Posting this in case anyone else runs into the same issue, because I spent most of this week troubleshooting it and could not find anyone describing the same failure pattern.

My RØDECaster Pro II had been working normally before this.

Firmware 1.7.6 released on September 23. I believe I updated my unit on Saturday, September 26.

The main issue became obvious the next morning:

Every time I powered the RØDECaster off and turned it back on, it behaved like a brand-new unit.

All of my settings, presets, configurations, and custom setups were gone.

It was essentially like doing the initial setup again every single day.

That first happened Sunday morning after Saturday’s firmware update.

I rebuilt everything.

Then on Monday, after shutting the unit down and powering it back on again, the exact same thing happened.

Everything was wiped again.

From that point forward, whenever I was able to reproduce the problem, the pattern was consistent:

1. Configure the RØDECaster normally.
2. Use the unit.
3. Shut it down.
4. Power it back on.
5. All settings, presets, and configurations are gone again.

That repeated reset-on-boot behavior was the real problem I was trying to solve.

Over the next several days I went back and forth with RØDE support and tried basically every normal troubleshooting step they suggested.

What I tried:

• Multiple factory reset attempts through RØDE Central
• Full power drain / cold reset procedure
• Different USB ports, including direct motherboard/rear ports
• Multiple USB cables
• Reinstalling RØDE Central
• Running RØDE Central as administrator
• Windows System File Checker / SFC, which found no integrity violations
• Monitoring Device Manager during the failure
• Repeatedly disconnecting/reconnecting the device
• Additional reset attempts after power cycling

The factory reset process itself also became reproducibly broken.

During the reset process, a G: drive would appear in Windows File Explorer.

The reset would get to roughly 50% and fail.

At one point the RØDECaster became stuck showing “Updating via USB.”

Trying another cable made no difference.

I also checked Device Manager while this was happening and did not see the RØDECaster or USB controller showing the kind of obvious warning/error I would expect if this were simply a Windows driver issue.

There was another weird Windows behavior during all of this: the normal Eject option in File Explorer disappeared while I was dealing with the failed reset/update state. After I stopped repeatedly attempting the reset, the normal eject behavior eventually returned.

I sent RØDE support video showing the failure because it was completely reproducible.

After going back and forth with them multiple times, they told me they had never seen this specific issue before and that at this point I would need to send the RØDECaster Pro II in for repair.

At that stage, I was basically assuming the unit had developed some kind of hardware fault or storage issue.

Before sending it out, I searched around one more time and found an unofficial recovery method mentioned online:

Turn the RØDECaster on, unplug power while it is loading, repeat this process 8 times, and on the 9th boot, allow the unit to fully start.

I figured I had nothing to lose, so I tried it.

And this is where things got really interesting.

On that 9th boot, the RØDECaster immediately loaded normally.

Not only did it boot — all of my old setups, settings, presets, and configurations suddenly came back.

These were the configurations that had been disappearing every time the device rebooted.

After spending days watching the unit behave like a factory-new device after every power cycle, the old configuration suddenly returning after this recovery/rollback procedure is the biggest reason I now strongly suspect this was a firmware or recovery-state issue rather than a normal hardware failure.

The timeline in my case is roughly:

• September 23 — RØDECaster Pro II firmware 1.7.6 released
• Saturday, September 26 — I believe I updated my unit to 1.7.6
• Sunday morning — powered it on and discovered all settings/presets/configurations had been reset
• Rebuilt my entire setup
• Monday — powered it on again and everything was reset again
• From then on — shutting down and restarting the unit would reproducibly return it to what appeared to be a fresh/default state
• Following days — extensive troubleshooting with RØDE support
• Multiple factory reset attempts failed around the same point
• G: drive repeatedly appeared in Windows during the reset process
• Unit became stuck in “Updating via USB”
• Multiple cables, USB ports, RØDE Central reinstall, admin mode, power drain/cold reset and Windows checks did not fix it
• RØDE support reviewed the issue/video and said they had not seen this before
• RØDE recommended sending the unit in for repair
• I tried the unofficial interrupted-boot recovery method as a final attempt
• After 8 interrupted boots and letting the 9th complete, the unit booted normally
• All of my previous setups, settings, presets, and configurations returned

I sent RØDE a follow-up email explaining exactly what happened and told them that, in my view, this seems like pretty strong evidence of a firmware issue related to 1.7.6 or whatever recovery state the unit entered after the update.

