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Riverside records it. Cast finishes it.
Riverside is a remote recording studio first — it captures each guest locally at high quality and then gives you an editor. Cast starts where recording ends. They are not substitutes: if you record interviews over the internet, the honest answer is to use both.
At a glance
| Riverside | Cast | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A remote recording studio with an editor attached | A finisher: cleanup, music, loudness, export |
| Recording | Multi-guest, local capture per participant | Browser recording, one mic — or bring files from anywhere |
| Speakers | One label per recorded track; can’t split a shared mic | You label by hand; same honest limit, stated upfront |
| Music | Not the focus | Generated per episode, ducks itself, license record on Plus/Max |
| Loudness | Basic export | Platform presets: Spotify −14, Apple −16, broadcast −23 |
| Your original | Track-based projects | Never overwritten; every edit restorable after export |
Where each one earns its keep
Riverside solves a problem Cast does not touch: capturing two people in two places at studio quality. Keep it for that. Its own docs say plainly that one shared microphone cannot be split into two speakers — advice Cast repeats, because it is true everywhere.
Cast picks up after the capture: per-speaker filler cleanup, pauses shortened to a beat, music that ducks under the conversation and re-balances after every cut, and an export that lands at the platform’s loudness with stems and a license record when you need them.
- Record there, finish here
- Per-speaker cleanup
- Music with a license record
- Platform loudness presets
FAQ
01How do Cast and Riverside compare in detail?
Riverside is a remote recording studio first — it records each guest locally at high quality and then gives you an editor. Cast starts where recording ends. They are not substitutes: Riverside sells you a studio, Cast hands you a finished episode. If you record interviews over the internet, use both — Riverside to capture, Cast to finish.
Read more →02How do I get my recordings into Cast?
Upload a file or record straight in the browser — files up to 1 GB each on paid plans, 200 MB on Free. Either way transcription starts automatically as soon as the audio lands, so you can begin editing by text without asking for anything.
Read more →03How do speakers work on separate tracks?
Cast does not auto-detect who is speaking. You label speakers by hand: select the text and assign a speaker (⇧S), or set the speaker for a whole paragraph. Speakers are saved to your library and reusable across projects, and each one can have its own filler-word dictionary.
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