When using Uncompressed Recording, the transmitter's internal recording restarts a new audio file every 30 minutes and the restart is NOT clean. The internal recording skips a little as it starts every recording.
Hey hey Walid and Robert! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! That is a big thing! I did notice that uncompressed split the file into 30min chunks, but didn't realize you actually lose a moment between each file! It would be the worst luck ever if the signal dropped right at the file cut off mark! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
After reading this I tried to replicate your result. I set the transmitters to record uncompressed and placed the mic next to some music I was playing. After recording an hour or so I placed the recorded files in Final Cut. The break between the 2 files was in the middle of a song and I can say the transition was completely seamless. There was no break or overlapping. I wonder if a firmware update fixed it.
Hi there! This was such a useful video. I’ve already applied all of these changes. I did have one question that Rode support wasn’t able to address when I reached out. Is there a way to manipulate the gain output to a laptop when the mic is connected via USB-C? It seems like the gain control on the receiver works for my recorder and camera but won’t affect what my laptop picks up directly. This is especially disappointing because the audio my laptop picks up from the mic by default is very low.
Hey hey LaloRacer1! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! At the time of this recording there was no way to raise the input level on my Mac computer. I didn't check if the latest firmware update added this function. Generally speaking if you are going into a laptop to use a mic and you are recording into something via software or zoom etc etc. In those programs you can raise the mic level higher while the system level is just set at a standard. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
hi! Does the receiver record audio or I only need to connect it to some other recorder via 3.5mm line? In Rode Central App the RX doesn't seem to have any disk with recordings. Thank you
The receiver does not record audio internally. Only the transmitters record audio internally when activated. The Receiver is meant to plug into your camera with the 3.5 or a external recorder.
I just bought them and I started to hate them 🤣🤣🤣 they pick up so much background noise compared to comica it can be loud but it only catches the voice
Hey hey Trocas! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! Hmm, I guess its going to depend on what situations you're in for the RODE to determine its mic gain control algorithm. For me the internal mic seems to do better outdoors as it understands ambient sounds better there, indoors it'll try and pick up super ambient noises. Otherwise the moment you start talking it adjusts correctly. Because of this, and with mics in general, its a good idea to learn how to use a noise gate for your post audio needs. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
hello bro, please gimme a clue on how to resolve peaking voice on phone (iphone 13promax) and camera (sony a6600) when using rode wireless go 2. on rode receiver i already set gain to minus 24, and in camera volume setting i already set to only 2, but it still peaking so the voice is like broken / cracked. thanks
Hey hey again Budiono! In the newer firmwares your transmitter will have something called a "pad" option. Simply turn that on and that will lower your mic's sensitivity level. This only works for the build in microphone and not an external lav mic if I remember correctly. If you are using an external mic. The Sony is weird with how it handles louder noises. So you might actually need your RODE GO to be set to -30db. I know this will be very low on your Sony, but it will help it from clipping and you will need to raise the audio level in editing. As for your iphone and why it's peaking. This is something thats not easily figured out on the iphone as it has its own audio gain programming that can't be turn on or off.
@@TLDR_filmmaker Thank you for your answer. so -24 isn't enough, is it? i'll give it -30 and see what will happen. I thought if it was -30 then the sound would be completely off. Once again, thank you
Hey hey Agalia Films! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! Have fun! Make sure you got the latest firmware too. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Another good tip, when you're importing the files you'll notice that you lose all the date and time info. This is very useful if you have a lot of files to sync with video. What works is to stick to a naming convention that works like this: DOG GROOMER 220802 143452 01 talks about shampoo DOG GROOMER 220802 143704 02 showing the clippers DOG GROOMER 220803 092212 03 the next morning walkies SO you have the project, the date (Year Month Day) time (hour min sec) the number and the description. As you can see the third file is from the next morning. You'll find that this way all the audio files stay in the correct order, plus you can match up when your video file timestamp is with the audio file from the same time, before doing an auto sync (FCPX does this every time no prob.) This can really save a lot of headaches when you have 50 plus audio to video syncs to do, or when you have one big audio file and several video files to sync to it...
Hey hey again funkyprepper! No, it will not ruin the battery if you have it plugged in the whole time while filming as it was designed with this in mind for people that need extended use.
In my opinion, it is not good to keep the units at 100% battery, as they use LiPo technology, so much like with our cell phones, the battery life is adversely influenced by keeping it either full or deeply discharged. So I would connect the charger when reaching red, and disconnect before 100% full.
I ended up using the recordings to restore an hour of audio just last weekend- my receiver wasn't plugged in fully to my camera, and my Canon 250D doesn't have a monitoring ability so I was unaware it wasn't recording to the camera. This feature saved my bacon!
Hey hey Solubleapps! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I'm so glad you had the internal recording left on! Exactly the reason that feature exists, I wouldn't know why anyone would leave it off! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Kiswa! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! These are done with the computer. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey funkyprepper! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! You're most welcome! I will continue to do my best with my content and reviews! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
The safety track makes it not merged so I just use dual mono in post but I found I don’t use it much so maybe it’s not worth turning it into LR channels only?
Hey hey AM2PM! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! That definitely depends on how you film and what subjects you film. I generally prefer to do the safety channel just on the off chance that I may need to access that channel to safe a piece of a recording. In FCPX the dual mono setting is a quick click so it doesn't really affect the time of my workflow. But if you're finding that your just doing a talking head (of yourself) and you talk more or less the same volume all the time, then the safety track might not be a big deal as you've locked in audio gain settings. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey , I have just bought them and for some reason my camera D810 and ZV 1 are recording low sound on one channel but works fine with Insta360 and audio from Transmitter is also perfect. Am i missing out on in camera setting ? Please let me know if anyone have same issue or have solution to this, thank you.
Hey hey vatsal! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! This is because you have the safety channel switched on for the RODE GO, the setting that I leave on when doing a solo shoot just incase something loud happens and I blow out one channel, I can use the safety channel to recover. There is an extra step you have to do in your editor so that when you finish your video you have your main channel coming out of both stereo sides. I sort of cover it in this video: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html . If you don't want to go through with this setup, simply turn off the safety channel feature the next time you plug in your receiver into the computer app. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey BlackBeltBarrister! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! Thank you so much for the kind words and I'm happy that the video was helpful! I will continue to do my best with my content and reviews! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Thank you for the details its really appreciated. Question though, is it necessary to have record set to (ON) if you are connected to your GO PRO? Or is the record option just a failsafe backup...... Thanks again...
Hey hey Kevin! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! The recording option is just a failsafe backup incase something happens with your wireless signal or maybe your go-pro runs out of battery but someone is still talking. You will at least have the audio that you can use B-roll to cover with until you get the go-pro back up and running. For the most part, like I say in the video, you only lose 10 minutes of RODE GO battery live on the TX by keeping the internal recording on. Because it's so minimal of a difference, theres no real good reason to have this feature turned off. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Checkered Flag Films! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! With this system you cannot tell it to start or stop, the recordings are meant as a backup incase something happens. The only way to stop recording is to turn off either the Transmitter or Receiver if you have the Transmitter set to "back up". If you have it set to "always record" it will record whenever its on without the Receiver. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Bob! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! Awesome awesome! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Djayrazor! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! You would activate Merge Mode on the RX. However if you are using the safety channel feature there will be an extra step in editing that you'd have to do. I talk about it briefly here: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html Essentially you're telling the audio to take the left channel and dual mono it out so that you can hear it on both stereo channels. It's an extra step, but a good step to learn as you begin working with audio. If you don't want to deal with this at all, then simply turn off safety channel in the app, that way when you go into "merge" mode, you'll hear your voice out of both stereo channels. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Sam! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I unfortunately do not have a Ninja V so I do not know how good the preamps are when recording audio to it. I'm also not sure if the Ninja V has a audio delay setting when you are using the Ninja's mic/line port. The reason I say this is because there is always a slight lag between the camera and HDMI port. So if you were to record this way you may have to re-align the audio track in editing. Depending on your application, it may be better to just have the RODE be connected to the Sony and let both video and audio signals go to the Ninja at the same time through the HDMI port. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
For a video novice using the Apple imac, what video/audio editing software do you recommend? Is there a suggested workflow when using wireless microphones like this?
I can't speak for TLDR, but I almost never go outside of Final Cut. They have a lot of audio filters included. The two I always use are Limiter and Compressor.
Hey hey Simon and Robert! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I as well just use the included Compressor, Limiter, noise gate, and EQ from FCPX. There are so many great programs out there it really just comes down to preference and how much are you willing to pay. FCPX is great but so is iMovie if you're just starting to learn. Davinci Resolve is probably the most powerful editor that has a free version and a paid version. As for suggested workflow, I would highly suggest you watch videos from Curtis Judd about dialogue, he explains it all very well and much easier than I could explain through a comment. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
I don't seem to be able to switch from uncompressed to compressed in the transmitter... Re the uncompressed, the pro way is to use the uncompressed audio and resync it to the video from the camera using the camera audio from the transmitted rode audio. The reason being that you get ALL the audio including the outtakes when the talent speaks but the camera is not running, very useful for all kinds of reasons (not to mention hearing the things they say about you when they wander off with the mic still attached...) So, if you are using the internal recording you have no issues with wireless dropouts, no loss of quality by going through Digital to wireless in the transmitter, wireless to Digital in the receiver and Digital to ANALOG (oh no!) in the receiver to go through the minijack lead, and finally analog to digital into the camera through less than optimal A to D amps (oh no again!) and finally into your video file in the camera... That's a lot to go wrong and degrade the signal. I think of the camera audio from the receiver as the backup and reference for sync, and the internal audio as the master. Obvs for speed and if audio is not so important, the pre synced audio will work, but for critical documentary recording, the above method PLUS the addition of a quality shotgun mic into a separate audio recorder is the way to go. MKE600 into H4n is pretty good. TL:DR Use internal recording plus secondary audio recording with a shotgun for the best results.
Hey hey iProdvid! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! When you are in the RODE software make sure that "always backup" is not on if you are wanting to switch to compressed. When you have "always backup" on, it will only record in uncompressed. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hi, Thank you for the info. Can you please tell me how to connect smartphones at the same time? I made it with 3,5mm double adapter. I have problems Only on FB lives. I'm thinking how can I connect 2 smartphones with USB C Thank you Regards, Stoyan
Hey hey Mana Bulgaria! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! RODE has an official plug for the RODE GO II that goes into a USB-C smartphone. That is probably your best bet to deliver audio into the smartphone. Last I checked you can't use a USB-C port on the RODE GO II receiver and plug it into the USB-C port of the phone. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
hi. I have a new Rode wireless Go II and configured it as per this vid (thanks for that). Can I set this thing up to sync with my DVX200 camcorder (that also has boom mic) as a secondary connection so that when i press record on camcorder the recording goes on and when i press stop it stops recording? I think that might work if I can get a jack to XLR connection. A big hassle trying to get stuff in fiji. I go into suva tomorrow and search the music stores. But only keen if it will sync like that. Im not experienced in getting good sound for vids so the answer might be obvious. many thanks guy...
