The Mixcast 4 allows us to easily feature guests on our podcast.
We have a few different options for connecting to guests: USB, ⅛-inch jack, and Bluetooth.
If we’re going to use a smartphone or tablet we can use either the Bluetooth connection or the ⅛-inch jack.
To pair our device, first we’ll open the menu, then select Input, then Bluetooth.
Touch Pairing to make the Mixcast discoverable.
Let’s open the Bluetooth menu on our phone or tablet.
The Mixcast 4 will be listed. Click that to pair the two devices.
And now we can see our Mixcast is connected.
On the back of the Mixcast is the ⅛-inch Aux jack,
which corresponds to the channel with the smartphone icon.
We’ll need to connect our device to the Mixcast specifically with an ⅛-inch TRRS cable.
TRRS cables are different than other cables
because they allow signal to be transmitted to and from the device.
This way we can hear the caller and the caller can also hear us.
Depending on the make and model of the phone or tablet we may need to get an additional connector
such as this Lightning-to-⅛-inch adapter.
If our callers will be coming from a PC or Mac we can still use the Bluetooth feature the same way.
Navigate to our Bluetooth menu options in the settings menu,
and then pair with the Mixcast 4, the same as we did with our mobile device.
If we’d like to feature our guests via USB we’ll open our computer’s audio settings,
and then set both the Output and Input to the Mixcast.
If connecting a caller via USB, we’ll need to open the menu.
Then select Hardware Settings, then Audio.
USB mix-minus is set to off by default so we’ll need to turn that on.
As we’ve seen depending on what device we want to use there are multiple means of
connecting a caller to our podcast with the Mixcast 4.
Once the signal is coming into the unit,
all we need to do is raise the fader on that channel and mix it into the overall production.
The mix-minus feature is active on all the channels we just discussed.
Mix-minus means we can eliminate embarrassing and unprofessional feedback
by automatically sending a clean signal from the Mixcast directly to our device.
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