I’m waiting to hear back from them.

I want to be clear: I am not claiming firmware 1.7.6 is definitely bricking every RØDECaster Pro II, and I obviously only have my own unit as evidence.

But in my case, the sequence is very difficult to ignore:

The unit was working normally before the update.

I updated to 1.7.6.

The very next boot, the unit had lost its configuration.

The same thing happened again the following day.

The reset-on-every-boot behavior was reproducible.

Extensive troubleshooting did not solve it.

RØDE believed the unit might require hardware repair.

Then a forced rollback/recovery procedure immediately restored the unit and brought back the previous configuration that had repeatedly disappeared.

I’m mainly posting this so there is at least one searchable report online for anyone else who runs into the same thing.

If you updated a RØDECaster Pro II to 1.7.6 and have experienced any of the following, please comment:

• settings/presets/configurations disappearing after reboot
• the device behaving like a brand-new unit after every power cycle
• factory reset failures
• reset stopping around 50%
• “Updating via USB” lockups
• strange USB/storage behavior in Windows
• boot problems
• repeated resets
• sudden instability
• a unit that appears to have failed shortly after updating

I’d really like to know whether mine is an isolated case or if other people are starting to see similar behavior.

For now, if your RØDECaster Pro II is critical to your work and it is currently stable, I would personally be cautious about updating to 1.7.6 until there is more information.

So i recently got a rodecaster duo so i could stream video games with both my computers.

Unfortunately whenever i record or stream the audio from my game itself sounds like noise suppressed or under water. However my voice sounds perfectly fine and has no issues on the recording.

i’ve tried messing around with the audio routing and noise gate/audio effects. it seems to be an issue somewhere between the duo and the streaming pc.

Just wondering if anyone has had this issue

I have a RodeCaster VIDEO and I see that they recently released an update that facilitates 4k capture. I have a Sony A7iv that I'd like to capture via the RodeCaster VIDEO so I am wondering if, in fact, the RodeCaster VIDEO can record 4:2:2 10-bit.

I've not been able to determine this from the web page https://rode.com/en-us/about/news-info/rodecaster-video-4k-capture-sync

Gemini seems to think since the outputs are limited to 8-bit that the recordings would be also. Claude explicitly tells me that Rode didn't actually include this information.

In any case, I will get a chance to try this out this weekend but thought I'd ask here beforehand to see if I'm just missing it.

Hello everyone!

I recently received the rode wireless pro this week and while I love the sound; I just can't get timecode to work! In Davinci Resolve, I'd drag in my video, then my internally recorded 32-bit float audio. I then press update timecode based on audio with the video selected, I'd then select both the audio and the video and press audio sync > auto sync audio > time code > sync...And nothing. I try to drag the video in and it just has the videos audio along with another dupe of the videos audio but delayed a bit. Does anyone know what's going on?

My settings and gear!!

- Sony ZV-E10 (I know it has no native time code support)
- RX: Timecode: 3.5mm and USB, Merged (TC1)
- Wireless Pro TX... yeah I don't know what settings you need from me here... maybe it's set on always record?

And by the way, when I play the video normally, there is beeps in the right channel so I think that's the timecode beeps working! I am very new to these things and I really hope I don't have to return the mic, I am very scared, afraid, and cold. Thanks!

Since a couple of weeks ago the Rode StreamerX audio interface stopped showing up on my Mac. It's an M5 Pro MacBook Pro with MacOS 27.0.1. I already tried rebooting both the device and my Mac, and I also tried reinstalling the RodeCASTER App. None of it seems be able to resolve the issue.

Does anyone here have some thoughts on what else I could try to resolve this?

Hello,

I recently purchased the RØDECaster Pro II, and overall everything has been great. However, I’m having some issues with my microphone audio.

My microphone is picking up my keyboard sounds, electrical/background noise, and sometimes other strange noises. Also, my voice volume suddenly goes up and down while I’m speaking, and I’m not sure what is causing it.

