 The new Elgato products have just been released and so in this video I'm going to share with you my humble opinions for what they're worth Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name's Alec. And so yes in this video. It's nothing Nothing of a great substance I'm not going to share any tutorials and I'm not going to give you any hands-on because I'm stuck over here in Thailand where these products aren't even actually available yet from the Elgato store But nevertheless, I do obviously have my own little opinions of them And so you may be interested to hear them or maybe not so I totally understand if not But anyway, let's get on with the the overview of what's been released and perhaps start with one of my favorites the stream deck Unfortunately the 500 key stream deck was not released that I was hoping for What I want is really a desk that is just entirely stream deck buttons with four legs in a little space for my mouse And then I would be a happy bunny But anyway, that didn't come but what they have done is they've updated the original stream deck So the original 15 key stream deck was released and then sometime later They released the XL version with 32 keys and the mini version with six keys And those had a couple of upgrades really from the original version in terms of the actual casing and housing for it So perhaps it's easy if I show you The stream deck XL you can see it has got this quite sturdy back case To it or back stand rather and that enables you to either have the stream deck sitting flat on the desk Or you can have it clipped on to the the stand so it's more angled upwards the cable management You have got a little hole in the back of it So sorry just knock the mic stand the the cable can come out of the back I tend to have it at the side because for these demos and things I always seem to be pulling it on and off the stand So it is quite nice the way it just sort of clips on with the the magnets like that So the original and by the way the six key version has a similar sort of sturdy stand as well But the original version at the stand on that was never really that good It was a sort of plastic kickstand and it always felt to me a little bit subpar and not really in line with the quality The build quality of the rest of the product But what they've done now is they've actually rectified I was gonna say ratified then ratified anything But they have rectified that issue with the latest stream deck and they call in that stream deck mark 2 So the XL and the mini remain unchanged But the stream deck mark 2 had basically updated the original 15 key stream deck to be more in line with the the rest of the Range you can see here. It has got a more of a solid base to it one thing to note though is that you have the The back like this and then the cover fits sits over the top of it and the stream deck Module itself sort of sits inside which is a little bit different to this one the XL where the whole front of it comes off in one Piece and then that sits on the desk So yes, this one seems to have more of a sort of cover around it with a stream deck sitting inside the unit If you see what I mean But one of the reasons for that is they do provide different covers And if I come back up you can see that they've got these different colored covers that you can have for your stream deck personally a Bit of a sort of all-black sort of guy So I like all of the things to just blend in on the desk But nevertheless I can see for the target market for the stream deck Which is for the sort of gaming and live streaming market There is probably a going to be quite a big demand for these things I already know some people who have got their eye on some of these overlays already and now I'm can't quite figure out if the actual overlays themselves are Replace that entire front panel so this front panel that goes on the top of here or whether they are some sort of stick as I suspect It is the whole panel that is replaced But that makes me wonder if you aren't using it on the actual stand you want it flat on the desk Do these covers still fit over it or how does that work, but I'm purely speculating here I don't know. I don't have one in my hands The the price of it though is just the same as the old one So a hundred and fifty dollars and the the the covers I think are pretty reasonably Reasonably priced at just ten dollars. I can imagine some companies may be For want of a better word Shafting their customers and charging exorbitant prices for these sorts of overlays to personalize them I think ten dollars is probably quite reasonable really if indeed it is the full plastic frontage that is being replaced So yeah, we'll let we'll see about that and see how they they are in the in the real world But if you have recently bought a stream deck an original stream deck 15 key If you still got time time to return it you may want to return it and swap it out for one of these ones because The the stand on these is certainly a lot more sturdy in my opinion Apart from that, I don't think anything much has changed in the internals It's still the same old stream deck that we know and love so on the stream deck page It's basically going to start to oh You can see another one of those wrappers and yes, you could make buttons to match. I'm sure and Yeah, but all the rest of the stuff is your standard screen flow here You can see a couple more of these covers and yet they do not nice when everything's all matching doesn't it? So if palm trees and pink flamingos is your thing then they've got you covered as well But yeah, it does look it does look really good So the rest of this is all pretty much the same old stream deck stuff So on the this particular page so let's go and move on now to the next thing which was announced which was the wave XLR which is a microphone interface and This is actually quite a neat little product if you ask me It is sits on the desk. It's the same size as the stream deck So the stream deck mark to so it will fit very nicely next to it on the desk And what this allows you to do is plug in a an XLR microphone, and then you've got some control on here So the little buttons at the top bottom you can see there's a sort of microphone icon wait if it stopped moving a Headphone icon, and then you've basically got another one that you can adjust the mix So this big dial you can basically adjust the gain of the mic You can adjust the volume in the monitors and then you can also adjust the the sort of the balance between the the monitor and