 How about now? There we go I'm so sorry about that. Let me start all over again, please Yes, yeah, so this is the problem we're doing these audio tests I do that much of changing things before and then I get sidelined in the discord. It's it's Jeff and riches fault Today we're talking about let me start again. It should be coming through now today We're talking about audio on the rocaster pro to the rocaster duo and the stream at x Because with those we now have the ability to first of all Connect your wireless mics if you've got a road wireless mic either the road wireless go to or the road wireless me Thanks everybody for for all the things in the chat letting me know about it And I should have probably been paying a bit more attention would have noticed it sooner But I digress anyway, so I'll say once again Thank you to road for sending me the wireless me and the wireless go to just very briefly to recap The difference between these two is that the road wireless go to has a single receiver, but then to transmitters So that means there's two mics, but all coming to this single transmitter Whereas receiver sorry, whereas the wireless me has a transmitter and receiver But the receiver also acts as a mic in itself So that's a slight difference there So this one would be the receiver that one could go on the top of your camera And you would be able to pick up your audio from there and then this one could go on at somebody else So you've still got two microphones with the wireless me. It's just a sort of slightly different configuration They've also got something on the wireless me, which is called gain assist Which is intended to help give you sort of better quality audio without you having to sort of manually play around with any settings And things like that. However, we're not talking about the receivers in this case because with the recent firmware update for the Rocaster Pro 2 and also for the Rocaster Duo and with the Streamer X You can just pair these directly with your your device So that means that you know potentially no more wires So I have already paired this one with the Rocaster Pro 2 with the Rocaster Duo I should say If I just come over to my my top-down shot here The way that this works is the Rocaster Duo has two XLR mic inputs at the back But then you can choose to use one of those channels for a wireless mic instead So if you go into that particular channel here Just in the same way that before we've been able to choose between whether we want to use that as a line input An instrument or you can choose the different type of mic Now you have the option to select a wireless mic So it's not that you've got this in addition to those two XLR inputs on the back But rather they can be they can be paired, you know in place of one of those So this one is currently paired. So if I just switch over to this mic now Then now this is the audio that's coming from the the road wireless wireless me And I look at the road wireless go to when we look at the Streamer X because that has the same ability If I just clip it here I should probably have done that before There we go, I just clip it there. So that's what the audio sounds like I've not done a huge amount of processing and this isn't intended to be Like a full audio test just because we've got really heavy rain going on at the moment and the aircon going But I will do a full sort of head-to-head between The wireless me and the wireless go to and do some more official testing But this is intended to just show the process of you know being able to have all of these these different mics connected So you do have all of the the processing capabilities if I turn off the processing at the moment You might hear there's a lot of background hiss and noise from the aircon and the rain And then I can turn the the processing on so all of the same processing abilities that we've got with you know The onboard apex processing of the road caster you can now apply that to your your wireless mic as well directly in there And obviously the point about this is whereas previously if you are using a Road caster pro one for example if you want to connect the the mic up there Then what you would need is you would need an adapter which would be something like this. This is the road vxl are pro So this is basically a an xlr on one end and then on the other end has got a 3.5 mil jack So then you would use a the cable that comes with the The road wireless go to or road wireless me plug that into there and then that would plug into the output from your receiver So if you this is if you were on a road caster pro one So then you would have your receiver and it's got an output there And then this would then become the receiver for your wireless mic So this is how Previously you would have had to do it on on all of these devices But now it's kind of like eliminating this step So that's the whole thing that that we've now got with the ability to pair just directly on board So in the road caster duo, there's also let me just switch back over to this mic With the road caster duo There is also another way to connect a microphone Which is through the headset port because what they added which isn't on the road caster pro 2 Is that on the front here? We've got a headset port and that's actually takes a trrs So that that's got a mic input as well. So if you're using something like the the nth 100 m which has the the boom mic So let me just show you what this one looks like I've been using the nth 100 headphones for a while and I don't use them on my streams because I don't really like this look on a live stream or on a zoom call But the headphones themselves are absolutely awesome But road sent me this with the boom attachment to test out the to test out the microphone functionality Into the road