How Wavecast works
Wavecast is the console beside the mic: one running order, one clock, and a log of what happened, shared live by everyone on the show. It never touches the audio — you record where you already record.
What it does not do
Wavecast never touches audio or video, and never asks for your microphone. You record where you already record, and a mark here is a timestamp on the session clock that lines up with that recording afterwards.
What is in the room
The same room whether you have an account or not, and the same room on a phone as on a desk.
A shared running order
Points, in order, with a planned length each. Everyone sees the same list, and anyone editing is writing into the same one. Drag to reorder it mid-show.
One clock everyone reads
A session clock and a clock for the point you are on, side by side, counting up past the plan rather than stopping at it. A hard stop shows how much of the hour is left.
Marks for the edit
One press puts a timestamp on the session clock — a fluff, a laugh, a retake — and labels it. It is a time, never a clip: nothing is recorded here.
A log you can take away
Everything that happened, in order and with its time: points started and finished, marks, breaks and who was in the room. Copy it out before you go.
Who wants in
Raise a hand without talking over anyone, and see at a glance who is ready, who is on a break and who has just arrived.
Breaks and hard stops
Call a break and the clock knows it is a break. Set the time the session has to end by, and everyone can see it coming.
Guests, with consent asked first
Invite a guest with a single-use link. They agree to be recorded before they are in, and they see the studio and nothing else.
Two to six people, any screen
Built for a small show. The same room on a phone in a booth as on the desk it was planned at, and it reconnects on its own if the network drops.
One episode, four screens
The same episode at four distances. Which of them are open depends on where the episode has got to, so the screen you are on is the thing you are doing.
Planning
The weeks before
Write the running order, agree a recording date, and keep the brief where everyone can read it.
Preshow
The half hour before
Links to hand round, a ready check for each person, and the last look at the order before you start.
Studio
The hour itself
The clock, the topic you are on, when the hour will finish and how long is left to the hard stop, and who is ready. The screen a guest sees, and the only one they see.
Producer
The same hour, other chair
The running order and the log side by side, for whoever is steering rather than talking.
With or without an account
Without an account
Start from the front page. Nothing is kept.
- A session is a link and a six-digit PIN. Anybody with both is a host.
- Write the running order in the room, together, while you record.
- Invite a guest with a single-use link. They agree to be recorded before they are in.
- Save an agenda into your own browser, and copy the log out, before you go.
- The room is wiped once everyone has left, and there is nothing to come back to.
With an account
A podcast, the people who make it, and its episodes. Kept until you delete them.
- Write an episode’s running order days ahead. The room opens on exactly that.
- An episode has its link and its PIN before anybody has opened the room.
- Members of the podcast go straight in as hosts, with no PIN to pass round.
- One calendar across every podcast you are in, soonest first.
- Archive an episode and the running order as it was actually run, and the log, are frozen as its record.
- An owner can delete an episode, a podcast, or the account itself.
What is kept
A session started from the front page keeps nothing. No account, no database: a room is a link and a PIN, and it is wiped once everyone has left.
A podcast keeps what its members choose to keep: the agenda for an episode and, once it is finished, the log of what was discussed. Guests are told before they agree to be recorded, and an owner can delete any of it. The one thing no delete reaches is a signed recording consent, which is evidence that somebody agreed to be recorded rather than a copy of anything.