Rode Makes Remote Recording A Breeze That Sounds Amazing!

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If you're starting a podcast and your co host is across

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the country, you might want to put out a little extra money to make it

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sound like they're in the same room.

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Hey, welcome to Best Podcasting Gear. I'm Dave Jackson from

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theschoolofpodcasting.com this is where we help you sound like a million

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bucks without spending a million bucks. And today

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I'm talking about an update that came out

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from Rode. If you are using either

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the Rode, it's called the Rodecast Pro

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2. So not the first one, the second one, or

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the Rodecaster duo. Now, the

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duo goes for 500 bucks, the Pro

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goes for 700 bucks. The difference between the two is the

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duo, as the name implies, is great if you have one co host.

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The Pro 2 allows you to plug in four

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different microphones plus connect to your computer. So it's really

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versatile. So, but now for me, I had the

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Rodecast Pro 2. I sold it and got

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a duo because I hardly ever have more than one

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co host, and number two, the thing took up half my desk.

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So depending on your scenario, they now have them in

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in white if you want, you know, a pretty one that's cute,

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et cetera, et cetera. But what I'm here to talk about is they added this

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feature called Call Me. And what this

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does is it, obviously we're using

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the Internet, that's how we're connected, but it does it in a way

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that it doesn't compress the signal as hard.

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And so I had a friend of mine connect his

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Rodecaster, and it was so simple. You click

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a button, you type in some numbers, and he was directly connected to

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mine. And I'm here to tell you, I thought he was in the room with

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me. It was amazing. Plus, because

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you're dealing with the Rodecaster, you've got all that great onboard

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processing that makes you sound amazing.

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And if you wanted to do this with guests and, well, they

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don't have a Rodecaster, you can simply give them a link and

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they can connect via the web.

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And again, super simple. This does not

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capture video. This is for audio only.

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But it's super simple. They don't have to install any software,

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and it makes them sound amazing.

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So I saw this, I played with it. I was like, this is great. And

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I do a live show every Saturday called Ask the Podcast Coach.

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You can find me Saturdays at 10:30 Eastern by going to school or

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a school of podcasting by going to ask the podcastcoach.com

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live. And this is available for

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people to Connect to. But if you're doing a live

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stream, if you've ever listened to live radio,

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for those of us that remember radio,

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and a caller would call in and you would hear

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this weird echo and you would hear the radio host

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scream, please turn down your radio. Please turn down

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your radio. If you're doing a live stream, you are

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going to need to do some education to

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your callers because what happens, I do this every Saturday.

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I'm live on YouTube. Well, YouTube is about, I don't know, let's say

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15 seconds behind what I'm actually saying. By the

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time it gets to my audience live, they're 15

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seconds behind. So what happens is when somebody connects

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via road call me, they are now live

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with me. They are 15 seconds ahead of

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what they're saying. YouTube.

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And so what happens is when you say, hey,

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I see Tim is here, because you'll see their name come up on your screen

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and you say, yes, connect. And you're like, tim, you're on with Dave and

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Jim. What's your question? And then you sit there and wait for

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15 seconds because Tim is listening to the YouTube

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channel. So you have to. What I did was I made a

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page with the link that explained that, hey, if you're

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calling during the live show, and that's the only time I take these how to

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right click on the live streaming tab and

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mute it. It's like once you connect, mute

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that because otherwise you're going to have this weird delay. So

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that's where if you want to have callers during your live show, you're

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going to have to do some education. Now they sound great when

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they connect. I had somebody connect using their

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phone and they still sounded great. So it's a great tool.

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And I see this more as people that want to

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connect to their co host. Now it is free.

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Now if you want to have more than one person connect. So let's say you've

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got a Rodecaster Pro 2 and you've got multiple channels.

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It's something like $10 a month to have more than one person

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connect via call me for X amount of hours.

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But the pricing on this is very affordable.

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And except for the unit, right, the Rodecaster again, The duo

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is 500. The Rodecaster Pro 2 is 700.

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But if this is something that you're ready to take your audio

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to the next level and you've got a decent sized desk, if you're

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gonna go with the Rodecaster Pro 2, I'm here to

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tell you I was floored by the audio when my friend

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connected who also had a rodecaster. So now if you

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don't have a rodecaster and only one of you has one, that will work as

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well. Not quite as good, but definitely very, very cool. But

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just realize if you're doing this for a live stream

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and so you're going out over YouTube and maybe Facebook or LinkedIn Live

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or, you know, Rumble, you know, all those different sites, you're

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going to have to educate your audience that once you

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say, you know, hey, you're on with, you know, you, that

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they have to mute that tab. Otherwise it's just an absolute

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mess with echoes and delays and things like that.

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So when this came up, I was like, oh, I have to tell the

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best podcasting gear audience about this, because this really

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is a game changer. It's not cheap, but if you've got the

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budget, this is something. And you're, you're also. I guess I should throw in there.

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You're also not worried about capturing video.

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This is something you definitely might want to check into.

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I've got links in the show notes. My preferred vendor is

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Sweetwater because they give you additional warranty time and

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they offer tech support. I love Sweetwater. And if that's not enough,

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they put candy in the box. I know, I

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love them. Check it out. Links are in the show notes.