4th Gen. Focusrite Scarlett Series Interfaces – Solo, 2i2 and 4i4
October 19, 2023
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I use Zencastr very often, but I almost never turn on the “Echo Cancellation” feature.
If a guest has headphones or earbuds, then there’s no need to use the Echo Cancellation feature.
If a guest does not have headphones or earbuds (ugh!) and is going to be listening through their computer speakers, this is the time to turn on the echo cancellation. And then Zencastr behaves just like Skype with regards to ducking one person when the other person starts to talk over them, etc. That ducking thing is possible the most painful thing for me to hear on podcasts. But I guess some people don’t notice or care. Whatevv
Anyhow, I recently did a session where I turned on the echo cancellation for the first time in a long time, and it worked really well. The person was able to listen through their speakers and there was no feedback.
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Cleanfeed Pro also has the Echo Cancellation feature, but fortunately I have never had any need to activate it so far. I avoid Zencaster since it still doesn’t support 48 kHz, and I don’t want to upsample it later. I know you have a good reason to prefer Zencaster (because it is an automated double-ender, while Cleanfeed Pro is not), and we are both right (for different reasons) why to choose the one we both have chosen! (I learned from you that although RINGR offers 48 kHz, it’s an upsampled from a much lower sampling frequency.)
I had too many issues with Zencastr. Strange artefacts kept on appearing.
I made the move to Squadcast and haven’t looked back.
I’m tempted by Cleanfeed, being British, but not enough to move yet.
Looking forward to trying Squadcast V2.