well. And also the Rode Wireless Me as well and the Rode Wireless Go. So we've talked about that. So in actual fact, this could well potentially, it will be a bit of an odd setup, but this potentially could be a four mic setup. Somebody on an XLR mic, somebody on a headset, somebody on a wireless mic and somebody on a USB mic plugged in or PodMic USB plugged in there as well. But the thing that's really exciting about this is it is their first step into the world of video as well. Because as you can see there, it's got two HDMI sockets. One of them is the input and one of them is a throughput. And that is so that you can either plug your camera directly into the in socket there. So it means that it's a capture card. So could potentially replace your, you know, a cam link 4K, that kind of capture card. So if you just want a small little device that basically is for one camera and a microphone, then this would be an all in one device. The little through one though, that is so that you can use it as a capture device for a screen, for a monitor output from some other computer. So what you might want is your computer or this is obviously a streaming device. It's called the Streamer X. So often what will happen is that gamers will have their screen passing through a capture card like this. So therefore this is basically just capturing the video from their gaming device or their PC or whatever they're using and all Mac. And then that's what it's actually capturing to then go into your other computer to capture the gameplay. I would totally use this when I am using a second Mac, which I do for presentations. So I would run the presentations on my second Mac and I want to see that on my first Mac. So what I would tend to do is I would have a capture card at the moment. This is the way I do it. I have a capture card that basically plugs into my Mac and then goes my Mac 2 and goes into Mac 1. And then I basically know that my sort of second desktop then on the second Mac is, you know, what's going into my first Mac. I can bring it into e-cam live and bring my presentation in and stuff like that. But what I would love to see though is what I would love to do though is actually have an external monitor that I can see all of the output before it's going in. So what I would do is I would have my second Mac that is running my presentations. I would have the cable going through here into a monitor so I could actually see the two screens on my second Mac, one of which is like, you know, my slide deck or whatever it is. But I'm also capturing that slide, you know, on the full screen presentation to bring it into e-cam. So that is my specific use case for this. So it's nice to see this sort of pass through. Hey, Bicky, great to see you here. Does it have internal storage? I don't know. It doesn't look like it's got an SD card on it. So I don't think it does. I don't know if it's got internal storage for the video. I think it is just a capture device as opposed to anything, you know, like in, if you think about something like the ATEM, I forget which one it is. Well, they all do actually. I'm not sure which one does the ISO, but anyway, ATEM ISO. Anyway, they have onboard storage. So I don't think that this is doing that. I think it is just a sort of capture device. But again, I'll wait until I've done a full evaluation of myself before I say anything. With confidence anymore. So, yeah, it's a great device. And if I just come back over to some of these other views of it. The other thing it's got is it has got all of the smart buttons like you've got on the regular stream deck. And you can program these. I heard somewhere some of them talking about actually being able to assign shortcuts. And I haven't seen this properly as in an official thing about it. But that would indicate that maybe it might be a step into a more easy way to control your computer with the pads. Because at the moment, yes, you can apply MIDI controls and stuff like that. But it's not really that straightforward in the same way that you can with a stream deck to just basically assign, you know, actions to these buttons, you know, just sort of straight out of the gate. It's not by any means like a simple sort of drag and drop thing. So it'd be interesting to see if that is something that's coming. I just sort of heard that somewhere. I'm not sure whether it's whether it's going to be the case or not. But it'd be interesting to see if they make make that more sort of stream deck like in terms of the programmability of those smart pads. I've got to say the smart pads are one of the things that are the probably the reason why I don't actually use them as much is the sort of friction involved in doing them in programming them. The other thing is the fact that you can't rearrange them. So if you think about a stream deck, you can just basically drag and drop a button from one place to another and it will swap them around. What I don't like on the Rocaster Pro 2 is the fact that once you've kind of programmed a button, if you want to, you know, move it or do something with it, you've basically got to delete it from there and then create it again. And that's not such an issue when you're just adding a sound effect or, you know, voice changing effect or something like that. But when you've got an audio clip on a smart pad to not be able to just basically drag and drop it from one place to the other seems a bit short sighted, to be honest. And I know it's easy to say these things, isn't it, when you're not the person developing it. When I think about the kind of the sort of drag and drop nature of certain things on the Rocaster, for example, being able to swap you the channels around, let's just go to this just a second. Let me just check if I've got this all set up correctly. If I go to my top down camera, where have I put that now? It's not where I was expecting it. That is weird. Where have I put that? I'll tell you what, I'll just do it the old school manual way. I'll click on it. It is somewhere over here. Hmm, that's odd. So yeah, with the, here it is, I knew it was here somewhere. So with the Rocaster, if you go into the settings, go into the outputs. In fact, this is a bad way of doing it. You can just go straight