 How about now? Now there will be sound on YouTube. There we go. Should we start this again? Let's have a do-over, shall we? So sorry about that. I should be going and just clipping out the first part of this on YouTube. Hello and welcome to the stream. Finally we should be there. So today we are talking about studio setups and namely my upgrades to my studio. And what I was saying was that this is going to be a bit of a different stream to regular because I'm going to be talking about the sort of setup that I've got at the moment and the planned upgrades that I have. And then I'm going to go straight on into a sort of unboxing of all of this stuff. So I've got quite a lot of gear here for in terms of lighting and things like that. Primarily lighting actually I should say. And so yeah, I'll be talking all about that and going straight into an unboxing afterwards. So what I'll do is I will be chopping the beginning of this video in any case in YouTube just because of that little error. But then I'll put timestamps so that anyone watching on the replay you'll know what the main sort of part of it is and then where I go into all the unboxing of all the different products. I am actually streaming to Amazon at the moment as well as YouTube. So yeah, because it's all sort of product related so I'll get into all of that. So just to recap the bit that was just missed and first of all, I'll just say a quick hello since I'm going to be going through this. Let me just say hello to everyone in the chat. Hey, Brian, great to see you here. Finally, we've got the sound. Sorry about that. Had a few tech issues before I started today. So I've had a bit of a reboot and I'm using the regular e-cam rather than the beta today. So just to try and avoid any potential issues. And yeah, great that everyone can hear me loud and clear. Okay, so let me just start this again and say that this was all prompted. The studio upgrades I should say were all prompted because of a recent episode of the Creators Podcast, which is the podcast I do with my Creators Pod friends. And we were talking about our studio setups and what I was talking about was, you know, my current setup and I moved into this space in this particular space here. I was streaming from our basement for best part of well all of last year actually from May till the end of the year. And then I moved into this space at the sort of beginning of this year. And it was always talked about as being phase one and phase two was going to be, you know, upgrading lighting and cameras and things like that. And I just never got round to it because there was so many other things just going on in general, in life, in business, all of this, you know, this year up until now. But when I was talking about it in the Creators Pod podcast and hey, Dina, great to see you here, one of my fellow Creators in the Creators Pod. And I was saying, you know, that these things that I was planning to do but just hadn't got round to it and probably I should and like one of them is my top-down shot. So I have upgraded my camera. I'll talk about exactly what I've done. But I always felt like because I was using Camo and I would have a mobile phone that I would use for the top-down shot. I always felt like it wasn't as clear as it could be. And as I'm starting to do a lot more stuff on Amazon, I did want to make sure that I had a better camera for that. So that was one of the things that I felt like was a bit of a necessity. But then, you know, I've been using the camera that I've got now, which is a, at this point, it's a 12-year-old model. It's the Canon EOS 60D. And that's the camera that I've been using all throughout my YouTube journey so far. And that basically is plugged in over HDMI. So I'm not using a capture card. Sorry, plugged in over USB. So I'm not using an HDMI capture card, which means that the camera is only outputting 720. Now, I stream, you know, full HD, but Ecam does a great job of scaling that up. So, but yeah, the actual output is only 720. So never mind 4K. It's not even HD, you know, full HD. So that's something that I've been intending to upgrade. But it's just been one of those things that the camera is there. It's switched on. It's got all of the settings set up as I need them. And I literally have not switched it off for, you know, well, apart from moving into the studio, but all of this year it's just been there and on all of the time. And so I saw no need to change it. So one of the questions that, oh, by the way, the lights that I've got, let me just give you a little quick tour of where I'm up to what I've got at the moment because that might help sort of put things into context. So here is my antique, my camera, the Canon EOS 60D. It is going through a Desvue T3 teleprompter and then for the actual teleprompter. I don't use it for teleprompting, obviously. I just use it for sort of be able to see the output. So I'm looking directly into that now. And then I've got the Lilliput A7 7 inch field monitor just down there. Now, this is actually, while we're on this subject, this is one of the things that I've always felt is, you know, could really do with an upgrade. And the reason is that I use this all the time for Zoom. This is what I primarily use my e-cam setup for, is for calls on Zoom and meetings and things like that. And so when you're using a small little teleprompter like that, or a small screen, it's great for one-on-one face-to-face meetings because then you're seeing the person sort of full screen. But as soon as you get into doing anything where you've got, you know, the gallery view or multiple people on screen, you know, meeting with four people, they end up being quite small little boxes. So I've always wanted to always plan to upgrade that to have a sort of bigger teleprompter. It was fine, you know, it's been fine so far, and certainly it's serviceable. But, yeah, having something that allows me to have more people on the screen in gallery view is something that I've got, you know, that I want to do. And that's actually one of the pieces of equipment that I'm not going to be demoing today as such. But it is something that I have got on the way. This is one of the things that's coming from the U.S. rather than everything else is in the studio from Thailand. So, but that is actually this. Let me just show you this whilst we're here to talk about it. This is the 14-inch teleprompter. So rather than this one, which is a seven-inch screen, this is a much larger screen. So it's a 14-inch for the, you know, diagonal of the diagonal glass as well. But it basically takes a much larger monitor down at the bottom. Now, it can support, you know, they show it there, I think, with an iPad. But what I've actually gone with is the Lilyput A12. So the Lilyput A12 field monitor. So at the moment I've got the A7. There is also an A811, which is actually a 10. I think the A11 is 10 and a half inches, whilst the A12 is 12 and a half inches. So it's actually, you know, although it's A11 and A12, the A12 is basically two inches bigger screen area than the A11. So that's the monitor that I've got. That should be plenty big enough to be able to have, you know, a really serviceable screen area to be, you know, to use for, as I say, really for things like Zoom. That's the primary use for that. One thing that I did recently, actually, that I don't know if I've actually mentioned anywhere, is that I did add this vertical monitor here. So this is, what's the name of it? Now, I always forget the name of this monitor. I've got it in here somewhere on Amazon in the carousel. So I'll just find it in here, so I can tell you the name of it. Where's it gone? I can't just remember the name of it. Oh, it's just down a portable monitor. I can't remember. I just quick say hello to James Hicks. Sorry if I'm going to be giving you all gas. Hey, all very great to see you here as well. And indeed, gas, gas, gas. Thanks. Great to see you here, Keely. This is partly your fault. One of my other fellow creators from the Creators Pod. It's not really, is it? But yeah, we were talking about this in the Creators Pod, and so that's what spurred me on to make these updates. But anyway, this is a small lightweight portable monitor. You can find all of these, the links to this in the description if you're watching on YouTube, obviously in the carousel if you're watching on Amazon. But this one is just mounted to a little arm. These are actually really great little arms. So I've linked to these down below as well. But these are really great. I think they're only about $25 or something like that, but I've got three of them. I've got one of them here. I've got one of them that's holding my road caster. So my road caster's mounted to one of those as well. But yeah, I was a bit dubious about them, to be honest, just because of the low price. But then when I actually got them, I was really pleasantly surprised in order to another two. So I'm using two and then one for my wife's monitor as well. But yeah, I like this because it means that I've got my, as you can see now, I've basically got all of my e-cam controls at the bottom there. I've got the chat here. And then I've got my camera just up above. When I'm on a Zoom call, though, I'll have the speaker view up there, and then the gallery will be down here. And so when I'm doing these live streams, you can probably see I'm kind of sitting over to the side. In fact, if I come over to this one, oops, let me try a different camera view. I've got a few today. So this one or this one, where's it gone? There. So you can see that I've basically got my large monitor here. But when I'm streaming, I kind of shift over to this side of the desk and have everything in front of me. But then when I'm working, I've still got my full sort of screen all over this side. So that was the teleprompter. And that was one of the things that I wanted to upgrade. And just because from a usability point of view. And by the way, I'm kind of justifying all of this because Dina asked a really great question the other day when I sort of mentioned that I'd gone and sort of ordered these things for the studio. And she said, it'd be really interesting to know, like after you've had it for a month or two months or whatever it happens to be, if it has actually improved your content. And I can answer that right away. It's not going to make any difference to my content. In terms of the lighting and the camera, it's not going to make any difference to the content. Maybe you'll see a few more sort of wrinkles and bags and demise and things like that with a higher depth camera that I'm going to be talking about in a moment as well. But in terms of the actual content, this is the whole thing that we have to keep saying over and over again is that, you know, really when you're making these videos, people just want to hear the information you've got. The video, you know, the content, the things that you're demonstrating and actually, you know, having a 4K versus, you know, whatever other resolution it is to a point doesn't really have any sort of bearing on that. But if you've got good quality audio, obviously, that's the main one that we always sort of hammer home. I had Laura Davidson on the live streamer backstage podcast. I did the interview two weeks ago and it went live to Amazon and LinkedIn. It'll be coming out on YouTube and as an audio podcast in the coming weeks. But one of the things that I mentioned to her was that basically my studio is built around the Shure MV7 and the Stream Deck. And I wish I had a sort of time lapse of this microphone being the first thing I bought with the Stream Deck. They've always been sort of front and center on the desk and everything else is sort of morphed and molded around those basically. So audio is the most important thing. So I'm just saying that again right now because all of these things that I'm showing these, there are other ways of doing all of this. But part of the reason that I've invested in this stuff right now is because I am doing a hell of a lot of consultations with people who are asking me specifically about these items. So it's important that I am sort of abreast of all of the technology and able to sort of talk people through it. And so the cameras that I bought, by the way, are a Sony ZVE-10. So that's going to be my primary camera. I'm still on the Canon at the moment. I'm waiting for the lens to come. So I've got the Sony ZVE-10 with the kit lens. In fact, that's this shot over here. Hello. So that one is the ZVE-10. At the moment, it's just got the kit lens on it. But what I'm going to be putting on there is actually the Sigma 30. A lot of people talk about the Sigma 16. I don't really want the really wide shot. And also, you'll see when people are using the Sigma 16, they're basically touching the screen like our arms length. Actually, my camera is double arms length away. And so the Sigma 30 will basically give me the same sort of crop as this without this sort of distortion. You also get more distortion on the 16 because it's a sort of wide angle. So the Sigma 30 is going to give you a much more natural look, frankly. So not that there's too much natural about this, but you know what I mean. So that's why I went with the Sigma 30 rather than the Sigma 16. And that's another thing that's from overseas. So that's on its way from Hong Kong at the moment. Whereas all of the lighting and stuff that I'll be showing you in a moment is all from here in Thailand. So it came pretty quickly. So yeah, that is just this caveat of you don't necessarily need these things. And just to sort of talk again about I had Lewis, Mr. Cameron Junkey, Louis Vega on the podcast yesterday. And we were talking about, you know, the MacGyver solutions that we come up with for our studios. And he's a master at it. I've got to have an entire stream where we talk about these things because a lot of people talk about the tech, the latest gear and the latest gadgets and all of that kind of stuff. But I'd love to hear more from like other people about the creative ways that they've come up with to, you know, solve problems in