 Hello and welcome to the live stream today. We are talking about audio routing on the roadcaster pro and the roadcaster duo Or roadcaster pro 2 I should say and the roadcaster duo something that I've talked about At length on in various videos before but you can never talk about it too much because this past week I've heard about four different calls with four individual clients all with audio routing issues on their roadcaster And what I'm finding is that yeah It's good to have a refresher on this kind of stuff because sometimes you set all of this stuff up You go ahead and start using it for for days weeks months And then you have some issue arise and then there's some issue with or then you have to figure out that sort of forgotten stuff that you You set up months ago So this is the point of today is to go through all of the potential audio routing issues that you may run into how to set The roadcaster duo and roadcaster pro 2 up specifically for using it with things like ecam live discord zoom and getting this sort of Two-way routing of audio going between these different applications Talking about mix minus as well can never talk about that too much because that can be the cause of a lot of issues And I'll just go through some of these other little troubleshooting steps that I go through when somebody books a call with me And says help what do I go through to try and evaluate? You know where the issue is because this is one of the things about the roadcaster pro 2 and the roadcaster duo And I mean even the stream racks actually as well is that they are you know These consumer devices that are so accessible and yet you can do some really pretty phenomenally complex stuff with them And so so yeah, it's it is easy to get a little bit lost sometimes and so that is the point of Today, so we're going to start off then with just taking a look as I say today I'll go through with respect to the roadcaster duo And so that's what I'm going to be talking about But all of this stuff basically applies to the roadcaster pro 2 as well Just that obviously you've got a couple of extra mic inputs and also a couple of extra headphone inputs So speaking of inputs, that's what we'll talk about first the the inputs and outputs on this device So on the back of the roadcaster duo, you've got two combo jack inputs there Which are for of course the mics technically it could be an instrument as well But let's just call the mics for simplicity Then you've also got two headphones Sockets on the back there as well And then you've got two further sockets that are for a left and right channel for speakers And then we've also as my computer screen just starts glitching We've also then got this one over here Which is the hang on a minute. This is all going wrong. Where are we now? Let me just bring this up again. Everything's just suddenly frozen on my computer Let me see if ecam has stopped broadcasting. Hmm the recording has stopped, but it looks like the live stream has continued There we go. I'll just continue as if nothing had happened One second. Yeah, my my keynote suddenly stopped So I don't know if you can still all hear me in the live stream or if indeed that has that has stopped It appears to still be going but something is just glitching. Let me just come back to this scene. Maybe I'll try this There we go Let me just double check that I am still still live It appears that I am Okay, there we go. It appears that it is still live and now obviously Everything is going back to normal and it's just a jumped through my slides. Never mind The beauty of live streaming So I got a little bit ahead of myself there But basically on the back there in addition to all of those we can also see the the three USB channels There's actually two USB sockets. Thanks. Thanks for all the chat. Let me know that you can still hear me All my screens just went blank for a second. I couldn't see anything anyway So we've got those three USB channels over two separate cables basically So you've got the USB one on the the left hand side And that is the USB main stereo and USB chat channel and then you've got another one, which is USB secondary There is obviously also I say obviously I often say that when it's not necessarily obvious at all We've also got a Bluetooth channel as well So that enables you to connect to your phone and I'll talk about that a little bit later because that can sometimes be a bit confusing you can use it as a sort of two-way audio with a phone but you can also connect to a Bluetooth speaker for example and the Setup for those is slightly different. So so yeah, I'll come to that a little bit later So that is the sort of inputs and outputs. I've not mentioned then obviously there is a power connection there There's also a slot for an SD card and ethernet cable as well But for for now, I'm just going to stick with the actual sort of audio inputs and outputs So let's take a look then at where I think that there can be sometimes confusion or where I know there is sometimes confusion Which is that you've got these different cables that are going in and out or the Bluetooth for the the wireless And the thing that can be sometimes confusing is that some of these are both inputs and outputs So what I mean by that is obviously a microphone is purely an input So your audio is going into your mic into the mix of the rocaster and going wherever it's going with the headphones That's the opposite obviously that is for just listening So you've got your headphones that you can just hear with there's no audio going into the mix from that Speakers are the same obviously. It's just for sending audio out of the rocaster Headset is a little bit more obvious if you've got one of the road NTH 100m Headsets with a little boom mic on it like this not a boom mic, but a little a little mic on the front Then obviously when this cable is plugged into the rocaster You've got to weigh audio there because obviously you're hearing through the headphones But you've also got the the audio going in from the microphone as well But these are the three that can sometimes cause a little bit of confusion It's the USB channels where something can be both an input and an output So you've got audio coming into the mix down these USB channels But audio is also going back out to the other way and this is the same as well with a Bluetooth If indeed you are using it to pair with a phone for sort of two-way audio as well so What I have found on my calls with people is that they're you know Wondering why they're seeing the levels going up and down on the rocaster and yet They're not hearing anything in a particular channel or they're wondering why you know everything's coming into ecam But why are they seeing it on this channel rather than that channel? So the way to think about this then is to think about it more in terms of a sort of matrix So if you've got this this table here with inputs and outputs Then we can map these things that we've just discussed into here But you'll notice that obviously inputs it's not going to include the speakers or the headphones So the only things that are inputs to the rocaster are either the microphones The headset or the microphone portion of the headset I should say and then those USB channels and the Bluetooth whereas on the outputs We've got obviously the speakers and headphones But then we've also got a duplication of those USB channels and the Bluetooth as well now Ordinarily when you just sort of plug the rocaster in the default behavior is going to be that basically everything is going everywhere So what that means is that you know if you are listening to your headphones You can see all of these different things or you can hear all of these different things rather So that is what I'm what this table is supposed to show it showing which audio is going everywhere So if you want to know something on the the chat channel over here for example Then you could say can this here the the USB one? Yes, it can because there's a little tick in the box. So that's what this sort of matrix is supposed to to show There is a little caveat with that which I'll come to later, which is this speaker So the default behavior of the speaker is that all these sort of monitor out on the back of the rocaster is that when you've got an Open mic the speaker automatically mutes so that you don't get audio going basically out of the speaker And back into the mic and causing all sorts of issues. So I'll come to that a little bit later though There are times when you might want to sort of override that which again, I'll talk about later So let's talk about then these USB channels and the issues that people that the people that I speak to have Is related to audio rooting between apps, you know, if somebody's recording a podcast and they've got you know A couple of people on microphones With their headphones on you know, it's pretty straightforward. There's not a lot to sort of think about that It's when you start introducing into the mix the sort of computers and computer apps Where you want the audio to come into the rocaster and then go back out to these different apps like for example if I'm on a zoom call and I want to do a presentation and I've got my E-cam live running into into zoom But I want to be able to have the audio rooting from E-cam into zoom and the audio rooting from zoom back into E-cam This is such a common thing that that I encounter with with my sort of client base for want of a better word So if I just go on to the the next slide for a second what we can say is if you have E-cam on a particular channel There are two particular Things that you set in E-cam you're setting both your microphone and your speaker and you want to keep E-cam on its own dedicated channel and you want to have zoom on its own dedicated channel so with the input The input from the E-cam into the rocaster very mind is the speaker from E-cam because the speaker is putting out from E-cam any audio from E-cam like any Music any sound effects if you're using interview mode in E-cam then obviously the interview guest is coming into E-cam And so that then is coming into the rocaster as an input down here But then if you want to know what is then feeding back into E-cam The default behavior would be that E-cam is hearing everything So if you speak on your microphone on mic one then that is going to feed into E-cam If you have somebody else on a second microphone, that's