Hey hey Blair! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! The first part is, can you connect the RODE to your DVX200? Yes, a simple XLR to 3.5mm with no phantom power abilities will do the trick. Here is what one looks lieks geni.us/akxeZC (affiliate link) However will they sync up perfectly? No, I show this in my major review in the latency test: ua-cam.com/video/3TOldrv9iEE/v-deo.html This reason for this is because it is wireless, which means there is always more latency than a hardwire audio cable. So when you go into editing, you will hear a echo between the two mic sources. This can be fixed of course in the editing phase where you can offset the RODE to match the wired shotgun mic. This is done differently depending on what video editor you are using, but it can be done. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
hi, sir I am using wireless go 2 with Sony a6400 camera but after recording the sound is coming only from one side mainly from left side i did all the settings i am not able to find a solution for this please help me
Hey hey Hitesh! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! You are most likely in "Stereo" mode and not in "mono" mode. On the receiver that goes into your camera, press the two bottom buttons and hold for a couple seconds so that the receiver switches over to Mono. If you followed my settings, one side will be louder than the other. So make sure you are familiar on how to work with safety track audio: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html If you don't want to bother with the safety track then make sure you go back into the RODE Central App and turn it off. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Michael! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! UA-cam does have a auto generated CC feature that does an ok job. Hopefully one of these days I'l have the means to get my videos CC'd. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Robert! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! For me this is not the case, however I haven't used the internal recording to save a shot in a long time (because it doesn't happen that often for me) so I'm not sure if newer firmware updates have lowered the gain of the internal recordings. As far as I know, the internal recording still does not have gain adjustments because it is recording the raw audio that the transmitter actually receives with its AGC algorithm. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
I just got my Rode Wireless Go 2 based on your videos (thank you) and during setup, I have a "pad" option that I can toggle on and off. What does that do?
Hey hey Cigar Prop! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! The "pad" feature was something added after this video. Essentially what it does is it lowers the sensitivity of your microphone capsule so if you are going to record audio in a very loud environment, like a rock band in an indoor venue, where the music is loud and you're screaming into the mic so that you can get your commentary in. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
I have a question for sound people. I'm not really a sound technician. I only shoot wedding and just need good audio for couples saying their vows. What is a good gain level to get good audio without clipping. Also should I do merge or split mode not that I record straight to the camera using the 3.5mm cable.
Hey hey Shugg! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! If you are using two transmitters, one for bride and one for groom, or whatever combination you may have. You should ALWAYS, in my opinion, use split. Because you want to make sure you can do any post audio work with either speaker incase one doesn't speak as loudly or if one mic is picking up other noises while the other is speaking. I talk briefly about the uses of "split channel" in this video: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html . As for whats a good gain level, a very general rule of thumb is to try and keep your recorder (or camera that is taking in the audio) and having their voices bounce between -12db and -6db (the visible marks on the sound bar on your camera.) You will adjust the RODE's Receiver output dB until their voices are near there. It's hard to change this on the fly, but the RODE Transmitter is also helping out and doing its thing on auto. Generally speaking -12 to -6db is where people are on average with the receivers output. Last but not least, as I say in this video, keep that internal recording on. Not only will it save you if you lose signal, but if it so happens you set up your receiver output wrong. The Transmitters recording is not affected by your output changes, it will have its own auto level recording that does quite well with regular speech. The only time it does not work is if someone deliberately screams into the transmitter. Hope this helps. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker thank you for taking the time to responde with details. My next question is, I record audio straight to my camera, no recorder or any other fancy audio interface. If I record in split mode, does that mean my video will have 2 audios, one from the groom and another audio from the bride? Also I have a wedding this upcoming weekend and I wanna use 3 Mics. Receiver from Rode Compaq Go (previous version) and the 2 receivers from the Go II. My plan is I have the splitter cable, one end goes to the Go I transmitter and the other end goes to the GO II transmitter and the input goes straight to my camera. All the audios from the 3 receivers will be form one audio for the video in recording right? My plan is to mic up the priest, groom and the bride. I hope I worded this right and hope you understand.
Hey hey TwinStory! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! If you're only using one mic, make sure you are on "mono" and not "stereo". If you are using two mics you have the ability to either go with mono or stereo. Mono makes it easy for you to just get a recording and upload, but if you want to edit one persons mic because they speak too loud, you won't be able to. This is why you would use stereo to get two separate recordings in camera and edit them later for the final mix. Hope this makes sense and helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
I was on the fence about using merge mode verse split. But as I look back I've rarely worked with individually recorded tracks. Making these changes now.
The thing is, as he mentioned in the video, is that if you first select merged mode in the settings in the application and then select safety channel. You can then any time you want deselect merged mode and go to split mode from your receiver. And when you go back to merged you will automatically have the safety channel.
I am curious if recording uncompressed 24-bit audio on your TX unit gives you any extra headroom to fix files that might have clipped on the TX before they have gone through the RX pre-amp. Anything that is already clipped when it hits the RX, won’t be able to brought back. Safety channel or no safety channel.
Hey hey again 2010SLP! Part of me thinks you won't necessarily have headroom persay, I'm coming at it with the idea of video files in compressed vs uncompressed. I think the Uncompressed probably gives you better manipulation in post of the audio thats not clipped instead of being able to recover a clipped audio like RAW video. Here's hoping RODE enters the 32bit float game if the RODE GO II hardware can handle it. Though my guess is not likely :(
It completely depends on your camera as well as how loud your sound source is that you're trying to capture. Rule of thumb is to keep your camera mic level as low as possible and adjust the receiver so that your voice is around the -12db area on the sound bar. Your best starting point is to try anywhere from 12db to 3db on the RODE if you do not have access to soundbars on your camera or camera mic level adjustments.
If you have your camera is plugged into a dummy battery and that battery is plugged into a Power strip, you may want to change to a different power strip as that is known to causing buzzing in the audio. If that is not the case. try a different mic to see if you have the same problem. If you do not, then it may be a defect RODE Wireless GO or a bad audio cable. Thats the order of operations I would do to try and find out if its the camera or the mic leading to the buzzing problem.
Hey hey Mark! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! You're most welcome! So glad this was helpful! I will continue to do my best with my content and reviews! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Alejhando! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! It really depends on how loud you speak to battle out the noise of a gym. All wireless lavs will pick up noise around you no matter what. What you want to do is utilize some of the new voice isolation tools that have come out in video editors. Check out my video about it here: ua-cam.com/video/xwbyHSPuMUU/v-deo.html Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Amin! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I don't have a specific video of my full gear setup, however I have made a tutorial video that shows you what all you need to do to get a decent picture for a basic youtube setup here: ua-cam.com/video/__dsOEMzrVA/v-deo.html Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Should I adjust the camera audio levels first or the rode gain level first? I tend to see people bumping the camera audio levels down and having the rode at like -12db? Thanks for the videos!
Hey hey LegendaryOn99! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! In general you should adjust the camera audio levels first. Yes, generally people will want to bump their camera level down first, however I found out that this is NOT the case for Sony Cameras. I detail it in this video here if you are a Sony shooter: ua-cam.com/video/Bh_gfEsFGtA/v-deo.html If you're a Panasonic shooter, you can move the audio levels down. I'm not sure about Canon or BMPCC. I believe they are fine to go down as low as it can go. Sony is oddily not the case. But you'll want to test around to see what sounds good to you. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
I've actually had some file corruptions with recording set to "always", in "merged" mode. Thankfully, I was recording in uncompressed so only a couple 30 min. chunks were corrupt. Just one reason to record in uncompressed. It would be nice to have way more control, like setting the compressed recording to 30 min. limits as well if you wanted to have a sense of securing your audio recordings a bit better. Also, another criticism of the app is that you can't batch export more than one 30-min. uncompressed clip at a time. And the "save to" window doesn't even remember where you exported to last so you have to re-navigate to your desired folder for every 30 min. clip. Minor, first world annoyances for sure, but still an issue that I'm surprised to see in a 2021 piece of software. I really am rooting for Rode and the Go2, but the Go2 + Central app definitely still feels a bit undercooked. As TLDR has predicted, I'm also hoping for a Rode Wireless "Pro" version with longer battery life, longer record time, threaded/locking 3.5mm jack, and actual control over the internal recording. To Rode's credit, it's the only lav device in the U.S. that can record and transmit at the same time, and that really is super great (stupid, selfish patent holders).
Hey hey Andrew! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! Hmm, that is interesting about the corruptions. Is this with the newest firmware on the transmitters? I agree that the software is a bit undercooked, but I'm also going to give RODE a slight break because I have a feeling this is the first time they've probably hired in software developers. They do seem very active with its development so I can only assume it will become fully fleshed out sooner than later as we give them ideas what they need to do. I'm not sure if this is still there, someone had found that the uncompressed will cut out a couple frames of audio when it transitions to the next 30min recording. Totally agree that RODE actually figured out a way to get around the stupid US patent that wasn't doing anything for just about every filmmaker out here. Lets see how RODE continues to fuse their App processings to give us even more options further down the line! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker Yes, all the devices and app are updated. I contacted Rode and they said it was a known issue and recommended a factory reset. It wasn't all the clips from that day, so I believe something was triggering the corruption, like talent accidentally unplugging the lav mics from the receivers perhaps, who knows. But I was able to extract the .UGG files even if there's no way of converting them without the Rode Central app, so Rode offered to convert the files for me, which I sent to them and I'm awaiting them to do so. And yeah, it would be great if at least the patent holders actually made something for us to use. Thanks TLDR!
Great review but don't you think having uncompressed 32 bit float is the best option, if there is peaking you can recover the audio better than compressed where the 32 bit float isn't avail.
Hey hey Johnny! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! The RODE Wireless GO 2 doesn't not have a true 32-bit float recording. While the uncompressed recording is a higher quality file, its not acquired with a true 32bit float dual analogue to digital converter. The export out to 32-bit float is just for people who are working in that bitrate for their overall project in their audio editor. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
I just checked the internal recording. seems like the db setting has no influence on the recording volume. Am i missing something? or is the db setting only for output for camera?
Hey hey MIMCK Media! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! You're not missing anything, the dB adjustment is only for the RX to Camera. The TX records its own AGC signal. It's most likely the actual signal it detects and sends wirelessly to the RX that then you adjust for camera or external recorder. For the most part the internal recording does a good job not clipping out expect for really sudden moments. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Razzberri! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! So glad this video was helpful! I will continue to do my best with my content and reviews! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Great advice and thanks for sharing! My #1 complaint was dropped signals with my old wireless mics! Having piece of mind that I “should” be able to recover any drops is definitely a plus for the RGW2...I still need to play around with my new RGW2’s because on my other system it did allow for up to a 15db gain which helps due to my niche of tractors tools and trucks having the extra voice gain to overcome a lot of the background noise. So far I’m extremely happy with my purchase! ~Jon@SBYD!
I'm about to start work on a tractor and agri project too! Any tips for getting good shots? I've seen some nice slo mo of harvesting machines that show how it works, but any tips would be great!
Quick question : When I'm using merged mode, should I be using both transmitters for the recording? Lets say its just me anf I want to do a one person voiceover.... Will I use BOTH transmitters AND have merged mode turned on? What about the safety mode... Will I need both transmitters for that too? Or can I use safety with just one transmitter?
Hey hey FPV FLYER! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! If you have two transmitters going, merge mode will simply just have both speakers coming out of both stereo channels (like normal videos). Safety Channel will have the LEFT channel at regular volume and the RIGHT will be the safety should something gets too loud. The Safety is meant for you to work on in editing should something clip out, and when you're done editing you will tell the editor to make the audio track "merged" so that it sounds like a normal video. This is why I suggest when you have two transmitters going you should learn how to work with "Split" mode because you want to have control of each persons voice in the edit and then make it a "merged" audio when you export your video. If someone on one transmitter is making a bunch of noise, you can mute them while the other is talking. If you filmed it in "merged" mode, you won't have any ability to mute them because their audio is merged forever. I cover this topic very lightly in this video, but the concept is the same when you work with split stereo 2ch audio. ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html Pretty much any video editor can do this except for maybe iMovie? I'm not sure. The free Davinci Resolve editor can do it for sure. Lastly if you only have one transmitter going. In this case you can use either Safety or Merge. Again, the safety will just have one channel that is at a lower volume incase you scream. So you'll fix that in editing and merge it when you render out your video. Or you can just leave the RX in "merge" mode so that you get normal video audio. Hope this makes sense and helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Great video...thank you. Any chance you can make a video with the best preset gain (low, med, high) settings for an action camera like the Insta360 One R, A GoPro or DJI Osmo Action? Keep up the great work...your now my go to Wireless Mic person.