into the faders. Now I've got all these faders in these different places. The fact that I can just drag this and say, OK, I want that fader there, and then I'll drag it back. I want it over there again. I could move this one down here, move it up there. The fact that this is so drag and drop, and yet if I go into the ones on the side here, which are the, you know, all the effects and click on that, why I can't just drag and drop that one there? Because obviously it's all software. It's not like it's physically tied to that button. I don't understand why I can't actually drag that to there. But what it means is, if you've got any audio, if you've got any sound effects on here, and you want to move it to somewhere else, you've literally got to delete it from here, open up road central, and then go and basically find the file again and assign it as a new to a particular spot. It just doesn't really make sense to me. So I'll just answer this quickly while we're here. Hello, Marinex. Great to see you here. So yeah, you can change the color of those. Basically, when you're assigning the action on the ROCASTER Pro, you've got, where is it there? Color. So you just basically, let's go from the start with that. When you've got the sound pads here, you can, smart pads rather, you can click in here, you can assign different things to them by clicking on an empty one and clicking on the plus. And the options you've got are either sound effects, which you either have to record locally, or you have to add from the road central app, or you can add the different effects like the robot voice distortion, pitch shift and all of that kind of stuff. Mixer. So the only one that I really use from this is they do have one which is ducking. So they've got sensor where you can just add a little beep sound if you want to censor your own bad language. Trash talk, which is if you have got remote guests and you've got people in studio, pressing trash talk will enable you to talk trash about your guests. Not sure about that one. Fade in and fade out. So you can press a button to fade the music in and out. And then the back channel one is basically so you can talk with other people that are either guests calling in or people in studio. And if you press that, it basically means that that audio won't go out into the mix. But the one that I use actually is ducking. So that is basically so that when you're playing music and things like that, it will reduce the volume all the time that you speak or every time you speak. But I digress. I didn't answer your question yet. So in here in these settings though, as well as being able to change the name, you can also just change the color. And then basically you can see here as I change that it's changing the color just down there on the pad itself. So, yeah, the the drag and drop in nature of this, I wish that it was a bit, well, I wish it did have drag and drop so that you could move things around much like you can on with some of the other road caster or some of the other road caster interface effects. So that was just my thoughts on that. But maybe that will be something that gets improved upon. We'll have to have to see. But back to the Streamer X because this does have all of the same functionality on these these buttons as I understand it, but just programmed through either the road central or the Unify software. Incidentally, the buttons there that you can see, so the big red camera button and the big red mic button is effectively a camera on off and a mute. So it means that, you know, if you are using this as, you know, a virtual cam into zoom, for example, not a virtual cam. If you are using this as a capture card into zoom or you come live or whatever you're using it for, and you've also got your mic going through it, then the big red button is basically turn off camera and turn off your microphone. When you turn off the camera, I understand that you can program a sort of message that comes up on screen or you can and in black and white they were quite specific about it's something monochrome, maybe upload a monochrome graphic. But also if it or the default is just like a no camera sign or something like that. So having it as basically a kind of hardware mute and hardware camera off is quite a cool little thing. And yes, hi Starkillers base. Let me know what your name is so that I can, I can call you by your name as opposed to Mr. Base, which I'm guessing it's not. And I would assume that the HDMI for streamers could be geared more to capture a camera. Well, it is exactly it's captured for it's it's it's for two things specifically because it does have that throughput. So it's got the the in and the through. So this is specifically what it's intended for is the option of either a camera or a or capturing gameplay because a lot of live streamers gamers, you know, that's what they're doing. They're streaming their gameplay. So it's interesting though that it's, you know, I wonder if there'll be a model comes out with with two because for that use case, it would make total sense to have, you know, one for your camera and one for your gameplay, wouldn't it? You know, if that's the intended use case, because here what you're going to have is, OK, a gamer wants to stream their gameplay, but now they have to get a capture card to plug in their camera as well. So it would have been cool to have had like, you know, a throughput and a separate one for the camera. Obviously, who knows where they're going to go with this. It may end up being that we have something more like a, you know, a road item. I'm sure they did do a great, great job of something like that. You know, it's interesting to see, though, that this is just their sort of their first step into into video in that respect. Incidentally, the specs on this for the, for their video capture, the video is 4K 30 frames per second or is 2K 60 frames per second. But in terms of the pass through it is 4K at 60 frames per second and 2K at 120. So that indicates, you know, more sort of, you know, the gameplay because gamers are going to be having a higher frame rate on their, you know, wanting that higher frame rate on their displays basically. So that is to say that when you're using in pass through mode in 