Everything You Need to Sound Spectacular

The RØDECaster Duo is the world's most powerful all-in-one audio production solution. Condensing a complete professional broadcast studio into a compact and intuitive console, it gives you everything you need to sound spectacular, whether you're podcasting, streaming or creating any kind of content. Loaded with cutting-edge next-gen features and supercharged by a high-performance quad-core audio engine, this is all you need to produce exceptional content.

Incredible Audio, Incredibly Easy

The RØDECaster Duo is incredibly simple to navigate with its large high-definition touchscreen, tactile rotary encoder and broadcast-quality faders giving you hands-on control over every aspect of your sound. Get your project set up in seconds, and with professionally tailored presets and our intuitive VoxLab™ processing editor, you can dial in your perfect sound with the tap of button or twist of a knob. It’s never been easier to create amazing content.

Revolutionary Sound

The RØDECaster Duo features world-class Revolution Preamps™ that deliver pristine audio quality with any microphone, instrument, headset or line-level source. Designed from the ground up specifically for the RØDECaster series, these ultra-low-noise, high-gain preamps will give you plenty of output while remaining incredibly quiet, eliminating the need for microphone boosters, lifters or external processing.

Professional Processing, Powered by APHEX®

Craft your sound with studio-quality audio processing powered by one of the most revered names in pro audio: APHEX. On-board is a suite of authentic emulations of legendary hardware audio processors, including the Aural Exciter™, Big Bottom™ and Compellor™ master compressor/leveller. There is also a studio-quality compressor, noise gate, high-pass filter, de-esser and three-band equaliser for each channel. Sound exceptional every time you hit record.

Super Compact, Highly Portable

The RØDECaster Duo is incredibly versatile and powerful, but it’s also exceptionally compact and portable. Take your podcast on the road, create content from home or the office or simply liberate some desk space to keep your livestream looking clean.

Customise To Your Creative Flow

No matter what kind of content you’re creating, the RØDECaster Duo can be configured to perfectly suit your workflow. Assign the eight inputs to any of the physical or virtual faders to suit your setup, customise the effects and processing for each channel, and transform the RØDECaster Duo into your own personalised studio.

Take Creative Control with SMART Pads

The RØDECaster Duo features six programmable SMART pads that give you huge creative control at your fingertips. Trigger sounds, music beds, or on-the-fly voice effects like reverb, echo, pitch and robot FX, send MIDI commands to external software, activate automated mixer actions like fade-ins and fade-outs, and so much more.

Connect Any Audio Device

No matter what your setup looks like, the RØDECaster Duo offers complete flexibility when it comes to connectivity, making it the perfect control centre for your audio productions. It features two USB interfaces for dual computer setups, an MFi-certified USB port that works seamlessly with iOS devices, and you can record ultra-high-quality phone calls or stream audio in high-definition via the advanced Bluetooth® connection.

Welcome to the RØDECaster Duo user guide. Learn everything you need to know about using your RØDECaster Duo with step-by-step feature walkthroughs, tips, tricks, and more.

Learn everything you need to know about using your RØDECaster Duo with step-by-step feature walkthroughs, tips, tricks, and more on the user guide.

Top View

1. 5.5” HD Touchscreen
2. Channel Buttons
3. Channel Faders
4. Listen and Mute Buttons
5. Headphone Encoders
6. Rotary Encoder
7. SMART Pads
8. Bank Switching Buttons
9. 3.5mm TRRS Headset Input

Rear View

1. Power Button
2. MicroSD Card Slot
3. USB 1
4. USB 2
5. 1/4-inch Balanced Line Outputs
6. Dedicated USB Power Port
7. Ethernet Port
8. 1/4-inch Headphone Outputs
9. XLR/TRS Neutrik® Combo Inputs

Getting Started with the RØDECaster Duo

Learn how to get started with the RØDECaster Duo, from basic configuration to setting up microphone channels, headphones and speakers, to making your first recordings.

Setting Up Channels and Outputs

The RØDECaster Duo’s fully customisable mixer makes routing audio sources incredibly easy no matter what kind of content you create. Learn how to set up and assign channels to the four physical faders and three virtual faders, and how to configure your different audio outputs.

Setting up USB Connections

The RØDECaster Duo offers incredibly flexible USB connectivity options. This includes two USB interfaces with three available USB audio devices, and a host of configurable options for mix-minus, custom routing, and multitrack recording. Learn how these USB connections work, what they should be used for, and how they can help streamline your workflow.

Connecting Callers and Online Guests

With advanced Bluetooth® connectivity and dual USB-C connectors, integrating phone calls and guests via communications apps on a computer or mobile device is incredibly easy on the RØDECaster Duo. Learn how these remote connections work and how to get the most out of them.

Using the SMART Pads

The RØDECaster Duo is equipped with six fully customisable SMART pads that can be programmed to perform a variety of functions, including triggering sounds, voice FX, mixer actions, and MIDI commands. Learn how to get the most out of the SMART pads.

How to Use the On-board Processing

Studio-quality APHEX® audio processing allows you to craft your sound and recording with better audio quality than ever before. Learn how to use each processor and tweak to taste using VoxLab™ or the advanced on-board editor.

Recording and Exporting Audio

Learn how to record audio to a number of locations, including an on-board microSD or external hard drive, or a computer, as well as how multitrack recording works and how to export your audio. 

Using RØDE Central

Download the RØDE Central companion app and learn how to use it to get the most out of your RØDECaster Duo, including device configuration, transferring recordings, programming SMART pads and more.

Updating Firmware

Learn how to update the RØDECaster Duo’s firmware, find past and current firmware information, and how to access beta firmware.