their studio. I'll just tell you, I'll give you a few sort of little behind the scenes things of mine. So here is my, yeah, my big monitor. Here is my AVerMedia live streamer boom arm. And then up there is the ZV-E10. Sorry, ZV-1, I should say. So that's what I'm using for my top-down shot now. And this is all sort of hung off my rolling monitor. But if I just sort of pop the thing over the back of the monitor, you can see that I've sort of got, it's actually bolted to a little wooden bracket. I've got another bit of metal sort of bolted on there that I hang stuff off. And then this is a sort of ball joint. And then that at the moment is stretched all the way over here because I want it to mount the camera off at the side. And those are some little pieces of metal. So when you look at it from down here, you just see the cameras poking out and the arm. But when you look behind, you see that there's a bit of a sort of hack job gone on in order to put that all together. So I'm all in favor of these sort of hack solutions. And so I think it would be a great stream to have with lots of people sharing theirs. And as I say, Mr. Camera Junkie himself has done some really cool little creations that he's used for his studio setup. But just talking about cheap and old gear. So there is my old 11-year-old, whatever it is, camera. And then over here, we've got my softboxes, my lights. And these are the lights that I've been using all along. But what is interesting about these, or maybe not, is that they do just have regular bulbs. So there's basically four holes in them, four slots for a regular light bulb. And so if you want it brighter, you just put a brighter bulb in it. So that is the lights that I've been using. And as I say, they've been perfectly fine. There's not much adjustment of them in terms of temperature or brightness apart from changing the bulbs out. But that nevertheless is what I have been using up until now. But I do want to sort of level up my lighting game. And so I'll be talking about all of this stuff that I've got down here in a moment. I'll be going through all of that. I'll just check in with the chat. Let's have a little look. I always have to catch myself saying that. I realize that the reason I say that is because it's the way that I talk to my kids. If they're coming with a scratch or something, oh, let Daddy have a little look. So now I say it all the time in my live streams, let's have a little look then. Hey, Chris, great to see you here. No problem. Sorry, you're late. Well, I was a bit late starting, so we're all good there. Hey, Eileen, great to see you too. And how the pavo tubes compare to Aputure. I've been looking at Aputure lately. To be honest with you, I don't think there's a huge difference. So I've gone all in on Nanlite. I'd already got a couple of Nanlite fixtures. I like the product range that they've got. And so that's why I've gone all in on Nanlite. But Aputure are also great, same with Godox. They're all sort of on the same sort of level I would imagine. There are some higher end stuff as well, but all rather on the same thing. You like the digital. Everybody likes the digital clock, James. Everybody likes that digital clock, the one that I've got on top of my thing. Where's it gone? There we go. Yeah, that one. And it's funny, I've seen a few people who've got those related, have got those in their studios as well. So I think other people do. I've got to be careful with my pronunciation here. A nice big clock on top of my monitor. Hey, David, great to see you here. Yeah, I'm like that. I love geeking out and seeing people sort of behind the scenes thing, because we always just see the one present, the thing that's being presented. And that's another thing that Luis talks about is the cone of cleanliness, which is everything that you can see within the sort of the cone emanating from the camera lens has to be all neat and tidy, but then it can be a bit of a bomb site on either side. We're outside of that. Hey, Michelle, great to see you here. Oh, we've got nearly all of the creators pod in the house. Little looks are your favorite part of my stream. We did indeed go shopping. Okey-dokey, so I thought then what we'll do now is have a big look, rather than a little look, at some of these lighting fixtures and exactly what I've got and why. So I have been using the pavo tubes for a while now. That is the pavo tubes are the ones that I'm using right behind me. So that is what is giving the sort of wash onto the wall there. So that is those two pavo tubes. I've now got another couple of those, because what I wanted to do was where I've got those light panels on the wall. Sorry, the acoustic panels, I should say, that are on the wall behind me. And then I have the backlighting. So the backlighting is just some, I don't even know the brand, some off-brand LED strips. Unfortunately, Nanlite don't make LED strips just yet. So if they do, I will be getting straight onto that path as well. But these are the Nanlite pavo tubes. And yeah, I wanted to have a couple that are actually project light onto those two panels there, because I felt like they sometimes look a little bit on the dark side. So I wanted to add some light to those. So these are the Nanlite pavo tube six Cs. As I say, I've got two of those already behind me, but I'll just show you what is in the box for these. And I can actually now utilize my top-down camera. And you'll see part of the reason for this is that I want to have a better, more clear image going on for the top-down and be able to focus on products and things like that. That's something that, yeah, I wasn't doing it effectively before with my camo and just a camera. But in the box of this, you get, obviously, the little instructions. There is going to be quite a few unboxings going on today. I should have to tell you, give you four warning if you joined a little bit late. And so then it comes in a nice little sort of carrying case and got a little thing that you can screw on the bottom there to hold it with. And then inside, you've basically got the pavo tube like that. What I like about this is that it is actually magnetic. There is, you can see here, you get these little metal plates. So what you can do with those is actually put some sort of sticky plastic on the back or double-sided tape, I should say, on the back of them. And then you can actually mount those to, you know, stick those to something. And then this will just connect to it. So you've got magnets all the way around. In terms of the functions, it, once you switch it on, you've got basically RGB. So this is, you know, full RGB, obviously white. So you can change the temperature. You can go from, yeah, from what's the limits on this, up to 7,500 Kelvin from, there you go, 2,700. So you can see the sort of difference in temperature there. And then the other things you can do with this are obviously the hue, you can change the hue. And once again, you can do that with the different saturation. So if you want to, you know, just a part of this, I can come in and change the saturation. So it's still this hue, but just sort of less intense, add more sort of white into the mix. And then there are also effects. I don't really use these too much, but there is things like the hue loop. Although having said that, that is what I've got going on with the little one in the background there. It's sort of cycling through. That thing over there is a non-like 30th anniversary lamp. But in there is one of the pavo bulbs. And the pavo bulbs basically are a regular style light bulb that just screws into a light fitting. And then you've got all the same control as I'm just demonstrating here with the pavo tube. So that one I've got actually doing a hue loop where it's just going cycling through the colors and then the same on the one on that side as well. But yeah, I digress once again. They can basically go through a series of other different effects. So as well as the hue loop, then you've got other effects such as, you know, things that you might need for, you know, lighting things if you do movie filmmaking and stuff like that. So this is the welding feature explosion. So it'll just do random explosions, fireworks. So obviously simulating these are simulating effects. Bad bulb. I always think that's funny. You buy an expensive light and then you can basically simulate it being a bad light. Then disco candle, light, fire, paparazzi, TV, police car. You get the idea of load of different effects, basically storm and so on. So yeah, they're really nice lights. They're nice and portable as well. I also like these for when I'm traveling, although I don't do that too much, but on the few occasions in that since lockdown that I have been traveling, then I'll take these with me and they're great for sort of zoom calls. So if I'm doing zoom from a hotel or something like that, then just being able to have like one of these on either side of me to work to give me better lighting, basically, because usually the way hotels are set up, you're always sort of at a desk, stuck towards a wall. So the lighting is really terrible, usually behind you. Whereas a couple of these on either side really sort of improve that as well. So yeah, really, really nice lights. These ones are, they've got a battery life. I think it depends on obviously how you have what sort of intensity you've got. It does actually tell you the battery life on it. So this is like saying, it's just out of the box. So it's saying 0.4 hours. But normally, I think if it's on sort of full intensity, you're looking at around about two hours. But if you're down to a really low intensity, like something like 20%, for example, then now the time's just basically gone up by 40%, 50% or more. So they can last for ages. But they do also have a USB on the back. So USB-C. So actually the ones that I've got behind me are just permanently plugged in and they're powered that way. The other thing that I really like about the, the other thing I like about the NanLite products in general is that there is the NanLink app. Now that works on a mobile phone, but fortunately on the Mac since Monterey that they introduced this where you can actually run mobile apps on the computer on your Mac. So what I've actually got is I've actually got the NanLink app running on my Mac. And I've just realized now I'm saying this, Keeley, I did see your message and I completely forgot to get back to it. Keeley was asking me about how to set this up. I'll get back to that a little bit later today. But yeah, the NanLink app basically allows you to control these lights from your, from your mobile phone or your Mac. So if I just show you what this looks like, I can bring it up here. So here is, I've basically got this instance of the NanLink app running. So this is a mobile app running on the Mac. And here you can see I've got some different lights connected. I haven't connected all of the new ones yet, but this is basically where they'll all sit. And then you can go into any one of these and then you can change all of the settings. So just as we were looking at there, you know, the different effects mode. So you can come in here, change all those effects, change the color, change the color temperature, the hue and all of that sort of stuff. And it can all be controlled from here. But what you can also then do is, once you've got these all set up the way that you want them, you can actually save that as a preset. So you can click on the, this little icon here and then come into this one preset and then seeing presets and you can create different presets. So you can see that here I've got one for my live streamer backstage podcast. So when I click that, it just sets all the lights up and triggers them all to go to what they need to be for the background for that. And then you've got this one's for Zoom. So that's the setup that I have when I'm on a Zoom call where I don't necessarily want all the colors. This one's for the Sunday session, which is a stream I do on Amazon as well, talking about products. And so then I've just gotten four lights off and then this general purple background I've actually deleted some of these. Once I've got all these of the lights set up, I'm going to just go and redo all of these so that they're all then included. But then that means that you can just basically click on one of these and it will just go ahead and change all of the lights. So that's basically how that works. I'll just pop into the chat a minute once again. And you've got the Pavotube T8 and C6s for accent lighting. Yeah, I love all the non-light stuff, to be honest. And I'll talk through some more lights in a moment. What are the tubes behind you mounted to? Can you send a link? Yeah, I will send a link. I haven't actually got that in the thing. Let me just go and grub them though, shall I? That might be an idea. Let me see which camera should we have. That's flickering a little bit, isn't it? Wait one second, let me try and fix this. I did a bit of a reboot before I started this. Everything was going wrong. I should be able to just fix this for you though. Let me get that right. A weird flicker going on. That's a bit better, isn't it? Just bear with me one second. I'm just closing this down. That should work a little bit better. Okay, I'm just going to disconnect for a second. So these Pavotubes, sorry to just dazzle your eyes with them. Let me come back to this one. There we go. It's mounted to this, which is it's kind of like a mount for a dual flash effectively. So you'd have this on the top of your computer, on the top of your camera or a stand like this rather, to actually mount two flash lights really generally before in a photography studio. But I've just basically used this and then mounted the two Pavotubes to that. So that's effectively what's happening. You can see the effect by the way of what's happening with the background. I've just used a grey wall. Obviously I can't remember the code for the grey offhand, but thanks to Doc for figuring that one out for us. And then basically any colour that you sort of throw onto the wall is then going