- I'm gonna show you how to make the Rode PodMic
sound absolutely awesome, on a RØDECaster Pro II.
♪ Check the mic and make sure it sound right, boys ♪
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So by the end of this video
you're gonna know everything you need to know
about making this mic sound its best.
Now the good news I can say upfront
is you need to do very little work,
obviously as the RØDECaster Pro II
and the Rode PodMic are made by the same company
they are designed to interact seamlessly together.
So it's not a case of tweaking DSs and noise gates
or anything like that
that I've shown you in different videos.
It's simply a case of saying, "what do I wanna sound like?"
The neutral broadcaster, an FM radio DJ, or a podcaster?
And I'll show you how you can tweak those settings
right now.
I'll just say upfront a few words on this microphone,
for the price at around 99 US dollars.
It is insanely priced.
I mean, it's such a good piece of gear, it's portable.
And if I were to be doing portable podcasting
I would probably pack a RØDECaster Pro II
and four of these PodMics in a backpack
and I would go and travel and do it.
And it's a super solid setup.
Don't forget the cables though.
Get those XLR cables.
It's got a sort of integrated pop filter in the top.
It's good, it's okay.
I mean, for the price, I'm definitely not complaining.
I think I sound pretty awesome on this mic.
And it plugs in as I just mentioned
via the analog XLR cable.
So with all that said and set up on a boom arm,
let's look across here at the RØDECaster Pro II
and on microphone channel four,
I actually already have this.
It's already detected that I'm using a Rode PodMic
and it's automatically set my level at 50dB.
You see, my voice is generally going between the rails
which it needs to do.
I could probably boost that up by a few dB.
I might put that up by 54
and then we can see when I'm talking now
I'm really hitting most of those rails.
If I did choose to move the microphone further away,
like this, I didn't want it so much in view.
You can see now I'm outside of the rails
and I should boost my volume up even more to maybe 59dB.
But as I like to be close to the mic,
I'm gonna turn that down.
I'm gonna leave it at 54,
and have it quite close to my mouth.
So I get the full proximity effect.
All the frequencies in my voice picked up
by this beautiful and very well priced microphone.
Now usually I'd go ahead and say,
"click the advanced button and start playing with DSS
and compressors and equalization."
But as the RØDECaster Pro II
has its own Rode PodMic setting,
Rode have done all the hard work for you.
So you don't really need to do too much setting up.
And it's the same case
for pretty much any Rode microphone you are using.
So as you can see here, if I scroll along
I've got the Rode Broadcaster, the Procasters in there,
the NT1, the NT1a,
there's even RE20 and Shure SM7B settings,
if you're using those very popular microphones.
But let's go back to the PodMic
and see what we can change here.
We've got three options.
We've got depth, we've got sparkle and we've got punch.
So depth seems to be the presence to your voice.
Sparkle is the high end,
and punch is the real basey boominess
that kind of FM sound.
So if I were to take the punch and increase that right up
I'd be like, "hey, welcome to FM radio.
Coming up next, a great hit from Lady Gaga."
That might not be your start.
You could back that off.
Instead, you wanna be clearly heard.
You want a bit of sparkle.
So push that one right up
and you sound super clear, super crisp.
This could be good if you're doing a voiceover
or something like that for radio.
And then depth, let's increase that one right up and listen.
Hello there, this is me.
You can really hear my voice.
All the middle range frequencies are getting enhanced.
Very nice, indeed.
And if you don't wanna stop there
of just tweaking those effects up and down
and you want a real good sort of starting point
for the kind of audio you are working on,
then click into effects here
have a look at that and you will see this echo and reverb.
So I can say, "hello."
Or we can do this, we can switch it on.
Hello. (voice echoing)
Wow. (voice echoing)
So we can do different effects for different processes.
Reverb is always a good one as well.
Used to use this when I worked in radio.
Hey, I'm in a great hole. (voice echoing)
so much you can do with all the different effects.
Let's switch that one off. (voice echoing)
That's reverb, and you actually,
what I really like about this
is that you have all the settings you'd expect on a box,
an analog box that has reverb.
Back into processing though,
if we look at presets under processing right here,
you'll see that you've got neutral podcast,
studio and broadcast.
So Rode offer you three defaults
that you can work with straight away
to make this microphone sound as good as it can.
If I select neutral,
this is the Rode PodMic at its most basic settings.
Then I can go to Podcast Studio.
This is me when I'm doing a podcast.
You can hear it's added a little bit of bass to my voice.
And I sound like a real podcast show host.
Or you got broadcast if you're doing FM radio
or internet radio.
Hello and welcome to WABC.
This is Mike with my broadcast setting on the microphone.
I really like it.
And the closer I get, the more frequencies in my voice,
this for $99 is absolutely insane.
Anyway, I'll stop getting intimate with the microphone there
and say what a great microphone combination
for the RØDECaster Pro II at $99.
I frankly would buy four of them.
Stick them in a backpack and take this kit with me
when I travel.
It really is that good.
If you've got any questions about setting up
the Rode PodMic and the RØDECaster Pro II
do post them in the comments down below.
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