RODE Wireless PRO - Beginner's Tutorial - Secrets nobody ever told you.

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welcome to this complete beginners guide

for the road Wireless Pro in this

beginners tutorial I'm going to go

through everything you need to know to

get the best audio from every situation

in the first section I'm going to go

through the road Wireless Pro units

themselves so you know what all the

buttons and everything does on them so

you can manage your audio when you're

out on the field in the second part of

this video I'm we're going to go through

the road Central app that you have on

your computer and that is where you

access your recordings you can access

all the more advanced settings you have

on these Road Wireless Pro system in the

third section I'm going to go through

how I set up my road Wireless Pro

together with one of my Sony a7s 3

cameras so you can see how I set this up

to get the best audio every single time

so I get the audio baked into my videos

I don't need to synchronize that in post

and I'm actually not following the

manual that road provides when I do this

and I'm going to show you why because I

would like to have a setup so I minimize

the amount of work that I need to put in

when I do my editing and throughout this

video I'm going to give you some really

nice tips and tricks because some of the

best features of the road Wireless Pro

while those are the same that can

completely destroy your audio if you're

not doing it correct now it's time to

dig in and start the beginnner tutorial

for the road Wireless

Pro so let's start the part one where

we're going to go through all these

units you can see what all the buttons

and everything it's doing so you know

that we have two cases this one that one

is for our accessories and then we have

the other one where our units for the

road Wireless Pro is stored and this is

also a charging case and at the back of

this pouch here we have a little button

and if we press that one we can see how

much charge we have inside the charging

case and this little LED lights up

differently depending on how much charge

we have in the internal battery and I

have displayed that here on the screen

so let's start off with a road Wireless

pro receiver so when we take out Road

Wireless pro receiver it starts up

automatically at the top here we can see

this little battery icon that one is

indicating the charge of the receiver

next it it says m the m indicates that

we have a mono or merged audio so the

audio that we are recording is divided

up equally between channel number one

and two which means the left and the

right Channel and Below M we see one and

two those two are indicating the status

of the transmitters number one and two

but those are stored there in the

charting case that's why we don't see

any information there yet at the bottom

here we see an icon that is indicating

what the left button is doing and then

we have another icon that is indicating

what the right button is doing and then

you can also see that we get another

feature if we press and hold both of

those buttons on this side we have a

USBC Port this USBC Port is of course

used when we're going to put it into the

charging case and it's important that

you actually put it in here where it

says RX in the charging case because

that is where the receiver is supposed

to go and if if you connect this USBC

port to your computer you get a digital

audio feed from this system the 3.5 mm

that we have here that is the one that

we are connecting to our camera when we

connect the receiver directly into the

camera so we get the audio baked in

together with the video on the other

side we just have the logo of the road

Wireless pro receiver and at the top

here we have a road logo and that is the

road button and we can program that in

the road Central app where we want that

to do and we're going to go through that

when we get into the road Central app so

this is everything there is with the

receiver now let's take one of the

transmitters instead so we can go

through everything we have on that one

at the top here we have two LEDs the one

to the left that is flashing blue that

one is indicating how it's connected to

the receiver and because the receiver is

stored here in the charging case that

one is flashing and indicating that it's

not connected the red LED that one is

indicating that the internal recording

is on so we are recording everything

automatically in into the internal

recording of the transmitter I've set my

transmitter up to start to record

automatically whenever you take it out

from the charging case and I'm going to

show you how to set that up when we get

into the road Central app that's

everything we have at the front here

when we take a look at the side on this

side we just have the road Wireless Pro

logo at the bottom of the transmitter

this is where we had the road button

again and that one is again something

that we can program in the road Central

app on the other side here we have a USB

C port and if you plug this USBC into

your computer you can download the audio

files from the road Wireless Pro

transmitter and you can also charge the

transmitter of course when you plug a

USBC charger into this port here at the

top of the road wiress Pro transmitter

here we have a record button so if we

have not the automatic recording turned

on then we press that button to start

and stop recording I don't like to use

that one because if I film someone else

then I don't want want them to

accidentally press that button and stop

the recording so I have disabled that

and I'm going to show you how to do that

in the road Central app as well and here

we have the built-in microphone and next

to that one we have the 3.5 mm plug

where we plug in our lav L microphone

and talking about the levier microphone

