Rodecaster Duo/Pro Setup for Single PC Streaming w/ OBS Sources 

I have the Rodecaster Pro 2, but you have solved every bit of the problems I have always had with it. Thank you so much for this! Liked and saved to my private livestreaming playlist so that I can refer back to this. Thanks a ton for sharing!

This is the first video that I have seen that takes the time to show a real live setup with all the challenges explained and nothing assumed. I am going to apply it to my settings and see how it goes. Thank you so much!

Great job dissecting it and figuring out everything that a noob might needs to know. starting at the beginning and following the road with all of the pot holes that happened. Gives a more realistic set up process then all of these people making reviews but not understanding that there's lots of people that have never dealt with routing before. and might need a step by step understanding.

This is by far the best set up video I have found for using a Rodecaster Duo on a single PC. I keep coming back every time things go wrong and sure enough you have the solution. Thank you so much for making this video!

Very helpful! Thank you for taking the time to make this walkthrough!

Thanks for this, was having real trouble with the routing and your video was exactly how i wanted it set up, absolute life saver ! - Zug, Broadside gaming team.

I am going to share this everywhere. I have a lot of people going from the GOXLR over to the Rodecaster line and want more info. Thank you for posting this!!!

For mix minus, I realised most people without some sort of audio background just stuggle with the "mix" notion. Once they get it clear, they tend to handle it fine. A mix is just all your inputs (audio source) all together.Then you use your Mix to output it somewhere. So the "outputs" page is this: I select the output at the top, and I select what I want to go there at the bottom (the mix) . The reason for Mix Minus is because some "inputs" are also "outputs", so you want to tell the mixer, for this output I selected, take everything in, but ITSELF. This is enough in most scenarios, to prevent your listeners to hear themselves (echo). Custom is relevant when you want to use more complexe setup with two chats/applications and you don't want to get everyone in the sauce

Hi!!! I had my GOXLR poop on me yesterday and picked up the Rodecaster Duo and almost cried in frustration. Your video made it extremely simple for me to understand this comparatively complex software in about 5 minutes. Thanks to you I saved so much time and my OBS is all back up and running. Wishing you the best and truly, thank you for making this!

Great job explaining everything in a simple step by step format. Thank you.

thanks a lot, i have searching for this like 6 hours...

Thanks so much for this video! I just got the Duo myself and COULD NOT figure out how to separate my tracks like I wanted. Well done on filling the content void here.

OBS Tip: Create a scene for all your audio sources and just nest that scene into all your other scenes. Saves you the work of adding them to each scene and avoids the risk of OBS breaking.

been fighting the device ever since its outta the box - some golden bits in the video that will sure get me closer to how i want it routed - this helped a lot -

This was really well done. Rode announced they will be adding an update for virtual sliders to add for streamers so in the meantime this is a great work around. Cheers

Thanks so much for this in-depth tutorial Jess! Appreciate it!

Thank you for the info. Check a lot of videos, but you made it simple and clear. You got to the point.

Brilliant video and helped me out immensely. Just to say that I know this took alot of hard work to figure out and put together - I really appreciate it.

Wow, thank you for this wonderful tutorial. I really needed this!

This video has been extremely helpful. Thank you.

Very thorough! Thank you for being so detailed.

Thanks Jess!!! This is definitely gonna be helpful 💙

Really needed this! Thanks Jess!

Great Tutorial! Thanks Jess.

Such a great video! Cheers for this

God bless you. I’ve been trying to figure this out for months.

Very good job. You made a clear tutorial. Thanks

I didn't know how to re arrange my sliders until at last you covered that part i was going nuts because my sliders weren't on the same order as yours..lol glad you covered that part as well new sub

Thank you so much for doing this. I was going crazy, now doing your steps, will let you know how I get on.

This is great, thank you for doing this!

Hey thanks for all your help, I watched, re watched this video about 10 times lol and I figured whilst the rhode unit itself is great its the 3rd party apps (Discord, Obs) that really messed me up as the integration isn't nearly as smooth as my previous GOXLR, none the less i have got it about 80% how I want it thanks to you big ups from AUS.