caster duo. So once again, you've got all of the same on board processing But this is actually whereas the road wireless You know if you're pairing a wireless mic and that then that is taking up one of your xLR channels This one is actually an extra channel So you can have therefore three mics connected to the road caster duo And so this one sounds something like this if I just swap over now This is the the audio that's now coming over directly from the boom mic in here And it sounds it sounds pretty great. As I say, it's not a formal audio test by any stretch But the quality of audio that you're getting from it If you are either a gamer or somebody who doesn't mind being on a zoom call with something like this Then then yeah, the audio is pretty pretty great And you can go in and adjust all of the settings as well So I've got the noise gate on if I just turn that off at the moment. I'll turn off all of the processing So there's the the sort of the background noise coming through And a few things that haven't been adjusted But if I toggle the processing back on again, then now you're just hearing the the audio coming through from Here with with that processing applied So this does then allow you to as I say connect potentially three mics up to the Up to the road caster I've got to say a big thank you to Robert Rob Galbraith because He saw that I was doing this live stream and just dropped me a message About the headset in particular or the headset port rather And it's something that I totally would have missed out in this live stream So a big thank you to him which is that Obviously the headset is a 3.5 mil input So that does mean that you don't you're not actually just limited to headsets anything that's got a 3.5 mil You know output from your microphone So that could be something like in this case the first road product I ever bought was this one the video might go quite a few years ago now But this one has a 3.5 mil jack on the back You know intended to be plugged into a camera But you can therefore plug it into The the input for the headset instead So obviously you'd probably need a little bit more of a length than that than this one that is intended to go into a camera But you could then use a mic like this if you've got some sort of boom mic That is 3.5 mil Then you can have that go into the the headset as well One thing to note about that though is you do have to be careful about the particular cable that you use So there are two types. Well, actually there's three types of 3.5 mil jack There's either ts which has if you look at the little rings on the on the thing Maybe let me show you in a different camera. This might be a bit bit better Where are we? Let me get it underneath. So here you can see there's these two black rings And actually this one is trs So that bit at the bottom is the sleeve that bit in the middle is the ring and that bit at the top is the tip So you get ones that are either ts, which is just basically the tip and then the sleeve So that would be something like a just a a mono plug This one here is trs So tip ring sleeve So this is what you're typically going to have going into, you know, maybe a mic like this Or a set of headphones now the trs is tip ring ring sleeve and that basically is for a headset where you've got something just like this in fact If I plug that unplug that you've got those two different rings in there So if you're going to be plugging a mic directly into this This socket Then you don't want to be plugging in with a cable like this with the trs You want one that is this adapter, which is trs to trs and it's got a different color on the other end But that's got the three rings So that one would go into there and then this one would plug into your into your microphone So if you are using or want to have a setup that is, you know, maybe a mic maybe a wireless mic and a shotgun mic That is you know a 3.5 mil connector on it Then actually this would be a great way to connect that up. Obviously you could also use the the vx lr pro And actually this is probably slightly more suited to it because this includes a sort of mini transformer inside So it is a a sort of balanced signal So it's going to reduce interference specifically if you are you know having to trail the The shotgun mic at some distance then you would want to use probably something more like that But it's just a nice little option to have that in there But therefore another potential option for this one on the front would be to just use a lavalier mic So if you've got a lavalier mic and you want to just plug that directly into the front You can you can do that once again You have to be aware of the the type of connector that you've got on the lav mic as well So this one if it's a trs again, you need to just make sure you've got that connector In that case you would use a connector and by the way all of these things that i'm talking about you can find in the description But for this mic you would use something like this again from road But it's the sc4 3.5 mil trs to trs microphone cable adapter So this would allow you to take your your lav mic plug it into the the socket there and then plug the gray socket into the Into the the roadcaster And then you would be able to use a lav mic just directly Plugged into the front of your roadcaster duo. So this is actually a great use case because If you're somebody who doesn't like to you know have a mic in shot Maybe on zoom calls or things like that Then we can just sort of replace the regular mic here I'll put this lav mic on here now And then turn that one up and turn this one down. So now I'm just using a lav mic that is is going directly into the the roadcaster duo into that headphone socket So there we go. We've got three different types of mic Well, actually