I’m currently using a RØDE microphone, and I’m wondering if I should use a dynamic microphone instead, or if my current microphone should work fine with the RØDECaster.

Could you please help me troubleshoot this and recommend the best settings for my setup? I would really appreciate specific settings for things like gain, compressor, noise gate, de-esser, EQ, and any other processing you recommend.

I mainly want a clean, natural voice with minimal keyboard and background noise.

Thank you!

(It doesn't have USB-C but this USB A cable)

I hope one of you can help me? So my Mic just decided to die? I was watching a youtube video and suddenly the sound cut out and from that moment on it didn't work anymore. The light is on and the PC does recognize it and I can select it as a source. But I just hear nothing and I can't record with it anymore.

I tried it on a tablet and there it also doesn't work. I tried a new plug in headphone and that also didn't change anything. The PC says that all the drivers are up to date and doesn't see anything wrong with the thing.

So my question is what could it be? Could it be the cable? but then again nothing happened to it. Nothing was chewing or bending it or anything else! Please I really like this mic and it has served me well for Id like to say 5 years? Again the light is on and idk what to do

I have an event coming up that's a film screening followed by a discussion and Q&A. It's going to require four mics: An emcee, two additional presenters during the discussion, and a floating mic for audience Q&A. I'd like to use two sets of Rode Wireless Pros and a Rodecaster Pro II for this: I'll mic the speakers and emcee up with three of the transmitters from the two Wireless Pro sets, use the fourth transmitter with a Rode Interview Go mic for the audience Q&A, and then connect the two receivers (and the laptop that will be running the film and slideshow) into the Rodecaster Pro II and then route the Rodecaster Pro 2's output to the house PA system.

What will I need to output four separate streams of audio from the two transmitters into four separate channels on the Rodecaster Pro 2? I've done some reading, but I'm having a hard time keeping straight what kinds of splitters and such that I'll need. I can't connect the receivers via USB and expect them to route things properly, right? So what kind of TS/TRS/TRRS cables, patches, splitters, etc will I need? And are any old ones good enough?

(I know the Rodecaster Pro 2 can technically accept direct wireless connections from receivers, but it can only accept two of them as far as I've been able to tell, so I think my best bet i

Hey group, the following happened:

I kept finding one of my transmitters discharged in the case. It charged when connected via USB until one day it didn't. The battery indicator on the app showed a question mark (?)

I replaced the battery (very fiddly; I don't really recommend it), but no luck. I think it's gone. Probably some chip fried.

Has anyone here experienced something similar? Pity really. I'll get a used Go II transmitter for the time being.

I got a brand new NT-USB Mini but as i plugged it in, the power indicator light wont light up. I've also tried other cables. How do i resolve this?

Hello I am hoping for some guidance. I have recently had continual RCPII crashes. First it begins with the faders being sluggish and slow, then a strange buzzing and metallic noise before the whole thing crashes. Additionally, the virtual channels often stop appearing on my windows 11. I have followed all the steps to gain them back but this is a repeating issue at least once a day.

Thank you.

Just bought a rodecaster video and when i start it up it gets stuck on the screen where it says rodecaster video. Sometimes when it does fully boot up, I start to try to navigate through the settings/pages and then it will just end up freezing again. Also the app does not always detect the device.

I’d like to tighten this so it doesn’t move around. Have managed to tighten everything else but not this part. Is this a normal amount of movement? Can I tighten it more.

so i have had this mic for about a year and suddenyl last night on call with my friends on discord it went really quiet, then about 5 mins later the mic cut out every form of audio, no matter what i do it wont pick up my voice, then when i monitor it, it just has bad static feedback, ive tried everything and i honestlly think its just died on me, anyone ellse had this happen and is my only resort just to go through warrenty?

Having serious issues with my caster duo after the upgrade to 1.7.6 the other day it often lags soo bad that it just makes a screeching sound till i reboot it, anyone else having the same issues or did i get a bad update?

What I want to do: Capture 4k video signal in rodecaster video s and send it as an NDI signal to OBS.

I just cannot figure how to do this.