4K, the pass through would be passing through 60 frames per second. You would be capturing 30. You would be passing through in 2K 120 frames per second and you would be capturing 60 in terms of what goes, you know, into the computer over the USB. So in terms of Jamel, the options you will have for the four pads, that is going to be essentially what we've got at the moment with the ROCASTER Pro 2. So in terms of, you know, adding sound effects, you know, doing voice effects and things like that, as well as just audio things. So all the things that you can do with the ROCASTER Pro 2 pads, I understand you'll be able to do with this. And I'm just interested, I mentioned, you know, maybe even like shortcuts for other things. I've got some mixed information on this. I'll wait and see what happens. But yeah, that would be interesting to see as well. So let's come down and see what else we've got on this one. I think I've covered most of the things about that. In terms of the inputs though, yeah, so technically, I think we've already covered, you've got one mic input, but you've also got the potential for a headset input. You can see there actually on that particular shot, if I just come back to that one, you can see there just above the mic input, there is three little indicators. So it is the USB mic, the headset mic, and the wireless mic. And now just actually seeing this, I'm wondering if that is a case of is it one or the other. So I've just said about, you know, potential for three mics. I wonder though, if it is actually, you know, you're basically picking one or the other, because there's a little indicator light underneath each one. So does that mean you're choosing either the mic, the XLR mic, or the headset, or the wireless mic connection? I'm not sure about that either. So I'll wait till I have those in my hands. So I mean, how many will we be able to upload more than four sounds? Oh, sorry. I beg your pardon. Yes, indeed. So they do have on the same way that on the Rocaster Pro 2, you have the option for, there's my top-down camera button. You've got basically different pages. So you can scroll through different pages of buttons. And they've got exactly the same thing on the Streamer X as well. So if I come to here, you see the little buttons down at the bottom. Excuse me. So they've got those buttons to basically flick through the pads. So you've basically got four. I'm not sure how many banks of them. On the Rocaster Pro 2, you've got four buttons, but then you've got eight buttons and you've got eight pages of buttons effectively. So that's 64 that you've got there to use. I'm not sure on the Streamer X exactly how many different pages you can sort of flip through. So I'll have to wait and see on that one. But then in terms of the processing, I mean, the amount of processing, the power that it's got on board, I understand that it's got all of the same processing, all of the Apex processing on board there and the same preamps as well as it is in the Rocaster Pro 2. So that means you've got the compressor, the noise gate, the de-esser, the equalizer, the big bottom, the aural exciter as well. And all of those different things. So there's lots of processing power in there that's awesome. I have to say that that is actually why I created the Rocaster Pro 2 Masterclass. I will be expanding this Masterclass to also cover the Rocaster Duo and also the Streamer X or probably rebrand the course a little bit and call it the Road Interface Masterclass or something like that. But yeah, that was basically my motivation for making that was because I felt like there are so many people who have got these devices and it's got so much power on board. But I think a lot of people don't really understand the sort of principles and the ways to actually use the on-board processing. So that's what I created the course for and it does cover everything from audio, routing and all of that kind of stuff. But really my motivation for making the course was initially this part, the foundations of dynamic processing so that you can understand what is it actually doing to your sound, starting with understanding amplitude of frequency, enabling broadcast metering, measuring frequency and all of these different things and understanding what dynamic processes are and then going into the advanced audio where you can understand what's the these different parameters that you can adjust when you are looking at your compression. So first of all, what is a compressor? Step one. But then you've got all these different dials that you can adjust. I think there are four in the compressor itself. So what do they all do? What's threshold? What's the compression ratio? What's the gain? What's the attack and release and so on. So I think that a lot of people, they go in to try and make these adjustments but they're flying blind a little bit, not really sure what adjustments are doing what and so that is all explained in the Rocaster Pro 2 Masterclass and as I say, all of this here will equally apply to either the Rocaster Pro 2, the Rocaster Duo certainly all of this processing will apply to the Streamer X as well and as soon as I get my hands on them I will be updating the course fully to cover all of those things as well and you can get that either as a standalone course using the link down in the description or in the chat but also as I mentioned before it is also part of the academy so it's just one of the many courses that you can get as part of that as well. So those were the main devices if there's any questions or comments or anything coming up, I'd love to just hear from your feedback in terms of what you think about it and that could either be dropping in the chat and we can have a bit more of a conversation about it leave a comment down below in the comments but also definitely check out the Take One Tech family over on Discord and if you've never used Discord before don't worry, don't be put off don't think that it is just a platform for gamers like I thought for a long time so avoided it. It's actually a really great place to have structured and meaningful conversations and it's certainly a better place to have those conversations than in the chat for example or in the chat in the comments of