now multiple different types of mic that we can just connect up with via the roadcaster duo So this has now become even more of my favorite road device now that I can just plug a lav mic directly into the top Why I honestly had not thought of that sooner. I don't know, but thanks again to rob galbraith for dropping me that Mail before I'll just switch back over to the the regular mic Looking at how this is on the stream x because it's worth talking about there is the same kind of functionality That we can that we can have these three multiple mics connected This really turns the road stream x into a great device for people who are maybe not wanting to do all of the audio rooting I mean, I love the Roadcaster duo and the roadcaster pro 2 for this ability that we've got to do some really sort of advanced Audio rooting with it, you know in zoom calls and ecam and all that kind of thing But the stream x being such a compact device It's such an ideal thing and of course the fact that it's got a built-in capture card to so that your camera can come in from there to be able to have this all in one thing that can control your audio your video and Even in such a small device be connecting three mics So let's look at how that works On the stream x you've got on the back and an xLR cable in the back there. You've also got the headset connector Over here rather and then you've got the headphones out there And then here on the front we can choose which of those we are we are controlling now if you're using road central So there are two bits of software that you can use with this Either you could be using road central or you may use unify which is currently in beta for the mac But if you use road central you've basically only got one of these mics at any given time that you can use And the way that you choose which mic you're using is by pressing on this dial here So this is controlling the volume or sorry the gain on the the mic. So if you press this This is going from mic to headset Sorry xLR to headset mic to Wireless mic and we'll talk about setting that up in a minute And then you can also toggle that on and off and sort of mute the mic This one is what you're hearing in your headphones either from the headset Or from the regular headphone socket So you can adjust the volume there and then pressing this will mute that in your ears So if you just want to sort of mute the the audio in your own ears You can do that by pressing there and then this one here is toggling on and off the camera So if I press that you see my camera goes off press it again and it comes back So I've already done a lot about the stream at x but certainly for zoom meetings If somebody's just looking to level up on their zoom video and zoom audio This is a great all-in-one solution because it gives you this Flexibility of having the two things in the one device being able to control your video and audio when you're on a zoom meeting You don't have to be clicking around looking for that Mute button and so on and you can clearly see whether you are muted or not just here So just unmute in zoom take off your video or put on your video rather and then you can always control it from here The other thing which I won't go into too much today. I've already covered this at length before Is the presentation mode? So as well as these smart pads being able to use be used like you can on the roadcaster to You know have sound effects and things like that Then you can also have it so that this is going to control your presentation And these things all turn this kind of like white color And then this would be next slide previous slide and so on so a great device for for zoom Or teams meetings or online meetings and things like that as well as for content creation But let's look at the process of connecting this all up because I mentioned that when you're using road central, you're basically just choosing the mic input that you want However, when you use unify on the mac, which is as I say in beta at the moment, but Coming to coming to the mac. These are already here, but just in beta But this allows you to basically have access to all of the different inputs So if I just unmute these for a second, you're not quite going to hear these just yet You'll hear them in a moment But if I unmute all of these you can see now that I've plugged my lav mic into the back here So the lav mic is now plugged into the back and I've got my XLR mic, which is actually over here. It's this one the short mv7 But these are now both plugged in and as you can see by looking on the the app here Both of these levels are sort of bouncing up and down So it is actually receiving both of those and you can adjust them independently of each other You can also come over here and adjust the level on here So once you've got things set up in unify, you don't necessarily have to have unify open all the time I could be in here and you're not going to hear the difference right now I'm just doing this to to demonstrate But I could turn the level of this mic down and you can see how it's gone right down there On in unify so by adjusting the dial on my stream x as you can see just down below me Then it's actually adjusting the level that's coming into unify And I can adjust that up and down accordingly So you have still got control over all those different mics So I can click on the button here to switch over to the headset mic And then I can adjust the level of that one down and you can see the effect in unify now that Second one along the headset is now at a lower level and I can turn it up again So you still have the individual control But they're all coming into unify which means that they're therefore all coming into You know, whatever software you're using So if you are using zoom or something like that, then