I think the capture card on/off button was meant for cameras if you want to route DSLRs through the interface. Some streamers often turn their cameras off when they have to do something or whatever or to not leak something that's on their screen. Yes you can do this with OBS but it's nice to have a hotkey
The button that cuts if the video signals can be super helpful if you use the device for camera input. Think web meetings, think cutting of video for good to ensure privacy when not using the cam.
Start with Windows was one of the first features i searched for when I got mine. You can make Unify launch on PC startup. I think what I did was press Windows+R then type shell:startup. Then I right clicked and created a new shortcut which I navigated to wherever Unify is installed.
I have been watching all the review on this devicelooking for one bit of info that you provided: it does not have the microphone presets like the Rodecaster Pro. Thank you! Great deep dive!
Yeah I wish it had those in the Unify software - or even if it's just the settings written on the Rode website somewhere - I think this would help a lot of people.
8 out of 10 ⭐ stars review 👍Ok finally... The only youtuber that at least gave an example of how muxh bass / depth via example / demonstration. I have seen over 20 youtubers and all skip this part. I was to point of buying the product and making audio examples and posting on TH-cam so i can be the first. Thank you even tho it was very very brief but i heard a difference. ❤
Cutting off the video is for when your are streaming via a video camera and your girlfriend walks into the picture half-naked, not knowing you are streaming. Of course this will never be problem if you're a gamer, because gamers have no girlfriend.
Honestly, what makes this nice is that it's pretty good all in one solution for most. Especially if you already own dac and don't want to use audio interface dac combo like red for mic. I have really nice dac and using those would be downgrade. Also, disable for video capture makes total sense for streams. Those pages are just not useful at all. If you actually need to go trough trouble of both remembering what button and page is what, you might as well do it inside software/OS or some keyboard shortcut instead. Faster and less hassle. Those arrow keys should just be same as rest.
Hooked mine up today, replaced my rodecaster pro 2. Unify like you said is a bit buggy but when it’s working it’s a great solution for streaming. Shure sm7b set up could be made easier if you could actually see what gain your at!
Re. some cables not working, the user guide says you need to use the included USB cable or a cable that supports "super-speed" data transfer, whatever that is, in order to be able to carry video signal. Nice review, thanks, best out there, I think. Do more?
So Dan I have a couple of questions: 1- Unless you are capturing from a console, how simracers on triples would benefit from the capture card built in this device? Whoever on triples is using DP's on the screens and not HDMI, how can someone remain in surround, which I know you are not using, and capture the middle screen? This question is for whoever on 2 PC setup as well. 2- the sound input diming vs the game sound with OBS when you talk how can you do that?
You just use hdmi on your center monitor or you don’t use surround - I personally just don’t use surround and clone the center monitor. The sound thing you are looking for is side chain compression!
Hi, do you know if the video signal UVC USB output will have the audio baked in from the XLR inputs of the Streamer X or would it be camera audio or a mix of both? (without the unify running) Also I wonder if this would work with the USB input on something like the yolobox pro . Thanks
Nice review. I don't know why but audio is the bug of the computer world. It causes so many problems. Devices and software would probably work better if the OS just had a stable platform.
Can i use it to make a dual computer streaming set up? my pc being my gaming rig and the mac as the streaming pc. also if both of my HDMI connections will be occupied with the computers where can i connect a camera to it?
how do you make all your games come through ONLY the "Game" channel instead of the System? It seems to default to the "System" channela and so when I have "Game" selected as the output in OBS, my viewers are saying they can't hear the game audio. WTF?
I think I'm missing something. Can I send mic input to the gaming pc as well as the streaming pc for things likes in-game voice chat or games like Phasmophobia that have voice recognition?
Thank you for excellent and extensive video. Q: Are you able to do video output to HDMI output port and not just HDMI throughput. If I connect Streamer X to my PC and to a TV, can I use it to show my desktop on the TV?
That's unfortauntely not possible ... why don't you just connect both to your PC and then select to mirror the output? Or you could get an hdmi splitter.
