# Cast vs Riverside

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.

On speakers, the two are closer than the marketing suggests. Riverside labels one speaker per recorded track, and its own docs (as of September 2026) say plainly that it cannot tell two people apart on one microphone — the advice is to give each person their own mic. Cast asks you to label speakers by hand, and gives the same advice.

Where Cast pulls ahead is everything after the cut: music generated for the episode that ducks itself and carries a commercial license, loudness presets that actually target Spotify and Apple, stems export, and an original recording that is never overwritten — so any cleanup you regret is one Restore away.

- **Riverside only** — Remote multi-guest recording, captured locally per participant. Video.
- **Cast only** — Generative music with automatic ducking, in stems, commercially licensed. Loudness presets. Non-destructive — nothing is ever overwritten.
- **Neither** — Reliably separating two people recorded on one microphone. Use one mic per person.

## Related

- [Cast vs Descript](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/cast-vs-descript)
- [How do I separate two speakers in one audio track?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/separate-speakers)
- [How do I get my audio into Cast?](https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/import-audio)

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Source: https://mubert.com/tools/cast/docs/cast-vs-riverside · Cast docs
Last updated: 2026-09-12