those those things those three different things will all be coming in So I just wanted to then take a look at the the wi-fi option in here And for this what I've done is I've got the wireless go to So I'm just going to show you the the pairing process because it's pretty simple Which is that you switch on the The device and then you go over to here. So now you can see I'm on the the wi-fi option just there And now if I just press and hold this you'll see that the little wi-fi button starts to flush in a moment And then once that flushes If I turn on this one and start pairing It should connect There we go, that looks like it is paired. Let me just turn this one up a little bit Or is it or is it famous last words? Let me try that again Of course this will go into Technical failure. It always does when you do live demos on a live stream, doesn't it? Things never work quite as they're intended to Let me see. Maybe I'm pressing something wrong here Bear with me Now I've just turned it off. Hang on one second Bear with me. It doesn't appear to be working. Of course it isn't because it's a demo. That's what happens on demos I'm wondering if maybe it is a Maybe I haven't charged this one up enough We'll just try this once again. If not, I'll move swiftly on I'm doing something wrong here. It's it's always human error with me Oh, well, I will move swiftly on but the point is that It works so well when I did it with the the duo that I must be doing something wrong But the other point about the the wireless mics though is that you can You can also use those with a love mic as well So it may be that if you are if you're wanting to use a love mic The they also have the the love input just up at the top there So you can you can plug it into that. Let me just show you on this one instead Where are we? Where's my top down shotgun? That's throw me a little bit off. I don't mind admitting There is an output just here somewhere. There we go that one. So you can plug a Love mic into that and so you could still use the wireless functionality But if you don't want something as large as this sort of clip to your your top Then you can just plug a love mic directly into it Which I can show you on this one if I take my other one here. This is the now the wireless me So I can remove the I can remove this little wind shield from the top here and then I can plug that one into the top Like that and then now I've got to the it's still wireless, but it is using it from the love mic So I'll just switch over to this now So as you can hear this when it's close up, it's actually, you know, obviously a lot better But if I put it down here, you'll notice there's going to be a lot more sort of room noise But now basically that is just still a completely wireless mic But it's a little bit less intrusive if you don't want a big thing like that stuck to your your top So I can also route the audio though. Let me just come back and back on this might know I can route the audio from the stream x into the roadcaster duo So some people have been asking like can you use unify with the roadcaster duo? So what you've got in unify if I just come back over to the the software Over here, you've got your different inputs here So I can adjust the the level of the the different mics here If I had if I had done the right thing and successfully connected the wireless mic Then that would be showing up here as well But you can also go in and edit or adjust all of the The advanced processing here and what I really love about unify versus road central is that on unify You do actually get the live charts just like you get when you're on the roadcaster So if I come over to the roadcaster here and go into the audio processing for example For my main mic and then go into any of these Things here, you can see that as I'm you know with the noise gate, for example You see this live chart when you are looking at this And adjusting these settings in road central you don't get the live chart However, you do when you are using Unify and this is actually really useful because the point about a noise gate is Let me just bring this one over here The point about a noise gate is that you want to be able to see What's happening with your voice and what those levels are so that you get the the threshold set Right and you know the where the gate is going to open and close basically Incidentally, if you're interested in learning more about all of the audio processing I did do a long live stream about this Few weeks ago now probably about four or five weeks However, you may also be interested in the roadcaster pro to masterclass soon to be renamed The roadcaster masterclass because it will be covering the roadcaster duo and also the streamer x But in here I go into a lot of detail and really part of the reason for creating the course was The advanced audio routing is one thing because it's the the question I get asked a lot about on coaching courses when people book consultations with me They're asking about their specific use case with the roadcaster duo The streamer x or the roadcaster pro to and how to set it up to root the audio in there Zoom calls their work calls and things like that But the other thing that I get asked about all the time is things like the noise gate and those kind of setups And so for that reason, it's useful to have an understanding of the foundations of dynamic audio processing So you know what is actually going on what these things are doing So that is one section here which gives you an understanding of you know What these things even do sort of the noise gate their compressor and so on But then we also go into another section Which is just all about the advanced audio processing itself And so there we go through all of these different settings because what I