I'm going to show you how to assemble

that one and it's a little bit tricky to

get it exactly the way that road

actually intended it to be so I'm going

to show you exactly how to get that set

up now I just would like to show you

what's happening if I take out both of

the transmitters from the charging case

and if we now take a look at the

receiver we can see that we get data

from both transmitters here at the left

here we see the charging level of the

receiver the transmitter and the

transmitter and the icon next to the

battery indicator that is indicating the

connectivity level we have between the

transmitter and the receiver and then we

have the number one and two and that is

indicating for transmitter number one

and transmitter number two and then the

Little Red Dot all the way to the right

well that one is indicating that

internal recording is currently on for

that transmitter and now when we have

taken all the transmitters and receiver

out from the charging case we can

actually see that here it says tx1 tx2

and RX and that is indicating where the

unit should be placed the RX that's

where the receiver should always be

placed and tx1 and tx2 that is where you

place the transmitters to know if it's

the transmitter number one or

transmitter number two and where you

should put it well that's not so easy to

know because you don't have any markings

on these ones you basically just have to

put one of them into one of the slots

and see which one that disappears from

the receiver and now I can see that it

was transmitter number one that

disappeared so then that should be in

transmitter number one slot and that is

just because I would like to know which

one I'm using and which one I have

stored where because I maybe set up

different settings on transmitter number

one and two in the road Central app so

that's why it's just good to know where

you have them but it doesn't really

matter matter where you put them if you

have the same setting on them so in this

accessory pouch here I have stored at

top here my USBC cord and the TRS cable

we actually get a lot thicker USBC cord

as well that is the high power high

speed one personally I only use this

little thinner one because it charges

fast enough and the transfer speed is

fast enough as well as a videographer

I'm used to transfer files that are

hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes so

just transfer a little audio file that

takes 15 seconds it doesn't really

matter and this thin cable well it is a

little bit thinner so it's a little bit

more Sleek so that's why I used that one

and that one I just stored at home and

this TRX cable that is the one we

connect between the receiver and the

camera and by the way TRS is just

because if we take a look at this chord

we can see that we have two black lines

here that's because here the first

section before the first black line that

is the tip then we have the middle one

that is ring and then the top is the

sleeve it's not the black rings that

you're counting it's actually the metal

pieces between the black rings so when

we have two black rings that means that

we have three metal pieces this tip ring

sleeve if we have three black rings that

means that we have four metal pieces

it's tip ring ring sleeve but this is

the tip ring sleeve and the difference

between those is also that tip ring

sleeve that is used when you have a left

and the right channel the tip ring ring

sleeve that one is used whenever you

have a unit like for example a phone

where you also have a microphone because

then you have the left right and a

microphone as an accessory you also get

this little thing it's actually a little

clip and a magnet and this can be used

for example if you would like to put the

transmitter here on your chest then you

can put the magnet at the back for

example or you can do it the other way

around but to do that for some reason

Road didn't make this little clip

magnetic it's plastic so you can't

attach a magnet here so you need to

attach this little extra clip and to do

that then you just take it like this and

then you slide that one on from the

bottom

up like that so now we have a magnetic

thing so we can just put it here for

example the thing is that it looks kind

of stupid because it's pretty heavy so I

usually don't have it like that I use a

levier microphone instead but sometimes

if you just need to do something quick

you can just attach it in the Le h of

your shirt or something or you can

attach the magnet at the back personally

I don't understand why they didn't make

this one magnetic from the beginning one

good thing is that even if you have this

attached you can actually put it into

the charting case and it all fits well

so now it's the time for the alligator

clip and this one is used to attach the

lav L microphone the lav 2 microphone

that you get together with a road

Wireless Pro kit because when you get it

it just looks like this and this is kind

of flim so you can't attach that like

this so you need to attach this

alligator clip so what road want you to

do that is to First Take a look where do

you want to attach this is it going to

be attached that way or should it be

attached that way if you would like to

attach it that way well then the road

logo should be correctly and if you

would like to attach it the other way

then you should assemble it with a road

logo upside down so for me I'm going to

do it that way so I'm going to have the

road logo right then we're going to just

take the microphone and then just make

sure that you have the correct side of

the microphone aiming outwards because

the microphone phone has one side that

has the openings and one side that

doesn't have any openings and it's

important that this side without

openings is inside towards the Talon

towards the shirts or the fabric and the