also going to go into E-cam as well same with the headsets Obviously, I'm just going down this list all of these things as a default will go back into E-cam There's one of these that is a little bit of an issue Which is this one which I'll come to in a moment Which is that E-cam audio therefore as a default is going to be coming into the rocaster and be feeding straight back to itself And that's what causes this issue called slap back commonly referred to as Where you are getting the audio from from an application via E-cam or zoom feeding back in on itself And we'll talk about how to correct that in a moment So then we've also got another channel a USB channel the USB chat is the one that I use for this and so this would be for zoom and Again at the the default is going to be that zoom can hear all of these different things your participants Are going to be coming into zoom as an input here So that means it's going to be coming into the mix and of course that means the E-cam will be able to hear zoom as well Or you know the audio will feed through but also the people on zoom will hear all of your other inputs And we'll talk about how you can customize this in a little moment Now I also have discord running as well So I actually have a discord back channel going at the moment. So what every time I live stream that's going on I've got that on a different channel and it is muted so that so that you're basically not hearing this But sort of I could hear it in my ears, although I just put the the volume down to zero as it happens But that is the same again We're going to put that on the same input channel and output channel and I'll talk about the the routing of this in a Moment and you may also want to have a phone connected as well over Bluetooth So, you know, there's somebody in the the take one tech Academy They do work in real estate and they run their their presentations through E-cam They do calls with Estate agents on zoom, but then they also have somebody joining on phone and then they got a whole backtrack channel going in discord So this is a very real scenario that we've got set up here And this is how you would sort of set this up from an audio routing point of view or at least almost There's a couple of little tweaks that we need to make to it, which we'll come to in a moment So I've talked about putting E-cam zoom and discord on these channels But what does that actually look like in in real terms? Well, if we take a look at the E-cam settings and the zoom settings first of all as well Then in E-cam when we're talking about the inputs and outputs I'm specifically talking about first of all in the sound levels window So this is the little window that you have sort of popped up in in E-cam as one of the little free-floating windows Of all of the E-cam windows This is the one that I always try and leave over open at all times because It's always good to be able to glance down and just see that your audio is is going up and down there Whereas a lot of the other E-cam windows. I'll just shut down. I don't need to see them all the time But this is an important one So but the key thing here though is that I've got ROCUSTER PRO 2 main stereo or sorry ROCUSTER DUO as it is main stereo selected here and Then also in the E-cam preferences under the audio section. I've also got ROCUSTER DUO main stereo there So the key is you want to have each application Using the same channel so don't have your E-cam set to you know main stereo for the for the microphone But then on the speaker have it set to the chat or the secondary or something like that We'll come to exactly why that isn't at the moment But we're giving it its own sort of dedicated channel with zoom then what I'm doing is I've gone into zoom I'm in the zoom settings. I've gone into the audio section and then under the speaker We're setting the ROCUSTER DUO chat and under the microphone. I'm setting the ROCUSTER DUO chat as well So once again, it's on its own sort of dedicated channel and critically those two have got to be different So don't put E-cam on the same thing as zoom because that will cause an issue with rooting that we'll talk about in a moment There's another one other thing that I want to draw your attention to in this particular section though Which is the cause of a common issue that there are people asking me about and it's this section down here to do with The audio profile as they call it in the zoom settings now the default setting for this is going to be that first little box That currently is unchecked, but it says zoom background noise removal now zoom is assuming that you are on a Crappy camera and a crappy microphone and that is just what they are Assuming quite rightly is the norm and so zoom is very kindly trying to do lots of things to fix your audio and also Resolution and things like that. So in terms of audio though what they're doing is they are by default Removing anything that they think is not human speech. So they're removing any background noise and even human speech that's in the background So they're prioritizing, you know you speaking and they're trying to pick that out and make it as clear as possible for those listening Which for the vast majority of users is great because it does mean that we get better quality audio in zoom calls However, if you are, you know using a roadcaster No doubt you've put a little bit more care and effort into your setup and certainly your you know your audio setup If you're using a good quality mic with the roadcaster and also if you're using a roadcaster There may be the instance that you're wanting to play, you know sound effects from the roadcaster That is one of the things that it does very well Or maybe you're playing audio from ecum rooting it through the roadcaster and having it go into zoom Well, if you are doing that zoom does not realize that that is intentional for want of a better word It's like it is just assuming that that is all background noise And so the default behavior a zoom is that it's going to try and just eliminate that and it actually does it really well So a common question that crops up a common issue is that people say I'm using a roadcaster I've got ecum going or I'm using sound effects from the roadcaster. It's all going into zoom But my participants are not hearing it. Well, this is the reason why it's this audio profile And it is the zoom background noise removal now You can select a different level if you if you have the background noise removal selected There is basically the default which is going to remove everything But there is also a low medium and high setting so you could potentially try putting it on the low setting so that it is going to you know remove Excessive noise, but it's going to allow sort of oh, sorry It's going to remove minimal background noise But it's going to allow through like music and so on but actually my preferred setting for this If you are have got a good audio setup is to use this option original sound for musicians And what that means is you're just going to get much higher quality audio Coming through and it's critically not going to do any Background noise removal one thing to note about this though is although you toggle it on in the settings here You do actually have to activate it each and every time you start a meeting And what you'll see is when you start a zoom meeting up in the top left hand corner There'll be a thing that says original sound for musicians Coal on off and you just click on it and it will switch to on so you do have to do that as part of your Meeting startup routine But once you do do that, then you're going to get all of the quality of the roadcast it Coming through now. There are three little sub options there And you'll notice that I have high fidelity music mode checked That's basically the highest quality, you know coming through without any any adjustments whatsoever done to your audio You've also got the option to check stereo audio You'll get a little warning for these by the way if you click on the little question mark next to them saying This is going to take higher bandwidth and all of that kind of thing But really the audio compared to the video is negligible So sending a stereo audio signal versus mono is probably not going to make that much of a difference to most people's You know connection if you've got a reasonably good good connection and certainly Like now I've got a gig up and down so the the connection is not an issue for for me So I just have that one selected so that if I ever I am playing stereo music Not that I ever really do that actually but it's just there in case Then that that will come through at sort of full full quality stereo for the participants The one that I don't have selected is echo cancellation and this is echo cancellation in zoom where it's going to remove The you know if you were you if you had zoom playing on speakers for example It would remove they the potential for slapback coming back I'll talk more about that setting in particular in in a little bit So that is my e-cam and zoom settings now there is also system audio So let's talk about that one for a second because in system audio the way that I have this setup is that in the e-cam Sorry in the system preferences under the sound settings in the output I have that set to rocusta duo main stereo and that is the same as for e-cam Now I mentioned having everything on a separate channel Actually because e-cam handles system audio itself in any case You know if I'm doing a screen share in e-cam and it's I want to pass the system audio through E-cam can handle that kind of side of the routing So that's why I'm perfectly comfortable having my system audio on the same channel as e-cam And then again, I do the same for the input as well again in system preferences Just going to the sound and the input that is set to Ro-custa duo main stereo as well So basically I've got e-cam and system audio on one channel zoom on another and as we mentioned discord as well I should definitely talk about this as well the discord in the discord voice and video settings Then we've got the ro-custa duo secondary and ro-custa duo secondary set in there So what that means is because now I've got three channels with those three things on it If I come over to my ro-custa duo, you can see what this looks like in there in reality here I've got my my green which is my microphone. You can see it's going up and