- One of my favorite things about the RODECaster Pro
is all of the versatility it has
to let you adjust your audio so it sounds
exactly the way that you want it to.
So you have the best audio for your audience,
and they don't say "adios" to... ...your stuff that you're making. (nailed it)
But a question I get a lot is how do you use
and adjust the effects on the RODECaster Pro?
Because if you've just gotten it and taken out of the box,
it might not be immediately obvious.
If you press the button for any of the audio channels,
you'll have a few options there.
And one of them is Audio Processing,
and that is where your audio gets processed. 🤯
So if you tap on that, straight out of the box,
you're going to see this screen here,
which is just on/off switches for audio processing.
For example, here's channel one that I'm using right now,
processing is turned off, if I turn it on,
then everything is automatically turned on
and you've probably heard a pretty big change in my audio.
So I'm going to turn those off because sometimes,
if you're using a Fat Mike, you need NOFX.
(There are like three people who are going to get that joke...
...you're welcome.)
But this doesn't give you a lot of flexibility
if it's just turning everything on or off,
because there's a lot of nuance in these effects.
This is basically the RODECaster's way
of protecting you from yourself.
What I would recommend doing if you haven't doneso,
or as soon as you get your RODECaster
is clicking on the Advanced options,
going to Audio, going into Processing, and then
making sure to turn on Effects Edit Mode.
And what that's going to do is,
now when you go into your Audio Processing,
you're not just going to see on/off switches,
you're going to be able to go into each thing,
enable it by itself, and then also,
once you've got it enabled,
you can fine tune and adjust it.
And you shouldn't be timid in playing with this.
Feel free to experiment and see what each setting does.
If you do something that makes it sound absolutely terrible,
you can just tap this little backwards arrow
and it will reset everything.
So you're always just one click away
from going back to resetting. (I wish real life had this feature)
I do recommend using a very light touch
with your effects processing.
If you go in and you just turn on everything
and crank it to the max,
you're going to get a really weird sound.
But depending on your microphone,
your voice, your environment,
using things like the Noise Gate or the De-esser,
when using the PodMic,
I always use a bit of the Big Bottom
because that's a mic that leans towards
the high end of the frequency spectrum.
So it's a really, really versatile thing to be able to do.
Now, something you might not know
and that I didn't really discover until I'd had
the RODECaster for awhile is that this interface,
especially while you're recording or streaming or something,
even though it's a nice touchscreen,
it can be a little clunky.
So if you have your RODECaster connected to your computer,
you can open up the Companion App,
and then click on Open Effects Editor.
And that is going to bring realtime processing
right to your computer.
So that means you can see all of your channels.
You can see your master output.
And you can go into these channels and do
the exact same thing that I just did in the RODECaster.
You can see each of the different effects.
You can go in and change them.
It's the exact same menu that's in the actual RODECaster.
You can have your master output, everything is right there.
And every change that you make through the Companion App
also affects the actual RODECaster.
So if you get things dialed in this way,
exactly how you like them,
it'll be saved into the RODECaster,
even if you disconnect it from your computer.
If you get settings that you really like,
you can always go into File and Save a Show.
And that way those settings will be saved.
And then, you can even create a new show,
which could include a different batch of settings.
So if you have one thing setup
for streaming where it's just you,
and another thing setup for a podcast where you have
a co-host or you're using a different microphone,
you can actually create different shows.
So that way you can just preload those presets
and you don't have to adjust them every time.
And of course, very important with the RODECaster Pro,
this is also where you can update the firmware
or check for firmware updates.
One of the biggest benefits of the RODECaster Pro is
how often Rode does update it,
not just with firmware updates, but with pretty major ones,
and adding in different abilities,
and processing, and flexibility.
So be sure you're always up-to-date,
and then you'll get the most out of your RODECaster Pro.
And thank you as always to everybody
who supports my channel, I really appreciate it.
It means the world to me.
And of course, there's a whole plethora,
a bevy you might say of RODECaster Pro videos
that I have made because this is
one of my favorite things ever.
So if you want to learn more about it,
check out one of the videos in this playlist,
and you'll learn, you'll learn a lot of really fun stuff.
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