other side with the holes that side is

the one that is going to be aimed

outwards or maybe upwards towards the

mouth if you don't have the option to

have it outward so now take this clip

and take the microphone and slide it in

here from behind twist it so it's

attached like

this and now what to do with a cord

because if you have it like this and you

just pull it the microphone will come

loose we're GNA try to avoid that so

attach this one again then we're going

to take the chord we're going to open up

the clip and put the cord in at the back

so now we're going to have a loop that

goes like this then we going to go back

on the back side and now we're going to

take this chord to go into this little

piece so we're going to put it

in and then we're going to take the cord

and then twist it

backwards so it goes into that little

crack and after we have done that then

we can just adjust the length by pulling

that down a little bit so we have the

length we would like to have and now

this little lavier microphone is assembl

the way that road intended to so now

this one is ready to be used at the

other end of this microphone you have

this section and this is a screw on ring

that you have here and this ring is one

of the deal breakers with the system

because you me mechanically going to

attach it to the transmitter so it

doesn't come loose but this is also

where people do this completely wrong

and even in the manual Road advis you to

do this incorrectly let's check the

manual and let's do what it says in the

manual so you can see what I mean it

says that the 3.5 mm inputs on the two

transmitters features the Locking

threads for microphones that feature

locking connectors such as the included

lavalier 2 so this is the lavalier 2

microphone that we get this allows you

to securely attach your microphones it

can't be accidentally unplugged while in

use which is fantastic all wireless

microphone systems should have this

feature simply insert a microphone 3.5

mm Jack okay let's do that like that

then twist the golden lock ring

clockwise to secure the cable in place

okay let's do that twist this lock

ring to secure the cable in place

reverse reverse the process to

disconnect okay and now people think

that oh now we have connected these

securely and it will be fantastic but

the thing is that when you have done it

accordingly to the manual and someone is

just pulling the string a little bit the

microphone cable is coming out from the

transmitter because Road has done a flaw

in the design of this when I created

this microphone plug what you need to do

is to take this one the Locking screw

and you have to tighten this because

what's happening is that when you have

it like this and you plug it in and then

you screw this locking screw what's

happening is that when I screw that one

onto the transmitter then it's

unscrewing itself from this cord so look

here when I screw this on it's getting

unscrewed from the cable so it comes

loose so what we need to do is that you

need to take this one screw it onto this

plug and it should never be designed

like this so you could actually unscrew

this one it should be locked onto this

one and then loose you could screw it

but not so you can unscrew it so what

you need to do is to you have to screw

this tight together and now you can take

it plug it in and you're not screwing

this Golden Ring you're going to screw

the entire cord like this or you screw

the transmitter like this and when you

do that now it's attached now it will

never ever come loose but you need to do

this correctly because if you don't

you're probably going to end up with a

transmitter attached here at the back of

yourself for the talent and and what's

happening now is that you're going to

get all the audio just through this

microphone that is placed at the back of

the talent and you will get a terrible

audio so make sure to do this correctly

so now when we are having our focus on

this transmitter and lavier microphone

let's also take a look at some other

accessories we have we get these little

foam covers as well these ones are going

to be attached at the top of this

lavalier microphone whenever you're

outside if there is the slightest wind

that you can notice then put this little

furry on instead that you get to get it

with the kit so just take this off it's

going to be easy to lose that one

because it's not attached very hard so

then if it's windy just put that one on

instead like this this is the next tip

so when you have this attached like this

and someone maybe just tou touches this

one so it comes off and then you just

put it on like this and then you're

going to record audio because you're a

little bit stressed of course there is a

big risk that this is not working and

let me show you the reason for this

because now when we have it attached

like this let me take off the cover so I

can show you what I mean look here now

this microphone is Twisted the wrong way

now we have the opening at the backs

side that's why you need to take off any

kind of cover if this one comes off so

you can make sure you put this back the

correct way where the microphone

openings outwards because if not again

you're going to get ruined audio and you

actually get this little furry to the

onboard microphone that you have on the

transmitter as well and to to attach

this if we take a look here we can see

that we have these two white dots on the

sides here if we take a look at the

transmitter here we can see that we have

those two little knobs here on the

plastic so those are going to be lined

up together you line it up like this and

then you twist it like that a quarter of

a turn and now this one is super

attached that one will never come off

and then to detach it just twist it that

way and then it comes off so the first