to be sort of absorbed by it or reflected by it, whatever it is, so that it gives that sort of colour. So this is these two lights that I'm using and basically just by changing the colour of these is affecting the sort of tone on the back wall. So let me just stick this back for a second. There we go. This is what I'm using. I'll find the link for that. Oh, thanks Dina. Winchester Grey is the name of the tone of the colour there. Hello, great to see you here. Transplant Helper. Let me know your name as well so that I can address you properly and remember your name. I'll try and remember you. I say that every time, but then I don't always remember, but I'll try my best. When you see behind the scenes you like comparing cable chaos, do you know what? When I first moved into this studio space, that was something that I wanted to nail down and get it all nice and tidy, but then as soon as the roadcaster came in, let's just talk about cable chaos while we're here, shall we? Because what happened with the roadcaster is it introduced a whole load of cable chaos, so just down here is where it's most chaotic. I've also got behind here my Mac Mini, this is going to go upside down. Let me try and do this. My Mac Mini is kind of tucked away behind here, so it's a bit of a mess behind there. I definitely need to work that out, but I always felt like, well, I'll wait until I've got everything set up and then I'm going to just tidy it because I'm one of those people who's really picky about cables, but for the time being I just thought, leave it and we'll fix it all after. But that is the Nunlite Pavo Tubes anyway, so yeah, I'm a fan of those, they're pretty cool. Chris is saying iPhone apps on a Mac do tell more. If you just basically search in the Mac App Store now on your Mac and search for like Nanlink, for example, in this case for the Nunlite app, it will show you any iPhone or iOS apps that are available to be run on your Mac and it will tell you which ones are I think there's even a little button at the top that shows you. In fact now that I'm telling you, let's just have a look, shall we? So if I go into the App Store this is all very much relevant if you want to search for the Nunlite app or any other iOS app. I'll come over to here it's not, oh I'll tell you what it is I've got Trip Mode on that's blocking the App Store. That was that was very clever of me, there we go if I could put that on give that one access. Trip Mode, if you don't know it is a great Mac App that basically allows you to control what has access to your bandwidth, so that when you're streaming you don't want it doing things like Dropbox updates, iCloud updates, all of that kind of stuff and so Trip Mode allows you to basically just only allow certain apps to talk over the internet whilst you are live streaming although I have got an upgrade in my bandwidth I, Doc mentioned recently about this thing of the internet companies don't automatically just upgrade you to the best package they wait until you ask them don't they and I thought yeah do you know what it's been a while since I asked because I do always ask but I haven't asked them for a year or so and we've been on 100 meg up 100 meg down here in Thailand and so I called them and now I've got a gig up and 100 meg down or 100 meg down and a gig up rather I'll pick it up, let me say that again a gig down, 500 gig up is what it is and they actually reduce the price of the package as well so I'm pretty glad that I've remembered to ask about that having been reminded by Doc and the other thing just to make you all sick is that's about $20 here in Thailand so internet's pretty quick here anyway I digress so let me come over to the App Store so if you are in the App Store and if I just search here for Nanlink because this is very much as I say relevant for this so here you can see I've just done a search for Nanlink and can you see over here how we've got there's Mac apps but then also it says iPhone and iPad apps so there is no Mac apps so it's just defaulted to that but when you do any search you can always look there now it's not all iOS apps so some iOS apps won't work on the Mac but a lot of them will unfortunately for me this Nanlink app is so that was one that I was able to sort of download from the App Store so yeah it's just up here Chris that's where you'll find it just up at the top Mac apps and iPhone and iPad apps so yeah great for anything that you would normally use on the iPhone that you want to now use on the desktop okay so let's go back over here I'll just finish going through these comments hey Elaine great to see you oh thank you I really appreciate the comment there oh thank you very much Elaine I really appreciate the comment I'm sorry for if I'm giving anyone a bad case of a gas gear acquisition syndrome I will say once again just to reiterate I don't think this is going to make any difference to my content as such apart from the high quality top down shot and you know a bit of a high quality in here but it's something I need to do to be up with the latest stuff to be able to help advise other people on this kind of thing oh look at that this is always the way I always get to the answer that somebody else has given before me as we go through hey Parker great to see you here I know I've got feet and legs and everything yeah so where are we now just come around here Jim thank you finally got to it great to see you Jim thanks for stopping by and oh thanks Doc thanks for dropping the link into the paint that's exactly the one well with it oh thank you Keely you're so sweet you went and got the link and even used my affiliate link with it that's some awesome oh you learnt about tripmode in Doc's stream earlier well let me tell you a little secret shall we most of the stuff that I talk about I learnt from Doc too so pavo tubes why am I using those Doc told me Nanlite 4s are 60 that I'm going to be using later use that Doc told me most of the stuff that I talk about is it some way come from Doc in fact a load of the initial videos that I made on my channel was stuff that I'd learnt about ecam and things like that and I'd learnt that all from Doc as well so yeah I'm often only just remaking stuff that he's already done oh good well you can't speak to a better person than Keely when it comes to all things discord so yeah definitely have to hook up with her so there we go so that is the Nanlite pavo tubes I am going to get through doing all of this other stuff now in order to do that I'm going to do a few sort of unboxings of some big items and one of the things that I wanted to do and part of the reason for this is because I am starting to do more stuff on Amazon and I'll just say a quick hello to always actually Dina Dina's in both places thanks for following in both places and over on Amazon so I'm just looking at Amazon as well drop a little comment in there there we go so yeah in order to do product demos and things like that yeah Doc I I haven't sent to the receipt yet so she's good for the time being yeah Doc told me is your mantra same as me Elaine so yeah one of the things that I'm going to be doing is more product demos and things like that on Amazon specifically I'm not going to turn my YouTube channel into an entire unboxing channel where I talk about tech gear I'm going to still be doing the same sort of stuff and yes regular video scheduling will resume shortly it won't just be the podcast either so that's part of the reason for getting all this set up is to just go full on into that and in fact I've nearly finished recording the episode I've got my last podcast episode to record next week and then that will be me good all the way through till February for the sort of weekly feed of podcasts so for the rest of this month and January I'm just going to be focused on regular YouTube content and some other courses and stuff like that but anyway I digress once again so all of the content I'm doing for for Amazon sometimes this microphone gets in the way and you know it's not ideal for doing sort of unboxings because you end up knocking it and stuff like that and what I actually wanted was I have already got a wireless I'm sorry a lavalier mic so I've got a road lavalier go I've also got it a sort of an extension for my router just underneath here which is basically an XLR cable coming out and then what I use is the VXLR pro from road and that basically looks something like that and it's got an XLR on one side and then it's got a sort of jack there to plug in a 3.5mm TRS jack into there so I can plug in the lavalier mic but even that one if you ever look for these on road website or on Amazon there is three different ones and there's one that's called the VXLR pro the VXLR and then there's another one called something else and basically it's the the one that is the most expensive actually the top one that you probably just want to get just to future-proof yourself because the first lowest level one can't do phantom power I think that's part of it and the other one is not good for if you're running it like over a long cable so if this is plugged straight into the back of the ROCASTER it's no problem but if you wanted to have it on an extension or run it over a longer cable then this is the one you need so there's basically three of them and it is just the top one out of the three that I'm using but basically yeah it's got a little clip on it as well so you could sort of clip it over your belt clip the XLR into the bottom of my coming out of there so that is something that I've used and so so yeah I beg your pardon so doc is saying the pro plus is the the last one so maybe I've got the second one then but it's this one still will work over a long cable and doc's got to of course you have to so that is what you can use to use a lav mic but even then it's still a bit clumsy with a sort of cable running over so I did want to get a wireless solution also because I've upgraded my cameras so as I say I've got the ZV-E10 which will be going here when the lens arrives and I've got the ZV-1 for up top so I wanted to also have that to be able to take that off to do sort of product demos so one of the things that I've also bought is again once again a recommendation from doc is the Ulanzi claw so if I just come to my top down for a moment these are pretty cool I've already got a couple but they're actually on there at the moment so these basically this is the there's two different, well there's a few different versions actually but this one in particular is oops let me get this out so it's basically got a this one's the one that will fit on an Arca swiss plate so I've got my tripod here so this is going to be for the ZV-E10 to go on to where this will mount on to the plate and then it's got this that screws onto the bottom of the camera and then you've got these little quick release things on either side so you basically just mount that to whatever it is, in fact if I get the other one out because I'll show you the difference between them so there's another one that is intended just to go straight on top of the and by the way you can find the links to all of these things in the description as well if I just open this one up I'm not someone who necessarily always cuts these nice and neat especially not when I'm on a live stream but if I take this one out of here the difference between these two is that this one you can see has the the little grooves on the side to just go into an Arca swiss and this one doesn't so another thing that I've got over here somewhere is the Ulanzi MT-16 I use these already for just for mounting when I'm using those pavo tubes when I'm travelling so I'll have a couple of these as well and so these tripods then I use to just sit on the desk and they're pretty good they're just plastic Ulanzi MT-16s but they do work pretty well but I'll just show you now how like this then in fact I think Ulanzi make one of the claws actually with the quick release built into it but this one just sort of screws on here like this and so then all you do is you've got that like that and then you just screw this plate onto the bottom of your camera and then it will just sort of lock into there like that it does also have a lock on here as well so you sort of squeeze on both sides to release it but then you can also sort of lock this by moving it to that side and now that won't come off even if you're pressing it so it just sort of lock it into place but it means that you can easily sort of flip these things from you know one device one you know mounting to another so as I say I'm going to have my camera will be on one of these on the here the Sony straight ahead of me when I get the lens the ZB1 is already on one up at top mounted to the arm but then it's going to mean that when I want to do sort of product shots and things like that I'll be able to easily just unclip it because I like the fact that at the moment my studio is all great everything's set up but it's not great if I want to actually take the camera out and do something else with it so I'm going to be doing more of that going forward and so yeah these little Ulanzi claws are really really cool for doing that with so pressing again but the thing that I wanted to be able to do then is when I am using this you know using my camera on this tripod to do product shots and things like that there's also some stuff that I'm going to be doing outside so I've got a drone manufacturer that is wanting to have some sponsored videos done where I'm basically making a series of videos about drones and that will be on my main channel it will be over on Amazon but nevertheless some of that's going to involve outside work as well so once again a need for using the camera with a sort of tripod and sort of a handheld situation and I wanted to have this sort of wireless audio I know a lot of people talk about the road wireless goes there's also the DGI there's quite a few of these products that are coming out now on the market and I did the sort of research on all of them and the one that I decided on was this it's the small rig what's the name of it now the small rig Foravala W16 So I'm