videos and that was part of my motivation for doing it as well after being shown the light by the awesome Keeley Dunn Discord coach was that it's just a much better place to have conversations because what I find with YouTube comments is I'll see a comment come in I'll respond to it, I'll try and respond to it I do sometimes get behind with those but then if there's a reply comes back to my reply it's easy to get sort of lost in there and not be able to follow the conversation the other thing about it though is of course other people don't benefit from those conversations where in Discord everyone can see the conversation everyone can chip in everyone can have their say on it as well so it's much easier to have a meaningful conversation that you get everyone else's input not just my reply because there are people far smarter than me in there in any case so yeah check that out I've just typed the URL in completely wrong I'll just type that in again correctly this time www.taitonetech.io I don't know why I didn't use my shortcut I typed it out manually there and that'll teach me to do that won't it Keeley's going to clip that for a testimonial so incidentally if you are new to Discord I should also say guess what I've got a Discord course as well and the thing about my courses what you'll see is here it is so you can find that in www.taitonetech.io you'll find the courses in there but ordinarily you'll see in all of my courses that in the sidebar here I have my little link for consultancy so I'm available for consultancy and coaching as well on all of these topics so I always have a link to me in there but with Discord one I just put Keeley's consultation link because she knows far more about all of this stuff than I do and if you're looking to set up a server for your community then definitely hook up Discord Coach and she'll get you squared away so there is rich there's totally a button for that so I literally just the first time I've typed out my URL I don't know why I was distracted I didn't have the buttons so I typed it and I didn't even use my text expander snippet anyway let me get back to some of these questions off topic but do you share how to use Ecamm I use StreamYard at the NEB show people were pushing Ecamm, is Ecamm an upgrade so Ecamm is a Mac based Ecamm is, I've got a scene for this as well Ecamm is a Mac based streaming and live production software that is actually what I use to make all my videos it's what I use to make all my videos for my YouTube channel but also for all my courses and if you are a course creator then it is absolutely ideal for that as well the difference between StreamYard and Ecamm is that Ecamm is basically doing it all on your desktop and then you're doing everything out from there whereas StreamYard is browser based obviously but the other thing about Ecamm is that it is so much more full featured it's basically sort of drag and drop in terms of building out any scenes so the scene that I've got up here with this comment on or I could just click a button and go to this scene where I could say if you want to try Ecamm live if I get the comment off the screen go over to takeonetech.io you can get a free trial from there and send me a message actually if you do try it out because if you use my code I can also give you a code to get an extended trial so that when you sign up you can get an extra two months of your initial trial so basically you're going to sign up you'll use the code for that in fact I think it's down in the description and then you sign up but you get the first two months free and then you can cancel it anytime in that period if you want because it's awesome and so then effectively it's like a two month extended trial but yeah it's what I use for all of my content creation for switching scenes and all of that they've also got the most comprehensive stream deck plugin of anything that I've seen quite frankly anything that you can do in Ecamm live so switching scenes bringing in overlays all of that kind of stuff it's all just you can do it all with stream deck the other thing is they've got their virtual camera so one of the difference between it and StreamYard is that StreamYard is basically a browser that you're doing everything in there what is awesome about Ecamm what I use it for predominantly actually is for using their virtual camera feature so what that means is on your Mac when you turn the virtual camera on your Ecamm output basically shows up to your computer as just another camera so that means that in Zoom instead of selecting your camera you can just select Ecamm live and then your Ecamm live production here for example, switching scenes sharing the different screen and so on bringing in presentations you can just do all of that but into Zoom so I then have basically a stream deck for my Zoom calls that is set up for a profile for my Zoom calls that it's set up with I've got all the Zoom calls Zoom controls and then I've got all the Ecamm controls and it actually takes all the friction out of having online meetings because what tends to happen in meetings is that all people look crap for what's a better word in Zoom meetings anyway so you can really level up your overall look and appearance if you're taking some care and attention about your camera and lighting but then to be able to have all of this extra presentation and graphic element to it it really makes you stand out in Zoom meetings compared to everyone else who is on the call with you and it also removes the technical friction of you've probably been on a Zoom call and they just share a presentation with you and then they go to click, they're sharing their screen they're looking for the right thing which window am I supposed to be sharing let me click here, that's not the right one let me click here okay now I've got my presentation up and then suddenly you're just looking at a full screen presentation and they're just a little blip in the corner of the screen and there's been a whole break in the flow whereas if you can be talking to somebody on a Zoom call and you're talking about your new headphones that you're going to be bringing out to show you what it looks like these are the specs of it and everything like that let me also tell