My issue... maybe there is a option i'm unaware of but i can't find a "Mute all button" for sources so if i want to mute music or discord etc. from my stream and my headphones similar to how GoXLR is setup to mute a channel on the device. Hopefully i'm just crazy and someone knows how to do this - but i'm assuming this will be a feature update down the road to the software within Unify.
Hello, i have an issue with the Streamer X on Mac: i use Teams set on Unify Virtual Chat (Speaker and Mic). I cannot send sounds from the Pad (eg : Applause) into teams conversation (Voice effects works). I've tried bunch of settings without results.. Can you please help ?
Main audio choice in Teams settings is Rode Unify chat (other choice can be Rode Connect System), Speaker and Mic choice in Teams are Rode Unify Chat Virtual (other choice can be Rode Connect System, Rode Connect Virtual, Rode Unify Virtual, ...).
Has someone managed to switch off the power of the Streamer X without unplugging the device? (i.e. when the PC is turned off.) I even played around with the ErP settings in BIOS, and the Streamer X still gets power after the PC shutdown.
Hey, great vid! When it says it has 2 USB C ports and the ability to connect to 2 computers, does it also cover the situation where I would plug XLR mic and Mirrorless camera in, and have BOTH USB Cs going out? One to my MacBook Pro, and one to my Windows Desktop PC? I would never need those two at the same time. MacBook is used for work (I need good quality video and audio), while Windows machine is used for gaming / streaming. You would greatly help me if you gave me the answer to this! Cheers :)
If unify is not used, the 3.5mm mic jack is default every time the unit gets power. Really annoying to change it every day for no reason. On Unifi its less a problem because it can handle all mics parallel. A monitoring is also missing on the device directly. Bluetooth is missing. Hardware based virtual channels like the chat channle on the pro 2 are missing. If you use only usb 2 on a dual pc setup (not dual streaming), you need also the power cable because usb2 can’t power the device. Unify also needs some QoL changes. Nice attempt and most thing’s are fixable, but with a working audio setup, it’s probably to wait for some fixes before buying.
There you go: www.amazon.de/SMALLRIG-Flexibler-Gelenkarm-Videokamera-Rig-2065/dp/B076HDK4DR/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=CPQ8RE16UEXB&keywords=smallrig+magic+arm&qid=1686028783&sprefix=smallrig+magic+arm%2Caps%2C115&sr=8-4 Altenatively just search for “smallrig magic arm” both the 5” and 10” work really well with this device!
The thing is.. this 300-400$ device doesn't have on/off button. So enjoy unplugging cables physically everytime if you don't want buttons shining thru the night. Streamer X also gets a bit hot around knobs (constantly), so I'd wonder how much power does it actually take while you don't use it. Design-wise, how stupid is that?
@@AzizimIstanbul If you want to capture the hdmi signal from something like a camera, console or 2nd computer. If you just do audio - no need for a capture card.
5:34 Easy. You have 4 pads with colour coding. Even if they were only blue or white for example you can see 16 pages. Let's call blue on and white off. And let's call on 1 and off 0. Let's put upper left, then upper right, then lower left, then upper right in order and here you go: 0001 = 1, 0010 = 2, 0011 = 3, 0100 = 4, 0101 = 5, 0110 = 6, 0111 = 7, 1000 = 8, 1001 = 9, 1010 = 10, 1011 = 11, 1100 = 12, 1101 = 13, 1110 = 14, 1111 = 15 and finally 0000 = 0, let's make that page 16. Okay, purist might call 001 the second page - so don't comment if you want that. Effectively with this you are using binary for 16 pages: 0-15. We start counting at 0. Even in 10-system: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 - ten page numbers.