find is that the The the concepts may be okay or clear What you know what they're supposed to do However, you know the noise gate is supposed to you know stop audio coming through when you don't want it to essentially and very very Brief layman's terms But then when it comes to actually understanding what all these different things do In terms of these settings like if I come back over to here for a second And go back into that setting there, you know What is the threshold the attack the hold release range and hysteresis and how do you get those all Set up and then when we go on to some of these other things like the compressor The exciter and so on what do all of those things do and also what order should you should you adjust all of those in Well, that is exactly what is covered in the rocaster pro 2 masterclass So I'll leave a link to that in the in the chat and you'll also find it in the description as well And that's the best way to sort of get up and running Quickly with the rocaster pro 2 and the duo and soon I'll be adding in a whole section just about the streamer x However, I digress slightly so getting back to the unify software for a second Then yeah, so you can go through and adjust all of the settings for your different mics But what unify also has here is we've got the different outputs for your headphones And then also the stream mix. So this is the sort of main mix That would be going out if I was to select the correct mic in In ecum like I didn't do right at the beginning of the stream Then that is where I'd select that the headphones is what you're going to hear in your monitors However, there is this additional output that you've got for the stream output And so here what I've done is I've actually just selected that as the rocaster duo One of the the usb inputs so effectively the audio from the streamer x is going into the computer But then i'm just sending the stream back out to the to the rocaster duo So what I can do now is I can actually switch over So now you're hearing me through the streamer x going through the computer And maybe I need to just meet one of these mics hang on You're now hearing me going through the computer and then into the the rocaster duo and probably the So so yeah, but now you're hearing this getting through there But what that means is that What that means is that you can actually use unify If you've got a streamer x and a rocaster duo maybe one using for a capture card As as well as you know, maybe a mobile setup But then you can use the two of them together by feeding into into that So so yeah, then there is also the ability to use the rooting in road Streamer x and I did a sort of full walkthrough of this or my first initial walkthrough of it a couple of weeks ago So that is in the description And then I'm going to do like a full tutorial style video on it But here you've got the ability to also add in different Uh audio Channels specifically for things on your computer such as you know, maybe you've got uh, I don't know spotify or some music playing Maybe you've got a browser and so what it means is you can add some additional mixing into the Into the the the rocaster duo as well So quite a few different options that we've got with these really compact devices And I'll say again, if you've already got a rocaster pro 2 then there's no need to think Oh, I've got to switch over to a rocaster duo Because it basically does all of the same stuff However, one of the the things about it though is that you know, if you are only ever going to be having yourself And not planning on doing a large podcast with lots of people or anything like that Then then yeah, you can uh Just let me just deal with something in the chat here There we go There we go. I'll just hide that user. There we go. Um, yeah the rocaster duo for me for all of the the sort of on-board routing and Capabilities of the rocaster pro 2 having it in the rocaster duo is just a real game changer I think it's a really great compact unit and you might be forgiven for thinking You know one's got pro in the name and one just is called the duo But actually for me, I think that the rocaster duo is every bit as pro as the rocaster pro 2 except that it's just You know only got those two xlr inputs, but it has got this third mic input Which arguably for me is even more in useful in plugging in something like, you know, a love mic directly into the to the front If anybody's got any questions about these these devices then feel free to Let me know. Let me just check in with everybody in the chat It's going to be short stream today because I've got a kajabi zoom course that i'm running And so there'll be a live session in in a short while Hey parker, they're great to see you here. Thanks to everyone for letting me know about my audio. Isn't it always the case? Hey, michael, isn't it always the case that when you're doing a live stream about something? It's the very thing you're talking about that That's you It's like when I did one about Checklists and I got to the point of audio in the checklist and realized I did a different mic selected, but there you go Thanks for the update. I'm glad glad folks eventually got there in the end or I got there in the end. I should say Um, yeah, if anybody's got any specific questions though, uh, you're thinking of buying the rocasa duo But it's not available in japan yet. Oh, we're just uh, just it's worth holding on for I'm not sure what the availability is. You can probably get it from Somewhere else. I mean i'm in thailand So I'll often find that things aren't available here, but I'll just get it from From amazon in in us or amazon uk or one of the other stores But uh, then there are obviously there's obviously potential costs with that So it just depends on how How desperate you