down there I've also got orange for e-cam blue for zoom and purple for discord So the the thing about this is that now I have independent control of all of those things So if I'm wanting to root audio from e-cam my e-cam audio will come through there In fact, maybe if I just play something in e-cam a little audio thing you'll see that it is coming through If I should have got this ready in advance, but there you go. Where's my little window gone? I'll find it if I just play this little clip whatever this random music clip is You see there that it is coming through on that although the volume level in there is a bit low You can see there that is now coming through in the in the ro-custa on there But I can obviously fade that up and down For how it's going to come through to to people in zoom or wherever wherever it is Note that for the live stream this audio is playing in e-cam itself So it's not passing through the ro-custa to reach you. You're just hearing it directly from from e-cam So that is my my sort of audio rooting setup But there is this potential issue then if we come back to our little graph if I just bring this one back up There is this potential issue that we've got Oh, sorry. I just missed out one thing there actually One thing that I do in discord additionally is there is this option down at the bottom input sensitivity Now what that is is for Discord has effectively a kind of built-in noise gate Which means that when somebody's in a discord voice channel and they are not speaking then basically their mic goes off So it means that you've got a load of you know A virtual room full of people and you're just hearing all of the background noise going on So it has this this input sensitivity option That you can toggle off so because The rocaster has got a built-in noise gate and I use this and I have it set to basically close whenever I stop speaking Which is why it goes deadly silent when I stop speaking Then I've actually disabled this option in in discord. So instead of using automatically determined sensitivity I've toggled that one off This is this big box down at the bottom that we're looking at now And then also there is a slider there that you can adjust the sensitivity manually So I've basically moved that all the way to the left now. What that means is that in discord technically I have a continuously open mic However, because I've got the the rocasters noise gate working. It means that that audio isn't coming through So that's just my my preference there so that I don't have to worry about you know It's kicking in or or not when I'm when I'm speaking Um, but let's get back to this rooting table then because there is this issue that I kind of mentioned earlier And this is all now related to Mix minus so the thing about mix minus is when you've got this this rooting table as we've seen With with ecam the default is that ecam is going to be hearing All of these different things. Um, but what we don't want to happen is we don't want The ecam audio to be feeding back in on itself We also don't want the zoom audio to be feeding back in on itself because that would mean the participants Audio would be coming into the roadcaster You would be able to hear them, you know, it would feed back into ecam and everything But it would also feed back in on itself And this is the thing that they call echo technically called slap back Which is a single repetition of the uh, their voice or whatever the sound is like a fraction later momentarily later because It's basically the audio is coming in and then there's a bit of time involved in looping everything or rooting everything And then it gets fed straight back to the to the to the source So this is what we need to try to fix with mix minus and mix minus is essentially Removing the incoming feed from the mix. So what this looks like is basically We are then removing ecam from the uh, or sorry the usb1 channel from the output usb1 So this is where I talked about This thing of a little bit of confusion sometimes arising because because you've got something that can be both an input and an output But this is what we're trying to achieve We're trying to eliminate The usb main stereo from going back in on itself And so here we're just sort of eliminating all of those things from from that mix there So if we take a look at how to do this on the the roadcaster Come over to here. I'll click on this little cog icon at the top Then we're going to go to outputs and then we'll go to routing And then we've got all of the different channels and if I go to usb1 The options are main mix mix minus or custom. I'll come to custom in a little moment But mix minus is the one that I would recommend people just put on as a default So although the main mix is going to be the default that comes when you get your roadcaster duo or roadcaster pro 2 I always recommend putting mix minus on because for me it seems that with the sort of things you may be wanting to do with it If you have mix minus selected It's probably not going to do you any harm if you don't want it or don't need it whereas if you have main mix selected and you're doing something with a communication app You definitely do want to have it have it switched on so Yeah, I always would recommend just putting that on as a default and you'll notice that I've got it on the usb1 channel I've got it on the chat usb2 as well And then also we can put it onto the the bluetooth channel as well So all of those channels that we've just looked at have the mix minus switched on And that is what is represented Basically by these these little crosses just down here So if we want to take a look at some slightly more complex stuff I talked about this instance where somebody was doing something where they have their ecum feeding into zoom But then they've got the discord back channel going on, but they've also got somebody joining on a phone Well, if the discord is a back channel Then it may be that you also want to have it so that you know the other participants that are on zoom Don't hear what's going on in this discord channel. So that is where we come into what are called custom mixes in the the roadcaster So, uh, let's just say then that you want to sort of eliminate discord from those other channels We simply need to sort of basically toggle off discord for those other channels like the the usb Main stereo the usb chat it's already sort of on mix minus anyway So it's not going back on itself But we might also want to eliminate it from the bluetooth channel So if that's the case what we need to do is use the custom mixes function And i'll come to my top down shot again, and i'll show you how we can do this So let's say we want to go to the the secondary channel just here Instead of mix minus we can go into custom now when you are in the custom mix You can see that we've got a basically a duplication of the the main mixing board here But this is the mix that is going specifically From this channel to all of these, uh, beg your pardon. Let me correct that This is the mix that is that is going into this particular channel. So actually what we want to do is we want to go into Those those other channels. Let me just step back because I've I've actually just misspoken If I go back to this one what we want to do is we want to eliminate discord from those Uh, those other other channels. So the first one we'll eliminate eliminate it from is the usb one main stereo channel So let me just go back over to here Um, and the first one we want to eliminate it from would be the usb one And here is where we'll go to custom and once again, this is where you can adjust the the custom levels Uh, you can actually adjust the volume of these independently as well So it may be that you might want to say right well in the main mix Maybe I want to actually eliminate the the secondary channel all together And in which case you've got this button down at the bottom where you can press that to sort of unlink it and you can adjust The volume individually, but you can also just eliminate it all together So what this means is that on this particular channel, uh, and let me just Take that one out as well. Uh, what we need to do is we're we're basically having on the usb one main stereo We're putting the mix minus back on there by just eliminating it from itself But we've also removed that secondary channel So if I just go back here, um, what we've done there is we we were just adjusting this channel and we removed itself To replicate the mix minus, but we also removed this channel as well And we could go through and do that on all of those others as well so that the discord basically wasn't ever going through to those I mentioned there as well that what you can do is You can also adjust the levels the volume levels I'm always a bit wary to be honest of setting a different level on any one channel Relative to the others and I'll tell you why because here you can see this is the level of the fader For this this chat channel. So you can see that as I move this fader up and down This one also moves. So that's basically meaning that this is linked to that level So what you're hearing on the usb one stereo? Is is going to be exactly the same as the fader level here set for this particular channel here the the chat channel But what you can do is you can basically Unlink them and then what would happen is no matter what I do on this channel You would always have the exact same volume on there You can also have them linked but different So if I put that back and I'll just click on this channel and I'll adjust that to a different level You can see now we've got a sort of little blue bar that's opened up In the middle there and the green level is the level of audio that is passing through to that channel And the lower little fader bar there is the level of the actual fader And what that means is that as I move the fader it's moving the level on this one Relative to the fader the problem with that is though you can be in a situation where Let's say that this fader was at its normal level and let's say I wanted the audio a little bit quieter Going from the chat into specifically this channel The issue with having this relative difference is that as I move this fader down It may look to me like there is still audio, but at some point that one is already at zero So I always think it would be great if on the main board here What we should have is a a little Some way