you about this other thing and let me just flick over to that scene and then I'll just come back to me again and maybe I can show you my sort of top-down shot this is what it all looks like on my desk now let me go back to my main scene and it all becomes totally seamless in a meeting and it means you can just deliver like an awesome sales pitch presentation, lesson or anything like that just controlling everything with the stream deck that is why I love Ecum Live it's totally made my entire channel possible the channel is called Take One Tech and some people don't realise but all of my videos are made in One Take with no edits this is obviously a live stream but all of my recorded videos I just do it exactly the same way because I hate editing and I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to editing as well because if I think that I can edit it then I'll tend to make lots of takes whereas if I just press the button then I don't need to do that and you can also add it in B-Roll so I've got various different scenes you've seen it already, I'm just basically switching to a scene here that's got the video and me in the corner so I've got all of my B-Roll technically just all embedded within my Ecum scene so I can just easily flip to all of these different scenes and it does become a little bit stream deck heavy I'm not going to lie so that's why on my desk I've basically got my two stream decks this is the one that I'm using for my B-Roll so this is where I'm pressing to go to all of these different B-Roll scenes this is my main one that I'm using for controlling all of my Ecum live regular stuff I use the stream deck plus as well which is for basically switching profiles between my different stream decks and then controlling audio levels as well I've also got two stream deck pedals on the bottom so the way that I'm switching back to my main scene and switching to these others is actually with my feet so I've got two of those down on the floor but yeah, Ecum in short has been quite a long advert it wasn't intended to be but I am just so in love with Ecum it's amazing so yeah to answer your question though that's the difference between it and StreamYard but the good news is if you want to use StreamYard and use some of its features you can totally use Ecum with it I know people who do that where they use StreamYard for the multi-streaming factors although Ecum now does multi-streaming as well but then they just use their Ecum virtual camera going into StreamYard so then you've got all of the Ecum production and all of that stuff but just using it with StreamYard and you know StreamYard's got interview features where you can bring people in as well Ecum's got some interview mode features as well where you can bring people in that way as well one reason why you might want to use a third-party streaming service like StreamYard or Restream when Ecum does have it built in is there are a couple of factors I still use on my account even though I can technically do multi-streaming with Ecum one of the reasons is that with Ecum when you are multi-streaming you're streaming to all of those destinations from your computer simultaneously so if you want to stream to 10 destinations that's 10 times the upload bandwidth essentially whereas with something like Restream or with StreamYard you're streaming once from Ecum so you can just stream directly to them not using the, I mentioned virtual camera directly to them using as a streaming destination but then they are handling all of the distribution from there so if I stream once to Restream it can then stream to all of the different platforms the other difference why you might want a separate multi-streaming platform in addition to Ecum is that with Ecum you're setting the stream resolution once and that applies to all channels so you are therefore limited by the lowest common denominator of the channels you're streaming to now my podcast I stream to LinkedIn and I also stream to Amazon for my podcast and Amazon Live unfortunately for some reason have capped their streaming at 720 so you've got to send them 720 so what that means is when I stream my podcast I've got to record and stream to LinkedIn at 720 as well because I can only set it once I understand that Ecum are working on potentially making the ability to set multiple stream sizes depending on the platform that you're streaming to, the multiple platforms but at the moment it's basically doing one encoding task and then streaming that out to all of the platforms so I don't want to basically have my recording of my podcast at 720 I'd much rather record locally at 4K stream to LinkedIn at 1080 which is the maximum you can do on LinkedIn and then stream to Amazon at 720 so for that I use Restream I record at 4K and then let Restream all the down sampling and all that kind of stuff so that's another reason why you might want to use it a third party service the other final reason why you might want to use a third party service with Ecum is LinkedIn for some reason their API they're not too good on letting people access their comments and so Ecum can't actually access the live chat comments that come in during your live stream on LinkedIn however Restream whatever they've done I was going to say something quite inappropriate then I don't know how they've done it but they have basically got the comments so if you stream to LinkedIn through Restream you do get access to the comments and if you're streaming to Restream via Ecum directly then those comments will then pass through into Ecum so I know people who do a stream that is purely on LinkedIn but they're still doing it through Restream to get the comments to come back into Ecum if that makes sense so that's a few of the differences there thank you very much thanks for being a subscriber and I'm glad you like the videos and find them useful don't know where that comment's just gone press the wrong button are there templates in the academy similar to what you use in your stream do you know what, live streaming templates like these kind of things I was talking with someone about this just last week actually it's not something that I have in the academy I don't make templates available and the reason is because I always