Hey hey Time in the Outdoors! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! When it comes to most action cameras, they do their own auto audio gain settings so you'll not have great control over what it want's to do. That being said, -9db or -6db should be a good starting point since the RODE outputs a loud signal thats good for action cameras not trying to up its own gain too much. You can test -3db if you like and see if it sounds a little better, but otherwise -6 is a common starting spot for a system that doesn't let you set mic gain in the camera. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Dan! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! I did not test this because that test won't really add much value because the TX runs out of batteries before the RX does with or without internal recording. Having the backlight on dim will just increase the RX batt life by a little, but the TX is already dead. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
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I don´t understand the gain settings on the receiver, if you overpower the mics, your audio is distorted, no matter how you set the gain in the receiver. The only thing it is good for, if your camera preamp is too hot. Am I wrong?
You say, the safety channel helps, when you blow out the mics preamp. I think it only affects the signal from the receiver to the camera and will not change the gain on the transmitter. If you blow out the mics preamp, your audio is damaged, no matter how you set the receiver?!
This is from Rode Website: "The Wireless GO II has flexible gain controls that allow you to precisely tailor the receiver’s output to avoid clipping or distortion in your recording device."
Hey hey Nicolai! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! You are correct, if the mic distorts first then everything down the chain is distorted. The RODE TX does a good job in make sure the TX level doesn't clip out easily, so in most normal cases it really should be a problem unless you are actively hitting it with a very loud sound spontaneously. I meant to say camera preamp, not mic preamp during that moment. I didn't catch that in editing. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Rajiv! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! If you only want to use one TX, simply be in Merge mode instead of "split" on your receiver. Press both buttons at the same time on your RX to jump between the two modes. From there you can determine if the safety channel is useful for you. For me as a working pro, I leave it on and work with it in post if I need the channel. I talk about it briefly here in this video what it means to work with two channels: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
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Hey hey again English For Kids! This depends on the person speaking into it. Otherwise you will probably want to start with the GH5s at -12db and the Rode Go II at -15db. -12db on the rode should be fine, but again it really depends on who's talking into the microphone. Basically keep the GH5s at -12 and then adjust the RODE so that whoever is talking can get their voice level to the -6db sound bar on the GH5s.
I see you're planning to do an update at some point (probably not this year now...) but, in the meantime is there any chance you could add a comment in the video description to mention the fact that newer versions of the transmitter firmware now won't let you select compressed format if you select always record. It took me a while to work out why my compression settings kept changing when trying to use your suggested settings. (...and even longer to find out that it was actually supposed to do that!) Also, do you have any preference between the always recording mode and the new "backup" mode which only records when connected to the transmitter and, oddly, does allow uncompressed recording. Personally, other than the edge case where you forget to charge or turn on the receiver, I can't see a good reason to use "always record" with it's inherent privacy issues and shorter record time.
Hey hey Mark! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I have noticed in whatever firmware version I am on that Always record is only available for uncompressed. I can't remember RODE's reason for this. As for any reason to ever use "always record". I've only used it in this mode when I wanted to be quick in gathering audio sfx without the need to bring a XLR recorder. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Was wondering if you had some insight here. I had some issues editing the split channel audio in a multi-cam project with FCPX. For whatever reason, it wouldn't let me isolate the individual dual mono tracks when I had multiple camera angles. The only workaround was to switch to merged mode, where I couldn't even use a safety channel. Any ideas on how to work around this?
Hey hey James! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! Hmm if you have created a multicam clip already and select the audio channels you wanted from the cameras source. I believe if you expand audio components on the multicam clip it should pop out all the audio sources you've selected (Left and Right channel) since the Multiclip is merging all of those into a dual mono already, I believe. Or you would have to double click and enter into the multiclip editor itself and I believe all your audio lanes should be there when you expand audio components. This is a good question and I may need to look into it more and create a tutorial video. It might be awhile as I have other projects to do but I will add it to my list of video ideas. Hopefully what I said here gets you closer to what you need to do. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Mr. Enterprise! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! No, you cannot turn down one mic, you can only mute one. The RODE Wireless Go will generally do its best to make sure both speakers are near the same volume automatically. However, there are two ways you could lower someones mic either during or after the recording if you really need it. The first option is to get a passive preamp like this: geni.us/aASbL (affiliate link) Make sure your RODE Wireless go 2 is in stereo mode first. When you plug it in to the input on this preamp you will be able to adjust each channels audio up and down. Then you have the option from the preamp to continue a stereo channel or do a dual mono mix so you don't have to do much else during editing. The 2nd option is to continue using the RODE in stereo mode and adjust each channels audio levels later in editing. I talk about it briefly here: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey How To Pronounce Words! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! Yup yup, they have an app to either activate features and update the system. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey Anthony! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! If you are only using one TX, make sure your RX is in "merge" mode or sometimes known as "mono" mode. That way your audio comes out both sides instead of just one when you're in "Split" mode. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker Thanks! There are two different options in "mono mode" too, they are safety mode on & off. I found that when the safety mode is on , the sound quality is better than safety mode is off. Why? However, i also found that the sound was not balancing while safety mode is tuned on.
Thank you! Ive just had these delivered and need them for a shoot tomorrow not much time to learn :( Ive set mine up with these settings, can you recommend what I should set my in camera record level to go with your advice please? thanks
Hey hey Barry! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! Your camera mic level settings is going to vary from camera to camera. Sony cameras don't like to use low mic settings because of potential distortion, panasonic cameras can be set lower and let the RODE do more of the heavy lifting with output. Your goal is to make sure your camera's sound bars are bouncing between -12db and -6db so you have room to work with it in post production. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Another reason why you can use compressed & be fine? All media apps will compress your audio anyway, so really it makes no difference tbh. Great vid as always buddy!
Hey hey again The Macronical! That is very true about everything being compressed in the end! And of course, technology has gotten so good that Compressed honestly sounds really good unless you have high end audiophile gear, then maybe you can hear the difference... but thats also if your ears are trained to hear it.
Mahalo as always, your channel and community of commenters have the best info. Also, not sure if anyone has had the same problem, but updating the firmware to 2.1.9(?) just bricked my system, won't pair despite all the pairing vids and advice out there. Anxiously awaiting response from Rode Support
Hey hey again DokoGaTV, Mahalo! I haven't updated my firmware in a couple months, i'm not sure which version I'm on currently. I hope you were able to get an answer. Im not sure if i'm just making this up but I thought there was maybe a master re-format protocol of the system, kind of like re-installing the OS on a computer. If you haven't gotten an answer yet, maybe google around and see if this protocol exists. For some reason I felt there was a reformat sequence.
@@TLDR_filmmaker Mahalo brother! Appreciate your channel and for replying! Yup, I've seen a few threads here and there stating that there's a master re-format or factory reset option, just haven't been able to find specific instructions on how to reset (I wonder if that feature was removed from the Rode Central app)....
HI, Can you go into more detail in how to connect to an iPhone and how to capture/sync the audio with the video being captured? Do I need a special app for that? Please be as detailed as possible.
Hey hey Jim! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! To connect it to an iPhone you will need to use this cable: geni.us/xAbin (affiliate link) when you have this connected to your receiver you will not need to sync any audio afterwards. Unless you are wanting to use the onboard recording incase your signal blips, this is heavily dependent on your editing software. You can either manually do it by matching your audio waveforms together. This is why on movies we CLAP after we hit the record button, so we can match the audio files later. I always clap 3 times so its easier to match if I do it manually. Otherwise a lot of programs now have "sync audio" features where the computer does it for you. Simply do a youtube search on your audio program on how to sync audio and you'll most likely find a video on how to do it. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey RMKmedia! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I most likely won't anytime soon, mainly because Lensgo still looks to be internally recording at 16bit after my initial critiques to the company to at least do the standard 24bit 48khz with their 328c. I unfortunately can't review every system out there, especially if they are already starting off with a feature that doesn't match the current competition. That being said, I don't think the sound quality will be that much different from my review of the 328c. The Internal Recording drift problem is probably somewhat solved with them now going to 48khz instead of 44.1khz. The 500mhz freq is of course good if you are in the USA and having AA battery for quick swap is a good option for longer shoots. Thats all I can say based on my experience with the 328c. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey THANKS so much - I have a quick question - once I recorded the sound on my Sony A7 - where are you audio files? or have they been embedded on my video? Thanks again
Hey hey Media Factory INC! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! The audio files are recorded into the transmitter themselves, so you need to plug it into the computer, download the app, and extract the recordings on your computer. Your A7 is just getting the audio from the receiver like a normal wireless audio kit. So in this type of setting you have two audio recordings, one on the camera from the receiver and one back up from the transmitter incase you lost signal or the camera randomly cut out and need to use B-roll to cover hole in the edit. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker THANKS so much :) I did try to connect the receiver to my laptop but didn't find any files - I was using Rode Central... Is that correct? Nicole
Hey Nicole. Yup the program is called RODE Central. You need to plug in the transmitters (the ones the actors are wearing) not the receiver. If you plug the receiver into the computer it will allow you to use the wireless GO's as a computer microphone for streaming or zoom etc.
There could be multiple reasons as it's hard for me to know what order or steps you've gone through. The obvious one is to make sure you turn on the internal recording feature through the Rode central app like I show in the video. There is now two versions of this feature. One requires you to make sure the receiver is on as well before it begins recording. The other is that the transmitter will recorder whenever it is turned on, it does not require the receiver to be turned on. Assuming you have these turned on and set, the recordings will appear the next time you plug the transmitter into the computer. There are random times where it will show no recordings for whatever reason and I simply just unplug and replug, the files will be there. The last bit is if you performed a firmware update, it will warn you that if you update the transmitter, depending on the update, it may need to erase the recordings. You of course have the options to negate the update and get the recordings you want before performing the update. These are the basic things you have to know when it comes to the internal recording, the main take away is that the internal recording feature must be turned on. It is not on by default when you bought the RODE GO. So if you had already recorded something a few days ago, nothing is recorded, and therefor it makes sense that you are not seeing anything in there at the moment. Hope this helps further helps as this pretty much covers everything.
Hej hej Super Sand! Dziękuję bardzo za obejrzenie tego filmu i komentowanie! Tak się cieszę, że podobał Ci się ten film! Nadal będę dawać z siebie wszystko, tworząc moje filmy i recenzje! Dzięki za zatrzymanie się! Bądź bezpieczny, zdrowy, a do zobaczenia w następnym! (Mam nadzieję, że google translate wykonał dobrą robotę haha)
Such a good point about compressed vs uncompressed - yes, it should only be a split second here and there. I suppose, however, the alternate POV is that you will need to do much less editing if you just drop the uncompressed audio into your timeline in your editor.
Hey hey The Building Sheriff! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! I guess it could depend on how much post audio is done to the original recording into camera or recorder. If note much is done, the compressed sounds pretty similar to the camera and uncompressed recordings in my full review tests. The only thing I saw was that the signal to noise ratio between the two was about +2 post gain. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey GiantfunBLOG! Thank you so much for checking out this video and commenting! So glad this video was helpful! There is definitely a couple new features since this firmware version, but its all the same in terms of what settings I leave on. Until the next one I will continue to do my best with my content and reviews! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
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Great vid mate. Appreciate the time you have taken to create it. Can you advise me on how I can increase the output on one transmitter to match the second one. I seem to have an imbalance when recording. Cheers. Alex.