of indicating the potential maximum a minimum that you've got across all of your all of your different channels But anyway for the time being all I'll say is just be wary about setting those relative levels because you have to be conscious about You know potentially, you know on the rocaster pro 2, you know up to 11 or 9 channels You need to be sort of conscious about where those relative levels are so that you don't inadvertently put something to zero So I tend to avoid those all together But that is the the way that you would do that to sort of eliminate Something from discord now I mentioned as well about the potential for the speakers to have an issue and there's one specific use case where you You may want to be using zoom all day, you know A lot of my coaching clients are basically doing consultancy and they're on zoom all the time or they're presenting on zoom And so the key things for them are really the obviously the headphones that they're monitoring in But then it's their mic They've got e-cam running and then they've got zoom running And if somebody is on zoom all day, then often, you know headphones are not the most favorite thing to wear because you know wearing Earbuds all day long is not necessarily the best the best idea So a lot of my clients like to use their external speakers But there's always this issue of the audio from the speakers Obviously feeding back into the the microphone And so what i'm talking about here is specifically this channel here So this is where you can plug speakers into the back of the roadcaster So that you can monitor the audio and I mentioned at the beginning that there is this default setting in the roadcaster Which is that if you've got an open mic Any one of the mics that's plugged in it's going to automatically mute that speaker Obviously if you're on a zoom call you want your mic to be open And so that's kind of defeating the whole purpose, isn't it? So what you want to do is be able to turn off the Turn off that feature. So let's take a quick look at how to do that if I come to my roadcaster And again, you know, this is a feature for a reason So i'll tell you why Just to be careful about it, but if you go to outputs and go to monitor This one is the default behavior So that normally when you get your roadcaster, this screen will look like that It will say auto mute monitor output And as it says when enabled monitor output will be muted when a microphone channel fader is lifted to prevent feedback So if you've either got a microphone muted or the fader is down At zero, then the speakers will kind of open But as soon as you've got a live mic as it were then yeah, it's going to it's going to shut off the speakers So you want to disable that one? But then of course that opens up the potential issue that it's highlighting whereby your mic Audio is going to be going through the speakers. In fact, all the audio is going to be going through the speakers and feeding back into the microphone and causing a whole issue there Now what we can do is we can actually sort of fix the zoom part of it In zoom and we can fix the microphone potential for feedback in the roadcaster itself So what we're going to do is we want to actually if I just come back over to this once more What we want to do is basically eliminate our microphone from that particular mix So let's look at that. It's the same process that we've just we've just talked about with those other mixes But if I come over to here, I'm going to leave that one off for the moment Come back out of this and then if I go into the the routing and we go to the monitor What we can do is we can select custom And then we can just simply tap on there to eliminate our microphone Now everything is going through the speakers. So all of these other things are going through the speakers exactly as they are Set to here. But the one thing that is not going through is our microphone Okay, so that means that that audio is is not coming through Then what you would want to do is you would want to make sure that we're not getting this feedback in zoom itself And this is where we come back to those those advanced settings because in zoom what we can do Is we can go back over to the settings that we've already just looked at And that setting just down at the bottom Where's it gone? It's not showing up Hang on the one down at the bottom of zoom original sound for musicians You'll notice just down there that there is as well as that high fidelity music mode So i'm looking at the zoom settings right at the bottom. We've got the high fidelity music mode Stereo audio are still on but there is that one in the middle there echo cancellation Now if you then apply that echo cancellation It will mean that the audio is coming through the speakers from zoom so you can hear it But zoom is removing it from the the return feed And so that is how if you do want to use your speakers and have your you know zoom call coming out over your speakers But you're using a roadcaster with zoom that is that is exactly how you would how you would do that So that is that is a sort of run-through of how to set these things up some common issues that folks have is First of all, I mentioned the one about you know people on zoom can't hear me And that is sorry can't hear the the audio and that is that setting where we've got the zoom background noise suppression So this is kind of like one of the the the biggest ones There is also often these issues with with slap back where you're getting this sort of repetition And that's caused by not having mix minus on so if you don't have mix minus That's going to be one of the common causes of that And by incidentally usually The slap back would be you know at exactly the same volume as your fader set to so your you know zoom audio coming into to The roadcaster if you don't have mix minus on then it's just going to come in and it's going to go straight back at Whatever the level of the fader is set to for that channel For the mix, but i've had this on enough occasions for it to be worth me mentioning Where somebody said i'm getting this slap back, but it's like really really faint It's almost just like you know as if it's it's it's a lot a lot quieter than the original audio And in all cases the reason for this particular in this thing has been that they've been using over the ear headphones something like this and the With not with a boom mic, but with this kind of mic And actually the for the microphone has been picking up the audio Out of their headphones. So if you're hearing slap back where it's like really faint It's worth just checking that it's not your your headphones. And so in that case What what the solution was was just to turn down their headphone knob on their roadcaster So that there wasn't so much it wasn't so loud in their headphones, but i mentioned that because as i say i've had Four or five people book calls with me to try and resolve this issue and in each case that was the the issue So worth just just mentioning there Um the other thing that that causes issues is where people say like one cannot hear the other So ecam cannot hear zoom or zoom cannot hear ecam something like that And this is usually caused by them being both on the same channel because if you think about what mix minus is doing It's saying that like everything that is coming down into ecas into the roadcaster Is not going to be fed back down that particular channel So if you've got ecam on the main stereo and you've got zoom on the main stereo Those are both feeding Audio like into the roadcaster, but then the roadcaster saying right well anything that's come down that channel I'm not going to send back. So this is why they need to be on separate channels because it means that You can hear zoom you can hear ecam, but they can't hear each other if they're on the same channel because The mix minus is just sort of eliminating it So that is another common issue that we have There's one other one here that is Specific to ecam actually which is in the ecam menus at the top the ecam menu bar You've got in the output menu. You've got something called audio monitor Now I rarely use this there's only one use case that I've at the moment got for it Which is when I'm using my ecam with my yolo in stream To actually pass the ecam audio into into that Over the hdmi cable that I'm plugging into it, but that is a really sort of niche use case and actually the audio monitor Is not zero latency nothing's really zero latency But the audio monitor in particular is definitely not and so you're going to really notice that that difference So I think some people think that the audio monitor is a great way to actually, you know Do live, you know monitoring in the same way that we have our headphones plugged into our Rocasters, but actually it's not really suitable for that that purpose And so there's been a number of instances where people have got their Audio settings in ecam perfectly correct as we looked at them, you know with the things like the You know the the sound levels and the the speakers there But then the the the output that they've got For that audio monitoring is also set to something so I would always recommend for the output menu Go to audio monitor and just make sure that that is that is off The other thing that can catch people out actually with with these is let's say that you plan to use ecam with the main stereo as I've got here Sometimes you may see something that says Same as system and then brackets road caster pro to main stereo or road caster duo main stereo If ever you've got something that says same as system Although it might well have the road caster duo or road caster main stereo in the that that that name as well Um because it's set as the same as the system if ever anything was to change in your system audio It would also be changing in this application And that can actually really really catch people out because sometimes the system audio Can seemingly have a little mind of its own and you know, you might get the output change to something else Or you might plug a device in and system audio suddenly switches to it And so you definitely want to be very, uh, you know explicit about saying the speakers are the road caster duo main stereo or the Road caster pro 2 main stereo rather than anything that includes System audio brackets if that makes sense because yeah, that means it can just change if your system audio changes So