Focusrite Vocaster Two - NEARLY ruled them all

[@nicktayloriv310]

"C'mon Focusrite, it's just software... and some negotiations" You'd make a formidable Mob Boss Mister Meister! And editing is top notch as usual. 👍🏽👍🏽

[@Moustafa11]

Thanks for the great review. I was able to have a workaround on a Mac for the Loopback limitation for my need by creating two virtual 'Aggregate Devices' (in Audio MIDI utility) and mapping the first to Loopback 1 and the second to Loopback 2. However, another usability issue I have is a more basic one which is not being able to control mic monitoring vs speaker and headphone monitoring independently (and turning on/off monitoring has to be done in the Hub app).

[@StefanGenov7]

I purchased the Vocaster one and it’s the perfect audio interface for Solo podcast

[@TheMrCull]

It’s wild that these podcaster products are using better (higher gain) preamps than in their comparable musician audio interfaces. I’m a musician, bought a Rodecaster pro 2 for the pre gain. So far love it…

[@hyunjoonkim]

Your list of improvements is so on point!

[@danmagoo]

Great video, although some things have changed in the past year: Now it's just under $150 - half the price you mention. Also, the new software version lets you manually tweak the EQ and the compression -- not a full EQ program, but you can separately adjust low, medium and high frequencies. Major improvement. For the price, it's enough for me.

[@annebokma4637]

Just bought one for 69€ 😊 sounds like a sweet deal. Will be here Tuesday..

[@ice_hot]

Just bought for $90 refurbished, seems great at this price.

[@thatguyStrike]

Bit of a correction: It's been relatively easy to post-effect mics for livestreams for a while, at least in OBS Studio, which offers the ability to include VST 2.x plugins. One can easily download the free and very good Reaper plugins and apply Gate, Comp, EQ etc. within OBS for a livestream. I've been doing this for a while and have not noticed any big latency impacts.

[@kqschwarz]

Thank you for the review. I ordered one. Al the best.

[@CoffeeTalkandTechJohnRyan]

Great review and you hit the nail on the head with the loopback issues 👍 and was my main reason for not taking a look. At this time in these devices they need to include audio routing to lead against their competitors. Thanks.

[@bynkla]

guys something no one tells you is that this card is basically locked in monitor mode, there isn't any way to disable it

[@roddiemira]

Fantastic breakdown!! Thanks 🙏🏿

[@TheTimeProphet]

Bear in mind if you have a Ryzen processor the Vocaster Hub software freezes and doesn't work properly. I had to go back to 1.3, and even then it is laggy.

[@manuelarreza6788]

Good review, short and straight to the important points. I would like to ask your opinion about Vocaster 2 vs Podtrak P4. Knowing that now the price for Vocaster 2 is 230€ and the P4+Bluetooth is 200€, which would you recommend? Besides, which is the best in audio quality in your opinion? Thanks

[@kingpaco87]

I am planning to purchase the Focusrite Voicemaster Pro. I am looking for the right cables to connect it to any kind of speaker. Please tell me what kind of cables or what type of speakers it supports. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.

[@meinemeinungzuxy]

Very nice video. Thanks for sharing.

On the app, the bottom mixer if we mute host mic, can remote guest like aux phone call or bluetooth phone call still hear me when i spoke to the host mic? Its very important for remotely recording show for 2 guest and i dont want the audience here my voice (host). I want all the guest hear me but my voice not included in the show mix

[@PodcastMeister]

Hi, no, if you mute yourself, noone will hear you. What you need is submixes or custom output routing, where you could set up the main mix separately from the mixes that go out to the remote guests. The Vocaster does not have this option.

@@PodcastMeister I think they should update the app so ppl can have more option for audio routing table just like the Rodecaster II

[@PodcastMeister]

You can set it up with i.e. the Zoom Livetrak L8, where you have 4 distinct monitor mixes, but it comes with the inconvenience that you‘d need to set up one of the remote guests with the iRig-mix-minus on a second phone as it only has one built-in mix-minus (through the 3.5mm TRRS-jack for a phone). Check out my videos about them on how it works.

Can u make a review video about loopback optional only so the company can see what we recommend for the next update?

[@PepijnMW]

Is there a button to mute the speakers output on and off?

[@DavidBrackett385]

Awesome, I think they are trying to make it as idiot proof as possible. Which I like. I actually think I could produce usable voice over work with this thing.

[@emiliabunko4518]

6:45 this part I don't understand, so the bluetooth connected guest and zoom guest will not hear each other? I really don't get it, anyone help?

[@balazsmihaly77]

As long as you select Vocaster as the audio input and output in Zoom, everyone whose voice goes through the Vocaster will be heared in the Zoom call and they will also hear the Zoom guest. This can mean the microphone(s) plugged into the Vocaster, the bluetooth input and the 3.5mm TRRS input too.

[@shirgall]

The PreSonus Revelator io24 can do the mix minus you mention here and it works great, but they really screwed up the firmware/Universal Control app in December and it loses its settings everything you reboot your computer.