Hey hey 4motions adventures! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! The transmitter don't inherently have its own mic level adjustments, the unit will adjust accordingly. The cheapest way is to make sure you're recording in stereo mode so that in editing you can raise the one transmitters volume. But if you are trying to do it on set and negate the post editing, you would want something like this: geni.us/aASbL (affiliate link) This preamp would still require you to make sure the RODE is set to stereo mode, from there you can adjust the audio levels of each transmitter from the preamp. At the very end there is a switch on the preamp that allows you to send out a Mono or Stereo signal to the camera. I personally would keep it on stereo so incase you do need to readjust later, you can. Here is a related video on what I mean by adjusting a stereo signal: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
One of the most helpful videos I've seen in a while. When filming, I change the tone of my voice a lot, I go from normal tone to yelling, and with my curreny mic "Green Lion," the sound always gets muffled. Will this safety mode solve my problem? And how can I fine tune the db based on my voice? Thank you for your time
The Safety channel can help on the camera side though it may not be where the problem lies. It could potentially be that your your Green Lion Mic capsule is not able to handle that much sound pressure from yelling, which can also cause distortion. Go ahead and try the safety track and then in your editor raise the volume of the safety track and see if its still muffles. If so, then theres a good chance its your microphone not able to handle it and you may need to get a higher end lavaliere that can. Check the scream test in this video: ua-cam.com/video/jO49-HcwmQg/v-deo.html
@TLDR_filmmaker Thank you very much for your reply. You're right, I think the problem may be from the capsule that's not able to handle the sound pressure. I will watch the video that you sent me. Hopefully, I can find a mic that's able to adapt changing from low to high tone withput distorting🙏
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Hey hey again The Thin Frame! The Pad setting is for the built in mic only, according to RODEs website, so that if you are in loud place like a concert, it will decrease the sensitivity so that you don't clip out the mic and get distorted sounds.
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For recording vows and as a second mic option for interviews, is standard good enough to get good audio? I plan on using the unit more as a standalone option in some cases so will standard still give good audio quality? Thanks! Also, batch export a thing yet?
Hey hey Chris! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! In my opinion, the Standard internal recording compression is more than enough since the internal recording gain is adjusting in real time from the internal algorithm. If you are wanting to do a bunch of audio post editing, and I mean a bunch, then the uncompressed might be a better a choice. But if you're just doing maybe a little EQ sweetning and a little compression, the standard should be more than enough. That also being said, with uncompressed you get about 7 hours of recording if you are starting fresh with the internal storage. If you find that you're not really using 7 hours of internal recording for a wedding shoot, you could then just leave it at uncompressed for the heck of it. Yes, batch export was released in one of the more recent RODE central updates. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker in always on it only lets me put it in uncompressed, does it still record in a 30 minute blocks with a gap between blocks of time? Is backup the way to go so I can use standard? Thanks!
Hi, Thank for the awesome review of Rode Go2. Can you please tell, if the new version i.e. Rode Go 2 has inbuilt ANC, as there is no ANC in the older version of Rode and all kind of background sound/ or voice keeps getting into the audio.
Hey hey Managing Accounts! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! As far as I'm concerned it does not have a ANC algorithm rather it has a sort of AGC algorithm. ANC can mess with your voice a lot so it makes sense that they do not really use it. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hi There!! this is a great video, as always. Could you tell us if it is posible to adjust the mics leves individually? It is not posible in the body of a Sony A 7III, but what about in the rode mics? Thank you in advance! Best wishes
Hey Hey Kloketen! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! No, there is no way internally to adjust each mics level. Generally speaking based on my observation. RODE has an interesting algorithm for their AGC when you set the output dB. When you look at the sound bars, even if you are talking softly, it will boost the sound in a way to keep you in the green at the verge of yellow. I think the output dB is more for its max signal going into your recorder or camera. Because no matter how loud you yell, if you set it at lower dB, your recorder or camera won't go past a certain point. I think the only way you could really run into trouble with not having vol adjustments between the two TX is if one person literally whispers while the other one speaks boldly. Otherwise in a normal talking situation, the RODE AGC should do well in keep both leveled decently. If you really need individual channel control, the easiest way is to purchase something like this: geni.us/aASbL When you're in split mode you'll be able to adjust each mics individual volume going into your camera. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
amazing, can i ask if you were recording two presenters talking to each other would it be best to use split or merge? I want a fool proof way of doing this as it's new to me. Setting up with the a7iii, is -12 the go to in most cases for voice?
Hey hey Phil! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! When recording two presenter it is my opinion to do a split recording so that you can edit each persons voice in post. I talk about it very briefly what this means in this video: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html Turn on the internal recording as your safety just to have another file you can work with if needed be. You are right on time with the A7iii question, check my latest upload video where I talk about the shortcomings of the A7iii and A7Siii in terms of what audio settings you should be at. Once you set that up, having their voices hit -12db is a good spot. Hope this helps Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
congratulations, great video. a question: when you tick a mark in rode go2 is it visible in premiere pro? I can't see these marks on premiere, any suggestions? thanks.
Hey hey visualksomos! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! Unfortunately no, the marks don't show up in a NLE, it will only show up in the RODE GO computer app to let you know you marked a spot so that you can export from there if you want to do separate files for separate takes. I'm not sure if they have updated just yet, but maybe in the future when you his the mark you can tell it to split the audio files so you don't have a single large file. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
Hey hey again rgaufman! Oh I'm sure it is, when I did this video they didn't have "PAD" or "record always" yet, but I think for the most part most of the other options are still somewhat the same?
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One other question! With the most recent update, they've added a "Pad" feature that creates a low-gain setting for close interviews I think. Could you cover this a bit? Does turning it on in the settings mean it's ALWAYS recording at this level? Is that in place of the regular input? Is it in place of the backup recording? Just not understanding what this is intended to do and the best way to use it. Thank you again!!
Hey hey again Andrew! I haven't updated to the most recent one just yet. But Pad is meant for you're you're trying to record audio at a rock concert or something where the sound is just booming. The Pad is different from just lowing the output gain to -30db, I believe it's actually make the mic capsule less sensitive so that the loud sounds don't distort it out. So essentially this is not necessary to turn on unless you are recording near a jet engine or something and only trying to get the jet engine sounds, needless to say your voice is not going to come through as well because of the pad. Hope this makes sense!
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Hey hey again Brian! Thank you so much! I really hope they work on their software so we don't have to re-download a new version each time they update. That and we have to check the website each time to see if an update even occurred.
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Is the Audio quality on these worth upgrading from my Comica Boom XU setup? I'm pretty happy with the Comica, but I know I've told you before that it distorts my wife's voice every once in a while.
Hey hey again Copy Imitation! As I usually say, if the current audio setup you got is exactly what you need and theres no immediate problems with your gear, theres no need to upgrade immediately. Only upgrade if there is a problem you are looking to solve. In the case of your wife's voice, what is your camera settings and what company? I recently figured out that my Sony cameras clips out internally faster when the Preamp is set to +1 with some sort of artificial limiter. When I'm at +3 I have more headroom without much noise floor being introduced. So I just adjust the extra gain accordingly with my audio gear and all is good. Maybe try that if you are on a sony.
@@TLDR_filmmaker I use a Canon 5d mk iv and but I record my audio with a Zoom H1. The actual audio file itself isn't peaking, it's just that her voice sounds distorted at times, Especially if she gets excited and higher pitched. Anyway, I appreciate the advice and I'm selling the Comica setup and switching to the new RWG. I may just have to get her a more expensive lav.
Thanks for this valuable video. However my mic's are still in the box. I would've appreciated you mentioning that the mic system is controlled by an app, which I assume has to be downloaded into my phone. Am I old? Yes. But it seems to me that including that step is essential, and therefore worth mentioning.
Hey hey Robert! Thank you so much for checking out this video and being active with other commenters! The computer App is only there to activate optional features, you do not need it to set up every time you want to change something like "Gain level" and "Stereo/Mono" mode. Those are all done on the physical product itself. The App simple gives you more options should you want to use more options when you're out in the field. This video is just my recommendation so that you can set it once and forget it. No need to go back into the app to turn a option on or off, you'll be set no matter what. This video is a supplement to my large 45 minute review a couple weeks ago. That's the reason I don't mention much about anything else as this is assuming most have already began using the system or they saw my long review and know that an App exists to turn on option features. Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker Thanks very much. I used the mic system during a (makeup) product application video I shot in LA a couple days ago. I clipped the transmitters to lanyards and hung them around the girl's necks. The mic's worked perfectly for three continuous hours. I'm VERY impressed with the built-in mics, and the clarity of the audio. I never figured out how to engage the internal audio (backup) recorders, but fortunately I didn't need them. Best wishes!
@@airsearch9192 So glad they worked for your needs on that shoot! RODE's computer app is still in the process of getting to a better final form. You unfortunately have to keep going back to their website and download the latest updated version. Install it, and then plug your RX and TX to it to update the GO's internal firmware. I really hope they get to a better way soon. A smartphone app is coming for people out in the field. And now you can even just use the TX as their own independent field recorders without the need of the RX to be on and connected to them.
Hello! I have a question. Often I have the subjects far away from the camera - say, someone in front of a half dozen cars. Talent will naturally try to project more in this case, and often the microphone itself ends up clipping. The receiver going into my audio recorder is well-managed, but the mic/transmitter itself maxes out (as shown on the receiver screen). Is this something you run into with your set? Any settings to help mitigate this, or should I just try to move the mic farther away?
Hey hey Boter! Thank you so much for checking out this video and asking a question! In general the RODE does do well with people who speak loudly, the TX will adjust to make sure it doesn't clip out at the mic level. But if this person is constantly really going at it or has that natural booming voice. In a recent Firmware update there was feature you could activate on the TX called "pad" or "padding" (I think). This lowers the mics sensitivity for loud noises, I can't remember how much -dB it pads, but this should help the TX mic not clip out. However if you are using a lavalier mic, I'm not entirely sure how this will work with the external lavalier mic. In theory I feel it should still work and it is not limited to just the RODE's built in microphone. Each Lav is different in how it handles boom sounds. I show this in my RODE GO Lavs comparison video here: ua-cam.com/video/jO49-HcwmQg/v-deo.html Assuming the "pad" feature is all good, from here you will have to see if the output of the RX is enough to compensate for the pad and/or if your audio recorder can add some more gain without raising too much noise floor sounds. Hope this helps! Thanks again for stopping by! Stay safe, healthy, and I’ll see you in the next one!
@@TLDR_filmmaker Thank you for the detailed response! Yeah, it's a difference between "projecting" and "shouting", and someone used to doing car commercials definitely shouts. I enabled "pad" on one of the transmitters, and sure enough the level was noticeably lower on the receiver, so I've gone ahead and enabled pad on all of the transmitters - I'd much rather worry about the noise floor than clipped audio! Thanks again :)
When using Uncompressed Recording, the transmitter's internal recording restarts a new audio file every 30 minutes and the restart is NOT clean. The internal recording skips a little as it starts every recording.
That's a powerful reason to follow TLDR's advice, and to record in the compressed mode.
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That is a big thing! I did notice that uncompressed split the file into 30min chunks, but didn't realize you actually lose a moment between each file! It would be the worst luck ever if the signal dropped right at the file cut off mark!
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Dang! Thanks! I'm changing my setting to compressed!
After reading this I tried to replicate your result. I set the transmitters to record uncompressed and placed the mic next to some music I was playing. After recording an hour or so I placed the recorded files in Final Cut. The break between the 2 files was in the middle of a song and I can say the transition was completely seamless. There was no break or overlapping. I wonder if a firmware update fixed it.
@@ccplant Could this thanks to the latest firmware update, the other guys above didnt have at that time?
Hi there! This was such a useful video. I’ve already applied all of these changes. I did have one question that Rode support wasn’t able to address when I reached out.