that is one other thing that I found can can sort of catch catch folks out as well Um, so let me just check in with some of the the comments and let me know if you've got any specific audio rooting Scenarios that you would like to to run through as well I've not really checked in with the chat at all. Hey, Dan. Great to see you here. Um, as you can see my my beauty sleep worked Uh, we were chatting last night on that linkedin so hence that's a thing. It's not not a comment out of nowhere. Um Hey marine X great to see you here as well as always Uh, David first in queue. It's funny. Actually in my ecam, you're showing up a second But I know that you were first because I responded to your original comment So there you go. Uh, hello James Hatcher. Great to see you. Thank you for stopping by and my comments They seem as though they it's got a mind of its own on my computer today. There we go. It's coming up Um, and uh, there we go. We've got the audio issues sorted out Um So how would it work? Mike goes into the rocaster rocaster goes into the cable digit which goes into the mac Correct. Yeah, I didn't actually talk about the connection of the rocaster itself Um, I have um, I have my roc both roadcaster channels plugged into My it's actually my I've got a caldiger element hub, which is the like a usb c USB hub So I'm using I'm using that but yeah, it needs it can go into it can go into the caldiger. No problem Um, this is that's a really good point. Actually, I'm glad you mentioned that because Sometimes that you might find that you've got some sort of audio issue or You know the the the rocaster is not showing up or I had it myself with when I had the streamer x And I plugged that into my dock alongside the the the duo and it was kind of like one of the channels of the duo Just sort of dropped out, but it wasn't anything to do with the duo or the streamer x It was because of the way that I'd configured these in the dock and try you know putting them in a different Scenario solved the issue. So as part of troubleshooting, which is you know, the the point of this stream is to talk about that Um, it's it's worth mentioning You know, if ever you do have any issue with the rocaster not showing up or you can't see all of the channels Or something's not working. It's always good to just try these things out But you know to test them in different different ports sometimes, you know You might think you've got all of these different usb ports, but actually it's all going down one single sort of usb Bus and so that can that can cause issues. So But yeah in terms of in terms of how this is set up for me I do indeed have this going into a caldiger element hub and that is just plugged in Over thunderbolt 4 into my my computer. So that is how I'm connecting those up Um So, uh, can you guide us to those of us who broadcast live podcasts? um So if you're broadcasting a live podcast, I mean that's kind of If you're asking for the just sort of guidance on how to do that depending on where you're recording to You can record on the device itself And by the way, when I talked about the inputs and outputs, there was two that were kind of left off there One of them was the sound pads on the road caster So obviously you can play audio that would technically be coming into the mix I kind of left it out because it's it's it's not one of the sort of cables you connect So it's a little bit less, uh, you know, it's a little bit more tangible in itself And the other kind of input and output would be the recording So if I come into the routing just quickly I will come back to your your question. Uh wrong wrong page wrong scene rather If you come back to the the routing here, um, and I go to outputs Routing, um, you can see that we've also got one for recording So what that means is you can choose what is going into your recording when you're recording on the device itself so if you're recording a podcast like when I did my Livestream a backstage podcast, which I need to get back into doing I would do that as a live stream to linkedin and amazon and obviously all the audio was rooting through here But I would also record locally as a backup onto the road caster itself And so yeah, you can set custom mixes like if you want to do any of that, you know Maybe you don't want a discord back channel coming into your recording. You could just remove that Maybe you don't want this other channel going in you can decide exactly what you want to go into your your recording as well So from an from a routing point of view Coming back to your question then um, depending on how you're broadcasting your live stream if you're doing a live stream I'll just use my setup whether it's ecam or whether it's obs or whatever video platform you're using You would just do basically what I've run through with having ecam on its own or obs or whatever on its own dedicated channel That is going into into youtube in any way so streaming from that platform presumably But then it could be coming back into your computer into some other recording software Maybe you're doing something like that or maybe you're playing audio From the road caster itself, you know for intro music or whatever That's one of the few things that I do use the sound pads for is for that that kind of Uh the the intro music for my podcast to be able to sort of fade it in and out Um, so that is how you would that is how you would would set that up and then as I say Yeah, it's just would be recording to the device um as well I'm not sure if that uh, if that's made made sense or not, but let me know if if it raises any other questions um, is it um Is it intro is it possible to auto enable disable multiple headphones solo with one button? Right. Okay. So you you can't do it on the road caster, but actually you can do it with um the stream deck and Uh The name has escaped me. This is one of these uh these moments the name has escaped me Let me just quickly find it because there was a great video by um a great guy who has been In the ecam community for ages and has been on my stream before and my mind has just gone a blank But it is definitely worth me pointing this out because you can use midi controls on the um, uh, the stream deck to control the Uh, the road caster and uh, where has it gone? I'm just trying to find this now Uh, neil neil fireman. There we go. Let me just get this video for you because this explains how to how to set it up So that you can have your basically press a button on the road caster and have that play into um Sorry, press a button on your stream deck and have that operate these mute buttons and so on So i'm just going to drop that video into the into the chat there But the point about this and the the the thing to note here, which is uh, which is relevant And it's something that I haven't mentioned today I mentioned about the audio routing and the custom mixes and this is related to um, uh, Daryl's point here, which is that um when I want to eliminate something from the mix So I want my discord channel here. I do want to be able to hear what's going on on discord But I don't want that to be passing through on the stream However, I didn't want to go in and create a custom mix In here and in the routing and then go into the usb one and have that custom mix set up to eliminate it Because there are times when I do want that, you know Maybe it's a case that I'm in a zoom call For example, and I want my ecamm audio to go into zoom But I don't want all of the zoom participant audio in case they unmute at random or whatever I don't want that all to be passed through into ecamm as a default if I'm also recording the session But if somebody's got a question in zoom and I want to kind of bring them up on stage as it were and have that audio pass through I want the option of being able to sort of quickly enable or disable That that option so that the audio does pass through so the way that I do that is that all of these channels here Let me just switch these off These little buttons down at the bottom. You've got two buttons at the bottom of each fader This button the green one with a picture of an ear on it is the listen button And what that means is that you as the the host on the roadcaster as in the person that is plugged into headphone socket number one You have the option to basically Isolate any of these tracks and just monitor it or listen to it on its own So if I was to press at the moment I can hear all of the channels I can hear my my audio for example in my monitors But if I was to just press on this one here All I would be able to hear would be the discord and now everything else has gone out of my ears I can only hear that however you can listen to multiple different channels So the way I set this up is that I basically Listen to all of them and this will make more sense in a moment So you can see down at the bottom as well here We've got this indicator that these are all green because I am listening to all these channels So at the moment nothing's different from me from having these all unchecked because I can still just hear everything Where this comes into play though is that the other button on each of these is mute And what that does is it mutes it in the mix And so if I was to have this discord level up Because this is open at the moment you would be able to hear the discord if somebody said something But I'm going to quickly mute that before they take that opportunity And now this is muted and you can see it's gone red there So it's muted So that means that no matter what the level of this fader for my discord channel is It's not going to pass through into the mix But because I've got the listen button on it means I can still hear it So this is the way that I do it in a zoom call as well If I'm on a zoom where it's like a zoom workshop And I don't want the audio from zoom to pass through into ecum Then I'll just have it muted But at the point where I sort of bring someone up onto the stage as it were And want the audio to pass through then I can press this button And then that means that the audio will then will then pass through So that is just to say as to I'm guessing you already already know this But that is just to say what the the enable and disable The mute and listen thing is for You know to to to folks who may want to know that so actually having a button that just basically Does that on your stream deck that is why you may want to do that, especially if