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I'm your host, Richard Evans, thank you so much for watching,
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Today, I'm going to show you how to use an external
USB audio device with TriCaster.
So I've done a lot of live events with complicated audio
workflows, and usually there's a dedicated sound guy on site.
So what we'll do is we'll connect their mixer to my TriCaster via USB,
which allows them to focus on audio in the room and myself on video.
Now you can even connect a USB audio device to say
expand your hardware inputs or use certain preempts.
A whole lot of different scenarios for this.
So let me show you I was done so on.
All right.
So starting off in the TriCaster two elite interface
today, I would be working with the Mackie ProFX8
mixing board.
Now it has a USB output that allows me to send the output of that board
to any USB compatible device so I can either
mix all of my sources together, put effects on it, send them out via
the XLR outputs or quarter-inch outputs, or in this example, today USB.
Now all I've done is I've just plugged
in the USB cable into the back of the mixer
and then connected to my TriCaster 2 Elite.
I didn't have to do any fancy setups on there.
I'm just literally plugging it in and playing it.
OK, so let's go ahead and go to my input number four
you can do it on any input I'm just using input for.
For today's example, click on the gear icon
and we'll go to the connection settings and input.
So what we'll do is we'll select from this source list that I have go to local
and then go to the bottom here and look for "microphone".
And then, as you can see this, there it is.
USB audio codec default.
All right now, depending on the device
that you have plugged into your TriCaster, this might look a little bit different.
But for today's example, this is what this one looks like.
All right, so let's go ahead and click on that.
And boom, you can already see that.
Here are the different audio sources coming in for my voice.
So I just have a microphone plugged into one of the channels of my Mackie
which is then connected via USB to my TriCaster.
OK, so using the Mackie USB mixer is pretty easy.
Just have your sound guy, do the mics and send their audio to the TriCaster,
but let's say
you want a little bit more control or want to use certain preamps et cetera.
Using an audio interface such as this FocusRite interface, for example,
can greatly expand your possibilities.
So let's check it out.
All right, so back into the TriCaster 2 Elite interface
and I'm still connected via my Mackie mixing board via USB.
So what's cool about
this is I'm going to be connecting multiple audio devices to the system
so I can mix and match, combine a whole bunch of them however I want.
All right.
So for this one, again, like I said before that,
this is the board that I'm on only gives me a stereo output here.
So let's go ahead and click on my connections.
We'll go back to local and microphone and boom.
Check it out again.
All I did was plug and play in that Focusrite audio interface,
so I didn't have to do any routing.
Now again, I haven't tried every interface that's out there,
so some of the installation
might be a little bit different, but for the most part,
the ones that I've tried, it's just plug and play.
And what's cool about this is now you'll see
I have a whole bunch of different options to choose from.
I can bring in four channels of audio, eight channels of audio.
It's kind of up to you how you want to mix this right?
So let me go ahead and select this one here
too, with four channels of audio and I have plugged in my microphone
into input number three on that system just to show you
that you can bring in multiple sources into here.
So once it's in here, you now have full control over it.
You can mix and match these.
I can turn myself down, turn myself up, round it, or if I just
want to isolate that signal and everything else, it's kind of up to you.
So there's a lot of capabilities that you can do with this.
I highly recommend plugging it in, checking it out.
And, of course, most importantly, have some fun.
So as you
can see, a lot of cool capabilities are at your fingertips
using a USB audio device in your TriCaster productions.
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