that is attached to this microphone is a

lot better attached compared to how it's

attached to the lavalier microphone now

let's take a look at the buttons of the

road Wireless pro receiver and then I'm

referring to the two buttons that we

have at the bottom here so you know how

to use them with the left button we are

accessing the gain controls so now let's

press the left button once we can see

that we have set it up to camera and to

my A7 S3 my Sony camera here I can't do

anything else and it doesn't matter if I

press this again we won't get any

anything else and this is the bug that

the name of my camera is actually

disappearing if I press that button

twice but that's just how it is it's

probably going to be corrected in a

later firmware now if I press the right

button instead when I press it once I'm

going to access the settings for

transmitter number one so now it says

that I'm going to pair it and that is

just because transmitter number one is

in the charging case it's transmitter

number two that I've taken out here and

it's transmitter number two that we are

connected to so to access the setting

for transmitter number two we press the

right button twice one this is for

transmitter number one two this is for

transmitter number two and we can also

see that whenever we press this button

if you don't remember if we press it

once it's going to say number one there

press it one more time and it says

number two so now it's transmitter

number two that we are connected to that

is live that we get the audio from so if

we go to transmitter number two and then

we press the left button we can toggle

between Auto and dynamic that is the

gain assist setting and I'm going to go

through what that is when we get into

the road Central app and I leave this

one on auto for 90 to 95% of the time

and dynamic for the rest of it I cannot

turn off the auto gain assist feature in

that receiver and I actually don't

advise you to turn that off because it's

just an amazing feature that puts so

much on autopilot if you press the right

button one two three times we get to the

game setting so here I can toggle

between what kind of thing I would like

to have attached and connected to it

here we have the gain mode for camera

for headphones for headset or manual if

I do manual I tap set or click set and

now if I take the left one I'm going to

get to gain settings if I then instead

take the headphones or the headset then

instead I'm going to get the volume

settings for the volume out here on the

receiver so I can get a good audio in my

headsets or my headphones the difference

between those two is that if I have a

headset that is headphones with a

microphone and if you have that plugged

in and you have this set to headset then

you actually get a third microphone into

this system so then I can use the

transmitter number one transmitter

number two and a headset that I connect

to myself and when we get into the road

Central app I'm going to go through and

show you how the audio is distributed

between the left and the right channel

whenever you have a headset connected so

now we're going to set this up so it's

set up for a camera again like like that

set and this is also a bug that

sometimes even if you do this you're not

getting the camera set up so what you

need to do is that you need to plug this

one back into the charging case and then

when you can see it's connected then you

can take it out and now when you turn it

on again and you toggle between here and

then you can change this one to camera

set okay and now when I press the left

button we are to the camera again and

hopefully Road will fix this in a later

update of the firmware as well now it's

time to head in to the road Central app

and the first thing we need to do that

is to download the road Central app to

the computer and I'm going to drop a

link to the road Central app in the

description box below so you can

download the latest version the next

thing is to connect the road Wireless

Pro to the computer and there are

different ways to do that first of all

we need to use a USBC to USBC chord so

when you're going to connect to Road

Wireless Pro to the computer you can

either connect just one of these devices

via USBC Port into the computer but the

better way to do it that is to connect

the entire charging case to the computer

so then you're going to use this port

here at the backs side and then you

connect this one to the computer and now

after we have connected it we get all

the units to show up here on the left

hand side so here at the top you can see

that we have the case itself it has

version

1.0.2 it says also that it's up to date

and if you click this little Cog wheel

at top we can see that we can check for

available firmwares so it's checking and

we can see that we are all up to date

when I first got this system from Road I

actually plug it into my phone and then

the phone discovered some firmware

updates and I updated it through the

phone but then when I have 2 minutes

after plugged it into my computer the

computer actually found a newer firmware

so I plugged it back to the phone to

check if there was just a release just 2

seconds after but it wasn't so the

computer is more secure to update the

firmware because then you know that

you're going to get the latest firmware

when you update the firmware of the road

Wireless Pro you sometimes get new

features in the road Central app so it's

important to keep that one up to date as

well and I'm going to drop a link to the

road Central app in the description box

below as well so you can download it

because sometimes it can be a little bit

hard and tricky to find on Road's

website and also going to drop links to

everything else that I'm talking about

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things so let's go back to Road Central