Thank you so much for this helpful tutorial

Excelent explanation. It was my understanding that USB2 could only be used EXCLUSIVELY for a second PC, but I was wrong. Now I can have that track separate and control it independently (I use for Spotify and Clone Hero). Thank you very much for your video, great explanation.

This was so helpful and u saved me so much time!! Ty!!!!!

Very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you sooooooo much this helped me like you coudn't imagine !

Amazing video. You helped me so much. Thank you

Can't wait for the next live stream jen

Thank you, saved me a ton of time!

Fantastic video!! Many thanks Jess I just need to order my USB A - USB C fast data cable to setup my USB 2 slot.

I feel your pain. I’ve gone through a couple of rounds of configuration changes and one factory reset on my rcp2. I know how I want it configured but struggling to get the configuration right. I’ll get it almost there and I’ll do something and everything goes to crap. I like how you laid everything out. Very logical. I’ll redo mine like you did yours tomorrow and with any luck, it will work just like yours :-). 🙏

I spent a few days talking with Rode Tech Support and connecting with their Community manager. The main difference, and the thought process you need to adjust, is this is a true mixer, whereas the GoXLR, Wave XLR and Presonus io24 etc, are interfaces with mixing capability. There's a fundemental difference in they way they are designed to work. With what most streamers are used to, you set audio up in OBS to use desktop audio and desktop audio 2 for the outputs available in your Windows audio channels, and the Mic into the Mic/Aux input. There is complete separation between the input and output in Windows, and you use OBS to mix into your 6 available channels. With the Rodcaster pro II/Duo, all mixing is designed on a different principle to work as a standard mixer, where all mixing takes place on the device, and you use a single input into OBS...your Duo Main Stereo/Multicast into the Mic/Aux in OBS and you disable Desktop Audio and Desktop Audio 2. All mixing, submixes, etc, takes place on the device with that single input coming into your computer and into OBS. If you set it up the way you would a GoXLR, you end up with looping audio across channels between the Main and the Chat going into your Mic in OBS due to the way the sound is going from the computer, to the Duo (where it is mixed) and then is sent back to the computer. If you use the desktop 1 and 2 outputs in OBS it just loops the sound back again. There is a way, just with custom routing, to disable all the individual outputs for each of the USB 1, Chat and USB 2 which allows you to use OBS the way you're used to, but this will remove most of the mixing capability of the Duo, and you will use OBS for your mixing (and you can still assign the sliders to whatever you want and control your sound with them). To use the device as designed, and have the full mixing capaobilites on board it, You just have to think about it in a different way...like a sound person, not a streaming person. Everything comes in to a single channel, and if you want multitrack recording in OBS, you will need to use the Rode ASIO driver and the Asio for OBS plug in for multi channel recording in the 6 channels in OBS so you can work with them when editing in post. This will keep all processing on the Duo, and you will route to your OBS channels using Asio Inputs rather than the Desktop Audio. Small note: According to Rode, their Asio driver will need exclusive access to the USB1 Main device, so if it happens to be in use in a different program, it won't be able to run or take access for itself. If you select DuoChat or USB2 Secondary as the Windows system output, it should allow the main output to be available for the ASIO driver. Hope this helps, and I totally agree, they really need to document the streaming settings MUCH better, because it's extrememly confusing when you are used to the GoXLR or something similar. Feel free to message me, as I've been playing with this alot and am starting to get a really good grasp of separating out everything, and how to use proper routing. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions or would like to compare notes.

I have RCP II and I use it with OBS .You have right. With only one trace for all is....I have Rode Podmic AT2020,Shure SM7B ,and all of them seems to have problems in my configuration . Now i will try your way. Thank you verry much.❤

Thank you ❤

Extensive tutorial, Jess! Well done. Now, one question - how close did you get to pitching it out the widow?

Hello, thank you for the video. I was doing all the stuff step by step. Unfortunatelly I wasn´t able to make it run. Did you feel any changes in last couple weeks or its still working fine for you?