going to just do this and what I'm going to try and do is we'll actually hook this all up to the ROCASTER and then you can judge for yourself what the audio sounds like because yeah one of the things that this doesn't have that the road wireless go does have is the road wireless go records to the device itself whereas this one doesn't that was a sort of trade-off that I was happy to make these are $200 at the moment on Amazon they there is the road wireless goes I think are I don't quote me I don't know I think they're more like 300 and something though so these are considerably lower cost they also do actually come with lovelier mic as well so the package that I've got these at did actually include the two love mics but anyway I should just show you what these are looking like in fact let me just I can even zoom in on it a little bit there we go so let's open these up and I'll show you what's in the box and I'll get it all connected up for you one of the things that I love about this as well as it coming with the the love mics in the way that I bought it there's no love mics in this box but they do come with these Seymour which are a sort of affiliated company with small rig or owned by the same parent company but what I love about this is that they do actually come with their own box so you've got a box here is that a little bit dark just adjust this not used to all these settings just at the moment so we get on to that but yeah they do come with this box here and so when you open it up it's got the transmitters and then the receiver built in what is also really cool about this is now this isn't a charging box by the way so there is some charging boxes that you can get for the the road wireless goes for example where you drop them in and it does charge them so this isn't a wireless charging there's no battery in it however it is a charging case so there's a USB-C socket on the side and we'll look at the fittings that you get with it there is a USB-C socket on the side just there but what's cool about it is look at this as well as that they've also built in this one so it's got a USB-A sort of built into the case so you can just sort of plug that in so I like the fact that you don't have to necessarily think about carrying a USB cable with you it's just got one built into the case itself so I thought that was a really nice little design trick I do like you know I do appreciate a good design when I see it so it was good to see that just come to those in a moment also in the case what you get in here is obviously the the cables and there is a USB-C a USB-A to USB-C charging cable in there and then you also get the cables to actually connect the transmitter which we'll look at in a moment or the receiver I should say you get two cables like this and one of them is basically it's a TRS on one end to TRRS so this would be a few using it with your mobile phone and then there's also this one different colour nicely colour coded which is basically TRS to TRS so those are the same connector on either end and that would be if you were connecting with your camera also in the box and it's this red one that we'll be using to connect to the ROCaster in a moment also in the box you've got these these really cute little sort of wind moths windshields and I'll show you what that looks like that does make them look rather cute when it's on I need some little googly eyes to put on it let me show you how that looks though I do like the design of this I like the design aesthetic so that's what it looks like at the front it's got the little clip there that you can clip onto you know clip onto something it's also the right size for a sort of cold shoe so it will actually just sit right on top of the camera I like the little display that it's got on the front some of these have the display on the top well if you're standing with your camera and you know you're sort of looking at the camera and this is looking at you you can actually see what these settings are without sort of looking down at it for that sort of way but I do really like the aesthetic of that it's got a very nice little look to it if I switch it on so on the side you've got the USB-C so it's got a charging cable there as well once again more options so effectively there's three ways to charge this charge it in the box with the USB that is built into the box charge it in the box with the connector on the side the USB-C connector on the side or you can charge each one individually so you can charge the receiver the transmitters individually because they've all got their own little USB port on the side as well you've also got the power there and the output if I switch the power on you'll see that this sort of comes to life there you go that is the little small rig logo and there's the screen and so you've got the information on the front of here so let's actually connect one of these up now and I'll take the take the transmitters out so these are both exactly the same they're a bit of a smaller form factor so they're about the same sort of height if you like as the the road but they're just not as wide so they are a little bit smaller again on here you've got a charging port on the side and you've got an input for a lav mic and once again they've provided the lav mics as well and then the actual mic itself would be on the top if you're not using a lav mic so this could clip onto your top or something like that and once again I just like the design aesthetic of it it is plastic and the front here is there is parts of metal but the actual sort of the little bezel around the outside that's all plastic but then the bit in the middle there is metal so it's a combination of metal and plastic but yeah it does feel quite nice feels quite lightweight as well so if I turn this one on you'll see this one comes to life as well and then you can see it's actually starting to pick stuff up now let me show you the little the little moth that goes on the top little wind shield it's a bit hard to find it's got so there we go there's a little thing that locks in so you can see that there's that little place to lock it in on the top and so if I just put this on here and give it a little twist is that not the cutest little microphone you've seen it just needs a couple of eyes on it and a big smile I think but anyway so it does work as I say with just the regular microphone on the top but you can also plug a a love mic into it it perhaps will I did do the research on so Doc's asking if it will clip you'll find out we'll see I did do the research on this one along with the others and yeah we'll see it's probably going to be fine for my needs it's not necessarily going to be perfect audio or anything like that but yeah hey Steve it's great to see you here I was just saying earlier that yeah I've got my last recording of a podcast coming up and it's indeed with Mr Steve Worthy himself so yeah let me see where we're up to oh you got the same the what's it called the VXLR Pro for the the ROCASTER that's what Doc's talking about there thanks for all these links Keely you can by the way anyone watching on the replay you can find all the links in the description as well much appreciated yes for I do like these small rig things and they've got lots of you know got everything you need in there with it so we'll see right okay so let me try connecting this up and we'll see how it goes so the screen does go off when it's you know after a while so you can just press the button and it'll come back on again but it's sort of power saving so it's still transmitting but it's just that's not on at the moment so and what you'll see is on the device here can you see how it's you can you can see as I speak into the mic you're actually seeing these sort of levels going up there and then it also shows you that mic B is connected whereas mic A is not at the moment but what I'll do now is I'm going to plug in the cable from for the output and then what I'm going to do is connect that up to my rocaster I'm going to take the this one the VXLR pro and plug that into the back of the rocaster without knocking anything over there we go I think now it's safely in and now I'll do is plug this one in here swap these around a minute what could possibly go wrong right well it is picking up a signal now what I need to do now is just pop that on the top there somewhere and let's try something here we'll see if I can get it to go out so how's that doing okay what I need to do first is I'll show you the love mic that I'm going to connect it to I have actually because I've got two I've already put one here already that's I don't have to thread that through any close to keep it out of the way when I do sort of unbox these larger things but these are the now to pronounce this see more S I M O R never heard of them but they are that they did come with the small rig I have as I say got the road the road lovelier go the first one they do the lovelier go to as well there's a great video from from tom buck that came out just a couple of days ago very timely for me where he was talking about love mics and how he's not really used to using them so much and he's you know doing a bit of an experiment setting himself a task of actually getting better at using them or learning how to use them properly it's definitely the same in me so I'm no expert on this but he did a good comparison of a series of them I don't think this was one of the ones he compared but nevertheless it was a good a good a good thing they covered there so in the case you get the actual mic itself like that it's already attached to its little clip little velcro cover there and yeah that is the with it with its little windshield on you take that off and see the actual capsule inside and also in here you get a little carrying case a large carrying case actually for such a small little thing but nevertheless that is it none the less you also have a spare windshield as well in there as well so that's just the same as that one in fact I think it's the same I can't see why it would be any different or is it slightly smaller it looks actually like it might be slightly smaller so yeah I think it is a little bit smaller they're not quite as big as that one but I'll leave that one on for now and doc thanks for jumping over into the Amazon stream doc he's saying the deity is pretty amazing too that was one of the ones that Tom tested as well so he tested the deity I think it was that one but he tested the deity a couple of the road and yeah some of the others I mean I learnt a lot from that stream because I was never one of the things I wasn't sure with lav mics was about positioning and you know he did this test and it showed it you know up down left right it really doesn't seem to matter which way you put it around to a point it didn't sort of make a huge difference to the it was interesting to see I'll certainly be I certainly will be be using those be testing this out I should say I'm getting distracted by comments here sorry just quickly say less 314 hello and welcome to the stream great to see you here drop your name in so that I can I can call you properly rather than say less 314 but these are KZ ZS10 headphones just to answer your question let me just put that up just for those watching on Amazon the KZ ZS10 I'm probably going to get the some of the sure two one fives actually but for the time being I'm using these and these are perfectly perfectly fine I've been using them I'm no audio audio file but I do find them they're better than better than using AirPods or something like that where you're relying on a wireless connection certainly so yeah KZ ZS10 where did it hear about these dog what of these little things I've got on the end is the spin fit in earplugs so I've replaced the ones that came with them with these spin fit plugs where did it hear about that dog it's a common thread through most of my journey hey David great to see you I shall try and remember that but if I forget to forgive me if I ask again at some point maybe another week but great to see you here David thanks so much for stopping by bit of an unusual stream here because I don't normally do just like full-on unboxings but I will be going through all the stuff that I've got and there's more to get through but anyway I digress let me continue with this so also in the box for the lav mic what you also get is this which is a basically the lav mic itself has a TRRS so tip ring ring sleeve so that's the where that sort of comes from TRRS so that would be like these kind of connected that you have when you've got basically earphones and mic so like for a you know headphones for your phone or something like that so if you're going to be using this lav mic with your phone you would want to use this connector the TRRS however I'm not using that I'm plugging it directly into the mic input and so what I want is this one this TRS where it's basically just it's got one less ring in it and so that does come in the box so you can plug the lav mic into that and like that so and Docs are saying yeah lav mics are primarily omnidirectional yeah it's just one of those things that like if you don't if you just see them you expect that they're pointing in a particular way but anyway so that does come in the box with the lav mic so what I'm going to do now is thanks so much for Keely I feel like you're actually coming to my stream and now you're working so I appreciate all the links so this adapter does come in the box with the lav mic so what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually take the lav mic that I've currently prepared earlier and plugged in it's still the same mic by the way just one of the other ones because it came with two so I'm going to plug the this into there and then what I'm going to do is take the little cute thing I can actually take the little wind shield off the top of this now by just it sort of twists and unlocks there we go like that I can actually take that off I don't need that for the time being put it somewhere where I don't lose it and then I can plug this into you've got a microphone port in the side there that's true