app so now we can see that it's all up

to date we can close this one and here

we can also see that we can Factor reset

the system we can also select what

monitor outp speakers I would like to

use when I'm using the road Central app

local recordings this this is so the

road Central app can actually pick up

local recordings from your computer

whenever you have that save there

somewhere I'm not using that one so I'm

not an expert on that and we can also

see that we have enabled that optional

firmware updates is enabled then if we

go to the RX that stands for receiver so

let's start at the top RX we can see the

charging level here and here we can see

the routing of the audio so let's unplug

this again from the case when we do that

it's going to unplugg from the road

Central app also now we can see that

here on the screen it says M that means

that the audio is merged if I use one

microphone that audio is going to be

stored both on the left and the right

channel if I use both of these

transmitters then the audio from both of

them is going to be split up equally

between the left and the right channel

as well so if I use only one I would

like to use merged or mono if I use two

of these ones I would like to change

that to stereo and the reason for that

is that if I'm sitting here and I'm

talking and then I have someone there

that I'm interviewing or working

together with or I'm filming two people

it's very likely that those two people

are not talking equally loud but I

probably would like to have that audio

equally loud when I create the video if

I have that to split stereo one of these

microphones is going to be recorded To

the Left Channel and the other one to

the right Channel and then I can adjust

that volume in my editing software and

then I can merge that to get in post I

get a good level from both people so

let's plug this into the charting case

again so we get it into Road Central app

so now they pop up here again let's

select the RX for the road Wireless pro

receiver and here we can just change

this so we have merged then it's exactly

what I said before when it's merged

transmitter one and transmitter 2 will

go into left and right equally and if

you have connected a headset to the

receiver then the audio from all three

microphones will be equally split up on

left and right channel if we instead

take split then we get one of the

transmitters To the Left Channel

transmitter two to the right Channel or

if we have this headset connected well

then we get the audio from transmitter

One and Two To the Left Channel and the

audio from the headset to the right

Channel and when we have the safety

channel the audio will work more or less

the same way as it does in merge you're

going to record both transmitters

together so you can split them but to

the left channel is going to record both

transmitter one and two in the standard

audio level but on the right channel is

going to have a safety track where both

transmitter 1 and two is going to be

recorded about with 10 DB lower audio

I've actually very frequently used this

safety channel on other systems like the

DJI mic that doesn't have 32bit float

internal recording because if something

was clipping I couldn't recover it if I

didn't have a lower recorded audio that

I then could just bring up a little bit

so I could save audio when I use this

system where I one have 32bit float and

I also have Auto gain assist well then I

don't really need the safety Channel

anymore so I use merged if I'm recording

myself or just one person if I'm

recording audio from two transmitters

then I change to split again and if I

would like to change to split I can just

click apply then we can see that we get

two of these audio indicators we can

actually change that directly here in

the receiver as well with take a look at

this receiver here at the bottom we can

see that it says

m/s and it goes aligned to both of these

buttons so if we press and hold both

buttons we go into this menu where we

can actually change if we would like to

split safety or merged and then now I

would like to record just one person so

let's take it to merged and then we take

okay so now it's merged if I would like

to change it press and hold change to

split set yes and now we can see that we

only get audio from one transmitter into

one channel if I unplug the second

transmitter and that one gets connected

now we can see that we have the audio

from both transmitters goes into one

channel each so if I'm talking into this

one you can see that that one is

reacting more if I'm taking the other

one we can get that one if we now change

this from split to merged instead we're

going to see that we get both of them at

identical into both channels instead and

if we change this instead so we go

to uh safety Channel then you can see

that one of these two indicators is

actually lower than the other one and

that is how it's recording the safety

channel so now let's go to this preset

here it's where we can set manual to

have the manual one or we can go to

headphones or we can change to headset

now let's take a look how you can set

this up to work perfectly together with

your camera let's set this to preset for

camera here we can see that it says Road

from the beginning this is the default

Road has whenever you buy the road

Wireless Pro and here you can select

your camera so just press the plus

button and then we select well I have a