the the sound that you're getting back as well The sort of system audio and the sound so that's quite good. It's also got some Sort of limited and things built into it as well So it's quite good and then at the back you can see here So you can set the input gain adjust just the volume and cross-fade between the mic and the PC mix That's I think what I just said But it's also got a mute button on the back a capacitive center now I use the short MV7 and that's pretty much got these sort of things built into it It's not quite as tactile as a dial is here. It's got a touch sensor that I can change the the the balance the crossfade between the system audio and the mic and Then I can also adjust the sort of gain and things like that on it But it's I've never really as much of a fan for anything that's capacitive touch as opposed to a nice big big dial So but in any case I could use this microphone with this Product because I could you take the XLR out from my short MV7 and have it go into that But I'll probably won't bother because I'm quite happy with what's going on in terms of the signal processing that I get from the Sure motive up at the moment and I think when I do eventually go down the full XLR route and Take advantage of the XLR out that I've got on my my MV7 I'll probably be going into something like a roadcaster pro or something like that But nevertheless, I do think that this is really quite a nice product and for somebody who's in the total sort of Elgato Ecosystem as well. It does look very nice. It's nice to have things matching, isn't it? Now Elgato do make their own range of microphones the wave mics, but you can use this for any so you could use it for your Well, I say you could use it for the short MV7. You could use it for the road pod mic You could use it for the short SM7B or any other XLR mic for that point from that point of view So it is a really nice little product and as you can see it all nicely matches with the the rest of the Elgato range And that's where you plug in the XLR input And then this one is your headphone out and then you've also got one here USB that goes into your computer So it allows to allows you to connect your XLR mic into your Into your computer and by the way that is obviously another great selling point is when I bought my MV7 Part of the reason was I didn't necessarily at the time Want to have a big bulky thing if I wanted to be mobile with it And this certainly would mean that you've got an audio interface that you can be a little bit more mobile with You're not exactly going to take it to a coffee shop with you. Let's face it but It's certainly a lot less bulky for a roadcaster pro if you are just sort of having a single input and want to Use an XLR mic. So yeah, great product. This one is 160 dollars. Now all of these prices just deduct one cent by the way. It's 159.99 but it's 160 dollars, isn't it? so So there you go, and they've also got the same sort of covers that you can have for the other ones So that's a really nice nice customization that you can have to it And there is sitting on a desk and they're illustrating the fact that it works with the short SM7B So nice to see that rather than them just putting it into one of their own microphones It does show you the point and yeah, the other thing that it does is it does this clipping so it actually Will sort of limit the sound and so on I'm not an audiophile. So I wouldn't be able to tell you as to how good a job it does of that I do know when something sounds good or not, but I'm not sure about the technicalities of it But don't tell anybody I told you that and then yeah, they've got their wavelength product Which is basically a way to control Their microphones, they're all their wave microphones And so it just obviously works in with that as well So as I say, I can see how it's nice to have things all in a Into into one ecosystem and that would and now allow you then to control the levels of any other XLR Mike because at the moment the wavelength only works with the wave microphones But now that you've got this wave XLR interface It means that any Any mic that you've got will work with that and one other thing about that is this This wavelength app Also integrates obviously Seamlessly with stream deck as well. So it would enable you to control these things from the stream deck. So that's another good feature of it So this is probably one that I am not necessarily Craving at the moment, but it is a very good product nonetheless. I wonder if oh, there we go They've got a product a picture of it there right next to the stream deck and you can see it's pretty much the same size Isn't it so it certainly does look quite pretty on the desk. I think anyway So let's have a look at the next thing and this is one that I'm well There's two mic arms basically that I'm quite interested in the first one if I come over here is a Sort of more traditional style boom arm. Although it does look very nice indeed So it's fitting to the desk and then sort of comes up with a A joint in the middle and then coming out So it is a sort of traditional style of microphone, albeit they've got their own Elgato design flair to it and the other thing I like about this is it has got some nice cable management So it's actually got grooves that run along the sort of top and back of the boom arms And then some little magnetic covers that just snap into places So it does mean that you can route your cables Whatever those may be and I think this looks looks really quite quite nice But the way I have my microphone set up is I don't personally like it where you have microphones hanging down in front of your face I think it sort of blocks a lot of the the view not them Anyone particularly would be worried if I blocked up some of my face But I think it does look a little bit intrusive to me So I tend to like my my microphone sort of underslung if you like and I can probably show you how I set mine up because I kind of Bit of a MacGyver job to rig this up But if I just quickly show you what I did I get my phone come up So where's my phone camera gone? There we go So I've got my sure mv7 whoops, it's a bit squeaky Got my sure mv7 here and it's on a boom arm Just one of the cheap sort of $15 boom arms that you can get from from amazon or whatever But then I have that going across here and you can see that it is actually Flat but it is an angle above. Sorry It's horizontal Above my desk and I've actually got that attached to a little bracket that I made There's my little MacGyver