Is there a way to manipulate the gain output to a laptop when the mic is connected via USB-C? It seems like the gain control on the receiver works for my recorder and camera but won’t affect what my laptop picks up directly. This is especially disappointing because the audio my laptop picks up from the mic by default is very low.
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At the time of this recording there was no way to raise the input level on my Mac computer. I didn't check if the latest firmware update added this function. Generally speaking if you are going into a laptop to use a mic and you are recording into something via software or zoom etc etc. In those programs you can raise the mic level higher while the system level is just set at a standard.
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hi! Does the receiver record audio or I only need to connect it to some other recorder via 3.5mm line? In Rode Central App the RX doesn't seem to have any disk with recordings. Thank you
The receiver does not record audio internally. Only the transmitters record audio internally when activated. The Receiver is meant to plug into your camera with the 3.5 or a external recorder.
One of my transmitter just refuse to update. Each time I click update it will say fail just after a few second in the process. I tried multiple times
I just bought them and I started to hate them 🤣🤣🤣 they pick up so much background noise compared to comica it can be loud but it only catches the voice
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Hmm, I guess its going to depend on what situations you're in for the RODE to determine its mic gain control algorithm. For me the internal mic seems to do better outdoors as it understands ambient sounds better there, indoors it'll try and pick up super ambient noises. Otherwise the moment you start talking it adjusts correctly. Because of this, and with mics in general, its a good idea to learn how to use a noise gate for your post audio needs.
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hello bro, please gimme a clue on how to resolve peaking voice on phone (iphone 13promax) and camera (sony a6600) when using rode wireless go 2. on rode receiver i already set gain to minus 24, and in camera volume setting i already set to only 2, but it still peaking so the voice is like broken / cracked. thanks
Hey hey again Budiono!
In the newer firmwares your transmitter will have something called a "pad" option. Simply turn that on and that will lower your mic's sensitivity level. This only works for the build in microphone and not an external lav mic if I remember correctly.
If you are using an external mic. The Sony is weird with how it handles louder noises. So you might actually need your RODE GO to be set to -30db. I know this will be very low on your Sony, but it will help it from clipping and you will need to raise the audio level in editing.
As for your iphone and why it's peaking. This is something thats not easily figured out on the iphone as it has its own audio gain programming that can't be turn on or off.
@@TLDR_filmmaker Thank you for your answer. so -24 isn't enough, is it? i'll give it -30 and see what will happen. I thought if it was -30 then the sound would be completely off. Once again, thank you
I’ll try these settings out for tomorrows wedding 🤙
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Have fun! Make sure you got the latest firmware too.
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Another good tip, when you're importing the files you'll notice that you lose all the date and time info. This is very useful if you have a lot of files to sync with video. What works is to stick to a naming convention that works like this:
DOG GROOMER 220802 143452 01 talks about shampoo
DOG GROOMER 220802 143704 02 showing the clippers
DOG GROOMER 220803 092212 03 the next morning walkies
SO you have the project, the date (Year Month Day) time (hour min sec) the number and the description. As you can see the third file is from the next morning. You'll find that this way all the audio files stay in the correct order, plus you can match up when your video file timestamp is with the audio file from the same time, before doing an auto sync (FCPX does this every time no prob.) This can really save a lot of headaches when you have 50 plus audio to video syncs to do, or when you have one big audio file and several video files to sync to it...
Would it be an issue if I had the receiver plugged into my USB charger all the time when filming or Would it ruin the battery
Hey hey again funkyprepper!
No, it will not ruin the battery if you have it plugged in the whole time while filming as it was designed with this in mind for people that need extended use.
In my opinion, it is not good to keep the units at 100% battery, as they use LiPo technology, so much like with our cell phones, the battery life is adversely influenced by keeping it either full or deeply discharged. So I would connect the charger when reaching red, and disconnect before 100% full.
I ended up using the recordings to restore an hour of audio just last weekend- my receiver wasn't plugged in fully to my camera, and my Canon 250D doesn't have a monitoring ability so I was unaware it wasn't recording to the camera. This feature saved my bacon!
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I'm so glad you had the internal recording left on! Exactly the reason that feature exists, I wouldn't know why anyone would leave it off!
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Sir do I have to do this with Camera or it just for computer?
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These are done with the computer.
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Just got mine and they are charging for the 1st time. This guide looks very useful. Thanks for the tips
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The safety track makes it not merged so I just use dual mono in post but I found I don’t use it much so maybe it’s not worth turning it into LR channels only?
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That definitely depends on how you film and what subjects you film. I generally prefer to do the safety channel just on the off chance that I may need to access that channel to safe a piece of a recording. In FCPX the dual mono setting is a quick click so it doesn't really affect the time of my workflow. But if you're finding that your just doing a talking head (of yourself) and you talk more or less the same volume all the time, then the safety track might not be a big deal as you've locked in audio gain settings.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker thanks for the response!
Hey , I have just bought them and for some reason my camera D810 and ZV 1 are recording low sound on one channel but works fine with Insta360 and audio from Transmitter is also perfect. Am i missing out on in camera setting ?
Please let me know if anyone have same issue or have solution to this, thank you.
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This is because you have the safety channel switched on for the RODE GO, the setting that I leave on when doing a solo shoot just incase something loud happens and I blow out one channel, I can use the safety channel to recover. There is an extra step you have to do in your editor so that when you finish your video you have your main channel coming out of both stereo sides. I sort of cover it in this video: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html .
If you don't want to go through with this setup, simply turn off the safety channel feature the next time you plug in your receiver into the computer app.
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Great video and great tips for a great mic!
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Thank you for the details its really appreciated. Question though, is it necessary to have record set to (ON) if you are connected to your GO PRO? Or is the record option just a failsafe backup...... Thanks again...
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The recording option is just a failsafe backup incase something happens with your wireless signal or maybe your go-pro runs out of battery but someone is still talking. You will at least have the audio that you can use B-roll to cover with until you get the go-pro back up and running.
For the most part, like I say in the video, you only lose 10 minutes of RODE GO battery live on the TX by keeping the internal recording on. Because it's so minimal of a difference, theres no real good reason to have this feature turned off.
Hope this helps!
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each time I turn the receiver on and this a transmitter...I always get the REC (red) recording. How do I simply stop/start the recordings?
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With this system you cannot tell it to start or stop, the recordings are meant as a backup incase something happens. The only way to stop recording is to turn off either the Transmitter or Receiver if you have the Transmitter set to "back up". If you have it set to "always record" it will record whenever its on without the Receiver.
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Shooting films I've never recorded for 30 minutes. So uncompressed would be okay.
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Awesome awesome!
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Isn't this a non issue if recording to the camera anyway?
If I want to use one mic, how do I get the audio to record in stereo?
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You would activate Merge Mode on the RX. However if you are using the safety channel feature there will be an extra step in editing that you'd have to do. I talk about it briefly here: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
Essentially you're telling the audio to take the left channel and dual mono it out so that you can hear it on both stereo channels. It's an extra step, but a good step to learn as you begin working with audio.
If you don't want to deal with this at all, then simply turn off safety channel in the app, that way when you go into "merge" mode, you'll hear your voice out of both stereo channels.
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Good video but why no one makes a video on how to connect RODE GO II to ATOMOS NINJA V + with a Sony camera ?
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I unfortunately do not have a Ninja V so I do not know how good the preamps are when recording audio to it. I'm also not sure if the Ninja V has a audio delay setting when you are using the Ninja's mic/line port. The reason I say this is because there is always a slight lag between the camera and HDMI port. So if you were to record this way you may have to re-align the audio track in editing. Depending on your application, it may be better to just have the RODE be connected to the Sony and let both video and audio signals go to the Ninja at the same time through the HDMI port.
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Thanks for charing! I changed now to compressed audio! :)
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You're most welcome!
For a video novice using the Apple imac, what video/audio editing software do you recommend? Is there a suggested workflow when using wireless microphones like this?
I can't speak for TLDR, but I almost never go outside of Final Cut. They have a lot of audio filters included. The two I always use are Limiter and Compressor.
@@airsearch9192 thank you !
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I as well just use the included Compressor, Limiter, noise gate, and EQ from FCPX.
There are so many great programs out there it really just comes down to preference and how much are you willing to pay. FCPX is great but so is iMovie if you're just starting to learn. Davinci Resolve is probably the most powerful editor that has a free version and a paid version.
As for suggested workflow, I would highly suggest you watch videos from Curtis Judd about dialogue, he explains it all very well and much easier than I could explain through a comment.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker Awesome thank you !
I don't seem to be able to switch from uncompressed to compressed in the transmitter...
Re the uncompressed, the pro way is to use the uncompressed audio and resync it to the video from the camera using the camera audio from the transmitted rode audio. The reason being that you get ALL the audio including the outtakes when the talent speaks but the camera is not running, very useful for all kinds of reasons (not to mention hearing the things they say about you when they wander off with the mic still attached...) So, if you are using the internal recording you have no issues with wireless dropouts, no loss of quality by going through Digital to wireless in the transmitter, wireless to Digital in the receiver and Digital to ANALOG (oh no!) in the receiver to go through the minijack lead, and finally analog to digital into the camera through less than optimal A to D amps (oh no again!) and finally into your video file in the camera... That's a lot to go wrong and degrade the signal. I think of the camera audio from the receiver as the backup and reference for sync, and the internal audio as the master.
Obvs for speed and if audio is not so important, the pre synced audio will work, but for critical documentary recording, the above method PLUS the addition of a quality shotgun mic into a separate audio recorder is the way to go. MKE600 into H4n is pretty good.
TL:DR Use internal recording plus secondary audio recording with a shotgun for the best results.
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When you are in the RODE software make sure that "always backup" is not on if you are wanting to switch to compressed. When you have "always backup" on, it will only record in uncompressed.
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Hi,
Thank you for the info.
Can you please tell me how to connect smartphones at the same time?
I made it with 3,5mm double adapter. I have problems Only on FB lives.
I'm thinking how can I connect 2 smartphones with USB C
Thank you
Regards,
Stoyan
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RODE has an official plug for the RODE GO II that goes into a USB-C smartphone. That is probably your best bet to deliver audio into the smartphone. Last I checked you can't use a USB-C port on the RODE GO II receiver and plug it into the USB-C port of the phone.
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hi. I have a new Rode wireless Go II and configured it as per this vid (thanks for that). Can I set this thing up to sync with my DVX200 camcorder (that also has boom mic) as a secondary connection so that when i press record on camcorder the recording goes on and when i press stop it stops recording? I think that might work if I can get a jack to XLR connection. A big hassle trying to get stuff in fiji. I go into suva tomorrow and search the music stores. But only keen if it will sync like that. Im not experienced in getting good sound for vids so the answer might be obvious. many thanks guy...
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The first part is, can you connect the RODE to your DVX200? Yes, a simple XLR to 3.5mm with no phantom power abilities will do the trick. Here is what one looks lieks geni.us/akxeZC (affiliate link)
However will they sync up perfectly? No, I show this in my major review in the latency test: ua-cam.com/video/3TOldrv9iEE/v-deo.html
This reason for this is because it is wireless, which means there is always more latency than a hardwire audio cable. So when you go into editing, you will hear a echo between the two mic sources. This can be fixed of course in the editing phase where you can offset the RODE to match the wired shotgun mic. This is done differently depending on what video editor you are using, but it can be done.
Hope this helps!
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hi, sir I am using wireless go 2 with Sony a6400 camera but after recording the sound is coming only from one side mainly from left side i did all the settings i am not able to find a solution for this please help me
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You are most likely in "Stereo" mode and not in "mono" mode. On the receiver that goes into your camera, press the two bottom buttons and hold for a couple seconds so that the receiver switches over to Mono. If you followed my settings, one side will be louder than the other. So make sure you are familiar on how to work with safety track audio: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
If you don't want to bother with the safety track then make sure you go back into the RODE Central App and turn it off.