the ROCAS does not Yeah, not right to hand you could activate this from stream deck Also, if you had a sort of multiple configuration here set up Then you could do that with with stream deck as well So so that is that is what that is for Let me see where we're up to Hey Chris, thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you found this useful And if anything is unclear, of course, just let me let me know if if you need any specific use case talked about Let's see What I mean is if I want to solo channel one and four by only pressing one button instead of two So, yeah, I'm catching up with that. So yeah, that is that would be that video from Neil He did a great a great job of explaining how to do it And he's also got a great guide that goes with it So if you check that video that I've put in the in the chat Then you can you can there's a guide that you can get that basically talks about You know mapping the media midi across because you do have to map certain midi channels to the stream deck But he makes it very very clear exactly how to do that Uh, so, uh, you used to use a software solution for your routing in mind, which is better assuming Rocaster Duo or Rocaster Pro 2 Um I used to use Loopback, so that's what I was using for my my audio routing and I was using audio hijack for some background noise removal and a couple of things like that. Um, so, uh, the Hardware solution, I mean things like loopback work just fine, you know I've what I found is that, um People calling me with with issues about their Rocaster There was a lot more people calling with issues about loopback because Here at least you've got some sort of tangible device and you can see, you know, when audio comes in you can see the levels bouncing Whereas, um, yeah Loopback can cause issues in itself and and then it's a lot more abstract because it's kind of happening in the background And you can't even see anything and you know can't check a plug So so that can be an issue in itself as well But I prefer the hardware option Um, but when it comes to the duo versus the the pro 2 Um, I'm not sure if this is the question if it's duo versus pro 2 For me, I said this at the time when they released it It really feels like the duo was designed for me because you know, it's got these four faders for the four things I use. I don't have lots of mics plugged in. I'm not doing a big podcast with, you know, multiple people And the duo just having two mics in Is is is perfectly adequate for what I need And so I really find that this is this is Ideal even with the rocaster pro 2 it's only got six faders on But I still have to think a lot more about like which is the right one sometimes Especially if I you know playing around with things and testing stuff out, but this one It's very clear. I've got my mic color coding the buttons. By the way, uh, little top tip there Orange for ecum blue for zoom purple for discord. It's very clear which one i'm i'm adjusting Um, the other thing that I love about the duo is on the front of it It's also got this little Jack on the front which is for a for a headset But what you can also do is you can actually plug a lav mic directly into that So I do sometimes do things where I've not got this mic, but I just want to have a lovelier mic instead The other thing that I should mention, uh, which was the last sort of recorded video that I put out Was that you can now use usb mics With the rocaster. I should say you can use road usb mics So what that means is that if you've got a rocaster duo And you've got your two mics plugged in but you just want to add in like an extra an extra person or something like that for You know an ad hoc podcast Then you can use a usb mic plug it into the secondary channel. Um, and then You get access to To all of the onboard processing of the mic. So then in theory You could have three mics to xlr And one over usb and then even You know another another mic plugged into the front. There is you know, little shotgun mics that are, you know, 3.5 mil jacks So you could potentially have something like that. So in theory the rocaster duo could have For mics, um, but for me the rocaster duo is is just the perfect device the rocaster pro 2 I still obviously love it. It's got all of the same onboard processing This one is my lighting feature for today in the background. Um, but but that one is basically you've just got those two extra xlr and You know inputs on the back to to to use if you if you need them I always say this though the rocaster duo and rocaster pro 2 the duo doesn't have pro in the name But it is every bit as much as pro device in terms of the complex audio routing the audio processing and all of that It's still just it's basically a I think of it more like a rocaster pro mini but You couldn't you couldn't put that you couldn't fit that name on the on the device itself because it's nice and small So so yeah, uh, where are we with the questions? Hello curry. Great to see you here I just started decide I decided to start a video podcast I bought the short mv7 rocaster duo and I have a mac air. Should I use stream yard to record my podcast? What are your thoughts on uh gear? So I use ecum live to record my videos So all of my videos are done live in one take anyway, even the the recorded ones I just do them all in one take with with ecum. I absolutely love ecum live It is it has enabled me to do so much aside from just the video production stuff, you know for for youtube, but you know just going into My my teams meetings zoom meetings or whatever they are then then it's been great for that as well If you are recording a podcast though stream yard is great the difference between stream yard and ecum live is ecum is Software that is sitting on your computer whereas stream yard is obviously a cloud based thing You know effectively, you know you're going into stream yard through the browser So there is something to think about there two things to think about And by the way, you mentioned that you're doing a video podcast if you are doing a video podcast with guests Ecum live the pro version has interview mode Stream yard obviously can bring guests in as well through through that so that would be another another sort of consideration as to As to how that would how that would work And also of course if you're going to if you're going to be live streaming your podcast You can do that from from both of those as well You mentioned that you've got a macbook air depending on how old the macbook air is honestly the new macbook airs You can still run ecum on it as well But if it's an older macbook air then then yeah having something that's browser based might be a better a better option Um, so so a few a few options there for how you actually technically do it I'm a total ecum fanboy and I make no apologies for that. It is a fantastic app But but yeah, the the platform is one thing when it comes to um, what are my thoughts on the gear? You know, I've had this conversation With a few people just recently and specifically around Microphones cameras and all of these other things for me the things to get the the important thing is like the lighting for the first Eight months on youtube and by the way, uh, so far I've been on for just coming up for a year and two and a half years I guess But the majority of my videos went out in definitely went out in the first year if not the first sort of eight months And so probably around 300 of the 450 videos were just in that short time You know that first eight months But they were all filmed on a 10 year old canon eos 60d now. I'm using a sony zv e 10 You know with a sigma lens, but originally it was just a canon eos 60d with the stock Stock lens that came with it the kit lens And that was actually going into ecum at 720p And then ecum did the scaling up to 1080 Did it make that much difference to my my content as soon as I got the the better camera? Not really, you know, probably there are people who would say oh, yeah Notice the difference in resolution, but generally people were watching for the for the information rather than rather than that So there is something to be to be conscious of there. Um, I was also talking actually with dan Asking about mics just just yesterday on on linkedin. And um, yeah same with that. I had the mv7 Sitting just over there behind me. Absolutely. Uh, wonderful mic. I bought that because I I didn't have a mixer at the time it can work over usb, but it can also work over XLR as well. So that's that's the reason for that decision But I did know that, you know, good quality audio was was a thing So you've obviously got the the mv7 as well. Fantastic choice. Um We were talking yesterday about, you know, would we would we upgrade to something like the the sm7b, which is, you know The gold standard in podcasting, you know, apparently, um, and it's only really, you know, because that's what everyone seems to have You know the top podcasters have that I think people are drawn to it Really, can we tell the difference, you know, if you are listening to a podcast And whenever I see people do these side by sides of one mic versus another, um, you know Yes, there are differences. Yes, you can hear it And I know that there are going to be people who are watching who are going to say like, oh, I can definitely tell the difference But what I mean is does it really make that much of a difference to your Your actual content and that's why I actually had the mv7 for, you know, so long everything on my desk, you know Changed I got better lights. I got different, you know, things I did add the camera in eventually and, you know, changed my setup But the mv7 was kind of there Centrally to everything and and didn't change now. I've got the pod mic now Rode sent me this for evaluation for review. Um, and I do think that, you know, they sound pretty similar to me I don't think there's a I can't tell a huge amount of difference between the mv7 versus the pod mic When I've gone through and done all the processing with the roadcaster, you know So maybe just when they're sort of naked then there is there is more of a difference But I can't sort of tell that difference necessarily with the way I've got it set up If I'm recommending somebody now between the two of them I do think that the pod mic usb would be a better choice if you are going to be using it over usb Because of the onboard processing. This is not the case with you curry