Sony camera and my Sony is the A7 S3 and

then I press next and here I actually

get a link to the setting that road

recommend that you should have in your

camera I actually don't have that

setting because I don't think that that

is perfect and I'm going to show you why

but to get that you just press that link

and here we can see that for my son 87s

3 Road recommends that I should set the

audio recording level to one but I'm

going to show you why I don't have that

because I would like to reduce my

postprocess workflow so now instead

let's go back here and I click add and

now we can see that we have my Sony A7

S3 here and after we have added that if

we take the receiver here again and we

take it out from the charting case and

now if we press this button bottom left

again we can see that we can actually

toggle between the road and the Zone A7

S3 so now when I've added my camera then

I can delete the road so I don't have

that one when I'm going to toggle

between different modes then we have the

dim for backlight setting I have set

that one to Auto and that's what you saw

on the receiver that it dims down so

it's not as bright you can set that one

to off so it doesn't dim at all or you

can have it to Auto the next thing is

that you're going to set what that road

button on the receiver is going to do I

have that set to record and then you may

be going to say but mat why do you have

it set to record because you said that

you have set up the transmitters to

start recording automatically whenever

you take it out from the charging case

well that is correct but what's going to

happen when I've set this one to record

is when I've set a scene up we are on

set and I have attached the microphones

to my Talons they are recording

whenever we are ready to start shoot I

can actually press this road button on

my receiver on my camera and what's

going to happen then is that the road

system is going to start record from

that point on a new audio file you can

also set that one to your set a marker

on the current audio file I just find it

so handy to have that okay now we're

going to start to shoot let's press that

button once and we get a new audio file

so I know that that is whenever we start

shooting and here we have the plug in

detect I have that one set to on if you

have it set to off nothing's going to

happen but when you have set it to on

and you have connected this 3.5 mm cord

between your camera and the road

wireless receiver I'm going to show you

how to do that later the receiver will

automatically turn off whenever I turn

off the camera and when I turn on the

camera the receiver will turn on again

however that will only work if you have

the road Wireless pro receiver turned

off whenever you plug this into your

camera if you have the road Wireless pro

receiver turned on whenever you plug

this into your camera the turn off

feature will not work so for it to work

turn off the road Wireless Pro plug it

into the camera and then you can turn on

the camera and the road Wireless pro

receiver will turn on when you turn on

the camera and turn off when you turn

off the camera next thing that is time

code and honestly I'm not going to go

through that because it's way too

complicated and it's also not compatible

with my Sony A7 S3 cameras and it's not

even compatible with Final Cut Pro and

it's not compatible with Adobe premere

either so for me personally I'm not even

going to touch that the next thing is

the clock we can update the clock here

if you want to I have never seen that

this has been out of sync but you can do

that you can start Diagnostics as well

now we are done with the receiver the

next thing we're going to go through

that is the transmitters so these are

the recordings we have on board and we

can see what date was recorded we can

see the audio file number and we can

also see that it's a 30 2 bit float

audio and we can see that the audio

recorder was 1 minute and 6 seconds when

we click that one as I did then we can

play the audio from up here we just drag

this one to go back and forth and here

we can set color codes to these

different recordings if you would like

to do that for some reason you can also

rename the audio file here and here we

can click this little Cog wheel then we

access the same settings as before click

the Cog again and go back here we have

the export settings this is important to

know how it actually works when you open

this up it says custom and it says 24bit

PCM and it's very tempting to maybe

change that but what the road Central

app will do is that it's going to

normalize the audio so if you have audio

that should have been clipped in

recording you have into your camera but

it's not clipped internally because you

have recorded in 32-bit float well when

you used the 24bit PCM the road Central

app will normalize that audio first it

doesn't clip and then you will get a

24bit file exported so that actually

works really well so you don't need to

do so much in post for the loudness you

can if you want to if you're going to

post on YouTube select minus 14 lfs and

then we can select export and you select

where you would like to export it to I

would like to export it to my download

folder and then it goes pretty quickly

to export and now I can access that in

my download folder I can also export the

files by going into finder and here I

will find the road wet Pro as well one