I would buy it buy it has nogo killing hiss and bad sound on the headset jack and therefor nogo to buy. Check the thousands of comment s on bad hardware. And e need a headset or headphones I wonder that you don’t mention that
Can you use multiple effects and combine them? Only one a time is useless.. and yes and as always, not showing how to setup and use dual pc setup. The only really thing to show isnt shown 😒
You just plug in both usb cables - that’s literally it 😅 stream pc is usb1 and then the usb2 mixer in unify is your game pc - it is so easy that I didn’t really include it. But I could make a quick shorts video if it’s of interest? I need to check for the effects - but the only useful one is reverb anyways
@@DanSuzuki ahh thats the missing link 🤗 no one explained that still now. Thank you. I think to give it a try and see how it compete with my presonus IO24 with elgato capture card. Only really missing is an Android/IOS app. I love that for streaming. Maybe wait for MK2. And presets for my Rode mics.
Is cool and all but it doesn't have HDMI 2.1. so although you can pass through 4k 60hz. But not 4k 120 for the PS5 or Xbox. So will not be getting this item is not for me. I'll wait for mark 2. If I was anyone I wouldn't get this item.
@@LilJoe3 what I meant was. You can not plug in your 120hz 4k monitor and play your game at 120hz. Not the streaming service or does not pass through 4k 120hz. But if you want play your PS5 at 120hz you can't lol. Not worth it.
@@kingcustompcs i think you can plug in your monitor to your PS5, and then plug in another HDMI to the PS5 Out into the Streamer x Passthrough and you should be able to play at 120hz.
Use a HDMI signal duplicator. Send one signal to capture card and the other to you monitor. Honestly prefer this to using passthrough because a lot of capture cards block your passthrough signal when HDCP content(such as Netflix) is played.
Adults... playing video games all day. facepalm They should have graduation ceremonies for grade schoolers to hint that it's time to leave this behind.
I think the capture card on/off button was meant for cameras if you want to route DSLRs through the interface. Some streamers often turn their cameras off when they have to do something or whatever or to not leak something that's on their screen. Yes you can do this with OBS but it's nice to have a hotkey
i´m here for the DT 770 Pro, and 250 ohm, the best 2 seconds in audio part, no one talk about it, thanks a lot!
The button that cuts if the video signals can be super helpful if you use the device for camera input. Think web meetings, think cutting of video for good to ensure privacy when not using the cam.
Yep this. On a meeting, no one wants to watch me cramming lunch in my mouth in ultra high definition while I'm just listening along...
Can you hook up two cameras to this?
@ no, there‘s only one HDMI input.
Start with Windows was one of the first features i searched for when I got mine. You can make Unify launch on PC startup. I think what I did was press Windows+R then type shell:startup. Then I right clicked and created a new shortcut which I navigated to wherever Unify is installed.
I have been watching all the review on this devicelooking for one bit of info that you provided: it does not have the microphone presets like the Rodecaster Pro. Thank you! Great deep dive!
Yeah I wish it had those in the Unify software - or even if it's just the settings written on the Rode website somewhere - I think this would help a lot of people.
Wow, awesome to get recomended a Dan Suzuki video while I was watching other content on audio gear, nowehere near sim racing.
Absolutely incredible deep-dive. I've seen nothing like this review. Nice work!
8 out of 10 ⭐ stars review 👍Ok finally... The only youtuber that at least gave an example of how muxh bass / depth via example / demonstration. I have seen over 20 youtubers and all skip this part. I was to point of buying the product and making audio examples and posting on TH-cam so i can be the first. Thank you even tho it was very very brief but i heard a difference. ❤
if they had 2 capture card in this, this would be a steal for streamers, since they can connect a camera and their pc for gameplay
Cutting off the video is for when your are streaming via a video camera and your girlfriend walks into the picture half-naked, not knowing you are streaming.
Of course this will never be problem if you're a gamer, because gamers have no girlfriend.
Great video.
Most of your issues can be solved with an added stream deck and also voice meter software(potato)(can use as a seperate mixer)
Honestly, what makes this nice is that it's pretty good all in one solution for most. Especially if you already own dac and don't want to use audio interface dac combo like red for mic. I have really nice dac and using those would be downgrade. Also, disable for video capture makes total sense for streams.
Those pages are just not useful at all. If you actually need to go trough trouble of both remembering what button and page is what, you might as well do it inside software/OS or some keyboard shortcut instead. Faster and less hassle. Those arrow keys should just be same as rest.