thanks Keely yeah just doing it so that she gets some keyboard, mystro, consulting credits no problem so I'll plug that into there so now I should be getting being picked up by the lav mic so what I need to do now then is let me just see because this is actually what was talking about clipping earlier what I'm going to do is I have got it going through my ROCASTER now so if I come to here I should be able to hear it like this or not this one just wear with me one second I should get this set up right now this is going to be a bit weird because I'm hearing myself back what I'll do is I'll just turn down my regular mic and I'll just put the lav mic and I want you to let me know how it is all sounding so if I come over here take this one down one second so this is now basically coming through from the lav mic over the wireless and through to all of you so do let me know how it is this is sounding to you if it's sounding okay I've not done any setup on this by the way so it is literally just sort of it's plugged in it's coming through in the ROCASTER over wireless so if I come to this shot I've got the I've got the the wireless here lav mic here this is now sitting on top of the ROCASTER so that is the little receiver and then that is plugged in using the VXLR Pro that is going into the ROCASTER now and I'm hoping that you should be able to hear that so do let me know in the chat it just needs level so let me just turn it up a little bit level up I'm guessing level up is that how about that how's that sounding if that's sounding cool then I will what I'll do is I'll leave this one for the time being because what I intend to do is actually do some unboxing of some other stuff so for now I'm just going to actually push this out of the way and I'll stick with this lav mic for now I'll click on here hopefully it's not not making trying not to rub it with my chin because I got the mic just down here so I think ideally it should be clicked a little bit further down but there we go still kind of low but trying to forgive me thank you Keely let me just try and adjust this a little bit whoops there we go try about how about oh I'll tell you what I'm doing I'm boosting the wrong one that's why needs some tweaking right let me come over to here right how about now because we can just sort of make some adjustments let me just put this in here so oh that sounds a little bit the noise gate is aggressive right right right right sounds better when I tilt my head down okay I'll do the rest of the stream like this in fact what I could probably do is excuse the noise I could probably just try and reposition it and just click it onto the front let me know if that is any better I'm getting a bit of a delay it's weird when you listen with your monitors in with the other mic just sort of plug directly in then I'm not getting any delay so I'm hearing stuff in real time essentially but this one is I've got a bit of a delay so it's this weird thing of speaking and hearing yourself back fractionally later is a little bit distracting but I'll leave this on for the time being and in fact what I'll do is I'll talk about some of the other lights that I've got at the desk and then I'll switch back to this one in a moment so just bear with me a second I'm going to move some things around on my road caster so let me just I'm going to what I'm going to do on my road caster is I'm going to drag this to here so it's actually assigned to this fader now there we go okay so that is it back on again the wireless causes yeah I get obviously that the wireless causes latency is just the distraction I'll tell you what I'll do let me just switch these over for a second I'll come back to this one just for a second the reason why I wanted to have this on though now is because I am going to be unboxing some of these softboxes and things like that as well so I just wanted to be able to show you that and still be able to talk at the same time so let me move some of these things out of the way my desk is now starting to look a little bit like a bomb site so one of the other lights I've talked about the Nanlite Pavotubes so one of the other lights that I've got is the Nanlite Lito lights so I had two Pavotubes I've bought another two and then the Nanlite 5Cs is these Lito lights so these are the same kind of thing they do all the same effects at where we've looked at the effects on the Pavotubes of being able to sort of change the hue and the brightness and all that kind of stuff and the light and the effects all of that is exactly the same with these so let me just pull up these ones so this is as I say the Nanlite Lito light 5C and what I'm going to do is just come back to this one again while I open this and in the box these ones you do get this little sort of carrying case drop that you also get the instructions obviously in the box I think everybody comes with some sort of instructions I don't need to show those and then in the little bag itself so it's got sort of two zips on it so in one side you've got the light and then in the other side you've got this so I'll take the light out first so this is the sort of form factor of them they do have a sort of quarter inch or three eighth inch thread on the bottom of these sizes so for attaching it to the top of the camera you could use it as a light on your camera in fact I saw a docker that it mounted to his small rig just the other day in a post but yeah these I'm using as basically little accent lights around the place so for example one of them that I've got is in fact right down there so you can see that that little blue light in that shelf there is actually just one of these the other thing that I like about these is again as with the pavo tubes they are actually magnetic so there is sort of little magnetic areas on them so you can actually mount them to just stick them to anything metal but also you'll see that they come in the case here as well as having a little diffuser so the diffuser basically just fits over the top it's just sort of a little snug fit there so I can put that over the top and that just gives you a bit of diffusion on it but also in the bag as well as the cable so this is again USB-A to USB-C the cable that the charger on it rather is USB-C it's got a little USB-C socket next to the power a quarter inch tank stock I do always forget these sizes sometimes and then you've got all the controls down on the side but once again this can be controlled with the Nunlite app so that is something that you can control again and I'll just be adding all of these different lights into my setup on the Nunlink app so I can just control set up all my scenes basically and control them that way but what I also like is that in the bag as well you get these which are effectively just little metal plates and the way that you use those is if I open these up there's actually three metal plates now these have got basically two areas where they are magnetised so there's one up in this top corner and there's one in this top corner here as well or this corner so those two areas are magnetised it's not magnetised down here it's just literally these two places you can see the magnet basically snaps to it so what you can do then is just put the magnets on here first put some double sided tape on the back of these two magnets and then just like pop that wherever you want it and that's exactly what I've done with that little light in the corner so that light just over there I basically just that's just magnetised stuck underneath the shelf there so it means that I can easily just pop it off so if I want to take it anywhere else I can just easily just take this off from there so once again they are great little lights they've got the power obviously and then there is and by the way there is sometimes you may get this and it may not have the link to the app if it's like an older stock model the same model rather but just older stock because you can update the firmware on them and in order to update the firmware you need to just go to the Nanlite website you'll find a firmware updates section there and then you just basically put the firmware update the firmware file on a USB stick and then you plug it into the USB on the top USB-C and then you switch the power off first plug that in and then switch it on and it will detect that you've got the firmware there and it will update the firmware so one of these when I got it out of the box it just wasn't linking to the app because it didn't even have that section in it and so yeah you can just go and check what the latest firmware version is but yeah once again it just does exactly the same as the others we looked at earlier so you do have the white light the hue different chews all the effects hue loop and so on you can change things like language and version number and stuff in fact this one actually does have an older firmware on this for it to work with the app but yeah the sort of control of this is basically you've got the button at the top is cycling through the different menus and then if you this one is for dim so you've got these two buttons here plus and minus so you can make it lower light and higher light change the intensity and it goes all the way down to there so that's like 1% and then you've got this one to change the hue so I can come in here and change the hue from here and basically from 0 to 360 or 1 to 360 and that's going to go through all the different colors of the spectrum incidentally I've got one of those as well these are the moment so the places where I've got these at the moment is in my setup is I've got one of them behind me over there shining the light on the little clapper board I've got one of them down on this side just down here and it's mounted on an arm this sort of red light over there onto that curtain and then I've also got one of them just down there in the shelf and then this one will also be going in one of those shelves as well so that's where I'm kind of using these things so that's the four of them that is what I wanted to just add into the studio because it always felt like I am going to be doing some other different camera angles generally stuff in my studio has been sort of face on up until now but with some of the product demos and stuff like that it makes more sense to have a different angle so I just wanted that to not look quite so dark so that is the reason for these the Nanlite Lito Lite 5C and they're pretty cool little compact lights again great for travelling as well so when I do start going to travel to different places and going around then I will be taking these with me as well as the Nanlite Pavotubes so just nice little things to carry around there so aside from that I am upgrading the actual my sort of primary lights the softboxes that I've got here at the moment and so for those I am using Nanlite Forza 60s that's what I will be replacing them with at the moment as I've mentioned they're just these sort of really generic things but the Nanlite Forza 60s if I get one of these up so this is there's a few different ones that you can get you can get like a kit that's got a lot of different attachments in I didn't actually end up getting the kit one because I didn't need the attachments as such so that's why I didn't bother with that coming to the top-down shot I'll show you what you get in this I do like that you get a nice little carrying case or a big carrying case I should say and so it does come in its own little little case these are probably going to be pretty stationary obviously these are studio lights, film lights, video lights that people are often having to carry around to different sets and things like that with me they're pretty much going to be static so I'm going to take them out of here I'm going to be setting them up and yeah they're going to be pretty static indeed it does look a little cluttered I need a run-off really where I can just sort of move everything off the side but yeah it's looking a little bit shocking at the moment maybe I'll try and move some of these things out of the way so anyway let's have a look in here so in the bag it's got a little velcro straps on the top it's got these little velcro straps on the top if you want to attach a stand or something like that or softbox then you can carry that with it Cunningly tells you what it is in the little card there as well but if I open this up then it's got little straps here to sort of prevent the top from opening all the way in there you've got a little shoulder strap for the bag I've got your instructions and then the light itself is in here let me take this one out so this is the light it's really tiny for what it is it's a really small sort of compact light but it gives a lot of power out so that is the light itself and it's got regular fitting to fit it onto a stand just here and then on the back it's got the power input we'll hook this up in a minute actually get it switched on a sort of solid switch to have power on and off actually turns on and off with a little proper switch it's got two dials on the back there as well for adjusting brightness so this one is the Nanlite Forza 60 this is basically a fixed temperature so it's 5200 Kelvin I think there is a Forza 60 B which is bi-color and that one gives you that full sort of range of the white light that you can change from whatever it is 2,700 to 6,000 something so that is the Forza 60 B this is the Forza 60 there's also a Forza 60 C which also has a full color spectrum as well so that is a different model but I just went with the Forza 60 because I'm just going to have this for fixed temperature light all the time I'm not doing anything fancy with we aren't wanting to have different effects and so on so that's what I got you do still have some of the effects in here like simulating welding or a bad bulb and things like that like we looked at with the other one but again I'm not going to be using that this is basically just going to be on and then use just as a regular light for my studio so that is the actual light itself also in the bag you get the power adapter and this is quite a brick it's got a V-mount on it so sorry