is the transmitter one and one is the

transmitter two so you can grab them

from here as well one thing that you can

do though is that you can't delete these

files from the transmitters even if I

try to delete it I can't and if I right

click there is no delete option and the

same thing when you are in the road

Central app there is no way to delete a

file it's just not there so what you

need to do to delete it that is to

delete all of them there isn't really

any reason to delete single files like

that because you have 32 gbyte of

internal storage that is enough for

about 40 hours and whenever it's full

it's going to start overwrite the oldest

recordings and if you would like to

export a 32-bit float you just select

that at the top here and you have no

settings because that is fixed and then

export 32bit float audio and you select

where you would like to have it and here

we have this little Cog wheel when we

click that when we get into the settings

of the transmitter note that I said

transmitter because you need to set the

settings on one transmitter at a time

the first thing we have that is gain

assist the gain assist can be set to

Auto dynamic or off I would recommend to

have this one set to probably Auto for

90% of the time and dynamic to the rest

personally I would probably not have it

set to off at all because it's just so

nice to know that the gain assist can

adjust those High record ings so it's

not clipping it's going to keep

everything in a good Audio Level so I

don't need to work so much with it in

post and to have an explanation what

this one means then you can just click

the I so for Auto for example that one

is recommended as Road says the auto

gain assist mode will give you smoother

more consistent sound which can be

better in a recording scenario like an

interview where the audio levels are

jumping around a lot and that is for

example we are talking like this and

that's

we are laughing and we have so much fun

and of course it can jump around a lot

and then in that setting the autogain

assist will do its best to normalize

those it's not clipping if you have the

dynamic instead it says that the dynamic

gain assist mode balances the audio

while maintaining Dynamics resulting in

a more natural sound this can be better

in a controlled recording environment

where the sound your recording is more

even and also to notice that the gain

assist does not apply to the onboard

recordings but that doesn't really

matter again because we have 32-bit

float so it doesn't really ever clip

next we have the road button that one

can be set to marker or mute I don't

want to have that one to do anything

because I don't want the person that is

wearing that to accidentally just press

that button and create a marker or even

worse just mute the audio that would be

a disaster so I leave that To None then

we have the dim setting the LED

brightness of the system unfortunately

we we can just have it to dim or bright

I would prefer if that could be set to

off or maybe a time limit to set off so

for example we could have it lit up and

then after 5 Seconds it could turn off

and if I would like to enable those LEDs

again I could just press one of the

buttons to see whatever status we have

because if you for example have that

transmitter visible somewhere you don't

want to have those LEDs shining into the

camera and here we have the record

settings I have set that to always you

can have it set to always or manual

always means basically that it's going

to start record as soon as you take it

out from the case the next one that's

the high pass filter and the high pass

filter is filtering out lower noises so

if I set that one to 75 everything below

75 Hertz will be cancelled out if I set

that 100 htz everything below 100 htz

will be canceled out and then you may

want mats how can I know which one I

should have and should I have any of

them so for me for example I usually

almost always only record audio from

people that is talking or they are

singing or they're doing something else

like that and a male voice usually

stretches between 85 Hertz up to 180 htz

and a female voice usually stretches

from 165 Hertz up to

255 Hertz so if I going to record male

people well then I could have that at 75

Herz and I know that nothing from the

person that is talking is going to be

clipped away if you're going to record

only female people well then I can

actually stretch that up to have 100 HZ

as the low cut filter because then I

know that all those rumbling noises that

can come from the environment or from

wind can be filtered out automatically

but for me I'm going to leave that one

to 75 Hertz and I actually have an app

that I recommend that I'm going to show

you the app is called

DB and it looks like this it's actually

an app that is free for the basic

features and the basic feat features is

what I need but when I use this one I

flip like this then I can see where the

audio is so if I take a tone like

uh I can see how it changes so from here

it's about 75 Hertz so we can see that

there is a lot of background noise that

is coming in those frequencies so here I

will also like to show you how accurate

this actually is here I'm going to take

a 75 htz tone so you can see how this is

indicated

and let's take a 100 Herz tone

instead and if we take a tone that goes

from 20 Herz up to 20,000 you can see

that

[Music]

here

[Music]