09:25 📣📣📣
“Totally needed for your streaming...” 😂🤣
those pads should be like elgato streamdeck where you can assign icons. they are almost pointless as i never can remember where i assign buttons
Especially on 16 different pages 🤣
agree! Feel like this is only usable with sound effect and i don't need them at all. Such a cool device but those buttons just push me away.
I have a stream deck but hardly look at the buttons, it’s all muscle memory
This was great, thanks for the deep dive!
Great review Dan!
Hooked mine up today, replaced my rodecaster pro 2. Unify like you said is a bit buggy but when it’s working it’s a great solution for streaming. Shure sm7b set up could be made easier if you could actually see what gain your at!
Re. some cables not working, the user guide says you need to use the included USB cable or a cable that supports "super-speed" data transfer, whatever that is, in order to be able to carry video signal. Nice review, thanks, best out there, I think. Do more?
So those virtual channels like system/music. Is there a way to control those from the device itself or is adjusting with the app the only way?
Really good review so if I trigger a song with the sound pad can I control the volume without having to go to unify?
Very good review! Thank you!
Thank you. I bought it after watching your clip!
What about external speakers. I have 2 external speakers connected to my Rodecaster Pro II. How can we do that with the Streamer X (or can't we?)
Is there a way to make one of the smart pads to mute party chat so you only talk to stream ?
Excellent video!
Please make a video on how to record a song using an instrumental with Stream X and Unify . Thanks so much!
So Dan I have a couple of questions:
1- Unless you are capturing from a console, how simracers on triples would benefit from the capture card built in this device? Whoever on triples is using DP's on the screens and not HDMI, how can someone remain in surround, which I know you are not using, and capture the middle screen? This question is for whoever on 2 PC setup as well.
2- the sound input diming vs the game sound with OBS when you talk how can you do that?
You just use hdmi on your center monitor or you don’t use surround - I personally just don’t use surround and clone the center monitor. The sound thing you are looking for is side chain compression!
which 1 would you recommend for an average user?
streamerx or Procaster duo
The Procaster! Software of the streamer X is unfortunately still a little shit
suýt chút nữa tôi đã có ý định mua nó !! nhưng có vẻ nó ko chiến thắng được Elgato mk2 and combo interface , mixer
hey mate PLSSSS i need good settings for my Mikro its a Fifine 688k its same Charakter with shure sm7b pls help me -.-
Hi, do you know if the video signal UVC USB output will have the audio baked in from the XLR inputs of the Streamer X or would it be camera audio or a mix of both? (without the unify running)
Also I wonder if this would work with the USB input on something like the yolobox pro . Thanks
Nice review. I don't know why but audio is the bug of the computer world. It causes so many problems. Devices and software would probably work better if the OS just had a stable platform.
Can i use it to make a dual computer streaming set up? my pc being my gaming rig and the mac as the streaming pc. also if both of my HDMI connections will be occupied with the computers where can i connect a camera to it?
Great video, just purchased because of you
how do you make all your games come through ONLY the "Game" channel instead of the System? It seems to default to the "System" channela and so when I have "Game" selected as the output in OBS, my viewers are saying they can't hear the game audio. WTF?
Review level 1000+!!! thank you!!!
One of the best explanations! Can you connect an android phone to the secondary usb-c to make/record phone calls?
Jip, indeed you can
The headphone jacks in the back have a very audible hiss that kills the unit for me.
I think I'm missing something. Can I send mic input to the gaming pc as well as the streaming pc for things likes in-game voice chat or games like Phasmophobia that have voice recognition?
yes you can do that.
Thank you for excellent and extensive video. Q: Are you able to do video output to HDMI output port and not just HDMI throughput. If I connect Streamer X to my PC and to a TV, can I use it to show my desktop on the TV?
That's unfortauntely not possible ... why don't you just connect both to your PC and then select to mirror the output? Or you could get an hdmi splitter.
My issue... maybe there is a option i'm unaware of but i can't find a "Mute all button" for sources so if i want to mute music or discord etc. from my stream and my headphones similar to how GoXLR is setup to mute a channel on the device. Hopefully i'm just crazy and someone knows how to do this - but i'm assuming this will be a feature update down the road to the software within Unify.