about the noise it's got a sort of V-mount on it now you can actually get a handle for these so that you can hold it and you can use actual V-mount batteries on it I didn't bother with that because once again it's not something that I've got a need for they are just going to be basically mounted to the wall plugged in all the time and that's it but you can get that and this one also has the sort of V-mount underneath it as well so you can hang it off something like that it also does come with this cable attached here this little hanging wire I should say so this for me is just going to be basically wrapped around the bracket that I've got on the wall and that's just going to hang down like that and then this plugs into the obviously the back of the light we'll get this all set up in a moment then in here also let me just take this away while I undo it I've also got the power cable there nice and long so it will stretch off to where I've got my power supply I actually have my power supply, my lights all plugged into a UPS as well so it means that if my power does go down then I can still power the lights so I've had a few times where I've been live streaming where the power has actually gone out and it's been all good so I do plug my studio lights into UPS as well and uninterrupted power supply so also in the box we've got this reflects it and I'm not going to be using this actually because the softbox just goes straight onto the front of the light but basically this is the reflector now you've got something here protecting the cob so the light circuit at the front you don't want to be touching that you don't want to get any fingerprints or anything like that on it because that can basically sort of reflect it back and damage it so it does have a protector on the front of here that just sort of basically locks in place he says oh here if you press the unlock button and then twist it there's a little lock button there you can take that off but yeah definitely don't want to be touching the front of that and then you can just sort of attach this on like that so that is how that would fit on as a light we can actually just plug this in so you can have a quick look before I actually get the softbox set up but that is the bag nice little carrying case that is everything that is in there apart from the instructions of course which you definitely should read and then a strap in there as well so I'll move this one out of the way for a second it's not just the desk that's getting messy it's the floor as well but what I shall do is I'll show you how this all sets up it can only get a plug handy if I plug this one into the the power adapter make sure it's off to begin with and then plug this one into the back if I switch this on now now it has got a fan in it but actually depending on how how high how much power it's using the fan may be on or off so perhaps if I switch this over to here there it is we've got a bit of a spotlight going what I've actually done there is I've just switched over the effect so we've got effects here we've got either flash different flashing settings and things like that strobe lights sorry I don't want to trigger anyone I hope there's no epileptics washing we've got the bad bulb and all those different effects but I'm just going to turn the effect off for now and then you can change the channel so all of these nanolights by the way let me just come back to this one all of these nanolights by the way they do have a channel so that's how you can change here this is channel 10 but you can change that so that's how you can have multiple different lights attached to the nanolink app so but from here as well you've just got this dim control so I can turn it all the way down that's zero I can just go up incrementally that's 1% so you can see you've got a really fine control over the amount of light that it's giving out and if I shine that onto the back wall for a second you can virtually not see it at all but then as I sort of start turning it up you can see how much it's going up and we can just keep going up that's 200% so that's it on the back wall just to give it a bit of context not really seeing a huge amount of it but that is the light this will all make a lot more sense when I hook it up to the softbox but also you might be able to hear that the fan is going so it's getting cut out by the noise gate but you can hear as I'm talking that the fan is going and if I turn the power all the way down then what you should hear is that the fan will actually subside as well so the fan does go down as you dim it down although it's 60 watts basically the force is 60 I think the equivalent power is to I forget the exact size maybe 180 or something like that so it's much more efficient in that respect and even though this is a small compact light once I've got this set up with the softbox it's basically going to be on a fraction of its power in any case it's not going to be used at full power so there are much bigger lights obviously out there but this is going to be more than enough for what I'm doing with it thank you hey Kirk great to see you my friend Kirk from Texas good to see you on the live stream I've known Kirk for a long time I think Kirk you might actually be one of the first people to be on the stream that I've actually met in real life and that I've known in real life before actually starting my whole youtube channel so I've known Kirk for years and years and a friend from over here in Thailand so great to see you here thanks for stopping by yeah so Caleb I will be putting these on a stand or a wall mount so I have actually got these lights they're all just mounted to brackets on the walls and I'll just show you that for a second let me just turn this one off before I do anything more if I get this camera up again we'll get this one on I'll just put my thing I'll show you what I did I basically just again I was talking earlier about these little MacGyver hacks that we do in our studios and this was one of those in fact what I'm going to do here is I'm going to try and switch mics again so hopefully now you can hear me I should be on the lav mic and this means that I am a little bit more mobile now and what I can do is I can actually just talk you through some of the things that I've done in the in terms of mounting these up so if I put my phone camera on there or this camera so this is over NDI now and with a wireless mic so let's see how moving around works for me but these softboxes are basically just mounted to a bracket so that's just a regular wall bracket and then I've just got the spigot attached to that that you can then attach the lights to so that's the way that I've got these mounted and I'm basically just going to use those same mounts for the new softboxes as well but what I can do is for the time being what I can show you is if I come to this one there we go if I just grab a regular stand and just to prove yes I do have legs legs and feet no less if I just get one of these stands up this will be useful to sort of show this because I can show you how this first of all obviously just clips onto the top of a stand so what I'll do is I'll move this out of the way I'll just hang that on there so we can actually hang on that and then this will just fit onto the top of a regular light stand like that so I am going to be mounting these to the wall obviously but I will just put this here for now and I'm actually going to take this one off it because what I'm going to do is going to set up one of the softboxes now so I'll talk a little bit about the softboxes so with the lighting I've got two lights that are identical basically at the moment but what I'm going to be doing is having a larger key light which will be a 90 centimeter but then I'm also going to have a 60 centimeter light on the other side so my key light is going to be over here and the fill light is going to be here. I've also got another nanolite which I'll talk about in a moment which is the another flat panel from nanolite but I'll talk about that in a little moment so let's have a look at these softboxes and I'm going to start with the 60 so that's a bit of a smaller one so this is the nanolite designed for the Forza 60 by which I mean the Forza 60 has got a specific size of connector. There is a sort of industry standard connector as well called a Bowens mount I'll come onto that in a moment which is slightly different but this Forza 60 softbox will actually go directly onto this light so it comes in its own little bag just like that let me know if there's any audio issues I am once again on this wireless mic now so we'll see how that goes so in the bag looks something like that you then have an adapter and I'll talk about that in a moment as well that is so it will work with the Bowens mount and then you've also got the grills the ID the diffuser and some instructions we'll come back to the diffusers in a minute there are two of those so in terms of setting this up you basically have these little clips in here that sort of lock everything into place so I'm going to open these out just a little bit what you want to do with this is make sure all the velcro is undone around the outside of it and then you're basically just opening these out and start doing them at opposite sides first of all because otherwise it will start pulling to one side so if you just literally pull them they lock into place now I'll do sort of 90 degrees around from that open those out and as you pull them you should see it basically clicks and locks into place like that and then just basically go and fill in all of the other side like this so now basically we've got all of those attachments are now locked in to release them again you just basically push these and you can hear the sort of clunk as it releases but those are now all locked into place and then it's just a case of folding this back and then there's velcro on either side there that just sort of locks them that seals those those all together same one here so the attachment that it's got is basically looks something like that and that is the attachment that will then just fit directly into the front of the Forza 60 but I mentioned before there's this industry standard which is the Bowens mount and you also do get that adapter in it as well so this is the adapter, it looks very similar it's got these sort of three little lugs if you like that fit into the fitting the mic volume slightly lower thanks Caleb, I'll just nudge that up a little bit in fact I can actually do this in here as well, let me just try boosting that in there hopefully that should be a little bit better a bit of a boost like that and so yeah this fitting here the Bowens mount you can just unscrew this one and you can replace this ring with the Bowens mount so it will fit on any light with a Bowens adapter but basically this is the light you can see the reflector inside so then it does come with these diffusers in here so there's two of them one of them is slightly thicker than the other and that basically is just round, it's got Velcro all around the edge and then you'll see in here this black strip is actually just Velcro as well and so what you can do here is I come back out this basically you just fit all the way around the inside just like this and then that is the diffuser is then fully on the light there and so let's see the softbox I should say now there is also what they call an egg crater, a grid that goes on the front of this that's one thing that is still on its way that one hasn't arrived, I'll show you when we get to the 90cm softbox though because that one has arrived so I'll demonstrate that for that but this let's just take the protector off the light now I'll put this down maybe first so this one should just slot, whoops Daisy of course he's dropped it I should just slot in here like this, there we go and then I'll tighten the nut up on the light itself and now what I'll do is if I turn this on you'll see the effect of it so that is the the light is actually now on but yeah really by the time I've got this all set up I mean the brightness I don't know the exact sort of percentage but this is on sort of 18% at the moment but actually when I've got it all set up with the camera in front of me and the way that I want it I don't envisage that I'm going to be using anywhere near even half of the power of this light so that's it at sort of full brightness over on the back wall but yeah that's way too bright so yeah the 460 perfect for what I'm doing in my sort of use case of this what I'll do now though is I'll show you the 90cm because this is the 60cm made specifically for the 460 and just you know with that mounting the thing that's different about the 90cm one is that obviously it's bigger so it's 90cm as opposed to 60 but it also does have a bow ends mount so for that one you do need to have the adapter to take it down to work with the 460 so I'll show you what this one looks like this is where the studio suddenly starts getting a lot more full what I should be doing is actually just in my Amazon I'm just going to come over to this particular thing the whole point of being on Amazon is actually highlighting the very things that I'm talking about so let me just highlight this while I go through that there we go this is the one hey Bicky great to see you here I thank you so much by the way Bicky for posting your pictures of your studio and you know showing your setup I really appreciate that you've got one of my favourite setups with your... it's also neat it's also neat as well with the 4 stream decks the rocaster and all that sort of stuff I really love it so thanks for sharing that I'm just incidentally just to answer your question I'm just talking about studio gear upgrades and things that I'm doing to my studio just for anyone who's joining late none of this is necessary it's not going to make any difference to the quality of my content I am talking and having consultations with lots of people about studio gear and things like that most people are not necessarily going to be wanting to do some of the studio hacks that I do to make things work so I