ASIO is a proprietary communication layer for, this case, Rodecaster and the software, so it is needed for some scenarios to work

Your video was super helpful. The only thing I couldn't figure out was when I wanted spotify to not be in my recordings it still was a part of it. (Haven't changed the VOD settings since swapping from GOXLR and removed it from Number 2 like default but nothing, it's still integrated).

thanks for the video! quick question. I have everything set up as you did, yet when I play music on Spotify, it only picks up on the game/stereo mix, nothing in the secondary music. Is this the thing you were talking about where I will have to factory reset? Thank you!

Hi, can you use the xlr mics inputs as other audio sauces, like my dj controller uses xlr out

Hey there! I want to say a big thanks for helping out so many others out there, but i am currently struggling for some reason. I have followed your video to the Tea ( i have the rodecaster pro 2 ) the part that i am struggling with is that when i move my physical sliders, my audio doesn't change in obs, im not sure if you have encountered this problem before, i was wondering if you or anyone had a similar problem like this before or might know a fix to this. Any and all help is greatly appreciated, i want to get into streaming soon that's all. Awesome video btw

Hey first wanted to say this has been one of if not the most useful videos on this subjet thank you for putting in the effort to make this. Got a question for ya, ive set up the sliders for my game audio but for some reason it wont capture any of the audio in OBS tho on the board it is showing that is has audio running and i can hear it in windows loudly just not in OBS. Do you know a fix or have one that i can use ?

Did you buy the duo from the UK? or was it imported? Not sure where to buy it in the uk, thanks!

Thanks for this! I have been having so many issues so I keep having to troubleshoot and it's finally getting really frustrating. But I'll keep trying a bit more. I believe I have followed everything you have done, but at 26:00 when you have Spotify playing, when I do this it is playing from both the Music/Secondary Mix and the Game/Stereo mix. When I move the fader on my RCD it does lower the volume of the Music/Secondary Mix, but the Game/Stereo Mix is still showing sound coming from Spotify. I have everything routed exactly as you do and my Game/Stereo Mix is set to Device Microphone (RODECaster Duo Main Stereo). Not sure what I'm doing wrong...

So we do need the ASIO drivers to control OBS with the sliders?

any chance you know why my computer wont recognize the 2nd usb-c secondary channel? maybe i need to be on windows 11?

Thank you very much Jess. I found this video, because I had the same issues as you - coming from TC-Helicon with the GoXLR (mini) and switching to the Rodecaster Pro / Duo. Have you tried the new Rode software Unify? It looks it does exactly what the GoXLR did. I tried it today and configured my Spotify with the "Music" channel of Unify and it worked fluently. What I am still missing is the physical slider but still from a software side it should be possible. ;-) Thanks again for your video - helped a lot

So if I'm not mistaken, I can control my main audio, my discord audio, music audio all separate ? I am wanting to move from my GOxlr and the Rodecaster is what i am wanting to go with

hey! so thank you for your in depth walk through!. just set mine up the same way you did!. Quick question though, the duo chat is what i would use for Discord correct? the input device in discord should be duo chat, but do you know what the output device be too?.

is it possible to have certain tracks not be heard on my stream? For example. i like to use mixitup bot, and it comes with a "chat notification" so i know when someone sends a chat in my stream. and id like to set that option to where only i can hear it and not the stream. ive done it with my goxlr, but im hoping the same can be done with this.

I followed your routing guide precisely and for some reason, OBS doesn't hear my smart pads/sounds. Can you help?

For some reason my game audio won’t come through. Only when I have desktop audio set up but then the slider doesn’t affect it.

Tried everything here but still not getting the sound pad audio coming out clean on obs. Please someone help.

Do you not get double game and spotify audio doing this. Sorry I am just curious cause I don't see how this would split the two audio tracks separately without playing in unison on OBS. Great video btw

if you mute music on stream, are still hearing the music on your earphone? or muted stream & earphone? bcs GoXLR have feature, they can mute only for streaming app, but u still can hear the music

Thanks a lot for putting this out, out of curiosity is the rodecaster duo still your main piece of kit?, over the past couple of months ive been seeing a few people decide to switch back to elgato stuff so I was curious if after 7 months you've decided to stick with the duo or not?

Hi Jess, great video, thanks for the walkthrough, I've added RodeCaster Duo Chat as the only audio input and I'd make sure it is the same in the audio setting, but I'm still getting the mic EEEEEE sound when I speak, I'd tried Noise Gate and Noise Supression, it didn't help. Any input for this?