Hope this helps!
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WHAT ABOUT LUVs ?????
Same settings when you are using lavs.
I wished you enabled the CC so EVERYONE can listen and watch your videos.
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UA-cam does have a auto generated CC feature that does an ok job. Hopefully one of these days I'l have the means to get my videos CC'd.
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I've heard that the Rode internal transmitter recording is very low like -20 or something and non adjustable, is that the case?
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For me this is not the case, however I haven't used the internal recording to save a shot in a long time (because it doesn't happen that often for me) so I'm not sure if newer firmware updates have lowered the gain of the internal recordings. As far as I know, the internal recording still does not have gain adjustments because it is recording the raw audio that the transmitter actually receives with its AGC algorithm.
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I just got my Rode Wireless Go 2 based on your videos (thank you) and during setup, I have a "pad" option that I can toggle on and off. What does that do?
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The "pad" feature was something added after this video. Essentially what it does is it lowers the sensitivity of your microphone capsule so if you are going to record audio in a very loud environment, like a rock band in an indoor venue, where the music is loud and you're screaming into the mic so that you can get your commentary in. Hope this helps!
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I have a question for sound people. I'm not really a sound technician. I only shoot wedding and just need good audio for couples saying their vows. What is a good gain level to get good audio without clipping. Also should I do merge or split mode not that I record straight to the camera using the 3.5mm cable.
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If you are using two transmitters, one for bride and one for groom, or whatever combination you may have. You should ALWAYS, in my opinion, use split. Because you want to make sure you can do any post audio work with either speaker incase one doesn't speak as loudly or if one mic is picking up other noises while the other is speaking. I talk briefly about the uses of "split channel" in this video: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html .
As for whats a good gain level, a very general rule of thumb is to try and keep your recorder (or camera that is taking in the audio) and having their voices bounce between -12db and -6db (the visible marks on the sound bar on your camera.) You will adjust the RODE's Receiver output dB until their voices are near there. It's hard to change this on the fly, but the RODE Transmitter is also helping out and doing its thing on auto. Generally speaking -12 to -6db is where people are on average with the receivers output.
Last but not least, as I say in this video, keep that internal recording on. Not only will it save you if you lose signal, but if it so happens you set up your receiver output wrong. The Transmitters recording is not affected by your output changes, it will have its own auto level recording that does quite well with regular speech. The only time it does not work is if someone deliberately screams into the transmitter. Hope this helps.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker thank you for taking the time to responde with details. My next question is, I record audio straight to my camera, no recorder or any other fancy audio interface. If I record in split mode, does that mean my video will have 2 audios, one from the groom and another audio from the bride?
Also I have a wedding this upcoming weekend and I wanna use 3 Mics. Receiver from Rode Compaq Go (previous version) and the 2 receivers from the Go II. My plan is I have the splitter cable, one end goes to the Go I transmitter and the other end goes to the GO II transmitter and the input goes straight to my camera. All the audios from the 3 receivers will be form one audio for the video in recording right? My plan is to mic up the priest, groom and the bride.
I hope I worded this right and hope you understand.
I own the same RODE Wireless mic GO 2. But only left side audio is working
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If you're only using one mic, make sure you are on "mono" and not "stereo". If you are using two mics you have the ability to either go with mono or stereo. Mono makes it easy for you to just get a recording and upload, but if you want to edit one persons mic because they speak too loud, you won't be able to. This is why you would use stereo to get two separate recordings in camera and edit them later for the final mix. Hope this makes sense and helps!
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I was on the fence about using merge mode verse split. But as I look back I've rarely worked with individually recorded tracks. Making these changes now.
The thing is, as he mentioned in the video, is that if you first select merged mode in the settings in the application and then select safety channel. You can then any time you want deselect merged mode and go to split mode from your receiver. And when you go back to merged you will automatically have the safety channel.
Hey hey again IMDABROWN!
Yup SanoyNimbus is correct.
I am curious if recording uncompressed 24-bit audio on your TX unit gives you any extra headroom to fix files that might have clipped on the TX before they have gone through the RX pre-amp. Anything that is already clipped when it hits the RX, won’t be able to brought back. Safety channel or no safety channel.
That’s a great question and the reason I leave it uncompressed for now in case that happens.
Hey hey again 2010SLP!
Part of me thinks you won't necessarily have headroom persay, I'm coming at it with the idea of video files in compressed vs uncompressed. I think the Uncompressed probably gives you better manipulation in post of the audio thats not clipped instead of being able to recover a clipped audio like RAW video. Here's hoping RODE enters the 32bit float game if the RODE GO II hardware can handle it. Though my guess is not likely :(
Yes 100%. Audio pro here. With top end de-clipping software it is always better to have the extra bits.
Thanks
thanks
Thank you for sharing your settings.
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Hi. What gain level do you recommend to have the receiver on?
It completely depends on your camera as well as how loud your sound source is that you're trying to capture. Rule of thumb is to keep your camera mic level as low as possible and adjust the receiver so that your voice is around the -12db area on the sound bar. Your best starting point is to try anywhere from 12db to 3db on the RODE if you do not have access to soundbars on your camera or camera mic level adjustments.
Very helpful thank you 🕶
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I have a noise buzzing problem
If you have your camera is plugged into a dummy battery and that battery is plugged into a Power strip, you may want to change to a different power strip as that is known to causing buzzing in the audio.
If that is not the case. try a different mic to see if you have the same problem. If you do not, then it may be a defect RODE Wireless GO or a bad audio cable.
Thats the order of operations I would do to try and find out if its the camera or the mic leading to the buzzing problem.
Excellent. Thank you for this.
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Does this work really good for loud gym?
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It really depends on how loud you speak to battle out the noise of a gym. All wireless lavs will pick up noise around you no matter what. What you want to do is utilize some of the new voice isolation tools that have come out in video editors. Check out my video about it here: ua-cam.com/video/xwbyHSPuMUU/v-deo.html
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I'm really like your video look, you can tell me what your gear or how you can get this nice picture, thank you
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I don't have a specific video of my full gear setup, however I have made a tutorial video that shows you what all you need to do to get a decent picture for a basic youtube setup here: ua-cam.com/video/__dsOEMzrVA/v-deo.html
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Should I adjust the camera audio levels first or the rode gain level first? I tend to see people bumping the camera audio levels down and having the rode at like -12db? Thanks for the videos!
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In general you should adjust the camera audio levels first. Yes, generally people will want to bump their camera level down first, however I found out that this is NOT the case for Sony Cameras. I detail it in this video here if you are a Sony shooter: ua-cam.com/video/Bh_gfEsFGtA/v-deo.html
If you're a Panasonic shooter, you can move the audio levels down. I'm not sure about Canon or BMPCC. I believe they are fine to go down as low as it can go. Sony is oddily not the case. But you'll want to test around to see what sounds good to you. Hope this helps!
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I've actually had some file corruptions with recording set to "always", in "merged" mode. Thankfully, I was recording in uncompressed so only a couple 30 min. chunks were corrupt. Just one reason to record in uncompressed. It would be nice to have way more control, like setting the compressed recording to 30 min. limits as well if you wanted to have a sense of securing your audio recordings a bit better. Also, another criticism of the app is that you can't batch export more than one 30-min. uncompressed clip at a time. And the "save to" window doesn't even remember where you exported to last so you have to re-navigate to your desired folder for every 30 min. clip. Minor, first world annoyances for sure, but still an issue that I'm surprised to see in a 2021 piece of software.
I really am rooting for Rode and the Go2, but the Go2 + Central app definitely still feels a bit undercooked. As TLDR has predicted, I'm also hoping for a Rode Wireless "Pro" version with longer battery life, longer record time, threaded/locking 3.5mm jack, and actual control over the internal recording.
To Rode's credit, it's the only lav device in the U.S. that can record and transmit at the same time, and that really is super great (stupid, selfish patent holders).
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Hmm, that is interesting about the corruptions. Is this with the newest firmware on the transmitters? I agree that the software is a bit undercooked, but I'm also going to give RODE a slight break because I have a feeling this is the first time they've probably hired in software developers. They do seem very active with its development so I can only assume it will become fully fleshed out sooner than later as we give them ideas what they need to do.
I'm not sure if this is still there, someone had found that the uncompressed will cut out a couple frames of audio when it transitions to the next 30min recording.
Totally agree that RODE actually figured out a way to get around the stupid US patent that wasn't doing anything for just about every filmmaker out here. Lets see how RODE continues to fuse their App processings to give us even more options further down the line!
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@@TLDR_filmmaker Yes, all the devices and app are updated. I contacted Rode and they said it was a known issue and recommended a factory reset. It wasn't all the clips from that day, so I believe something was triggering the corruption, like talent accidentally unplugging the lav mics from the receivers perhaps, who knows. But I was able to extract the .UGG files even if there's no way of converting them without the Rode Central app, so Rode offered to convert the files for me, which I sent to them and I'm awaiting them to do so.
And yeah, it would be great if at least the patent holders actually made something for us to use. Thanks TLDR!
My requested feature for a Go II "Pro" would be a headphone jack. :) Also useful for spies !
Another thing, can the ROde transmitter can be USB powered while using it? thanks
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Yes, you can power the transmitter with a USB power source while its on and working.
@@TLDR_filmmaker Great Thanks !
Great review but don't you think having uncompressed 32 bit float is the best option, if there is peaking you can recover the audio better than compressed where the 32 bit float isn't avail.
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The RODE Wireless GO 2 doesn't not have a true 32-bit float recording. While the uncompressed recording is a higher quality file, its not acquired with a true 32bit float dual analogue to digital converter. The export out to 32-bit float is just for people who are working in that bitrate for their overall project in their audio editor.
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I just checked the internal recording. seems like the db setting has no influence on the recording volume. Am i missing something? or is the db setting only for output for camera?
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You're not missing anything, the dB adjustment is only for the RX to Camera. The TX records its own AGC signal. It's most likely the actual signal it detects and sends wirelessly to the RX that then you adjust for camera or external recorder. For the most part the internal recording does a good job not clipping out expect for really sudden moments.
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very helpful thanks so much
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Great advice and thanks for sharing! My #1 complaint was dropped signals with my old wireless mics! Having piece of mind that I “should” be able to recover any drops is definitely a plus for the RGW2...I still need to play around with my new RGW2’s because on my other system it did allow for up to a 15db gain which helps due to my niche of tractors tools and trucks having the extra voice gain to overcome a lot of the background noise.
So far I’m extremely happy with my purchase!
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I'm about to start work on a tractor and agri project too! Any tips for getting good shots? I've seen some nice slo mo of harvesting machines that show how it works, but any tips would be great!
Quick question : When I'm using merged mode, should I be using both transmitters for the recording? Lets say its just me anf I want to do a one person voiceover.... Will I use BOTH transmitters AND have merged mode turned on? What about the safety mode... Will I need both transmitters for that too? Or can I use safety with just one transmitter?
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If you have two transmitters going, merge mode will simply just have both speakers coming out of both stereo channels (like normal videos). Safety Channel will have the LEFT channel at regular volume and the RIGHT will be the safety should something gets too loud. The Safety is meant for you to work on in editing should something clip out, and when you're done editing you will tell the editor to make the audio track "merged" so that it sounds like a normal video.
This is why I suggest when you have two transmitters going you should learn how to work with "Split" mode because you want to have control of each persons voice in the edit and then make it a "merged" audio when you export your video. If someone on one transmitter is making a bunch of noise, you can mute them while the other is talking. If you filmed it in "merged" mode, you won't have any ability to mute them because their audio is merged forever.