do want to just make sure that I have got the information on all of the latest gear and stuff like that so that's part of the reason for this and you can bet there's going to be a course coming out at some point on studio setups anyway so this is the 90cm softbox same sort of process as we just looked at with the 16 it's just on a bit of a bigger scale so obviously a silica gel in there as we get in everything again comes with a bag as I mentioned with the lights the light itself comes with a carrying case because obviously people are using these on sets and things like that and lugging them around so great that it comes with a case obviously in my case it's just going to be fixed to the wall and really pretty much never moved but let's have a look at this one I'm going to open it up and in here same deal as before the difference being this one has actually got the bowings mount on it so it doesn't have the mounting that we looked at in the 60cm so it's just got only the bowings mount but there is an adapter for this as well so I got that separately same deal as before we've got the two different diffusers in there different thicknesses I'm just going to take one of those out for the time being and then I'll move the bag out of the way so exactly the same process as before there you can see the bowings mount same deal we're just going to pull the flaps down on either side and then it's just got these metal things much like an umbrella but each one just locks into place individually so as you sort of pull it out it will just have a nice little click and it's clicked into place so do the opposite sides first again then move sort of 90 degrees around do those ones and then like that this is going to be about the size of a tent for a small toddler so I'll open this one out like this now this one is actually although it's 90cm so it's bigger in depth it's actually a slightly different profile so if you look at this one, this is more sort of just a dome shape this one is parabolic so it's got a slightly different form factor to it the same there but it's got these long extended sides out in terms of directing the light out of it that's the difference there so this one is going to just Velcro in place down the side and just as with the 60cm Velcro connects there all the way around these four spots you may think that is quite on the large side with the lights the point of them being larger is if you are sitting with the lights in front of you if you've got a really small light then it's going to look a lot harder than if you've got a much bigger, wider light source that's basically casting the light over your in this case my face more uniformly so it just gives a more even light and that's the reason for a large softbox I'll show you where these are all going to go I'm not going to actually set them up and hang them right now because it's a bit of a mess to actually do that or maybe I could get this one up perhaps I will, perhaps I'll get this one up today and then the one that's behind the computer I'll do a little bit later but here is the thing open I'll get the diffuser now this one I do actually have the grid the egg crate for it so I'll take the diffuser here and we're just going to put this all around the edge this is where I need a little smiley face on the top of my head as Rich Rain once drew for me I'll be talking about my hair light a little bit later and the irony of that name is not lost on me the time being I'll just get this one done so we're almost round to the other side now and then that is the diffuser on I could probably neaten that up a little bit it would be the same as we've just seen now what I've got that's different here though as I say I've got one of these coming for the the 60 as well it's just not arrived yet but this is the the nan light egg crate and what that does if I open it up there you go so this is also, this is basically going to be used to direct the light so if I get out of the way of it you can see how it's basically got just a fabric material there sorry I've just seen Rich Graham's column there crawl inside the light like Callie that was one of the funniest moments of ever in Doc's office hours was where Callie was trying to put up she'd got one of the sort of lantern style lights so these soft boxes are directing the light out you also get the big sort of round lanterns that just dissipate the light all the way around so yes for those it's slightly different you have to sort of almost get inside it and pull this cord inside to hook it all together and yeah Callie from Chocolate Twist Yoga was setting one of those up and it almost ate her at one point it was the funniest thing ever it was huge as well this is 90 centimetres I think her one was like a 1.2 metre or something like that so yeah really massive that was hilarious though wasn't it Rich there's a velcro around the edge there so that's gonna basically just fit with the velcro around the edge here so this one just drop this in here and then I can just go around and basically just attach this all the way around the side and what you'll see is that we've then got this sort of mesh over the front of it and the point of this by the way is to help sort of direct the light so that you don't get the light spilling out as my fill light sorry my key light I want it to illuminate me but what I don't necessarily want it to do is spill out over to the back wall because I want to have my coloured light on the back wall so I don't want this to be directed you saw when I tested the Forza 60 out with just the regular light it just completely washed all the colour off the back wall because it was so powerful and I don't want that to happen when I've got this setup as my primary light in the studio that is the sort of effect of it you can see that when the light is pointing at you with that camera you can still see all of the face of the diffuser, the white diffuser but if I turn it off axis slightly then it starts to sort of block the light out and so that would mean that at this point here where you can't see any of the diffuser there'd be no light sort of spilling out to this side so that is the 90cm softbox with the Bowens mount now I mentioned that there is an adapter if you want to use this with the Forza 60 and somewhere it's here this is it it is the very handily name ASBAFZ60 what this is is basically just an adapter ring that takes the takes the Forza 60 the Forza 60 would connect into that sort of central ring there and then on the other side it's got the Bowens mount so this is what I would use to actually mount that light now perhaps I can actually potentially do this let me just double check this let me see if this is something that I can possibly possibly do because try this one I'll see if this light fitting can remove this well I've unplugged it at least so that's one step what I need to do is actually just disconnect it from here as well and to do that just bear with me one second while I remove this from here there we go so what I'm going to do is if you can still see I'm going to remove the the light fitting that I have got on the wall here and let's just try and put the Forza 60 on here I will just show you these because these are the softboxes that I have been using on all of my videos to date let me just come back to this one so these are just generic softboxes there's no link for these I don't know what brand they are but I will just show you what's inside them because it is quite comical so there you go they've got four bulb holders and at the moment I've been using just three of them because that's the level of temperature adjustment and light adjustment that you've got so that's what I've been using for all of my videos on Take One Tech up until now just regular household light bulbs and I think one of those is actually a warm white whereas two of them are cool white and that's how I've adjusted the temperature so when we talk about like you don't need the latest and greatest I've been using to power my studio up until now but what I am going to do is I am going to actually get this 90cm softbox up so what I'll do is I'll first of all take off the 60 so I'm going to take off the 60 I will just pop this back on just so that I don't inadvertently because I'm the sort of person who is a little bit clumsy at times and I will just inadvertently touch the front of that so here what I can do is I can actually attach the 460 directly onto that light stand so let me just come back to this view once again we'll come back to this one actually so you probably can't see where I'm going to attach it but I could actually come to the phone view in fact let me get this one up I hope this is all coming over okay with wireless video and wireless mic but there you go I'm just going to hang that on there for the time being I will tide you all of this up afterwards of course then I'm going to drop this one on here so these are by the way these spigots you can just buy these so this is just a regular bracket shelf bracket that is just a spigot that's you know a few cents or a dollar or something like that and then what I'm doing now is I'm just going to drop the nanlite over the top of the spigot oops trying to do this whilst holding the camera at the same time there you go just like that do you need to make sure that's tightened up and then that is the the light is now attached sorry about this I'm watching the the screw and not watching the the camera so that is the nanlite in place so what I'm now going to do is if else I will switch over to this other view now let me know how this is going yeah it would be interesting to see what the difference is Caleb won't it so this one you've got a couple of options really you can attach it to the light itself first and then the softbox I'm going to attach it to the softbox first it does actually have its own mount so you can actually mount this first onto the spigot and then you can mount the nanlite the light fitting after I'm going to do it to this way round I'm going to mount it to the bow ends mount on here first because it actually gives me something to grip then it's got the same sort of lock so I'm going to just lock that in place where is it so that is going to just go onto here and we'll pull the little thing and lock it in place so I need to pull that down like that there we go that's twisted so that's now locked that's not coming out anywhere and now what we can do is I'll come back over to this one and first of all I'm going to take off that little protector and then I'm going to come over here and this onto the front I will be updating I will be adjusting the position of some of these things in due course but for the time being I'll just get it done here just trying to get it to locate in the little holes just bear with me a second I tell you what might be actually an idea having said that I'm going to mount the thing on I think it will be actually easier if I mount the light first and then we'll put that all onto the spigot that would make a lot more sense so let me come around here put that in here first sorry this is not a very good didn't make for very good viewing this but I'll get there in the end so we're now getting this locked into place bring that down bear with me a second get there in the end there we go finally right and now I'll put that back up on the spigot like this there we go okay we're finally there I think I might need to just just that slightly okay it's not in the ideal position but you get the idea hopefully what I'll do is I'll just move this round this way if I come back to this camera so where are we there you go so now you can see that I've got this light here and if I was to be able to find my chair in amongst all of this mess then that is basically going to be I will actually move this I'll move the mounting so that it is much closer so it's basically just coming like right over the top of the I need to adjust the angle as well but if I switch this on now I can find the switch there we go so that is the light but that is now the lights all been directed here so there's very little spill over to the back now if I come back to the front shot over here that's probably a little bit on the bright side let me just turn that down a sec probably still needs to go change that just a little bit but yeah yeah there is a rich there is a a hard on off switch so there's a an actual physical hard off on off switch and then there is a sort of dial as well hey Richard great to see you here as well so yeah that is how that is looking let me come back to this shot now there you go so that is how that's looking I've mounted up there hanging off the wall I've got to just adjust the mounting I will actually move it move it out of the way there we go like that but that I'm going to move all the way forward so I'll change that mounting point so this really will actually when I've finished up basically what I'm going to have is the roadcast over here this will be like another two foot closer so basically it's going to fill in this entire space that's where I'm going to have the light here so that's 60 centimetre light let's just show you this one so this is the 60 this is my sort of fill light and this one will be this is dangerous isn't it trying to film this at the same time this one will effectively be up here and so the key light is the main light is you know casting light on your face then the fill light is just to fill in those shadows and get rid of the the shadows on your face now one thing that you also do have though is a if I look at the camera it might help is a what they call a hair light so that's something that's coming from the back that is going to give you a bit of separation from the background I don't really have much hair but nevertheless that is the task that it performs so let's have a look at how that works I've just noticed the lights have gone off on the back I must have unplugged them inadvertently so they've switched off but never mind so if I come back to this shot what I can do is he's looking a little bit dark on that side let me just turn that up just a little touch there we go