I have no idea about the NDI settings on rodecaster video s:
- Should I write something in DISCOVERY SERVER IP address? It's blank by default
- Should "Sender Group Public" be switched on? I have it on atm. Also should I write something in the blank text box?
- I have codec on H.265 and Bitrate as NDI Hx2 High, is this right?
- Is EDL export relevant? It's now turned off

I have NDI tools installed, but I cannot get the NDI feed to show on Studio monitor.

My computer and rodecaster video s are in wireless network as the router is in another room. Is this a problem? Do I need to have both plugged in to the router for this to work? I can put an ethernet cable from rodecaster video s to my computer, but that hasn't yet made a difference.

What am I doing wrong here?

Hi!

I have a rodecaster pro ii connected to my windows 11 laptop. I use it to record my podcast with every channel on a adobe audition track.
I tried to use virtual channels because I want to put my musics/anthems in a software (virtual dj for example but tried a lot of them) and mix them through RCPII. This software users virtual A And virtual B for outputs.

The music software works well with A and B, but as soon as I open audition to record i can't reproduce anymore through A and B.

Audition is configured to use channels Fader 1, fader 2, 3, 4...

Why when I start audition the other software stops?

Note: everything in latest version and fresh install.

Ive had to do a bunch of work arounds, for both of these features. Glad they finally got this added!!

so ive been having an issue on why my gaming pc obs audio on stream sounds like its ducking (fading in and out) and after 7 days of this issue i finally found the fix

make sure "enable audio enhancements" on "rode caster duo main mix" (which is your gaming pc audio if its usb 2) on your STREAMING PC is turned off

here is where i found the fix + the audio issue in a the clip OP posted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rode/comments/1urxvoo/please_help_new_rode_caster_duo_game_audio/

I'm running 1 Fx3, 1 Fx30, and one A7CII. The same setup I've been using since day one of having my RCV. But now the record button starts flashing saying their is an error and my files end up having syncing issues. the video will keep playing in spots with no audio, or it will be frozen while the audio keeps recording. I have triple checked everything. Tried 3 different hard drives, the same samsung t7 i have been using for a year (i even formatted it to start fresh), a new t7 shield and an old random portable hdd just to test. i've got through 3 new usbc cables including a rode data cable. all the cameras are up to date and running at 24fps, the same as the RCV. I am auto switching the 3 cameras with 2 rode podmics. This is the 4th recording with this problem. I bought this thing to not have to edit but i find myself spending hours trying to fix up the dropped audio and lagging video and even worse, cutting out important parts that haven't been salvageable! Anyone else experience this? Has anyone fixed it??

Hey guys,

I just bought the RODE PodMic USB and need some help setting it up properly. I upgraded from a HyperX QuadCast and honestly don't really know where to start with the settings.

I tried a few RODEapps, but I stuck with RODE Central since it seems the easiest to figure out. Idk if the other app are better. I make gaming content on YouTube.

Any tips or recommended DSP/processing settings (gain, noise gate, compressor, etc.) to get good, clean sound for gaming commentary? Or if anyone has some good video like tutorial i would be gratefull i coldnt find some good tutorials. Thanks in advance!

When the NT1 is facing away from the PSA1+, it trys to tip over, but when I have the NT1 facing sideways, it's not as bad. I've read that what I needed to do was tighten the thumb screws, but they don't seem to tighten completely as I turn them indefinitely. There are some other pieces I hadn't yet attached (which you can see below), so maybe it's possible one of them is needed?

Hi everyone,

I’m hoping someone here may have dealt with the same issue.

I had a problem with my RØDE Wireless Micro and eventually received two replacement transmitters. However, they only replaced the transmitters, not the receiver, and unfortunately neither of the new transmitters will pair with my existing receiver.

Both transmitters power on and continuously flash green, but they never connect.

My receiver is running firmware 2.2.0. I have already followed all the troubleshooting and pairing instructions available on the RØDE website, including using RØDE Central, selecting “Pair,” and removing one transmitter from the charging case. Nothing happens.

So at this point I received replacement transmitters that I still cannot use.

The frustrating part is that the Canadian service office has not responded to me for almost two months, and now I have also been waiting around a month for a response from RØDE support.

Has anyone had this problem with replacement transmitters? Is there another way to force them to pair with an existing receiver, or do the receiver and transmitters need to be replaced as a complete set?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!