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Product Recommendation: Rodecaster Pro
A good, if not expensive tool for doing live streaming.
I originally thought about starting a podcast sometime in 2019. Or I think it was 2019. Either way, I ended up not doing that, but I did research a little into what kind of hardware one might need to acquire to make a podcast.
I started thinking about buying this specific board in 2020, sometime after the lock down started due to COVID-19. It caught my eye because it looked to have all the features and conveniences that I was looking for, and quite a few I wasn’t thinking of.
Inputs
It has 4 XLR channels, one TRRS channels (Standard 3 right headphone/mic), bluetooth, and USB. The USB cable allows this to both work as a USB interface into a computer, and to stream the audio out from a computer. With the correct
One of the many nice features of this compact board, is it’s volumn limiting feature. If you’re doing a stream, and someone comes in with a rather loud or hot mic, the board has a feature that will let you the max volume going out through the monitor.
Also consider:
Other things you’ll need to buy to get going:
- XLR cables
- XLR microphones
Note
One thing to note, if you buy any Rode product from an unauthorized dealer, Rode will not honor the warranty, so be aware of that if you see a good deal. The only way to be sure, is to double check that the dealer is listed on product page for the site.
