Rode has already upgraded the recording feature built right into the wireless go II. In this
video I'll help you understand the internal recorder and step you through the best settings
to create backup recordings or podcast media right to the transmitter. G'day my name is Gary and on
this channel you'll find audio and video solutions so you can simply focus on making inspirational
content. I'll quickly step you through the setup process and give you a quick overview.
If you need more detail then stick around till the end of the video and I'll help you understand the
many options the interface has to offer. Make sure you have all your components fully charged
and ready to set up. This is the cable that you'll need to get the best quality audio to your phone.
Download and install the very latest version of the Rode Central app.
Open the Rode Central app and accept any firmware updates. Plug in and update the receiver and
adjust these settings. Plug in and update the transmitter and adjust to these settings.
Switch on the receiver first and then the transmitters. Connect the receiver to your
phone using your chosen cable. Open the camera app of your choice then you can start filming.
Not only does the receiver feed clear audio to your streaming device,
the transmitter now thankfully reliably records audio files independent of the actual receiver.
You don't really want to have to use your backup track but here's an example
of how a backup track can be really helpful. We'll have a listen to the recordings that
are not only from on the iPhone but also the backup recording on the little transmitter.
So I'll get Andrea to take the unit for a little bit of a walk
and you watch the the little signal level indicators as it goes for a walk.
Rode Central is a a companion app for the wireless go 2 that allows you
to set up the device preferences, access to optimize and export recordings and activate
and deactivate functions. Some of the things that you're able to access is the unique id...
The receiver has lost all connection with the transmitters, even so, the transmitter
is recording its own onboard recording. Note that it actually is flagging the low signal
and as soon as it comes back in the signal it will actually resume, but let's have a listen
and you'll be able to hear the on-board recording and how you're able to use that and dub it on
version also the storage space uh the clock and some of the features you can adjust of course
are the power so the power saver mode the fine gain control merged and split recording mode
the safety channel it also allows you access to the on-board recordings so that's a really
good feature as well compressed and uncompressed recording mode is able to be accessed and changed
uh the the mute lock which stops someone from accidentally muting the transmitter
uh during a take and the recordings so you can have a look at those and then export them
let me quickly take you through the steps of working with files that are recorded
on the transmitter if you need them for a podcast or backup recordings open up
the rode central app plug in the transmitter that you're wanting to download the files from
select the file click export then decide on a format that you'd like to use
choose a location to save the file then save it now if that all seems a little complex then stick
around and i'll walk you through to help you understand the many options you have with the
rode central app and if you have any questions of course type them in the comments section
there's a link in the description also if you'd like to check out the local pricing
of your wireless go to let's slow things down a little bit now we'll have a closer look at
the rode central app. I've plugged in the receiver so we're currently looking at what
is on the receiver settings the backlight can either be switched on or off. The backlight is
the lit part of the screen here if you don't have it lit all the time you have to press the power
button to actually see what's happening if you want to quickly glance and see if your audio is
running and you've got a nice connection you need easy access to that the gain mode is combined with
this gain setting here at the moment set to course you've got low medium and high so three selections
if you then click the course mode it'll change to fine and fine gives you
ten different decibel settings so it gives you a much finer adjustment on the sensitivity
on a mobile device like a phone or a smartphone any smartphone or ipad or something like that
you really only need the course and set to high the mode is split at the moment which means the
left and right channel will be fed separately with two different transmitters when it is set to
merged it means these two transmitters will go to the receiver as a mono signal and you'll have both
left and right channels will be exactly the same now in the in the case where one transmitter may
not be picking up the sound as good as the other like one person might be speaking a lot softer
that could be a problem because once they're merged you have no more control so it's good to
have them separated and maybe in post-production you can adjust the volume of those separately
while it's in the merged mode you do have a safety channel function and that is a little feature
inside the receiver it actually records two tracks identically and one is actually a little bit less
gain than the other so in the case of something over driving you do have some sort of safety there
the power button which not only turns the machine and turns this little receiver on and off is also
has a momentary function and this is what you're adjusting here you can either have a momentary
press for the backlight to come back on again especially if you got this off and also marker
i prefer to have it on marker because during a recording as you be aware the transmitters will
record separately their own tracks if you want to identify a particular place in the recording
you can momentarily press the power button on the receiver and it'll flag put a flag on the
recordings of both of those transmitters which is really handy so let's have a look at the receiver
now we have the transmitter plugged in you can see on the left hand side of the road central
app you've got the recordings that are on this transmitter so this is what this transmitter's
picked up and i've had the record mode set to on as we'll see in the settings go into the settings
this is the little cog here i've got mine set to always now that means to say as soon as this
machine as soon as this little transmitter is turned on uh it will start recording
immediately irrespective of this receiver being switched on if i change that to backup
then the recorder inside the transmitter will not start recording unless i turn the receiver
on now initially you might say oh that's a that's a good idea i can just have that set
to back up and when i turn the the receiver on it turns on the recorders on here as a backup well
that that may or may not work the earlier version had real problems and sometimes the
recorder didn't switch back on again and i lost my test recordings so i like to have it set to always
of course you can have it off if you wish but i like to have it set to always pad this is a new
function that the transmitters have the microphone is quite sensitive on the front and also the input
for the lavalier microphone you can switch pad on and that will actually reduce the sensitivity of
the mic and i presume the input for the lavalier microphone as well if you have this very close to
someone's mouth maybe in an interview or something like that it could overdrive and distort which
is definitely not what you want if there's any fear of that i would set that pad to on
the LED's can be set to bright or dim and again like the receiver the power button can be set
to either mute right so one press would actually mute it and turn the little transmitter's
microphone inputs off or you can have it set to none or marker i like to have it on marker just in
case you want to mark a recording with a flag for some reason you might have your own little code
the reason why i don't like it to be on mute is because if you press that button momentarily it
will mute this microphone and you may not realize that you've lost the connection with the receiver
there is on on the little receiver here there is a a little mute indicator that that transmitter
has been muted but oh boy that's i don't know what you think but that's a little bit dangerous as far
as i'm concerned so i like to have it just set to marker when you have the record mode set to always
you do not have an option of i'll show you i'm going to set the backup you have
an option of standard quality which is like an mp3 style recording a compressed
recording i like to have broadcast quality anyway even though it's only a smaller number of hours
for backup i i think that if you're going to get a backup recording it should be as good
as possible but of course you might see that a little bit differently so see i like to have that
set to always let's have a look at exporting those files we select a particular file that we want to
export press the export button here you can actually change the file name
let's change it to say something really special like file one
you can select how you want to export it like mp3 for any podcasts and things like that and
also you can change the quality of the output as well then once you've got it to that stage
you would just select the particular place where you wanted to export it to
then export the file if you've got any other questions or comments that you'd like to add
make sure you leave those in the comment section we'll be able to help you out with your answers.
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