feel that templates are so personal that like stream deck buttons I've got loads of stream deck icons excuse me I've got loads of stream deck icon packs on my site I haven't got loads I've got loads of icons I've got about seven icon packs but things like for Ecum different buttons for the stream deck those are kind of less personal really aren't they because as long as you've got a good pictogram that shows you what the button does then it's kind of can be okay you might want different colours but basically it does the job doesn't it whereas somebody's live stream I think is a really personal thing so it's not something that I've created because it's just not something I've created to create a whole range of different templates however what I have been thinking of doing and I haven't done it yet but what I have been thinking of doing with Ecum Live you can create profiles where you can have place holder cameras for like camera A, B, C, D and so on and so in theory I could create a whole series of layouts and then make that available so that people could basically just take that layout add an image to the background to give it their own sort of branding and then just go and switch out all of the different cameras to be their own cameras so it's something I've thought about but yeah it's not something I've done yet Michael just because of the fact that as I say the themes are so personal and I've gone through a whole series of different iterations of seeing all the things that you can do with Ecum and wanting to basically press all the buttons and try things out having like video things going on in the background and all of that kind of stuff and as you can see I've basically paired it down to something that's arguably a little bit boring isn't it it's just basically a small box around it if I go to this other scene here then yeah it's pretty minimal in terms of the layout so yeah that's where I'm up to with that anyway Michael but maybe in the future so it's the one thing that I haven't done just yet oh hey Dina, great to see you here and thank you very much so when is the latest beta version oh so the latest beta just been released yesterday if you are on the beta on the ROCASTER then just go to the settings so if you just go to where is it gone settings here and then go to system and then information whoops there we go and then go to check for update you'll find that there is an update available and that does have that wireless go connectivity and yeah that basically just opens up this option where when you go into your mic selection you'll just be able to choose in the same way that you've got all the different mic profiles you'll have one for the wireless go I'm going to be really interesting to see what the presets are like on that as well because one of the things that's great about those presets for other mics is the fact that they've done a lot of work in terms of getting the best sound out of the mic by applying all of their advanced audio processing so I'll be really interesting to see what it's like basically out of the box when you just pair the wireless me or wireless go with the ROCASTER how does it actually come through in terms of the audio quality it'd be great to see what that will have optimised that to the absolute maximum so yeah I'm going to be really interested to try that all out so yeah this is the problem with live streaming you answer a question and then you realise somebody else has already answered it so there we go hey Alicia do you know what I was just talking about you yesterday me and me and Keeley and Michelle were talking about the RODE presenter the RODE wireless presenter the stick with the RODE wireless go that you can put the RODE wireless go on the end of it and I said that I always love the way that when you start your live streams I've not caught you live for a while but when you start your live streams you do a piece to camera holding the wireless go the presenter and then you turn over to your main camera and pick it up there I've always loved that little touch so great to see you man great to see you here so yeah that's the update for the beta so if you're not on the beta program I'll leave a link in the description I'll go back and leave a link in to the video that they did about the RODE released about it and there's details there on how to actually join the beta program if you don't want to be on the beta program quite understandably then you can just wait a little while and then it will just work its way into the main release before too long I'm sure because there weren't actually that many things in the beta update in fact if I just go to the RODECaster Pro 2 beta or RODECaster Pro 2 firmware I should have got this up release notes here we go we'll find it there we go there's not much in it so that is the sum total of all of the updates it's basically connect using RODE wireless devices as input sources and then a couple of bug fixes fixed a bug where gain setting and processing status isn't remembered when switching between microphone input types fixed a bug where the unit does not boot up properly well that wouldn't be good I've not seen that on myself so yeah there's not like there's a load of things in this beta so I'd imagine that it would be relatively quickly relatively quick for it to come into the mainstream but anyway that is that just released yesterday for me maybe today for some of you depending on which time zone you're in so here we go what do you think let me read I can read but for some reason I can't read and talk whilst live streaming what do you think of a future feature to also control the RODECaster Pro 2 via stream deck I sometimes have the need to change certain settings in the RCP 2 for different situations well that's it that's an interesting one isn't it that would be really interesting basically what it would be is a road central plug-in for the stream deck so that you could control road central to therefore control the RODECaster with the stream deck that would actually be pretty cool yeah that would be pretty cool one of the things that's interesting on the RODECaster Pro 2 is the MIDI functionality this is going the other way I'm changing the topic slightly here but the MIDI functionality