 Hey there foundation staff shirm here in case you're new to the channel. My name is Sherman or the shirm. I Run site 42 Now the reason we're doing this is yay. We have 2k subs. So thank you all for subscribing and now because site 42 is not just about me It's about getting good scp stuff out there. I'm gonna show you guys I as requested a walkthrough of my recording setup or Excuse for recording setup that way anybody who wants to make scp recordings of their own Has a jumping off point now. I have the live chat pulled up I'm gonna answer questions after I'm done, but I want to get to the I want to get through the equipment quickly That way everybody gets the information before we get into the chitter chatter So just a quick story before I start the reason that I can do this that I have this idea is because When I there's a couple YouTube channels that I watch and like I focus the channel I'm kind of running the way they do kind of look at successful people and The three big ones that I follow along with as my like channel model our markiplier Matt Pat from game and film theory and Philip DeFranco. I figure they're giant successful youtubers So if I do what they do it will be a success so Matt Pat did a behind-the-scenes of their house for YouTube creator Academy and He like that it was downstairs It was their laptop and editing room and then he did a back behind the scenes of the GT live room And then he showed his recording closet because he still records in a closet that's been recorded Converted into a recording studio So that inspired me to set up my own particular Poor man's recording studio, and that's what I'm gonna show you guys now so that you can do the same thing because it's there's a little equipment You need to have if you want to do high quality recordings You have to have a decent mic But I'm gonna show you what I have now and I'll tell you a little bit about how I've evolved So first and foremost, I'm gonna switch the camera around to the front view And I'm gonna show you what it looks like before I sit down So this is my recording setup Back up. There's the chair. So this is what it looks like when I sit down to record now This is because I Like as you can see I have my laptop propped up on a thing that is because It is more convenient for me to set up my microphone here than next to an actual computer desk And I'll explain why I have that weirdness in a minute. So, uh, yeah, let's get down to everything we need You the first thing you need is a computer. This is my computer It is a basic laptop. It's not garbage. It's not like alienware or anything It's just a laptop. It does the job. Hi, you can see yourselves in the chat. Hi guys and So you don't need a super computer you just need a computer Uh Link to that now this back here. This is a focus right scarlet solo Microphone condenser now the only reason that I even know what a microphone condenser is is Because I had to find a way to hook my professional microphone to a laptop And so this little black thing you see in the bottom left is the microphone cord plugging into the condenser and That plugs into this gray cord which goes to the USB on the computer So you can't hook a real microphone up to your computer. You need a condenser now that Microphone cord which is bought separately from the microphone all accessories bought separately goes up to this microphone stand basic microphone stand and Up to this microphone here now. This is a sure s h u r e beta 58 a microphone Sometimes they'll run about a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars Now I only had this on hand because I was a wedding singer for a while And so when I was in the band I had to buy myself a microphone so I could be in the band and sing in the band so The it conveniently this is the like bread and butter stage microphone, but it can also be used for voice acting It's kind of middle of the road This is about as cheap as you can get like a lot of people use I hear like the term blue Yeti and I hear a lot of people talk badly about blue Yeti I'm not sure but like I've been told by audio techs that a sure beta 58 a is your basic starting this is what you should get as a microphone and Then you have to have a pop guard of some sort I got that later if you go back to season one and season two you'll see that I was not using a pop guard Season three is when I finally got a pop guard because I actually started getting some professional freelance voiceover work I do some corporate voiceover work and I needed to get a pop guard to update that and so benefit site 42 got an update as well Now we're gonna talk about This monstrosity This is an ironing board on its side. Yes, Sherman. We can tell that shut up and This is a blanket now if you were in a real recording studio you'd have walls that guard from echoes and I Don't have a real recording studio. So this blanket is trying to Dampen the echoes it does. I'd say a 90% good job one of our guest contributors is Viking guitars Eric Peabody and He pointed out that he could hear a little echo on my recording, but much less than usual So he was he thought it was he's a professional audio tech and musician And he thought it was good enough that he worked with me. So at least we got that going for us You'll need a music stand if just to hold your scripts This is again from my days with the band It is tall because I sit up with a chair now, but you could also get something that holds it like on your desk That way you can like read your script without your hands. That's very helpful So let's see Mike stand. I have an iPad that I keep my scripts on so I read from the iPad while I go You might if you're doing like a theater show, you'll have paper scripts, but that's that's for me and Then we have this setup here and Coming over the computer This is over here. This is my webcam because the laptops webcam kind of skips a little bit And I needed something a little more high quality So when I upgraded my phone Recently Thanks mom for the Christmas present. I Kept the old one and this is my iPhone 5 Which I use the front camera, which is a little lower quality But I can then see where I am in the frame, which is very helpful so that like you guys don't get my head cut off See beautifully framed photo right there And so I'll hit that button there and that is literally a Selfie stick that I was given in a vase Held up by some laundry so that it doesn't shake and fall over So we have selfie stick iPhone 5 for webcam and Then we have our laptop you should always have some water When you're recording because you're gonna cough and you're gonna work