I cover this topic very lightly in this video, but the concept is the same when you work with split stereo 2ch audio. ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
Pretty much any video editor can do this except for maybe iMovie? I'm not sure. The free Davinci Resolve editor can do it for sure.
Lastly if you only have one transmitter going. In this case you can use either Safety or Merge. Again, the safety will just have one channel that is at a lower volume incase you scream. So you'll fix that in editing and merge it when you render out your video. Or you can just leave the RX in "merge" mode so that you get normal video audio.
Hope this makes sense and helps!
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Great video...thank you. Any chance you can make a video with the best preset gain (low, med, high) settings for an action camera like the Insta360 One R, A GoPro or DJI Osmo Action? Keep up the great work...your now my go to Wireless Mic person.
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When it comes to most action cameras, they do their own auto audio gain settings so you'll not have great control over what it want's to do. That being said, -9db or -6db should be a good starting point since the RODE outputs a loud signal thats good for action cameras not trying to up its own gain too much. You can test -3db if you like and see if it sounds a little better, but otherwise -6 is a common starting spot for a system that doesn't let you set mic gain in the camera.
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What's the battery life difference between backlight on and off? Have you tested this?
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I did not test this because that test won't really add much value because the TX runs out of batteries before the RX does with or without internal recording. Having the backlight on dim will just increase the RX batt life by a little, but the TX is already dead.
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nice stuff thank you for tshi video
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I don´t understand the gain settings on the receiver, if you overpower the mics, your audio is distorted, no matter how you set the gain in the receiver. The only thing it is good for, if your camera preamp is too hot. Am I wrong?
You say, the safety channel helps, when you blow out the mics preamp. I think it only affects the signal from the receiver to the camera and will not change the gain on the transmitter. If you blow out the mics preamp, your audio is damaged, no matter how you set the receiver?!
This is from Rode Website: "The Wireless GO II has flexible gain controls that allow you to precisely tailor the receiver’s output to avoid clipping or distortion in your recording device."
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You are correct, if the mic distorts first then everything down the chain is distorted. The RODE TX does a good job in make sure the TX level doesn't clip out easily, so in most normal cases it really should be a problem unless you are actively hitting it with a very loud sound spontaneously.
I meant to say camera preamp, not mic preamp during that moment. I didn't catch that in editing.
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HI i have rode wireless Go 2 and I want to use one transmitter only instead two .
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If you only want to use one TX, simply be in Merge mode instead of "split" on your receiver. Press both buttons at the same time on your RX to jump between the two modes. From there you can determine if the safety channel is useful for you. For me as a working pro, I leave it on and work with it in post if I need the channel. I talk about it briefly here in this video what it means to work with two channels: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
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@@TLDR_filmmaker thanks for valuable information 👌
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this was a good video thank you
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What is the best settings for gh5s and rode go ii?
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This depends on the person speaking into it. Otherwise you will probably want to start with the GH5s at -12db and the Rode Go II at -15db. -12db on the rode should be fine, but again it really depends on who's talking into the microphone. Basically keep the GH5s at -12 and then adjust the RODE so that whoever is talking can get their voice level to the -6db sound bar on the GH5s.
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I see you're planning to do an update at some point (probably not this year now...) but, in the meantime is there any chance you could add a comment in the video description to mention the fact that newer versions of the transmitter firmware now won't let you select compressed format if you select always record.
It took me a while to work out why my compression settings kept changing when trying to use your suggested settings. (...and even longer to find out that it was actually supposed to do that!)
Also, do you have any preference between the always recording mode and the new "backup" mode which only records when connected to the transmitter and, oddly, does allow uncompressed recording.
Personally, other than the edge case where you forget to charge or turn on the receiver, I can't see a good reason to use "always record" with it's inherent privacy issues and shorter record time.
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I have noticed in whatever firmware version I am on that Always record is only available for uncompressed. I can't remember RODE's reason for this. As for any reason to ever use "always record". I've only used it in this mode when I wanted to be quick in gathering audio sfx without the need to bring a XLR recorder.
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Was wondering if you had some insight here. I had some issues editing the split channel audio in a multi-cam project with FCPX. For whatever reason, it wouldn't let me isolate the individual dual mono tracks when I had multiple camera angles. The only workaround was to switch to merged mode, where I couldn't even use a safety channel. Any ideas on how to work around this?
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Hmm if you have created a multicam clip already and select the audio channels you wanted from the cameras source. I believe if you expand audio components on the multicam clip it should pop out all the audio sources you've selected (Left and Right channel) since the Multiclip is merging all of those into a dual mono already, I believe.
Or you would have to double click and enter into the multiclip editor itself and I believe all your audio lanes should be there when you expand audio components.
This is a good question and I may need to look into it more and create a tutorial video. It might be awhile as I have other projects to do but I will add it to my list of video ideas. Hopefully what I said here gets you closer to what you need to do.
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Can you turn down one microphone?
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No, you cannot turn down one mic, you can only mute one. The RODE Wireless Go will generally do its best to make sure both speakers are near the same volume automatically. However, there are two ways you could lower someones mic either during or after the recording if you really need it.
The first option is to get a passive preamp like this: geni.us/aASbL (affiliate link)
Make sure your RODE Wireless go 2 is in stereo mode first. When you plug it in to the input on this preamp you will be able to adjust each channels audio up and down. Then you have the option from the preamp to continue a stereo channel or do a dual mono mix so you don't have to do much else during editing.
The 2nd option is to continue using the RODE in stereo mode and adjust each channels audio levels later in editing. I talk about it briefly here: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
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i didn't know they have an app
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Yup yup, they have an app to either activate features and update the system.
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Which mode should I use when I am just airing one tx?
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If you are only using one TX, make sure your RX is in "merge" mode or sometimes known as "mono" mode. That way your audio comes out both sides instead of just one when you're in "Split" mode.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker Thanks! There are two different options in "mono mode" too, they are safety mode on & off. I found that when the safety mode is on , the sound quality is better than safety mode is off. Why?
However, i also found that the sound was not balancing while safety mode is tuned on.
Thank you! Ive just had these delivered and need them for a shoot tomorrow not much time to learn :( Ive set mine up with these settings, can you recommend what I should set my in camera record level to go with your advice please? thanks
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Your camera mic level settings is going to vary from camera to camera. Sony cameras don't like to use low mic settings because of potential distortion, panasonic cameras can be set lower and let the RODE do more of the heavy lifting with output. Your goal is to make sure your camera's sound bars are bouncing between -12db and -6db so you have room to work with it in post production. Hope this helps!
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Another reason why you can use compressed & be fine? All media apps will compress your audio anyway, so really it makes no difference tbh. Great vid as always buddy!
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That is very true about everything being compressed in the end! And of course, technology has gotten so good that Compressed honestly sounds really good unless you have high end audiophile gear, then maybe you can hear the difference... but thats also if your ears are trained to hear it.
Mahalo as always, your channel and community of commenters have the best info. Also, not sure if anyone has had the same problem, but updating the firmware to 2.1.9(?) just bricked my system, won't pair despite all the pairing vids and advice out there. Anxiously awaiting response from Rode Support
Hey hey again DokoGaTV, Mahalo!
I haven't updated my firmware in a couple months, i'm not sure which version I'm on currently. I hope you were able to get an answer. Im not sure if i'm just making this up but I thought there was maybe a master re-format protocol of the system, kind of like re-installing the OS on a computer. If you haven't gotten an answer yet, maybe google around and see if this protocol exists. For some reason I felt there was a reformat sequence.
@@TLDR_filmmaker Mahalo brother! Appreciate your channel and for replying! Yup, I've seen a few threads here and there stating that there's a master re-format or factory reset option, just haven't been able to find specific instructions on how to reset (I wonder if that feature was removed from the Rode Central app)....
HI, Can you go into more detail in how to connect to an iPhone and how to capture/sync the audio with the video being captured? Do I need a special app for that? Please be as detailed as possible.
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To connect it to an iPhone you will need to use this cable: geni.us/xAbin (affiliate link) when you have this connected to your receiver you will not need to sync any audio afterwards. Unless you are wanting to use the onboard recording incase your signal blips, this is heavily dependent on your editing software. You can either manually do it by matching your audio waveforms together. This is why on movies we CLAP after we hit the record button, so we can match the audio files later. I always clap 3 times so its easier to match if I do it manually. Otherwise a lot of programs now have "sync audio" features where the computer does it for you. Simply do a youtube search on your audio program on how to sync audio and you'll most likely find a video on how to do it. Hope this helps!
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Please can review and compare lensgo 348c with rode wireless go. You always have great reviews.
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I most likely won't anytime soon, mainly because Lensgo still looks to be internally recording at 16bit after my initial critiques to the company to at least do the standard 24bit 48khz with their 328c. I unfortunately can't review every system out there, especially if they are already starting off with a feature that doesn't match the current competition.
That being said, I don't think the sound quality will be that much different from my review of the 328c. The Internal Recording drift problem is probably somewhat solved with them now going to 48khz instead of 44.1khz. The 500mhz freq is of course good if you are in the USA and having AA battery for quick swap is a good option for longer shoots.
Thats all I can say based on my experience with the 328c.
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Hey THANKS so much - I have a quick question - once I recorded the sound on my Sony A7 - where are you audio files? or have they been embedded on my video? Thanks again
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The audio files are recorded into the transmitter themselves, so you need to plug it into the computer, download the app, and extract the recordings on your computer. Your A7 is just getting the audio from the receiver like a normal wireless audio kit. So in this type of setting you have two audio recordings, one on the camera from the receiver and one back up from the transmitter incase you lost signal or the camera randomly cut out and need to use B-roll to cover hole in the edit.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker THANKS so much :) I did try to connect the receiver to my laptop but didn't find any files - I was using Rode Central... Is that correct? Nicole
Hey Nicole. Yup the program is called RODE Central. You need to plug in the transmitters (the ones the actors are wearing) not the receiver. If you plug the receiver into the computer it will allow you to use the wireless GO's as a computer microphone for streaming or zoom etc.
@@TLDR_filmmaker Not sure why :( But it says 'no recordings available' ? did I do something wrong :(
There could be multiple reasons as it's hard for me to know what order or steps you've gone through. The obvious one is to make sure you turn on the internal recording feature through the Rode central app like I show in the video. There is now two versions of this feature.
One requires you to make sure the receiver is on as well before it begins recording. The other is that the transmitter will recorder whenever it is turned on, it does not require the receiver to be turned on.
Assuming you have these turned on and set, the recordings will appear the next time you plug the transmitter into the computer. There are random times where it will show no recordings for whatever reason and I simply just unplug and replug, the files will be there.
The last bit is if you performed a firmware update, it will warn you that if you update the transmitter, depending on the update, it may need to erase the recordings. You of course have the options to negate the update and get the recordings you want before performing the update.
These are the basic things you have to know when it comes to the internal recording, the main take away is that the internal recording feature must be turned on. It is not on by default when you bought the RODE GO. So if you had already recorded something a few days ago, nothing is recorded, and therefor it makes sense that you are not seeing anything in there at the moment.
Hope this helps further helps as this pretty much covers everything.
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Such a good point about compressed vs uncompressed - yes, it should only be a split second here and there. I suppose, however, the alternate POV is that you will need to do much less editing if you just drop the uncompressed audio into your timeline in your editor.
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I guess it could depend on how much post audio is done to the original recording into camera or recorder. If note much is done, the compressed sounds pretty similar to the camera and uncompressed recordings in my full review tests. The only thing I saw was that the signal to noise ratio between the two was about +2 post gain.
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Great! That was for what I´m looking!
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Great vid mate. Appreciate the time you have taken to create it. Can you advise me on how I can increase the output on one transmitter to match the second one. I seem to have an imbalance when recording. Cheers. Alex.