and if you do use Ecamm Live then there's a great app called ELMC which is Ecamm Live MIDI Controller and there's a mobile app which basically allows you to control Ecamm with a mobile but that is what belies the power of the ELMC which is the Ecamm Live MIDI app which is a desktop app and what that allows you to do is use any sort of MIDI device to control Ecamm because the RODECaster you can use the smart pads to control MIDI as MIDI controllers but you can also use the faders and in a recent update to the ELMC app you could basically then in theory assign the fader on the RODECaster to control your audio levels in Ecamm directly so if you've got like interview guests or you've got maybe you do an interview show with one person you would be able to control their level from the RODECaster from the fader because I was almost tempted to make a little app to do it myself it's not actually something I use too much since the Stream Deck Plus came out so I control levels with that now but actually now that you mention it on the same topic imagine a future feature where you could also control the RODECaster Pro 2 via Stream Deck well imagine if you could actually control the virtual mic levels with the dials on the Stream Deck Plus that would be awesome wouldn't it it is always a bit fiddly to change the levels on those virtual inputs if I come back to my top down shot so on the RODECaster you've got six faders but you can add up to three virtual faders and the way that you adjust those levels is you tap on the fader that you want and then you can turn the level up and down you can see the little indicator going up and down there so yeah but it's a little bit fiddly because you have to kind of tap on this then you move that and if you've got three of them so yeah having a link in with the Stream Deck pure speculation and wishing so that you can actually control it with the dials on the Stream Deck Plus that would be cool that would be a really cool sort of mash up and crossover between the two devices so yeah definitely a wish list oh thanks Elvis great to see you here and I appreciate the comment there so I haven't actually to be honest do I like these more over other products I've used have you ever tried the TC Helicon is it Helicon or Helisan? there you go Helicon I would guess so I haven't actually tried a huge range of devices but what I did find when I started using the RODECaster Pro 2 is that it just completely solved an issue that I had and that was basically this rooting for virtual meetings that's where I'm coming from with all this I mean I do live stream as well so it's great for that but in actual fact for live streaming I mean my USB mic I used for the first 8 months or whatever on my channel or more and just having a USB mic going into my computer was fine for me for live streaming where the RODECaster really comes into its own for me is for virtual meetings webinars and things like that where I want to have multiple audio routing going on or even now actually since I started doing my live streamer backstage so as a channel member you get access to the backstage area of the live stream which is running discord so right now I've got audio coming into my my ears from discord so if anyone in there was to tell me anything like last week somebody told me that I was on the wrong scene I would actually hear that but it's not coming through to you because I've got my things set up I can just show you this if you're interested so on my RODECaster this is my mic this is my mic here that I can move my volume up and down which is my e-cam so if I play any sound effects or any music in e-cam I can adjust the mix in here and then this one here the volume is slightly lower at the moment that is discord so what I've done is I'm basically listening to all of these channels using the RODECaster's listen function but then what I've done is I've muted these ones so that you can't hear them so that you don't hear for example at the moment my system audio which is this channel you also don't hear discord and you also don't hear my zoom or teams channel but in any case there's no one in there anyway I'm not on that at the moment but this is what the RODECaster Pro 2 really solved is having three separate USB channels over those two USB cables and them all having mix minus it means that you can have a separate channel for those separate communication apps and I don't think there's another device quite that does that I saw somebody posted today there's a new I forget the brand now it's not Roland it's something else a big audio brand but they've basically got a device that's got I think 10 mixers on it but it still only has one USB channel so it's and it kind of feels it kind of feels a bit late to the game I can't just remember the name of it now but it kind of feels a bit late to the game because it almost feels like a competitor the RODECaster Pro one and yeah the two is just having those three channels with mix minus is what I use it for and as I say the one mic in I do also have use my wireless mic with it as well that I plug into one of the other sockets on the back but now that we compare the wireless mic I'll be to definitely getting the the road one and so for what I use these four channels here are the primary ones well that there is all I need and that is basically what you've got in the RODECaster Duo so it's definitely going to meet my needs from from that so let's go down where are we now very interesting it would be an interesting integration oh this would be the streamnet one because it would speed up certain workflows a lot and you could do presets yeah it would be it would be interesting you've just got my mind worrying because whenever I think of any automation process I always think how could I do with that with keyboard maestro so it's making me wonder now about having keyboard maestro control road central I'll probably spend an hour on there going down a rabbit hole trying to figure that out I'd like to do a workaround basically to control the RODECaster with the stream deck it's like a little side project there the stream at X how many USB channels does that have that is a good question because it does have the two USB cables but I wonder it just says