this video is brought to you by curiositystream and nebula let's say you want to produce a multi-cam stream or podcast maybe with a couple of guests what would you think you need for this a few cameras a couple microphones sure what about to actually capture it all a big mixer multiple capture cards a powerful pc to switch through all of that in obs right well roland has thrown their hat into the ring to provide an all-in-one solution that you just plug into your computer and stream with and be off to the races let's see if it holds up i'm imposvox the stream professor and we've now looked at quite a few audio interfaces multi-input capture cards and all-in-one units like the blackmagic atem mini and the embarrassment that was the cooler engine stream engine how does the roland vrNUMBER_TOKEN hd hold up other than the weird rattle mine has before we answer that question i wanted to give a huge thanks to microcenter for sending this over to review there's a lot of higher end gear like this that i can't always cover on my own budget so having retailers like micro center who can send review samples helps me show more to you all which is a win for us all physically this is the most impressive feeling unit in this category that i have reviewed this thing is built like a tank again other than whatever the hell is rattling inside there for video inputs we have three hdmi inputs which will accept anywhere from NUMBER_TOKENi up to NUMBER_TOKENp NUMBER_TOKEN a hardware pass-through port for real-time pass-through for presentations or gaming without input latency as well as a main video feed output for sending to a video recorder or preview monitor and a control room monitor output that shows the menus and controls for audio we get two xlr jacks one on the front and one on the side with NUMBER_TOKEN volts of phantom power available as well as stereo rca input and output for line pass through the first xlr jack is on the top to allow for ease of access for gooseneck microphones while presenting or djing the second xlr and the rca jacks as well as the headphone jack are on the left side the back also features a dc power plug and a power switch as well as a securing clip for the power and then a usb NUMBER_TOKEN aNUMBER_TOKENb for streaming this shows up as a webcam on your computer and is mostly plug and play there's also a usb NUMBER_TOKEN type a port for super basic sound effects or still image graphics loading but it's very limited the controls give you audio levels for mixing separate usb and main audio output levels sound effects and voice changer controls auto switching either on a set interval or based on audio activity and compositing modes for split views and picture-in-picture modes let's set up a two-person podcast setup with this for this i set up two main cameras for the two hosts of the podcast myself and my wife as well as a third angle which shows us both from a wide angle lens all running into the hdmi inputs two xlr mics are used to capture our voices and all of the switching is handled pretty easily here's a quick demo if you
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