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The transmitter don't inherently have its own mic level adjustments, the unit will adjust accordingly. The cheapest way is to make sure you're recording in stereo mode so that in editing you can raise the one transmitters volume. But if you are trying to do it on set and negate the post editing, you would want something like this: geni.us/aASbL (affiliate link) This preamp would still require you to make sure the RODE is set to stereo mode, from there you can adjust the audio levels of each transmitter from the preamp. At the very end there is a switch on the preamp that allows you to send out a Mono or Stereo signal to the camera. I personally would keep it on stereo so incase you do need to readjust later, you can. Here is a related video on what I mean by adjusting a stereo signal: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
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One of the most helpful videos I've seen in a while. When filming, I change the tone of my voice a lot, I go from normal tone to yelling, and with my curreny mic "Green Lion," the sound always gets muffled. Will this safety mode solve my problem? And how can I fine tune the db based on my voice?
Thank you for your time
The Safety channel can help on the camera side though it may not be where the problem lies. It could potentially be that your your Green Lion Mic capsule is not able to handle that much sound pressure from yelling, which can also cause distortion.
Go ahead and try the safety track and then in your editor raise the volume of the safety track and see if its still muffles. If so, then theres a good chance its your microphone not able to handle it and you may need to get a higher end lavaliere that can.
Check the scream test in this video: ua-cam.com/video/jO49-HcwmQg/v-deo.html
@TLDR_filmmaker Thank you very much for your reply. You're right, I think the problem may be from the capsule that's not able to handle the sound pressure. I will watch the video that you sent me. Hopefully, I can find a mic that's able to adapt changing from low to high tone withput distorting🙏
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new firmware update today! with one pad settings! what does it mean? thanks
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The Pad setting is for the built in mic only, according to RODEs website, so that if you are in loud place like a concert, it will decrease the sensitivity so that you don't clip out the mic and get distorted sounds.
Thank you for sharing, Bro! This is helpful..
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For recording vows and as a second mic option for interviews, is standard good enough to get good audio? I plan on using the unit more as a standalone option in some cases so will standard still give good audio quality? Thanks!
Also, batch export a thing yet?
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In my opinion, the Standard internal recording compression is more than enough since the internal recording gain is adjusting in real time from the internal algorithm. If you are wanting to do a bunch of audio post editing, and I mean a bunch, then the uncompressed might be a better a choice. But if you're just doing maybe a little EQ sweetning and a little compression, the standard should be more than enough.
That also being said, with uncompressed you get about 7 hours of recording if you are starting fresh with the internal storage. If you find that you're not really using 7 hours of internal recording for a wedding shoot, you could then just leave it at uncompressed for the heck of it.
Yes, batch export was released in one of the more recent RODE central updates.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker thank you!!
@@TLDR_filmmaker in always on it only lets me put it in uncompressed, does it still record in a 30 minute blocks with a gap between blocks of time? Is backup the way to go so I can use standard? Thanks!
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Hi, Thank for the awesome review of Rode Go2. Can you please tell, if the new version i.e. Rode Go 2 has inbuilt ANC, as there is no ANC in the older version of Rode and all kind of background sound/ or voice keeps getting into the audio.
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As far as I'm concerned it does not have a ANC algorithm rather it has a sort of AGC algorithm. ANC can mess with your voice a lot so it makes sense that they do not really use it.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker It seems I have to reduce the “dB” so that it stops capturing background voice and sounds
Hi There!! this is a great video, as always. Could you tell us if it is posible to adjust the mics leves individually? It is not posible in the body of a Sony A 7III, but what about in the rode mics? Thank you in advance! Best wishes
Hey Hey Kloketen!
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No, there is no way internally to adjust each mics level. Generally speaking based on my observation. RODE has an interesting algorithm for their AGC when you set the output dB. When you look at the sound bars, even if you are talking softly, it will boost the sound in a way to keep you in the green at the verge of yellow. I think the output dB is more for its max signal going into your recorder or camera. Because no matter how loud you yell, if you set it at lower dB, your recorder or camera won't go past a certain point.
I think the only way you could really run into trouble with not having vol adjustments between the two TX is if one person literally whispers while the other one speaks boldly. Otherwise in a normal talking situation, the RODE AGC should do well in keep both leveled decently.
If you really need individual channel control, the easiest way is to purchase something like this: geni.us/aASbL
When you're in split mode you'll be able to adjust each mics individual volume going into your camera.
Hope this helps!
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@@TLDR_filmmaker Ooohhh, I see, thank you so much for this detailed explanation! It helps me a lot!!! Best wishes!!!! you are the best!!!
Yo J u need to repost or remake the video of all the rode tricks u had before
Hey hey Neon!
I think I may or may not have some new tricks for the RODE GO II hehe
amazing, can i ask if you were recording two presenters talking to each other would it be best to use split or merge? I want a fool proof way of doing this as it's new to me. Setting up with the a7iii, is -12 the go to in most cases for voice?
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When recording two presenter it is my opinion to do a split recording so that you can edit each persons voice in post. I talk about it very briefly what this means in this video: ua-cam.com/video/3mtGjRTQL5w/v-deo.html
Turn on the internal recording as your safety just to have another file you can work with if needed be.
You are right on time with the A7iii question, check my latest upload video where I talk about the shortcomings of the A7iii and A7Siii in terms of what audio settings you should be at. Once you set that up, having their voices hit -12db is a good spot.
Hope this helps
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@@TLDR_filmmaker thank you very much for the advice, I really appreciate it. I will be sure to try all these tips next week. All the best
congratulations, great video.
a question: when you tick a mark in rode go2 is it visible in premiere pro?
I can't see these marks on premiere, any suggestions?
thanks.
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Unfortunately no, the marks don't show up in a NLE, it will only show up in the RODE GO computer app to let you know you marked a spot so that you can export from there if you want to do separate files for separate takes. I'm not sure if they have updated just yet, but maybe in the future when you his the mark you can tell it to split the audio files so you don't have a single large file.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker thanks for the reply and keep up your good work.
The options are totally different in the latest version!
Hey hey again rgaufman!
Oh I'm sure it is, when I did this video they didn't have "PAD" or "record always" yet, but I think for the most part most of the other options are still somewhat the same?
Thanks so much for sharing, just bought this, appreciate your videos!
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So glad this video was helpful! Enjoy it when it arrives!
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One other question! With the most recent update, they've added a "Pad" feature that creates a low-gain setting for close interviews I think. Could you cover this a bit? Does turning it on in the settings mean it's ALWAYS recording at this level? Is that in place of the regular input? Is it in place of the backup recording? Just not understanding what this is intended to do and the best way to use it. Thank you again!!
Hey hey again Andrew!
I haven't updated to the most recent one just yet. But Pad is meant for you're you're trying to record audio at a rock concert or something where the sound is just booming. The Pad is different from just lowing the output gain to -30db, I believe it's actually make the mic capsule less sensitive so that the loud sounds don't distort it out. So essentially this is not necessary to turn on unless you are recording near a jet engine or something and only trying to get the jet engine sounds, needless to say your voice is not going to come through as well because of the pad. Hope this makes sense!
very useful
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Great video, your channel deserves more attention :)
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Great topic as always! Now I'm off to update my firmware...
Hey hey again Brian!
Thank you so much! I really hope they work on their software so we don't have to re-download a new version each time they update. That and we have to check the website each time to see if an update even occurred.
Im here for this!
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Thanks man! Hope this is further helpful!
thank you
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Very nice way to teach, thanks
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Thanks!
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Is the Audio quality on these worth upgrading from my Comica Boom XU setup?
I'm pretty happy with the Comica, but I know I've told you before that it distorts my wife's voice every once in a while.
My wife's voice is distorted every time she yells at me!
Hey hey again Copy Imitation!
As I usually say, if the current audio setup you got is exactly what you need and theres no immediate problems with your gear, theres no need to upgrade immediately. Only upgrade if there is a problem you are looking to solve. In the case of your wife's voice, what is your camera settings and what company? I recently figured out that my Sony cameras clips out internally faster when the Preamp is set to +1 with some sort of artificial limiter. When I'm at +3 I have more headroom without much noise floor being introduced. So I just adjust the extra gain accordingly with my audio gear and all is good. Maybe try that if you are on a sony.
@@TLDR_filmmaker I use a Canon 5d mk iv and but I record my audio with a Zoom H1.
The actual audio file itself isn't peaking, it's just that her voice sounds distorted at times, Especially if she gets excited and higher pitched.
Anyway, I appreciate the advice and I'm selling the Comica setup and switching to the new RWG. I may just have to get her a more expensive lav.
Thanks for this valuable video. However my mic's are still in the box. I would've appreciated you mentioning that the mic system is controlled by an app, which I assume has to be downloaded into my phone. Am I old? Yes. But it seems to me that including that step is essential, and therefore worth mentioning.
Hey hey Robert!
Thank you so much for checking out this video and being active with other commenters!
The computer App is only there to activate optional features, you do not need it to set up every time you want to change something like "Gain level" and "Stereo/Mono" mode. Those are all done on the physical product itself. The App simple gives you more options should you want to use more options when you're out in the field. This video is just my recommendation so that you can set it once and forget it. No need to go back into the app to turn a option on or off, you'll be set no matter what.
This video is a supplement to my large 45 minute review a couple weeks ago. That's the reason I don't mention much about anything else as this is assuming most have already began using the system or they saw my long review and know that an App exists to turn on option features.
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@@TLDR_filmmaker Thanks very much. I used the mic system during a (makeup) product application video I shot in LA a couple days ago. I clipped the transmitters to lanyards and hung them around the girl's necks. The mic's worked perfectly for three continuous hours. I'm VERY impressed with the built-in mics, and the clarity of the audio. I never figured out how to engage the internal audio (backup) recorders, but fortunately I didn't need them. Best wishes!
@@airsearch9192 So glad they worked for your needs on that shoot!
RODE's computer app is still in the process of getting to a better final form. You unfortunately have to keep going back to their website and download the latest updated version. Install it, and then plug your RX and TX to it to update the GO's internal firmware. I really hope they get to a better way soon.
A smartphone app is coming for people out in the field. And now you can even just use the TX as their own independent field recorders without the need of the RX to be on and connected to them.
Hello! I have a question. Often I have the subjects far away from the camera - say, someone in front of a half dozen cars. Talent will naturally try to project more in this case, and often the microphone itself ends up clipping. The receiver going into my audio recorder is well-managed, but the mic/transmitter itself maxes out (as shown on the receiver screen). Is this something you run into with your set? Any settings to help mitigate this, or should I just try to move the mic farther away?
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In general the RODE does do well with people who speak loudly, the TX will adjust to make sure it doesn't clip out at the mic level. But if this person is constantly really going at it or has that natural booming voice. In a recent Firmware update there was feature you could activate on the TX called "pad" or "padding" (I think). This lowers the mics sensitivity for loud noises, I can't remember how much -dB it pads, but this should help the TX mic not clip out.
However if you are using a lavalier mic, I'm not entirely sure how this will work with the external lavalier mic. In theory I feel it should still work and it is not limited to just the RODE's built in microphone. Each Lav is different in how it handles boom sounds. I show this in my RODE GO Lavs comparison video here: ua-cam.com/video/jO49-HcwmQg/v-deo.html
Assuming the "pad" feature is all good, from here you will have to see if the output of the RX is enough to compensate for the pad and/or if your audio recorder can add some more gain without raising too much noise floor sounds.
Hope this helps!
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@@TLDR_filmmaker Thank you for the detailed response! Yeah, it's a difference between "projecting" and "shouting", and someone used to doing car commercials definitely shouts. I enabled "pad" on one of the transmitters, and sure enough the level was noticeably lower on the receiver, so I've gone ahead and enabled pad on all of the transmitters - I'd much rather worry about the noise floor than clipped audio! Thanks again :)