we've got a little bit more light the ones on the back have gone off but never mind I shall sort those out after so for the fill light sorry the hair light which is the one behind me in fact let me just switch back over to my regular mic because hopefully I shall be sitting down for a little while now find my headphones and I'll plug those in thanks to Willa Peterson sorry I'm just getting round to the messages in Amazon thanks for following that was a little bit of a while ago but thanks for following so for those watching on YouTube I am actually streaming to Amazon as well for this because obviously I'm talking about lots of lots of products so in terms of the the fill light which has sorry the hair light which as I say is just going to give a bit of separation from the background I'm actually using this so once again another none light product this is the none light mix pad where are we making sure for those watching on Amazon I've got the right things in the carousel so this is the none light mix pad and in the box you do actually get a power cable with this one so whereas the like the the none light pavo tubes and the the lito lights they are they're all sort of battery and you get the USB cable to charge them but yeah this one actually you can use a battery it doesn't come with a battery but you've got the connector there for the I forget the type of battery is now actually having said that but just the standard sort of camera battery that you can get to slot on the back that they're using lots of light fittings but this here comes with the the cable and so if I open this one out what we can do here is take this one out I'll show you how this this looks sorry for the rustling I know that's not doesn't make for good viewing does it let me just get this one open as well while I wrap it so this is the mix pad and it's basically if you look at the the lito light which we've already had a look at it's kind of similar to that in terms of the the actual lighting itself inside this one's got you know the same sort of style of lights inside the mix pad is basically if you think about sort of three of these side by side in terms of the the number of the the little LEDs there it's probably not quite three actually it's maybe like two and a half in terms of the number of LEDs so about two and a half times the sort of power actually the same thing as we've just looked at so if I was to plug this in there we go it's by magic as I say this one just has a power cable so this plugs into the back you've got the same sort of functions this one does also have that sort of hard on off switch if I come up here it's got an actual switch on the back and then there's a dial so whereas with the pavo tubes and so on there is you know buttons to switch mode and then buttons for up and down to you know adjust the hue and things like that so this one is basically got a power button here it's going to come on in a minute you've got all of the different settings to adjust here go through the menus exactly the same menu system as before so in all of the other ones once again this can be controlled with the app as well so this will just fit into all of my sort of non-like setup where I'm going to be controlling everything from the app and you can just sort of cycle through all the things we can change the hue and everything I am only really going to be using this just with white light at you know 50 to 100 Kelvin or whatever it happens to be thereabouts but yeah once you've got this you can then change the brightness so I can dim this all the way down I go into that setting there we go so I can just dim this all the way down using the dial so this is what I'm going to be using for my hair light this has actually got an interesting feature as well which is it's got hard and soft light and it kind of almost simulates having a diffuser and I'll just turn this all the way down so that I can actually point it at the camera without sort of blowing everything out if I turn it down to like you know 2% or something there we go you can see perhaps that it's got this sort of array of bulbs so I'll just turn that up just a little bit now it's going to get blown out whatever I do but you can see it's got this sort of array of bulbs but it's also got a soft light setting and if I press that it's going to put it in this soft light setting and it's almost like it's got this sort of diffusion in front of it so now you can't actually see the individual bulbs it is or the individual LEDs I should say and it's got this sort of layer in front of it so it does actually give a softer light without using a softbox I think you can get a sort of softbox for this I've not been able to find it in here and doesn't seem to be available on Amazon so I'm not sure about that I know there's a larger one of this so this is the the MixLight 11C there is also a 26C I think which is a much larger panel but for me this is going to be just perfect brightness for even just using a fraction of its power to have mounted up in the top and incidentally I'm going to be mounting this find my trusty camera my trusty iPad I'm going to be mounting this one right up there so I've got that aircon unit at the moment and that is where my over the shoulder shot is so that is that little camera that I'm not this one where is it this one so you can see I'm holding this up to that camera so that is where I've got that little over the shoulder camera mounted is just up there at the moment that is just a little AVerMedia HD webcam I will actually be moving this AVerMedia 4K cam up to that spot when I swapped the ZVE10 over to the main camera and I'm going to put the main camera and this small teleprompter over there because as I mentioned I am getting a larger teleprompter into the setup so I want to have it so that when I look over at the secondary camera I have still got the sort of the feed going out there as well but anyway I'm going to be basically hanging the the hairlight up off here and I've just noticed Rob yes hairlight the irony is not lost on me but you'll notice that actually though that hairlight it is singular you know it is just one hair so it's not a hairlight it is a hairlight so it's for my one hair and it is indeed Bickey it is just 7am I get up at 3 though so my regular weekly live streams always 5am because it's a good time for me I mean it's part way through my day already in fact you know in a few hours I'll be starting to think about bedtime so good so that is the I've digressed once again as I often do that is if I come down to the top down shot and that is this this Lito sorry the Mixpad 11C and that's going to be my sort of that's the sort of last part of the lighting so in terms of the lighting that I'm sort of upgrading it's this is for the the hairlight I've got the none light for the 60 units for the two key light and fill light 90cm softbox for the key light 60cm for the fill light and then these Lito lights for the little accent lighting and the pavo tubes is what I'm using for the some other lighting one thing I'll say about the pavo tubes though because I mentioned that part of the reason for me wanting to do those that's that's right yet doc we should call it the skull light from now on that's what I'll call it the skull light so the yeah one of the although the the fill light on the back wall is sorry the light on the back wall that is from those pavo tubes they just seem to have gone off I don't know if I might have inadvertently triggered those off with the app when I was playing around with the app let me just see if that is the case because I should be able to just switch them right back on again from the app I think I might have pulled the plug on them that might be the battery come but anyway so what I wanted to do though was I did want to put like directional light directly on to the sort of acoustic panel so these sort of dark squares that you can see on either side of me those are acoustic panels they're stood off from the wall I did a whole video I'll probably link about that in the when I first did this studio upgrade like a year ago and those are something I did to improve the acoustics in the room to reduce the reduce the you know the room sound if you like but anyway those are stood off the wall and I've got those LED lights behind that are coming out but yeah I'm going to sorry just getting distracted I'm going to direct the pavo tubes these two these other two are going to be directing light on to those panels now in order to do that directional light somewhere around here in amongst all of this chaos on my desk is these cutest little crates you've ever seen so this is the the crate or the grid for the the none like pavo tubes and that's the sort of size of it but it's got these let me come to this one that's what it looks like it's got these little elastic straps on the back and basically what you do is you just slot the light the pavo tube into the into there and then what you have is you've then got there you go the light is inside there and it gives you a sort of directional beam from it basically so if I turn this one on then this is now a lot more sort of directional and so that one I've done the done the little test of it already but that one is basically going to be how I'm going to have these mounted to the wall so I'll get a couple of brackets on that back wall and they will be they'll actually be in fact you probably can't see in this one let me come to a different shot this wide shot so over on that side you can see I've got basically the panel on the back wall I've then got another panel just here and then there's actually two more here as well so here and here well basically I'm going to stick a bracket right where my finger is right now so it's going to come out from the wall sorry Doc's just said pavo pants I love that yeah so I've got a set of pavo pants on so I'm going to stick this basically it'll be like somewhere around about there in the shot but obviously against the back wall and that directed onto those panels at the back will then just give it a nice little illumination I'll be able to do something more with the colour on those just so they don't look so dark because they always felt to me like they were a little bit sort of dark you know when I'm in this shot those panels just sort of disappeared the other thing I've obviously done is the first time I think it's on this stream and on this channel is I've stuck some shelves at the back there which was always something I intended to do just to stick a couple of things of interest over there as well so that is just one other little thing that I've done for the studio so with all of that chaos I think that that is pretty much having gone through in a two hour 15 minute stream pretty much all the things that I have I've got planned for the studio in terms of upgrades and things like that I will just sort of reiterate once again that the whole point of is any of this actually necessary to improve the content the camera certainly is going to help improve the picture quality this is still my Canon EOS 60D from 11 years ago that I bought before my daughter was born to take all the pictures of the kids so it just got repurposed when we started using our mobiles for all of those things but it is still a 11 year old camera just coming out of a USB with a 720 signal coming out of it but Ecamm does a great job of upscaling that so that is what I've used on all of my channel so you do have to say you don't need all of the latest stuff but now I do have the ZV-E10 which will be going in this place the ZV-1 for my top down shot so that's going to be a bit better for my Amazon videos but really part of the point of all of this was just so that I can go through the process of doing the setup because I'm getting a lot of consultation calls with people who are asking about how do I set up this, how do I set up that and if you want to set up a studio right from the start then there is a particular way of doing it by my sort of motivation for doing this the biggest thing for me in terms of what's going to make the most difference though is actually the thing that isn't here yet on a day to day basis the thing that is going to really help me personally is this thing which is the 12.5 inch Lilyput monitor coupled with a much larger 14 inch teleprompter because I spend so much time on zoom calls speaking with people this is the thing that's going to make the difference so obviously as soon as I've got everything all set up then I will be doing a full video you can bet giving a studio tour of it all set up and working rather than this complete bomb site of a desk which I've now got to clean up so we're looking a little bit of a mess down here but that is all for the studio update and I will keep you posted with how it all goes but as I say it's not going to make any difference to the tutorial style videos or anything like that it's just something that's nice to have in terms of an upgrade and to be able to have the educational process of having gone through it to be able to help others to do it so that is my motivation I think I've covered them all back there I think I've justified the gas do I need to sign anything to that effect anyway so that is all for today thanks so much for for hanging out if anybody has stuck through this all the way through if you're watching on the replay congratulations your medal is in the post and I will catch you all in another live stream so what I'm going to do is I'll leave a link to the video that I did of actually the studio build for this studio because as I say I was in my basement for the first sort of eight months on YouTube something like that or seven months and it was only sort of about this time last year that I started building up this studio which is in a little cottage at the bottom of my garden and so I'll leave a link to that over on the this side over here for people watching on the replay and thanks so much to all of my channel sponsors as well members it's been great to have your support and really appreciate each and every one of you have a great day everyone I'll see you next time