so this app is really good to figure out

if the room tone is Within These

frequencies that you actually can filter

out from the beginning so for me I'm

going to leave this to 75 Hertz like

that and then I can see that okay when

I'm talking I'm mostly talking Within

These frequencies so I know that I could

probably use the 100 HZ low cut filter

as well then we have the timeout feature

the timeout is that if the transmitter

and the receiver has not been connected

for 15 minutes then the transmitter

would turn off however if you have the

recording feature turn on of the

transmitter it will not automatically

turn off so this is only if the

recording is turned off and there is no

connection between the receiver and

transmitter then the transmitter will

automatically turn off after 15 minutes

I think it could be good if Road

actually emphasized that here so you

could see that it's actually 15 minutes

timer that is going to be activated and

here you have so you can remove all the

recordings so you basically format the

internal memory on the transmitter and

here we have Dropout markers so when

enabled Dropout zones and markers will

be shown on on board recordings so if

you lose the connection between the

receiver and a transmitter you're going

to be able to see that on recording and

that is good because then you know that

you maybe need to export at least that

section of the recording because you

won't have any internal recording in the

camera during that period of time and if

you like to see my range test off the

road W Pro I link to that video in the

description box below and actually Road

managed to increase the distance with

about 60% in a firmware update and I

have a video about that one as well and

then we also have the clock update and

Diagnostics the next thing we're going

to go through that is how I connect my

road Wireless Pro to the camera to get

the best audio so now let's connect the

road Wireless Pro to my Sony A7 S3 that

I have here so first of all we're going

to take out the receiver from the

charging case we're going to attach this

one here at the top of the hot shoe like

that so when we have it attached we can

actually flip it up like this if we

would like to see something from the

display we're going to take TRS cable

that we get in the kit and it's actually

tip ring sleeve if you have two black

lines is not the lines that you're

counting you're counting the metal

between the black lines if you have

three is tip ring ring sleeve but in

this case when you have two black lines

is a tip then we have a ring and then we

have a sleeve so let's connect that one

here in the camera and then I connect

the other end into the road Wireless Pro

so now we can see that it's turned on

before I turn on the camera so if now

turn on the

camera the camera is turned on and the

road Wireless pro receiver is turned on

if I turn off the

camera the road Wireless pro receiver is

still turned on however if I not turn

off the receiver manually now it's

turned off and if I now turn on the

camera the receiver will turn on and if

I now turn off the

camera then the road Wireless Pro will

turn off as well it's important to know

that you need to have the rad Wireless

pro receiver turned off if you would

like to have this Auto on off feature

enabled after that we need to

connect one of the transmitters so let's

connect the lavalier microphone let's

screw that on here first tight so it

doesn't come loose push it in twist all

of it now it's connected I'm going to

place this lavalier microphone on my

talent I would like to have about this

distance away from my mouth so I can put

it here and then after that and now we

can see that the recording that one is

turned on because I have this red LED

this one the connectivity LED is

flashing that means that it's not

connected to the receiver so but we have

the internal

recording I can turn on my camera the

road Wireless pro receiver is turning on

and now we can see that we have the

audio here we can also double check what

setting we have if we press the bottom

left we can see that we have the Zone A7

S3 if I now check the audio levels I can

see I would like to have this so it's

not going up to Red it can go almost up

to red but not up to red and now we can

see that if I set this one to number one

I can see that the audio is hardly going

over 20 and that is way too low that

means that I just need to boost it a lot

in post and I would like to have this it

Peaks above - 12 somewhere here so it

goes to - 6 -3 when it Peaks and I would

like to have the average around -2 the

auto gain assist feature is so good so

even if I talk a lot louder now it's

still not going up to Red it's still

really good and if I talk really quiet I

still can have the audio and then I talk

even louder and it's still not going up

to Red just because of the auto gain

assist which is fantastic but if it

would go up to Red no not even if I'm

screaming like that it goes up to Red

the auto gain assist feature is so good

so even if I talk a lot louder now it's

still not going up to Red it's still

really good and if I talk really quiet I

still can have the audio and then I talk

even louder and it's still not going up

to Red just because of the auto gain

assist which is fantastic but if it

would go up to Red no not even if I'm

screaming like that it goes up to red

but if it was to go up over red so it's

distorted then I can always take that

audio in post because I have the 32-bit

float in the internal recording so I can

download that and then I can just adjust

the levels in my editing software so

around 8 till 9 this is usually where I

have it so I have a good audio when I

bring it into my editing software

without the need of changing and

adjusting the audio levels too much in

post with that said thank you so much

for spending these 45 minutes together

with me here on my channel and I really

hope that you feel that you have

confidence in using the road Wireless

Pro in all situations out there the next

thing we're going to do I hope so that

is to see each other in one of these two

videos because the top one that is the

video that YouTube recommended to watch

next and de B one well that is my latest

uploaded video have a good one bye