though. You've obviously got the roadcaster So ignore ignore all of this But if you were lucky if somebody didn't have the mv7 and was making the choice now I do think that this one is a better choice because of the onboard processing over usb And it's like at a lower price point as well. But if you've got the mv7 would I change? Definitely not. It's a fantastic mic So this is all round about because it's been on my mind just recently when it comes to gear though The main thing is basically getting there basically getting good lighting that can make any camera Look great. The thing the reason why I get so enthusiastic about the roadcaster Is because of all the options it opens up So for me the mic is the thing that I just speak into that gets my audio, you know heard The camera is just what I used to you know be be here and doing what I'm doing But it's the roadcaster and the stream deck of the things that I make my videos about and I get so enthusiastic about because They really do open up whole worlds of new options for me in the same way that ecam live does so um, yeah, that's a bit of a rambling rambling A bit of stuff about about gear, but that is my thoughts on the gear The other thing I'll mention about this is there is this thing gear acquisition syndrome Which we talk about which is this thing of constantly needing the next new shiny thing or the You know the want feeling like you need this bit of tech and or maybe seeing other people have it and wanting to go And buy it and it is a real thing You know, we do get this, you know sparkly shiny object syndrome thing where something comes out you think oh I need to get that that thing But um, there is a sort of balance between this and I had this with a couple of coaching clients in actually in the take one Take academy and they were talking about this where they were just getting themselves set up They'd got a camera They'd got the mic and and the roadcaster, but then we were talking about You know adding in a teleprompter for zoom now That is a really great thing to add in if you're on zoom calls like right now I'm actually looking at myself so I can see what you see to make sure I'm on the right scene But when I'm in a zoom call if I switch over to here I've got my teleprompter in front of me. So if I'm on a zoom call I would be looking at my my The other person in this screen and then down below I would have their screen share So if we're troubleshooting something I'd be able to see their screen and I've got my my main screen over here that you know When I'm sharing screen, I'm sharing this screen over here But the teleprompter is a great little addition So there was this instance where you know, I somebody was saying if I were going to get this teleprompter And they went ahead and bought it and they bought the the monitor for it But then they didn't have enough ports on their on their computer So then it was a case of needing to add in another dock and then the positioning of the teleprompter wasn't quite right And they couldn't get it quite right without buying an arm for it And there was this feeling of there was just one more thing to buy and it can have that feeling of being Never-ending honestly, I wouldn't need to add anything more to my setup right now And it's for me. It almost feels like the perfect setup, you know Having the teleprompter with an extra monitor having the roadcaster the stream decks I've got everything that I need. So just on the point of gear if at any point it does feel like oh, there's always something more I do definitely think that plateaus once you've got the things set up It's just that there's all these little things that crop up as you're getting things set up that you hadn't envisaged I'm not saying that this is an issue you've got But I know that people do have this where it's like, oh, no, I need to buy this other dock Or I need to go and buy a little a little clamp to attach a light or whatever it happens to be There's always some little thing it seems like but that definitely levels out and I've now got, you know The same sort of setup generally apart from stuff that I'm I'm testing because I happen to have a tech youtube channel Then generally I've got all the stuff that that I need here. So Hi there, is it possible to Mirror the display to an iPad through bluetooth or wi-fi If you are talking about ecum live, uh, well actually no forget that Let me step back again. Is it possible to mirror a display to an iPad? It is if you go into your Your settings Over here So if you come into your mac settings, by the way, I'm assuming mac. I'm not sure about pc but On here if you go into displays, um, then you can, um, connect If you've got a modern ipad using a recent mac os Then you have got an an option to connect an ipad Um, uh, through what they call sidecar and that basically turns your ipad into an extended display So if you've got your ipad, um, uh connected you can you could do that And then it would just show up as another display here. So in that case you can then mirror It would just act like a display you can mirror the display and position it wherever you want. Um, if I wouldn't assume this is the case, but if you are talking about specifically with, um, uh, with ecum for example Which is the software that I'm using. Um, then there is an option in the output menu. Again, you would need the things selected. Uh You would need the iPad connected as in sidecar mode But then you could go into the output menu of ecum and then video monitor And then there's an option in there to to output the ecum output to that That particular display. I'm not sure if that answers the question or if I was even on the right track there But yeah, sidecar is the thing to do it now. I'm just wondering actually sidecar you, uh, you just need to have the, um That doesn't need a wire. Actually. Yeah, you can do that. You can do that completely completely wirelessly wirelessly Um, so One more Is there a non stream deck way to control the rocaster pro 2? Um, there is a Anything that controls it with midi basically. Oh, you could do it with the the road central app I don't think the road central app allows you to toggle on the uh the the mute and the listen buttons though I think that that is that is only can only be done through midi. You can do a lot of this stuff with the road central app Um, so that allows you to change, you know, the audio settings and uh audio processing and all that kind of stuff But I don't think that that can allow you to do what you were specifically asking for which was toggle on the You know the listen commands and stuff like that. Um, however, it does just it is a midi controller. So um, if you get uh, there is a There is an app for the mac again, which is uh, like a midi controller app And then you would be able to have something in there potentially and then maybe assign a keyboard shortcut Uh, I maybe need to uh, maybe need to test that out and do a video on it But so anything anything that can use midi basically will will do it Um Hey tanju great to see you here to take your discord channel For example is a configuration possible to mute all other channels going to it by the press of a button. Ah, so, uh, this would be the Oh, actually just if it's only just for Hmm, you can mute think the thing that i'm talking about to mute things in the mix is basically allowing me to listen to them But it's muting it to go to all of the other places So if we all wanted to do something kind of like a little bit different to that Which is you want to be able to press one button and then just suddenly mute everything going into discord for example, um Then there is no one button that you can press on here It would come back to that same example that uh, I was just uh mentioning with um Uh, the name the name Dural about um being able to do it with a stream deck So you could do it that way you could have the stream deck. Oh no actually wait a minute No, you could do that because that would be um That would be doing the same thing. No, we the the answer to that then is no There is no one button that you can press that's suddenly going to mute everything Basically turn toggling it on and off a custom mix. Uh, that isn't possible. I don't think in uh With it with a single button is the answer to that. Um Be a good feature request that though would be to uh to be able to open up access to these things from Like an external an external source. Anyway, I'm going um My mind's worrying now The one of the things that I love about the roadcaster is like how much power it's got and the uh the potential for future updates as well So, you know, there are new features being added in case in point, you know USB mics now work with it. So it's great to to see that and to see where this may may go in the in the future Um They are indeed chris are these principles audio principles the same for ms teams. They exactly are One thing to note is if I go back to my uh my audio settings for the For zoom if I bring these ones back up In teams, you've got very similar settings. So you're going to set your your speaker and your microphone Just note that they also have their own thing, which is a bit like this original sound for musicians Um, and it it may even say musicians in the in the setting I can't remember exactly what it is, but also it's a little bit simpler It doesn't have high fidelity music mode or stereo audio. It's basically just you're switching it on One of the good things about it is once you've done it in settings You don't need to toggle it on every time in the meeting, which is a little bit annoying frankly with that with zoom I've automated it with keyboard maestro to go and click on the screen, but that's that's me Um, but there is the echo cancellation option So again, as I mentioned if you want to listen to teams Over your speakers and you don't want it the audio and it's going through the roadcaster But you don't want the audio feeding back then just look for the echo cancellation setting in teams So yeah, probably should have got those settings that are queued up actually, but yeah, it is the it is the same Um Let's have a look Um See where we're up to with the chat. Hey scott. Great to see you here. Thanks for stopping by Let me come back over here Uh, I have a stream x and can toggle between three mics on the single audio input xLR A wireless road mic and a pair of headphones with mic. Can I toggle between two inputs