are for it. Um, but yeah, it's just it's is an awesome awesome device Um And and the thing between the rocasa duo and the streamer x because obviously most of the people that I'm I talk with in Coaching calls and consultations and things like that. Um, they are like business folk who are using these things for business And so in that case, you know, I often now get asked, you know, which one should I get? Either the streamer x or the rocaster duo and it really for me comes down to The audio rooting The audio rooting that you can do in unify is great. So you can handle a lot of this stuff in there But for me personally, I still like to have the sort of hardware faders for my zoom teams discord Ecam and to have those all on a separate channel and that's the real power of the rocaster duo for me Is the fact you have got an individual channel for when you have three individual usb channels So that means that you can have uh, ecamm audio rooting into your zoom call your zoom participants rooting back into ecamm You could potentially be running a zoom iso session So you're bringing speakers in on zoom iso feeding that into a regular zoom call And it's just such a powerful audio rooting device that um, uh, yeah, it's It's it's if you want to go to that level of audio rooting It's absolutely fantastic But the road streamer x I think they've just hit the nail on the head with a really great all-in-one device for Another whole group of people that I speak to that are maybe, uh, you know Just wanting to look a little bit better than their regular Regular webcam and and mic and then you know, you can tell them that oh for this one all-in-one package You can actually just completely transform the way that you uh, you look and add a little bit of lighting and you've got an instant Instant professional setup on uh on zoom So, uh, that's all really I wanted to cover today It's intended to just be an initial look at how to connect all of these different things up And I certainly will be doing a full uh full head-to-head of the Wireless me and the wireless go-to as well and there will be a a formal tutorial a little bit more professional On my on my channel in due course as well Uh, let me come to this one though for a second Does unify work with roadcaster pro 2 or stick with road central is one better with the rcp2 or do I need the To get gas the um, so with unify the unify is software now unify will not Control roadcaster pro 2 in the sense that if I go over to unify now Here you can actually use uh, let me just pop your comment down for a second there Here you can actually use unify The software it's in place of road central for Streamer x so when you start up Unify it will say we've see you have a streamer x connected Do you want to use that with unify and if you do then you're not then controlling it in uh in Uh road central so you can see here that we've got the four mix pads. Those are there You can turn presentation mode on and off And you'll notice when I do that the lights just down below me on the actual streamer x Change from the the colored regular smart pads To this one which is presentation mode and presentation mode looks like this You've got next slide previous slide Put up a blank slide or put up a blank white or black slide rather Start presentation and close presentation So that's for controlling your presentation But we're doing kind of like the setup of it In here and I can go and change what is on these different panels Um, so it doesn't control the roadcaster duo in the sense that you can do all of that However, it is a an audio interface and it does have this thing that I mentioned earlier Which is as well as the headphone output which goes into your headphones Here and as well as the the stream output going into whatever streaming device You can just feed that all into the roadcaster. So at the moment, although I've got my mic going into there I'm not actually monitoring it in there. I'm still streaming to everybody here I'm streaming streaming to all of you by By the by the the roadcaster duo. That's what's going into ecamm However, as you can see I can feed in everything from here into the the roadcaster duo as well So when I say it doesn't necessarily it's not it's not controlling the roadcaster duo But it can feed into the duo. So if you wanted to Sorry about that slight technical difficulty there Um, yeah, so in a sense, you can you you can't control the roadcaster duo And I like do all the setup with streamer x But you can use it as this additional level of of mixing So that's really where the the power of it is is that you can add that extra level of mixing To the roadcaster duo on those individual apps that you've got on your computer So so I hope that that answers the question melvin. Sorry. My my connection just dropped out or something for a moment there Um, any other questions about the road streamer x or roadcaster duo do feel free to reach out If you have any questions that you're watching on the replay that's come to mind Then do also consider joining the take one tech discord. It is free to join I'll drop a link into the the chat and you'll find it down in the description as well Let me just do that again. I'm having one of those tech failure days today. I don't know if you can tell But if you join the take one tech community You can go and drop in any questions that you've got there about roadcaster We've got a whole channel in there specifically about that Okie dokie before I have any more Technical or emotional failures. I'm going to leave it there today But for anybody watching on the replay, I'll go and leave a link to some other Roadcaster content over there on the right hand side. Thanks so much for watching and thanks to everyone who supports the channel I'll see you all next time