Can a webcam be used with the usb C port?
What quick mount are you using in this video?
Is it possible to use all three inputs at the same time?
EDIT: Nevermind, you explained this in Unify vs Central
How about MacOS support?
Hello, i have an issue with the Streamer X on Mac: i use Teams set on Unify Virtual Chat (Speaker and Mic). I cannot send sounds from the Pad (eg : Applause) into teams conversation (Voice effects works). I've tried bunch of settings without results.. Can you please help ?
Main audio choice in Teams settings is Rode Unify chat (other choice can be Rode Connect System), Speaker and Mic choice in Teams are Rode Unify Chat Virtual (other choice can be Rode Connect System, Rode Connect Virtual, Rode Unify Virtual, ...).
Has someone managed to switch off the power of the Streamer X without unplugging the device? (i.e. when the PC is turned off.) I even played around with the ErP settings in BIOS, and the Streamer X still gets power after the PC shutdown.
I always flip the switch on the power supply after shutting down.
So the mic presets like "shure sm7b", "rode podmic", etc. are missing at the streamer x?
Correct!
Hey, great vid! When it says it has 2 USB C ports and the ability to connect to 2 computers, does it also cover the situation where I would plug XLR mic and Mirrorless camera in, and have BOTH USB Cs going out? One to my MacBook Pro, and one to my Windows Desktop PC? I would never need those two at the same time. MacBook is used for work (I need good quality video and audio), while Windows machine is used for gaming / streaming.
You would greatly help me if you gave me the answer to this!
Cheers :)
Yes and no :) The microphone is available on both usb outputs, the capture card however is only available on the "main" USB1 output.
@@DanSuzuki Ughh, that’s so unfortunate :( Thanks
Does the unit save DSP settings on-board, or do you always need to have RODE Central open when using DSP?
Everything runs onboard!
@@DanSuzuki Thanks so much - I was hoping that was the case!
how many wireless mics you can pair?
4:10 if the streamer have to put in a password or something like this, this button can help
Hi, Did you have problem to upgrade de Firmware ? There's a lot of comment about not able to do it on internet.
Hm no - went perfectly fine for me.
Do they have presets for like the specific mic that you use ? Like the old rodecaster pro had mic settings for my rode mic
Unfortunately not at the moment :(
If unify is not used, the 3.5mm mic jack is default every time the unit gets power. Really annoying to change it every day for no reason. On Unifi its less a problem because it can handle all mics parallel. A monitoring is also missing on the device directly. Bluetooth is missing. Hardware based virtual channels like the chat channle on the pro 2 are missing. If you use only usb 2 on a dual pc setup (not dual streaming), you need also the power cable because usb2 can’t power the device. Unify also needs some QoL changes. Nice attempt and most thing’s are fixable, but with a working audio setup, it’s probably to wait for some fixes before buying.
could you give a link to the magic arm mount you use? thanks!
There you go: www.amazon.de/SMALLRIG-Flexibler-Gelenkarm-Videokamera-Rig-2065/dp/B076HDK4DR/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=CPQ8RE16UEXB&keywords=smallrig+magic+arm&qid=1686028783&sprefix=smallrig+magic+arm%2Caps%2C115&sr=8-4
Altenatively just search for “smallrig magic arm” both the 5” and 10” work really well with this device!
what about the latency of the hdmi input to output loop or is it a real pass through?
Did not notice any, must be proper pass through!
The thing is.. this 300-400$ device doesn't have on/off button. So enjoy unplugging cables physically everytime if you don't want buttons shining thru the night. Streamer X also gets a bit hot around knobs (constantly), so I'd wonder how much power does it actually take while you don't use it. Design-wise, how stupid is that?
Would you still need a cloudlifter for a SM7B with this device?
No, it has tons of really clean gain - with a booster you actually get more noise!
Is RodeCaster Duo better or Rode Streamer X if we need to choose one?
