- The Rodecaster Pro is like, a game changing piece
of audio equipment that I have totally fallen in love with
over the past few months,
and it turns out that it's super easy to incorporate it
into live streams or video podcasts using OBS,
so I wanted to do a quick rundown on how to do that,
and this video is not paid or sponsored in any way.
I just really like this thing and it's super cool
and I want to show you how to do more cool stuff with it.
Rode has a lot of products with similar names.
They have the Rode Procaster, the Rodecaster Pro,
the Broadcaster and the Podcaster,
and most of those are microphones.
For the sake of clarity,
I'm talking about the Rodecaster Pro,
which is this thing right here,
this audio mixer which is basically
an all in one audio production unit.
So I was toying around the idea
of improving audio on livestream and video podcasts,
and I wanted to find a way to incorporate the Rodecaster
and it turns out, when I bring this microphone over here,
that it's actually pretty simple.
So I'm gonna switch from the Rode Video Mic Pro Plus
to the Rodecaster Pro in three, two, one, there.
(finger snapping)
Now, my audio is coming straight through the Rodecaster Pro.
(bubble popping)
It should sound a bit better than the Video Mic Pro
and so having audio quality like this in a livestream
will really boost your overall production quality.
The Rodecaster Pro is a pretty simple plug-and-play device
and I'm using it on a Mac,
but this should work the same on Windows,
so you shouldn't have any issues,
and all you need is a USB-C cable.
Plug one end into the Rodecaster
and the other into your computer,
and then you should see, when you open OBS,
that the Rodecaster Pro now shows up as an audio source.
So now I should be able to go over here to my sources,
add an audio input source,
and we can call this one Rodecaster,
and then when we select the device
the Rodecaster Pro automatically shows up
and everything that's happening in the Rodecaster Pro
is now being directly put into OBS
and out on your livestream,
so this is really helpful if you just want
to up the overall audio quality of a livestream,
but it also makes it really easy
to do video podcasts because
you don't even have to be livestreaming.
You can just use the built-in
Start Recording feature of OBS and just record,
even with camera changes, text changes,
graphics, the whole deal, your video podcast
and it's all edited on the fly
and it's ready to go as soon as you're done recording,
which is great in terms of improving your workflow,
and more than just improving your overall audio quality,
this now lets you use four XLR inputs
plus auxiliary and Bluetooth sources
in your livestreams or video podcasts,
which opens up an entirely new world
of audio possibilities,
especially because the Rodecaster Pro
has Bluetooth connectivity which makes it
very easy to use phone calls as an audio source,
and if you're using the Rodecaster Pro
in your livestream it actually means
that you can take live phone calls during a live stream,
which is really cool and something that was not
really easily possible up until this device came out.
So you can just get a Google Voice number
that's totally free and private,
and you can share that out
and you can have people call in to your livestream,
to your podcast, whatever it is,
and you can interact with your audience in real time
through the magic of audio,
and to do that on the Rodecaster is actually pretty simple.
You just hit the Bluetooth button
and then you will see a menu that pops up
that lets you pair your phone and then
let me go grab my landline,
and yes I did say landline
because I have no cell reception at my house
so we need to still have an old school landline phone.
Now I can bring up the Bluetooth channel as an audio source
and then if I use this phone to call myself.
(phone beeping)
Now it should ring on here,
(lively phone ringtone)
and on here, on the iPhone,
the Rodecaster Pro actually does show up
as an audio source, so in theory
I should be listening with headphones
and this phone call is going over here.
- [Over Phone] So if I'm over here and I'm like,
"Hey Tom, what's up?"
- I can be like,
"Nothing much, Tom.
"I'm just talkin' on my phone on a livestream
"because it's 2019 and that's a thing that you can do."
- [Over Phone] "What, no way?
"I'm on the landline 'cause it's 1996."
- Yeah, that sucks.
Well, see you later,
and then you just boop your person off the phone.
The Rodecaster Pro is seriously awesome.
I made an in-depth overview slash review on it
that I think would be helpful if you're kind of on the fence
about whether or not to get one,
but you should never let a lack of gear
stop you from making something.
You should look at what you have,
pool your resources together,
and then be innovative and brilliant
in your problem solving of trying to figure out
how to make the best stuff you can
with what you got right now.