your throat like a muscle. It's exercise and Make sure you don't use cold water. I don't know if you guys know that You want to keep room temperature water because cold water will constrict your throat The same way you don't want to use soda or anything with sugar because sugar makes your throat sticky Bubbles make your throat Horse so room temperature water you can kind of get away from with tea But you want to do low caffeine tea because Caffeination tightens up your throat so Now let's be fair. I break these rules a lot. I'm always drinking coffee So at least it's warm, but it is caffeine This box here is to hold up my computer because I am six foot tall So for a while there I was hunching down to type But I am an old 31 year old man, and I eventually hurt my back by hunching over and stretching in weird ways to record so Everything with my recording setup is set to my height now that way I Can not have to hunch over and lean over Because then I'll you know hurt myself again, and that's bad you want to make sure you're comfortable while you're recording because you're probably gonna be doing it for hours on end and Make sure to get up and walk around and scrunch your shoulders all those kind of ergonomic things people do At in office jobs you want to worry about that as well So yeah, that is my entire setup Oh, I can tell you guys a little bit of what I what I used to do in the past So before I came up with this ingenious Ironing board and blanket idea. I used to literally record in a blanket fort In my blanket board I would set it up with luggage and the ironing board and I would literally sit under a tent and In that tent I would record the same same reason with the blanket so it would down out the echoes That was back hunching and bad. So we moved our way on from that Beyond that this Microphone this webcam used to be prompt on boxes and like propped up with like a pillow and like I had to set the angle Right until I was gifted a selfie stick because I mean I never ever wanted to buy a selfie stick But they are insanely useful So before I prompt it up on boxes. I actually left it here on Like sitting on the laptop. So this is what it used to look like Now because I'm six foot tall. I am taller than the camera when it's on my laptop and If you're in theater in film Or theater there's no cameras in theater if you're in film and modeling and photography. That's what I meant to say then Downward angles are always bad in Pictures you can always like see like the crumples on someone's neck and it's really not good for the visuals So an upward angle from above just like a my space angles Those are always better looking So you want to that's why my camera is now here because this looks a lot better than here Yes, you can see under my neck. It's all weird Now I look like I have a chin No chin Yes, chin So every little bit helps Is there anything else? Got all the tech got all the Before and after no, that's everything. So let me put this camera Right here and yeah, I'll leave it here whatever So, yeah now that I've gone through the walkthrough that was a quick 12 minute tutorial anybody Who wants to do SCP recordings? This is not the bare minimum, but I think at least a microphone that is good with an a What's the phrase I'm looking for with a echo dampener? This is pretty much the midi Minimum you need to record a high quality video So that is what I suggest. Let me get this so it sits up. Gosh darn it. There we go. Not gonna fall over now So oh the chat is glitching out. That is very unfortunate So I was gonna say let's do some Q&A If you guys have any questions about the setup, but it looks like the chat is having a problem So that is most unfortunate So what I'm gonna say is that if the chat is stuck if you have any questions about recording equipment Then Okay, if it's just Ellen whose chat is messing up then if you have any questions about audio equipment feel free to ask I'll hang out for a couple minutes Courts has made it just in kind. What kind of software do I use? That's a great question and we'll get more into that into the editing Tutorial that'll be next week. I say tutorial like it's not just gonna be a video of me Editing which is super boring, but I'll do it for you guys. I Use audacity which is a free program so All of this microphone is hooked up and then I just boot up audacity and record everything and edit everything in audacity There are definitely better programs with nicer Recording setups and effects, but I mean if it's free. It's for me. Haha Keep it cheap while we're low while we're low tech here Beyond that. Yeah, any other questions from the chat on audio? Tech, I think I've pretty much rounded it all out like I don't think I missed anything I've got cords and stands and Yeah, all right. So this was a pretty good good chat guys good talk So if anyone's interested in making their own scp recordings, how necessary is an audio interface asks penguinator? So clarify for me. Do you mean like the condenser the focus right scarlet solo in my case? Until the chat says Because the chat has a delay. Okay, so yes the audio condenser So to be a hundred percent honest, I have no idea why an audio condenser is necessary I am not knowledgeable about tech in that way all I know is that I needed something to get my professional microphone cord to hook up to a USB and When I typed microphone to USB it gave me a condenser so After I got it and had been using it for a while. I heard that it's very necessary So it's totally a thing you need to have It's just I didn't know that at the time and I don't really know what it does now Except when I hear condenser, I think oh it takes like all the sound and condenses it into a USB thing So, I mean that's what condenser sounds like to me So, yeah, pretty much you need it to get a microphone signal to your computer is what I believe Turns out that you don't really need to know you just need to have one So Is there any other technical questions anything about? Your recording setups at home Any questions about why I have something I have? See it really is like that courts tech is a hard thing to master you are Correct. There's so much tech equipment and like I have this now iPhone on a selfie stick in a vase with a Some laundry to hold it from shaking and I said that used to be luggage on a pillow as a Camera stand. It's just you keep building it up. Do I have a cat you see my cat tree? Yes, I do have two cats If you check out the site 42 holiday live stream, although I don't remember which episode so you kind of have to watch the whole thing My cat Jack-a-mo makes an appearance