one and two I wonder if that is also dual like dual channel because the way it works on RODECaster Pro 1 the RODECaster Pro 2 and the duo is that you've got two cables but one of them actually has two channels down it so that's an interesting question and I don't actually know let me have a look and see if it says anything a little look what it says on the website if it actually says how many connections it has see it has let's just look at the stats a second what it says about it it's basically on RODECaster website that's off there we go so two USB connections to seamlessly accommodate dual PC setups oh yeah well this is another thing I use this with kind of primarily one computer but I just have both cables going into the one computer so that I can have multiple mixed minus channels from the single computer but of course the other thing about this is you can therefore connect it to two computers which is ideal for streamers who want to have you know gameplay coming in on one and then maybe they've got another one running their stream so that is another thing that I kind of neglected to mention of the RODECaster Pro 2 the duo and this one so this one says it's got the two USB sockets it doesn't say specifically whether it's got the same thing of the RODECaster Pro 2 main the RODECaster Pro 2 chat and also the secondary channel so it doesn't say that here and I'm not going to assume anything again in that respect so I'm not quite sure about that that's what I've got so far there was the capture things that I talked about in terms of the speeds it's got the same pre-amp so the pre-amp is really good on the microphone and it's if you've heard people talking about using like a short SM7B which is kind of like almost these days seems to be the podcast gold standard not that it's the best mic but it just seems to be the best one or the one that most podcasts have gone to but people often talk about needing this little booster thing to go in the in line with the cable to give you a higher to give you more gain so either a fat head or a what's the other one called now I'm blanking on it there's another device that you need anyway the long story short is that you don't actually need these with either the Rocaster Pro 2 or the Duo or this just and it's because of this this revolution pre-amp is by all accounts very good I don't claim to be an expert in the whole range of pre-amps but I'm told reliably that it is indeed very good and then all of the Apex processing so that is all of the compressor and stuff like that so that does apply to this and as I say it also allows you to use the RODE series for wireless microphones so that includes the wireless go to not the original wireless go and then also the obviously the wireless meet as well so did that answer the question I let's see oh I see so we were talking about the USB devices weren't we so RODE has announced not long ago that they want to support more virtual USB devices for RODE hope that comes soon oh that would be really cool if they actually have if they have more than three that would that would be really useful because as I say at the moment I'm kind of I'm doing this really weird thing I'll tell you what I'm doing on my Rocaster Pro 2 which is I say it's really weird because it's got three USB inputs and I've mentioned I've got one for e-cam live I've got one for discord orange for e-cam purple for discord blue for zoom and teams but I wanted to have my system audio separate so what I've done is I've actually got here a stereo pair so in the Rocaster you can set up an input if I go into my inputs and go into where is it no go into the faders if you tap on one of these faders as well as being able to select you know basically mic one two three or four input or any of the USB channels you can actually create this little stereo pair so if you click on stereo between one two or two and three or three and four because bear in mind a jack that comes into the back is going to be mono for a microphone but you can create a stereo pair so what I've got there is I've got a stereo pair that is connected to the headphone out on my Mac Mini so that my audio my system audio from my Mac is basically coming out of the headphone socket but it's feeding into the Rocaster there so what that means is instead of having just three into my computer I've got the two USB cables there for USB one main chat and secondary but then I've got my system audio coming in on this one so I have actually got four channels that are for my computer so yeah if they were to add that in to add in more USB virtual USB that would be awesome I don't know that they're going to do that you're saying that potentially they're thinking about it so that would be great if they do that that would be awesome hey Michael great to see you here all the way from Sweden great to see you that's it Cloudlifter, thank you the Fethead or the Cloudlifter the Cloudlifter is the one that everyone talks about which is basically an inline device that you put inline with the the SM7B or some others that need a bit more gain and it basically just gives it a bit of a gain boost but yeah you don't need this one that's it with the Roadcaster Pro 2 or anything with these revolution preamps like the Roadcaster Duo and so on well that is about it for all of the announcements and I think I've geeked out on it enough unless anybody's got any other comments or feedback if you do as I say the best place to do this all is in the Discord so we've got a whole channel dedicated to Roadcaster and associated things so you might want to check out that down there you can also find a link in the description and also check out the Academy if you want to learn how to use all of this technology together for your your online business presentations or your content creation whatever the case may be so with that I will be back with more Roadcaster related information as I figure it all out myself thanks so much for watching for those watching on the replay I'll leave a link to some other Roadcaster related information over on the right hand side thanks to my channel members just realised I need to update this list a little bit have you all on board I appreciate all of your support have a great day everyone