kit in my toolbox down there and that is attached to this cupboard at the side of me And the reason for that is that in fact, you probably heard it then if I were to tap on the table beneath me You don't really hear that through the microphone. Whereas if I tap on the actual Cover that is attached to then you can hear that that is coming through a lot more And this allows me to move this out of the way. It even allows me to fold it completely out of the way like that And so, yeah, this this just means that it's sort of slung underneath me But at the same time it's totally off the desk and I can still reach my stream deck and my keyboard and so on So that is the way that I have my My my microphone setup Because as I say, I've never been a fan of those those arm mics that are sort of hanging down in front of you And no matter how pretty they actually look There is some really quite good ones that you can get that are kind of low slung on the desk That imitate this sort of setup that I've got when I say imitate, I'm trying to imitate them But they tend to be quite pricey really for what they are and I can't really justify spending something like that on a microphone Stand really where the stand is almost a lot more than the microphone itself So it's not been something that I've been too interested in. However, there is the new Elgato microphone stand. So we've seen this one, but they've also got the Mic Arm LP, which is a low profile mic arm And this is basically exactly what I've been trying to trying to do because what it does is it Is basically clamps to the desk, but it is a as you can see a low profile arm that swings out And then it's got this secondary sort of boom part of it that lifts up and down So this would be doing exactly what I'm trying to do with this arm, except this is a much more elegant solution I think so It's also got the same sort of cable management in just so that you know, you can do cable management on the cheap as well Let me show you my cable management. So here you go. Here's my cables And I've just got some of this curly black plastic the sort of cable management stuff And then my cables come out here and they go there. So that is That is my low budget cable management But this looks a lot more elegant And I think that this may well be going into my shopping cart at some point in the future If and when it becomes or when it becomes available in in thailand because it does look quite good The only potential problem with this is that it is still connected to the the desk So you will still possibly get that issue of sort of transmission of noise So if I take tap on my desk here or tap on The desk that the mic's attached to I'm not sure about the sound transmission Obviously in this video, they have the the wave mic and they've got the sort of anti Shock mount for the wave mic. In fact, I can probably show you what that looks like as well while we're here So the little cradle that it sits in So the wave shock mount so this is for that their own wave three microphone to sit in So they've got they've got obviously that there so that would reduce the vibration But I'm not sure how it would work with this this arm in terms of the vibration when it's attached to the desk I always like to keep the microphone off the desk if if at all possible But yeah, it certainly does look very good. And as I say for the price I think it's very good. So the price of both of these microphones is a hundred dollars Which I think it's not not the microphones the microphone stands Is a hundred dollars and I think for something like that. That's really quite sturdy as I say I've looked at some of these types of sort of underslung microphone Stands before and some of them are really quite pricey sort of three or four or five hundred dollars upwards. So Yeah, this 99 dollar version. I think is a a good A good buy it looks looks good to me. And yeah, as I say may well be going in my shopping cart at some point in the future And there's that cable management the way that the The sort of things just snap in with magnets. You can see the little magnets there I think it's a really elegant solution to be honest. And yeah looks works really well It's not a totally unique thing. I know others do this as well But yeah, it's a good solution. It looks like it's got a good big sturdy base to attach it as well And yeah, very very impressed with that one. It's Yeah, looking very good. I'm getting distracted there So yeah, the next thing that they had was they've actually released a facecam Or what they called facecam, which is a camera and it is a 1080p 60 frame per second webcam But it does look as though they've maybe it's actually a bit larger than it maybe looks from these images And i'm thinking that the sensor might be quite a bit larger than a sort of standard webcam The other thing about it is you can see it's got the thread on the bottom of the camera itself So that you can mount it and what i'm wondering is but whether maybe this might make a good replacement for my top downcam because if I just switch to my top downcam, this is a logitech c920 And yeah, the picture quality isn't great Is it it's probably okay for the sorts of things i'm doing here because I don't do a lot of sort of top down shots But the logitech c920 the sort of mounting screw thread is in the The part that sits on top of the monitor whereas this the whole thing comes off that so it's a bit more of an elegant design I suppose but i'm in the process of just sort of figuring out what to do with my My sort of little studio setup And I will at some point be upgrading and I'll probably go all Sony to be honest with you and replace my old 10 year old canon eos 60d, but more and more i'm Leaning towards the sony range. So I was thinking of getting a couple of Sony cameras to replace what i'm using at the moment But this might well be something that i would consider for the top downcam I do always like to have stuff that is sort of multipurpose and obviously this is You're not going to take it out on the road and shooting footage or anything like that It is just basically a webcam, isn't it and the price of it is 200 dollars. So It's it's not the the cheapest of cameras either for what it is but it is it's quite an interesting product nonetheless and Yeah, they do think I think have a larger sensor than Than other ones, but again, I'm not an expert on these things to be honest with you So it's just my little humble opinions here of what I think about it But you can see how big it is