Elevate Your Audio: Two-Way Recording with PASportVO

This week on The Pro Audio Suite, it's down to just AP and Robbo as they dive into a hands-on session showcasing the PASportVO—the ultimate audio interface designed specifically for voice actors and podcasters. In this special video episode, the guys demonstrate exactly how easy it is to set up and use the PASportVO for crystal-clear two-way podcast interviews and directed voiceover sessions with clients. From connection tips and best practices to a live demo of its seamless functionality, this episode is packed with practical advice to elevate your remote recording game.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Welcome to a special Passport...
what?
Let's go!
Welcome!
Hi!
Hi!
Hi!
Hello everyone!
To the Pro Audio Suite.
These guys are professional, they're motivated.
With Ted's The VO Stars.
George Whitton, founder of Source Elements.

(00:20):
Robert Marshall, international audio engineer.
Darren Robbo-Robertson and Global Voice.
Andrew Peters, thanks to Triboo.
Austrian Audio, making passion heard.
Source Elements, George the Tech Whitton.
And Robbo and AP's international demos.
To find out more about us, check theproaudiosuite
.com Line up, baby!
Here we go!
And welcome to another Pro Audio Suite.

(00:42):
Thanks to Austrian Audio, making passion heard.
And Tribooth.
Don't forget the code T-R-I-P
-A-P to get $200 off your Tribooth.
And of course, the Passport VO from Centrum.
Which is the reason we're here this morning,
to discuss setting up for a session with
your Passport VO.
Okay, where do we want to start, Robby?

(01:03):
Well, let's start at your end.
So what we're going to do, we're actually
recording this podcast as a demonstration of how
you might record a podcast in this situation
where you've got a guest and a host.
Or if you wanted to do, if you
were doing a two-way session, you could
just take out the recording you side of
things.
And you could, this is that.

(01:23):
So your end would then become how you
as a voice actor do a two-way
session on your Passport VO.
So we've both got our, using our Passport
VOs as our interface.
I am running Pro Tools, but Pro Tools
is quite happily and comfortably running the Passport
VO as my input and output, which is
nice.
Yep.
So I'm running through my Passport VO with

(01:45):
the CC8 from Austrian Audio.
Give that a plug.
As you can see on the screen here,
I'm barely, in fact, this is something to
be careful of with your Passport.
Don't get too hot with the levels because
you can see on mine, I'm barely hitting
the two green dots on the view.
So be mindful of that.
Also make sure your speakers are turned off

(02:08):
and you will see the red dot there.
So that's turned off.
I'm actually on mic two, as you can
see is illuminated there.
Yep.
And that's about it really.
So it's pretty straightforward at my end.
If I wanted to use comms, then I
could use the comms USB, the second USB
interface, and then I can patch it that

(02:28):
way.
If someone wants to talk to me on
a phone or whatever.
Yep.
But that's pretty well it at my end.
Yep.
So you're actually the audio engineer end and
I'm the talent end today, but that's okay.
So, I mean, the first and foremost thing
here is this has all worked from simply
plugging this in, all this stuff in, right?
We haven't had to change anything except for

(02:49):
change on your door.
What it's listening to is the interface and
it's the same for me here.
So if I was the talent, then in
that case, let's have a look at my
Passport VO here.
You can see my mic at the top
there and my mic input.
I have the two USBs connected at the
bottom here.
And one of those turned up on my
machine just as Passport VO.

(03:11):
And the other one turned up as Passport
VO comms.
So what I've done and I can share
with you here is here on Google Meets,
which is what we're looking at now.
All I had to do was go into
my input and output and basically just change
that so that my microphone becomes Passport VO.

(03:32):
And I can show you that down.
It's right down the bottom there.
Passport VO comms, sorry, is my microphone.
And Passport VO comms is also my speaker.
So that's that side of things.
And then here on Pro Tools, you can
see I just changed my playback engine to
be the Passport VO.
So that's now taking the input and output

(03:54):
and sending that to my Passport VO.
Back here on my Passport VO, I now
have the option to blend the mix of
Andrew and me using the comms fader here.
So if Andrew's too loud or I'm too
loud, I can change that mix.
That doesn't affect what's going into Pro Tools,
which is nice.
It only depends on what I'm hearing.
And I've got my headphone volume, of course.

(04:15):
And I can, you know, mute myself if
I don't want Andrew to hear me swearing
at him.
The other neat thing here for me is
that if you have a look here on
Pro Tools, when Andrew says hello, I can
actually record the comms side of this conversation.
So for whatever reason, if I was doing
an audiobook or if I had to edit

(04:37):
the session and I wanted to record what
Andrew was telling me, then that's a completely
separate track.
Everything's split 100%.
There's no blend.
There's no mix.
There's no anything.
So I can then go back and listen
back through the session and make the edits
that Andrew was asking or make the decisions.
Or if it's a podcast, obviously, I've got
nice, clean audio to edit and process.

(05:01):
So it's pretty simple.
And the other thing is for someone like
me, even though I'm playing the engineer today,
I'm not, if I'm doing a session, a
voice session, I can actually split and do
a stereo track and then use the comms
and the record, feed them into the same
laptop.
The comms will go to the right channel

(05:22):
and the record will go to the left
channel.
So if you're giving me direction, I can
leave that there.
Like they may want that session with the
direction as well.
So I'll just export a stereo file to
them and they can hear their direction when
they're doing edit points that they want or
pickups or whatever happens to be going on
during the session.

(05:43):
So that's another bonus of having the two
USBs.
Yes.
And the other bonus of having it set
up this way too is playback.
If with me being the talent, if Andrew
was the engineer and said, hey, can you
play back that last take?
And obviously I can't stop recording in Pro
Tools right now, because I'll stop recording the
podcast.
But I could stop my Pro Tools session,

(06:05):
go back and just play that last take.
And I don't have to change a thing.
Andrew will just hear it.
So there's none of this confusing.
Oh my God, what do I turn on
now?
What do I turn off now?
God, is it going to feed back all
those little panic attacks?
It just happens.
And again, from plugging in two USB ports,
that's all it took.

(06:25):
Because mix minus is one of those phrases
that basically you shit your pants.
Scares the shit out of people.
Mix minus, oh my God, playback.
But you don't have to worry about that
with Passport VR.
Yeah, absolutely.
Pretty simple.
It's a beauty.
I'm yet to find a flaw, to be
honest with you.
I've been playing with it a bit since
I've had it in my hot little hands

(06:45):
the last few weeks.
And I'm yet to find something that makes
me go, oh, that's a shame.
Yeah.
So, and I can honestly say that.
Yeah, it's great.
I mean, in fact, I've got mine set
up in this studio here.
I took out the SSL2.
Now it is my monitor controller.
It's for the laptop, which we're using now
for this kind of stuff.

(07:05):
So, yeah, that's how it's all set up.
Speakers, it's driving speakers, driving two microphones.
Yeah, that's it.
It's here.
Nice, as they say in Australia.
Nice, nice, nice.
Well, that was fun.
Is it over?

(07:27):
Andrew Peters.
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