Hey! Very frustrated and trying to figure all of it out, your video helped BUT I got a problem: you explain to select 'Rodecaster Duo Main Stereo' at minute 24:13 I do not have that as an option, I know I had before but the moment I activated secondary it's just gone and not in the options @ obs anymore... do you know why or how to fix it? I went to my control panel and set up everything there, i already deinstalled obs and such but cannot make it work for whatever reason ;;

Is there anyway to get chat on a separate slider and my obs and chat still hear it without it coming through the main mix and duo chat mix? Like its picking my mic up and discord in the duo chat slider. The only way I have seen is just mute it on the rodecaster duo where chat couldn't here my discord through obs. Almost tempted to get a GOXLR lol

My faders don't work in obs. Even if I set the Rodecaster Pro 2 USB multi track to Post-Fader. What am I doing wrong?

Dang. i can still cancel my order and I think I will. I was excited to buy this, but it looks like my xlr mini will have to just last longer.

I have the same issue. I haven't watched your whole video yet, but I have the same setup as you. I just want to be able to stream and game with my friends on discord. But I find that when I have open mic on my friends can hear my game audio too. And then when I go to try and fix the issue I lose audio for my stream. Did you run into this issue?

What if you use Asio as an audio channel and routing your audio into it and create a separate channel for it individually. Will it work or OBS will stop working??

Okay Jess! Update. The mic Monitoring issue taken care of, the game audio issue taken care of, but now I have a new problem. My USB 2 that controls my music. For some reason when it plays, it almost blows out peoples ears because i turned up the music but its like “blowing out the speakers” kind of loud. Are there any tips to better manage the audio to where you can play it but it not be so loud, because on my end the fader is about half way up, but every-time I’ve tried to turn it up in OBS it stays in the green and pops in the yellow every now and then. I essentially cant play music because its so loud to the viewers. It also is louder than my microphone. Also the knob on the right controls how loud i hear stuff in my headset correct?. I play hip hop, rap, rnb, pop, chill music. Ive essentially had to not use it because my viewers complain of how loud it is. As well as my soundboard. Any tips are appreciated. Its also hard for me to tell whether or not how loud my game volume is for stream. Some people said it would be too low, or too high. Any help or guidance is appreciated!.

For some reason routing anything to the usb channels does not work. I can hear what I set up in windows sound settings, but routing sound effect in usb 1 for example does not work... as in obs doesn't capture it.

Any clues as to why when I use my faders obs doesn't pick that up? No matter what I do the sound remains at 100% in obs. It only works for my mic but not for my game audio!

I have my audio set up but when I have all my faders at unity it sounds great but coming out of my headphones but obs to my stream or recordings it sounds so loud it clips all audio sources I have to lower them so much with the faders that I can’t even hear my self or audio in my headset

Did you tried to add a ASIO input capture instead of a Audio input capture? You installed the ASIO drivers, it should be better.

Idk why but for routing I haven’t seen anyone people use Unify where it has 4-5 virtual audios, like the goXLR does , maybe it don’t work for this rode interface or something

I added the Rode ASIO app and it does not show up, am I to add something else? Like ASIO 4 ALL

They need to release a firmware to have a routing table similar to GoXLR.

Any clue why music fader would sound like static? Now my viewers say no music comes out, and its just static 😂

Can this offer zero latency mic monitoring?

so a few issues i have found. Soundboard can not be heard in game. only way I would assume to be able to allow that is to reroute the sound board fader to all systems. also there is no way to turn off mic monitoring without turning off the audio all together.

I bought it this week and I'm having a problem that I can't solve, I'm leaving it here in case someone can help me. When it comes to monitoring myself, I hear double all the time. I get the feeling that it is if the audio is saturated, but I go from not hearing myself at all to directly hearing myself double and canned. I can't find the middle ground no matter how much I mute channels during routing.

That driver messed all of my audio up. Don't know why. Once it was uninstalled everything worked again.

Why input captures? shouldnt it be output

you dont need asio dfor this to work asio is for daws

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