on? channels one and two um Here's the thing actually with um Road central when you're using the I just realized it to you down your comments When you're using road central with stream at x That pressing the button on the stream at x does indeed act as a toggle between those three But just in case you weren't aware if you download unify You do actually have access to all three of those mics at the same time and you can choose between them With unify then again, um, you can do some slightly more complex, um audio routing And so you you can actually use unify in conjunction with the roadcaster if you want to have like extra audio routing But let me just double check with your thing. Can I toggle between two inputs on channels? Uh, one and two Um I'm just now realizing I'm not quite sure what you mean by that Can you toggle between two inputs on channels one and two? Uh, do you uh, you mean the I see what you mean you mean on the the usb one and two? I guess that's what you what you mean. Um So no, there isn't a toggle in there, but what you can do is you can set that up in unify Uh, you know, I did a stream all about unify So what it's probably better me doing is actually linking back to that one because Um, if I open that all up now, it might cause a few issues because um, I've got some other audio routing stuff going on So if I open unify up midstream, uh, depending on what I've got set there It may it may sort of break a few things Uh, which I realize is not much help But uh, you can set up custom routing on on unify to do some of this stuff on on there Whereas there's there's no button on the stream x that toggles between between those Uh, I feel like I haven't really answered that question very well scott But um, I have got a video about unify which may well be the the answer to that Um, oh, thanks chris. Sorry. I've just seen your super chat come in. Thank you so much. Uh, that is much appreciated I'm glad it's been uh, uh I'm glad it's been a help and yeah, obviously any questions feel free to reach out By the way, this goes for everyone as well, of course if you do have any questions about anything that I've Covered today, then you can certainly go ahead and check out the discord You can get all of these questions answered in there. Whoops. I'm just about to press the wrong button You can also book a consultation call with me As I say, this is what a large portion of my consultation calls seem to be They seem to be resolving at roadcaster issues and audio issues audio routing and all that kind of stuff But the button that I'm meant to press was this one feel free to join the take one tech community It's free to join it's over on discord and in there There is a channel specifically for for roadcaster and all of this good stuff But yeah, thanks once again for the super chat. Uh, chris. I really appreciate the really appreciate the support Um, let me see where I'm up to curry Have an m1 mac and I will also be using Uh for video are the your your uh, you're good to go. Um, I'm just suddenly losing the context of The original comment. Uh, oh, yeah, I see you started a video podcast. Great. Great If you've got a honestly an iphone 14 pro max, I mean, let's face it the video quality of that is is fantastic So, uh, yeah, it's very easy to get caught up in somebody saying this camera is better than that camera And you need to do this and you need to do that But uh, honestly, you're you're with the with the roadcaster and the mv7 for your audio sorted Then you're you're fine I would say just check on your lighting, you know, make sure you got some good light and by the way when I say good lighting That's another thing. Uh, right here. I've got, you know, a none light with a 90 centimeter softbox I've got a night none light with a 60 centimeter softbox over there So these are like sort of professional grade video lights But if I just go back to what I mentioned about The first load of videos like the majority of videos on my channel as well as being shot with A canon eos 60d that was, you know, 10 years old 12 years old at this point Which is still actually hooked up as a another camera angle. Hello. That's this one So this is a this is a 12 year old camera. Uh, that's that you're looking at right now But for for those earlier videos, I didn't have none lights. I literally had these, uh, whatever they were I think it was $50 for two softboxes and two, uh, you know, light stands cheap quality stuff But they got the diffuser in the front of the softbox, obviously But the actual light inside you had to provide yourself which was just regular household light bulbs So if I wanted a daylight, I used daylight bulbs. If I wanted something warmer I would use the warm light And then it got four little bay and that little screw fittings. So if you wanted more light, you just added in another bulb So that is like the technical, uh Level of of my my early videos in terms of the lighting It was just a case of just get something to increase the light But it did a really great job. So, uh, just coming back to the gear point. Yeah, um If you've got some good lighting and you've you've already got the mv7 and the rocaster and the uh, the the iphone You're gonna, uh, you're gonna make some great great stuff Um, let me come down. Hey, Aubrey fantastic to see you here as always. So you're doing great I can't wait to meet you at uh creator camp in person It's kind of quite weird to see everybody like all of the one everybody But a huge portion of the the econ from there. It's going to be great Um, hey dan, I don't know when you're leaving for aimsbury, but if I don't talk to you have a wonderful Stressless flight. I'm leaving on monday um Monday my time and it's basically 36 hours and three flights to get there. So, um, it won't be stressful. I uh, because I'm I'm traveling alone If I go traveling with the kids, uh, even just for a day trip It seems that we've got, you know Mountains of bags and everything even just to go out to the shops seemingly Whereas if I'm just traveling solo, um, then yeah, it's just a small little bag and I'm good to go And I also I'm quite blessed. I can sleep anywhere. So, um, yeah, my uh My wife is constantly amazed and uh, dare I say a little bit annoyed that like How is it that you're managing to sleep? And I'm like, I just thought I'd get a quick five minutes and you know wherever it happens to be, you know next to a volcano or A war zone I can sleep anywhere. So yeah, traveling is that good for me? Um Mel Taylor great to see you here. Thanks for something. Bye. I'm using a rocuster pro 2 with stream yard Myself and guests and comments on youtube clips. How do I avoid? Phasing sound. How do I separate my mac my mic and incoming guest audio? youtube audio Um, that will be if you're using your rocuster pro 2 with stream yard And so you are on your mic. Um, and then you are your guests presumably they are they are they live or are they joining? Um, they're joining through stream yard. I'm I'm guessing you mean through stream yard. Um, how do I avoid the uh phasing sound? That could be um by, uh Incoming guest audio now, do you mean do you mean that they're in person? Um, I'm not sure now If if you mean that they're coming in through the through stream yard The thing to do is make sure that mix minus is on so that the mix the the stream yard is coming in And you're hearing it. Um, but it's not being fed straight back again. So I don't know if that's what you're you're referring to actually Um, the other thing that could cause it if you're if you're getting some sort of feedback is if If you if it's coming through speakers and then it's feeding back into the other speakers And yeah, you're saying from stream yard. So, um, yeah, actually if you've got stream yards you know the the um The audio input and output from stream yard Which may well be the same as your system audio if it's running in a browser Uh, just make sure it's on the same channel. Whatever channel that is rocaster pro 2 Or rocaster. Yeah rocaster pro 2 main stereo. For example, just make sure that both the speaker and the microphone Setting in the browser are set to that And then just make sure that you do have that that mix minus on so let's just say it was on that main stereo channel Just make sure that the routing For that channel is set to mix minus that's going to stop the audio coming in from the guest and going straight back out again Um, that that should that should resolve that issue if if i if i'm understanding correctly The exact issue you're having that should resolve that I've got two comments up there somehow um Yeah, but let me let me know if i've misunderstood that that issue there, but that should resolve it I think um Can you uh link the discord? Uh, this may well have come in after I uh posted it, but I'll just drop it in again. That is a link to uh to the discord Take one and I've just got it covered up. It's in the description and it's in the chat take one tech.io family Yeah, well to be honest keely i'm doing the same i've only got to carry on with me as well. Um, so I like to travel that travel light um It's it's I've got I've got a picture somewhere of you know like I was going on as a family and then uh me just traveling You know wherever it is with a tiny little little case. So yeah um Well, that is that that is all that I was going to cover if there are no other audio routing questions for today though Then do feel free to drop them in the comments if they come up if you're watching on the replay And of course, uh, do feel free to join the discord and check them out there And as I say if you do need any just one-to-one help sometimes people just not need to uh Need I'll just notice this last comment come in. I'll just pop that up. Hey richard. Great to see you here Uh, just waving saying hi from the back Uh, yeah, if you have got any, you know audio audio routing Issues that you need to get to help with then you can always book a call with us as well With me as well Say us. Uh, there's many the many voices in my head. You can book a call with them all All right Then thanks for tuning in and I'll leave a link on the replay when I get around to it in a few hours For those watching to go and check out some of my other Videos all about roadcaster and once again, thank you to all of my channel members Thank you so much for your support. It really means it really means a lot Take care. See you next time