really compared to an iMac. It's quite a large large Little thing on the top of the the screen there The other thing that is interesting about this is it does come with this camera hub software Which does allow you to do a lot of the sort of tweaking of the picture so you can change things like White balance zoom obviously picture quality exposure and all those sorts of things color temperature and so on And you can all do that in there do that all in this app Personally, I use a little app called webcam settings and that's just sits up in the menu bar and it looks like this so I can change my Logitech c920 from here and you can add some little preferences. You can change zoom pan tilt things like that change the The color and all those sorts of things so I'll leave a link to that app in the description actually because it's quite handy if you've got a logitech web camera It allows you to get a better better quality of picture out of it Or any other plugged in web camera. In fact, it works on the the max built-in eyesight camera as well, but only with older models interestingly I Believe it doesn't work with the absolute latest max because they've got something in there where they basically don't want to allow third-party apps to go And tinker with the webcam settings So it does work with the older max though with my mac in particular Although I rarely use the the built-in eyesight camera So that is their their camera and yeah, I think it does look quite interesting The the other thing that it talks about in here or one of their sort of selling points If I just scroll down a little bit They talk about the sort of signal path if you like from the camera into the computer is much cleaner And so they say here, you know best in class latency and zero artifacts So they're here. What they've got is other webcams and cunningly This looks very much like a logitech brio the latest range of logitech cameras, which are actually 4k So yeah, theirs is a 1920 by 1080 whereas the logitech brio is 4k. So I wonder how they actually really compare Given the fact that this is a 4k camera, but the sensor may be smaller, but again, I don't actually know so I'm just speculating But yeah, the I know certainly for one thing that this application that they've got up here It does look a lot sort of more straightforward and Yeah, got all the things you need there the logitech software that you can download for logitech cameras is pretty Crappy really for one of a better word. I've never been a fan of it. So Yeah, they've certainly yet certainly done that and once again if you are in the sort of elgato Ecosystem having everything all together working seamlessly like this logitech Elgato lights elgato camera Elgato mic boom arm and everything like that all working as together seamlessly. I can see the appeal of that to be honest so Yeah, another another good project product I'll be really interested to hear some real world reviews of it Obviously, there have been people who were given these to try out and they've given their own opinions of them But you always have to wonder what opinions they're going to give when they've been Drafted in by Elgato themselves to give their opinions, but we'll see what the real world says about it Interestingly that you'll see on one of these pictures. I noticed maybe it's further down. There you go They've got this nice little wall mount. I actually have my lights mounted on the wall Although I did it the sort of MacGyver style. So I got a couple of wall brackets for a shells And then I mounted on the little spigots that you get for attaching Studio lights to and so I've got my lights mounted to the wall right in the the back corners there to sort of wave on the the desk So they're not right in my face, but they've now added these little wall mounts to their range of Mountings, so let me just come over to this one So there is the little wall mount and you'll be able to adjust the length of this with very varying different lengths of arms and this all fits into their range of mounting arms that they've got So these are the desk mounted arms that they have and then you can basically mount things all over your desk And in fact if I just come back to This picture you can probably see up here So here we've got these mounting arms behind for the lights which mount onto the desk and yeah You can have you know overhead cameras and all sorts mounted from this sort of mounting system So that's a nice little addition to it as well for mounting either your top-down camera your lights things like that There you go You can see some sort of longer arms for top-down ones for In the kitchen and various other things it does give a very nice clean look I think doesn't it and keeps things off the desk as well. So yeah, I can can see why those are quite quite a good little product to add to the The the range there Well, that is about all for the major updates that they released. They also did release a uh a piece of Sort of software built into the website not software really a little web interface They they call the studio configurator and that basically allows you to Build out your ideal studio decked out with all of the latest Elgato products And yeah, it's just really a way for you to plan out your studio I guess and then add a load of Elgato products to your shopping list So that was quite an interesting one as well But yeah, uh, yeah, I do think there are some good things in there in that release So certainly the the camera is one that I may be interested in for a better quality top-down camera And also that underslung boom arm certainly looks good as well And maybe the xlr mic interface is a good one to watch as well But it's up to you obviously and these are just my humble opinions And I'm sure that as we learn more about these products and see more and more reviews from people who've actually got them rather than just An english guy in thailand speculating on stuff just released in the u.s We will probably be able to form more better opinions But if you have found this in any way interesting or useful Then obviously don't forget to go and like and subscribe to the channel And if you know anybody who else who is interested in this sort of thing Then do go ahead and share the channel as well if you feel the need But until next time i'm going to leave it for there for this one But I will leave a link to my other stream deck related content over in the bottom corner in that playlist until next time. 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