because he was really upset that I was taking up the entire living room for the recording setup And that was pretty funny So I have two cats. I have Jack-a-mo and Dora. They are twins. They are adorable and so Not technically an audio question, but cats are great. So, hey I know all I know how to set up as a graphic tablet anything else. I got zero ideas. That's okay I don't know anything about a graphic tablet Visual arts are not a thing. I know about I can performance art and I can do a little bit of audio tech But I can't draw anything Jesus, how many volts would it take to fish up a massive eldritch entity? It's requesting cheetos send help Okay, quartz Well We're not gonna see him again. It's not gonna it's not gonna happen Try try a nine-volt battery. Maybe that's what do the job So, uh, yeah, I think we are all set. We're at about 18 minutes Anybody who needed to learn about audio tech. This is your opportunity. Oh Okay, a bit off topic, but Dillagaff wants to know what I think of you two's new policy now Here's the big deal. I'm gonna give this speech now because It'll take less than two minutes and I already got the good part of this video done So here we go Number one I get okay before I give my speech Philip DeFranco yesterday talked about this in his show and I think his I think he's spot-on So that's like a really good look at what's going on. But the short version is a It's not about Logan Paul as much as about like hate groups getting ads on their videos and I don't think hate groups should have ads on their videos really and What's the phrase I'm looking for they They normally don't have a thousand subscribers. So I think that's what YouTube's trying to do is Get the people who don't have that many subscribers It is harder to get into the market But in the same token They're not grandfathering in people who already have it that's really rough that's kind of hard and I don't like that as much But if you have less than a thousand subs and you have less than 4,000 watch minutes To balance it out site 42 has just over 2k subs. Yay celebrate but we also have 335,000 watch minutes this month 335,000 watch minutes whereas You only need 24,000 watch minutes a year to Get into the program besides a thousand subs and Amazing Ellen just nailed my view on the head Which is if you're under a thousand subs and you're under 4,000 watch minutes a year You're making a dollar a month on YouTube monetization like You're just not making any money. So I understand it sucks to get kicked off like that's awful But in the same token You're you're not losing a lot if you're making like a dollar a month in monetization But I understand that I mean I site 42 started because my old old Video I just did for fun for voice acting demos to get jobs was SCP-231 and Because no one else had recorded SCP-231 at the time My video got 12,000 views over the course of a year like I left it alone and ignored it, but enough people watched it and The old bar to get monetization was that your entire channel just needed 10,000 views so I Because I had 12,000 views. I was like, oh, well, I mean if people are watching it. I'll just monetize it and I left it on and Then only after like another six months was I was like, you know what? This is a good way to make SCP things. I like SCP. I want to make the art for it I want to get other people to make the art and so I started building the channel from there But yeah getting a thousand subs is hard Um I Talked to Volkan I talked to East Side Steve. I talked to SCP illustrated a little I'm trying to like Personally for me in the channel I'm trying to like build the community and get everybody working on each other stuff rather than just kind of focusing on their Own because if we work as a community all of us have different talents and we'll make better art if we work together than a part Better art if we work together than a part but in that vein My talent beyond doing the audio work is marketing. I've worked in retail. I've worked in sales and I've worked in Communications and my ability is I am very good at marketing. I'm very good at hype There's once in a while There'll be a meme about site 42 over advertising And that's great. I love it because even though some people see me hyping my videos too much It's better than me not hyping my videos and no one else hyping my videos And every time I hype my video The normal people see it and so they see it a million times. Yeah, they're sick of site 42 being all up in their business But at the same time What's the phrase I'm looking for Every time I get someone new That means I succeeded and that's the goal is There's Tatt's top videos has five like I think they have like 500,000 subscribers uh Vulgan has 50k east ic vs 45k scp illustrated just skyrocketed to 11k some uh scp illustrated A makes a good product not a lot of people do like his storyboarding style of video So that's a good reason why he got a huge spike But you can't always depend on luck or Being in the right place at the right time with the right kind of art And so for all of those who for all of us who have not that style of luck or particular skill set that explodes advertising So that is a big deal and that's uh So yes for the entire youtube policy it comes down to go get some advertising Have I ever talked to nature's temper? I have talked to him once. Uh, we have not collaborated on anything yet, but we have like Messaged each other on facebook and been like hey, what's up dude? You're pretty cool. I like you So, uh, I gotta see about getting more people in the fold So, uh, yeah, so this uh, this was a 10 minute speech on youtube and marketing on the back end of uh What's the phrase I'm looking for your tech demo, so I hope you enjoy the tech demo all of that And then beyond that a little extra business talk, which is always good It's good to talk about the business and marketing and getting your thousand subs and We've dated the video a little bit with the youtube policies, but that's what we got to do so, uh Talking about youtube on youtube. That's how we do. We're meta like that But beyond that we've hit 25 minutes. I think this is a good place to cut the video I'm gonna be around on the discord all day. So if you want to continue chatting about stuff like this Let's take it off video and go into the discord server. So, uh Thank you foundation staff for hanging out. I hope this makes some of you guys Hope this helps some of you guys make better videos in the future Or helps some inspire you to make some videos of your own See you next time guys peace out And finger poke you in the face