[@PodcastMeister]

Agree. Also, you cannot do full multiteack recording with it, you can only separate the mic channel(s) from the rest.

[@shirgall]

@@PodcastMeister I found out how to add channels with the Settings app that's separate from the Hub app. This is not documented anywhere useful.

[@PodcastMeister]

@@shirgall that's Windows only though and does not apply to MacOS, does it?

[@shirgall]

@@PodcastMeister Yeah, on Mac there were already instructions around for setting up loopback 1 and 2, I thought. I don't have one.

[@crazybabytvworld]

The Rodecaster Pro 2 has mix minus on All channels bro.

[@PodcastMeister]

Hi, as of firmware 1.0.7. partially yes, you can set up mix-minus on all digital output channels (of which there are 4: RCP2 Main, RCP2 Chat, RCP2 Secondary and Bluetooth). But you don‘t have mix-minus on the analog outputs (yet).

[@koenignero]

Just sold my Rodecaster Pro II for the Vodcaster! SO MUCH easier! SO MUCH smaller, easy to reach to. And everything the RCP II makes is now replaced by VSTs

[@PodcastMeister]

This is not something one sees to happen very often! However, as long as you do not need all capabilities of the RCP2, it is a very logical to take a device that does the job for your workflow instead and spend the rest of the money elsewhere.

[@KING_DRANZER]

@@PodcastMeister And guess what it is going for less than 100Euro in European market. Which is pure insanity and the Vocaster One for around 50Euro is a steal.

[@CinematicChump]

how do you multi track record?? I can't for the life of me get both mics on separate tracks when recording!! PLEASE HELP!

[@PodcastMeister]

In your recording software (preferrably a digital audio workstation, like GarageBand or Audacity, which allows multitrack recording and selecting different inputs for different tracks) set up two tracks and select input 5 as the source for track 1 and input 6 as the source for track 2. You can find how the Vocaster Two sends out the different channels over USB on page 28 of the Vocaster Two’s user guide: it sends out 14 channels over USB, the Host’s microphone is on channel 5 and the Guest’s microphone is on channel 6.

[@user-wp6xm3xi4o]

Is it possible to use voice effects when i make phone calls? Echo reverb voice changer ?

[@PodcastMeister]

The Vocasters do not have such voice effects, so no, but I guess you are interested whether or not you can do it with the Rodecaster Pro II, right? :) Because there (on the Rodecaster Pro II) you can, albeit only for the mic channels, and you can't apply the effects to the Bluetooth channel.

[@DavidBrackett385]

Can you give me a few examples of daws that allow multitrack recording?

[@PodcastMeister]

Garageband, Logic Pro, ProTools, Reaper, Ableton, FL Studio, StudioOne, Audacity, Adobe Audition, Cubase, even the Tascam Podcast Editor.

[@DavidBrackett385]

@@PodcastMeister thanks man I use audacity but never tried multitrack recording with it. So do I have to have the vocaster app open when recording to a daw to have the effect processing captured or can I plug and play

[@PodcastMeister]

@@DavidBrackett385 no, you don’t have to have it opened. You just need to set the different output channels of the Vocaster that are shown in Audacity to the different tracks and the effects you can turn on on the Vocaster itself. If you want to change the effect, it is a good thing to have the Vocaster Hub open as then you see which effect you are selecting, but once you have selected it you may as well close it, it should not affect the recording.

[@gdullage]

Hey great video, is there any way to attach a zoom H5 into the device without a laptop?

[@PodcastMeister]

You mean to record with the H5? Yes, ie through the camera output, but you still will need to power it.

[@gdullage]

@@PodcastMeister Thanks so much for the reply. So i can connect Shure SM7B into this with no laptop and into the H5? But will need to power the Vocaster somehow for this to work. Would a battery pack work as trying to make my set up super remoe.

[@PodcastMeister]

@@gdullage look, it would work, you could power it with a battery pack and sure, you can easily drive the SM7B with it. What you are going to be losing though is (a) multitrack recording and (b) the ability to use the show mixer and with that to adjust the volume for the bluetooth channel and finally (c) the USB loopback channel. So while yes, you can use it the way you have described it, you‘ll loose many of the benefits you would buy the Vocaster Two for in the first place. If you are looking for portability along with multitrack recording AND remote guest recording, you‘d be better off with the Zoom Podtrak P4, which has built-in multitrack recording to an SD-card and then you can teansfer the files to an iPad and have all the controls right on the device.

[@PodcastMeister]

…and it also has 70db of gain, so your SM7B will be no issue there either

[@recepy.8949]

what an depressing review, sheesh

[@NunoCosmos]

What a rude comment, sheesh

[@kingpaco87]

I am planning to purchase the Focusrite Voicemaster Pro. I am looking for the right cables to connect it to any kind of speaker. Please tell me what kind of cables or what type of speakers it supports. Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day.