If you don’t need a capture card and money doesn’t matter then the Duo is the better choice
@@DanSuzuki What's a capture card, is it needed for RodeCaster Duo?
@@AzizimIstanbul If you want to capture the hdmi signal from something like a camera, console or 2nd computer. If you just do audio - no need for a capture card.
Is it possible to connect a USB microphone like a rode USB NT?
I’m really hoping that this will come via firmware update just as it did for the Rodecasters
I can't get it to work with Tiktok.. the audio keeps cutting out
Does it work somewhere else? Are you using Unify?
can it capture 5120x1440?
5:34 Easy. You have 4 pads with colour coding. Even if they were only blue or white for example you can see 16 pages. Let's call blue on and white off. And let's call on 1 and off 0. Let's put upper left, then upper right, then lower left, then upper right in order and here you go: 0001 = 1, 0010 = 2, 0011 = 3, 0100 = 4, 0101 = 5, 0110 = 6, 0111 = 7, 1000 = 8, 1001 = 9, 1010 = 10, 1011 = 11, 1100 = 12, 1101 = 13, 1110 = 14, 1111 = 15 and finally 0000 = 0, let's make that page 16. Okay, purist might call 001 the second page - so don't comment if you want that. Effectively with this you are using binary for 16 pages: 0-15. We start counting at 0. Even in 10-system: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 - ten page numbers.
This is actually not a bad idea :D
Does it have mic monitoring in real time?
Yes!
@@DanSuzuki Thanks mate, buying rn
I would buy it buy it has nogo killing hiss and bad sound on the headset jack and therefor nogo to buy. Check the thousands of comment s on bad hardware. And e need a headset or headphones
I wonder that you don’t mention that
very good
Can you use multiple effects and combine them? Only one a time is useless.. and yes and as always, not showing how to setup and use dual pc setup. The only really thing to show isnt shown 😒
You just plug in both usb cables - that’s literally it 😅 stream pc is usb1 and then the usb2 mixer in unify is your game pc - it is so easy that I didn’t really include it. But I could make a quick shorts video if it’s of interest?
I need to check for the effects - but the only useful one is reverb anyways
@@DanSuzuki ahh thats the missing link 🤗 no one explained that still now. Thank you. I think to give it a try and see how it compete with my presonus IO24 with elgato capture card. Only really missing is an Android/IOS app. I love that for streaming. Maybe wait for MK2. And presets for my Rode mics.
Cool 👍
I think the capture card on/off button was meant in case your wife/ girlfriend comes in naked and is trying to bait you to do other things :))
But... what does it DO? Everyone talks about characteristics, some talk about benefits... and no one talks about FUNCTION
Better headphone jack!
You always talking fast like this or just for the youtube,I do have trouble as I am not too good in Understanding
No bluetooth is a big miss
Curious ... why would you need bluetooth in such a device?
wireless headphones
@@DanSuzukiI would have liked to be able to take phone calls via Bluetooth.
Is cool and all but it doesn't have HDMI 2.1. so although you can pass through 4k 60hz. But not 4k 120 for the PS5 or Xbox. So will not be getting this item is not for me. I'll wait for mark 2. If I was anyone I wouldn't get this item.
you cant output 120hz to any streaming platform anyway
@@LilJoe3 what I meant was. You can not plug in your 120hz 4k monitor and play your game at 120hz. Not the streaming service or does not pass through 4k 120hz. But if you want play your PS5 at 120hz you can't lol. Not worth it.
@@kingcustompcs i think you can plug in your monitor to your PS5, and then plug in another HDMI to the PS5 Out into the Streamer x Passthrough and you should be able to play at 120hz.
Use a HDMI signal duplicator. Send one signal to capture card and the other to you monitor. Honestly prefer this to using passthrough because a lot of capture cards block your passthrough signal when HDCP content(such as Netflix) is played.
Adults... playing video games all day. facepalm
They should have graduation ceremonies for grade schoolers to hint that it's time to leave this behind.
Adults ... watching youtube videos for gear needed to play video games all day. facepalm
LOL@@DanSuzuki