 So I'm really bad at the setup videos, but I am really good at teardowns. So I thought that since I have to move all of this stuff out of this office, I would show you. What am I gonna show you? I'm gonna show you all the stuff that I use to make videos. Okay, so first and foremost is the SM7B. I love this microphone. I don't think that it is the best microphone by any means, but it is the most versatile by a long shot. It has a built-in shock mount. It sounds great. It looks cool. I think it looks nice on camera. Indestructible, great. Now I typically have this on a podcast pro. This is my favorite boom arm. I think it typically comes in at about $100. It's really good. Has an integrated XLR cable, so it always stays nice and clean. I'm not a huge fan of the scissor arm design. I kind of like the low profile design, but this is really good for the price. And the low profile ones, the crappy ones are not very good. And the nice ones are really expensive. Now that, along with my camera, go into the Rode, what is it, Rode X Streamer X. This is very much a consumer device, but I found it to be really good actually. So I have no complaints with this device at all. It sports 4K, 30, which is what I use. And the preamp is what you need in order to power an SM7B without all the stupid additional things that give you extra gain and whatnot. So, I'm a big fan of this. I use it for streaming, recorded videos, everything. Just, it just occurred to me that I didn't change the video mode on this, so I think I'm shooting S-Log in 8-bit. So this video may look really crunchy. I haven't used that camera in a really long time. Okay, so we're talking about camera. Let me talk about the camera that I do use. Right now you use the Lumix S5 II. I think this is a great camera. The price is amazing for what you get from this. It's like a full frame with a lot of really cool video features. I almost passed on it just because I think there's some type of recording, internal recording limitation for 6K. Fortunately, Theo kind of corrected me. You know, you can just like record the SSD and like all those things go away. And I don't know, I'll link to whatever limitation I thought it was and kind of the solution for it. But I am so glad that I ended up buying this camera because it looks great right out of the box, has great video features, and for the price it's just the most ridiculous value in cameras right now. Anyway, Lumix S5 II. I have a, what is it, the S-Series 35. It's like their lens. My only complaint with this is someone who has used and loved cameras for a really long time is just that it is not built well. I picked it up, originally I was like, mm, mm, which is sad. Okay, headphones. I am a huge fan of these. I have used them for podcasting for a really long time. These are the Audio Technica M40Xs, I think. Big fan, they range, I think I got mine for like maybe 80. They're probably like 100-ish. I have some aftermarket cups on them that I just replaced from Brainwaves. They have a series that works specifically with these. They're okay. Now something that's really handy when doing video work is this guy right here. I think it's like a Jarvis boom arm. I have mounted to it an older LG 5K display that I've had for a really long time, but it has a Visa mount on the back. Again, probably like 100 bucks or whatever for this. It's really handy because I can set it up right in front of me when I'm video editing or I can kind of twist it out of the way when I have my shot lined up to have it off-screen. Okay, this is kind of a silly one, but something that I absolutely love is this little guy right here by Anker, 637 Magnet Charging Station Maggo. Love this thing, it's got a MagSafe charger on this side for my phone and it's just got like a gazillion ports so I never have to dig behind something to add, plug something in. Great, love it. Super desk critical thing. There's one thing that's gonna be really hard to illustrate visually, but I have this thing called a Versa Fold. This was suggested to me by Joel Hooks. I think a lot of the Egghead team have this, but it's basically a portable folding cubicle and it's really great for sound treatment. I've used it in every one of my spaces to kind of like close up the sound. It folds up, it's really great. It's huge, but worth it. It's hard for me to say that it's actually worth it though because I think that they're over $1,000 down. So pretty crazy, there's maybe cheaper ways to do it, but I have gotten, I've definitely gotten the $7 or $800 that I spent on it out of it. Now before I do the lights, I'm gonna talk about one of the more chaotic things in my setup, which is keyboards. I use two Apple keyboards. I had a Kinesis Well style split keyboard for a while, got really frustrated at how my muscle memory wouldn't transfer when I was on a plane or doing a conference talk or a workshop. And so I decided to just use Apple keyboards. I know they're not very delightful to type on, but it's a practical thing. Fortunately, Carabiner Elements by default will actually link these two. So you have control over like if I hit shift on this keyboard, I can type a letter on this one and they're linked, they're like one keyboard as far as the operating system's concerned. You might be able to hear a lot more echo now that that versus folds out of the room. Anyway, big fan of this setup. I think that if you do, if you travel a lot and use your keyboard, makes sense to do something like this. Okay, so the final things are the lights. I mean, it's gonna get really weird in here without these lights, but right here, I have on just an Amazon basics light stand, I have a kind of like accent or hair light. I use this to kind of add some color to the background so it just didn't look like a floating head. These are really cool. I think it's the Nanlite Pavo Tube. I love these things, very versatile. They have a magnet on the back so you can clip them to things. I also use these kind of friction clamp arms to just clamp them to things, really useful. Kids actually love these because they have like dance parties, sarin, like whatever modes, so they're super fun for making that kind of video. The Nanlite I have right here is an Amaran 60D, I think. It's about 170 bucks and on it I have a, it's the Light Dome SE, I think, which is the smallest of the kind of parabolic softbox sizes. Literally right up against that wall so I wouldn't be able to have a bigger softbox in this space. I think this is like a maybe eight by eight size room. It works well. If it was any smaller, I'd probably have to get, spend more money and get one of those softboxes that are like an LED panel. The light is plenty sufficient for this proximity. I think I have it at like 12% which is really low. This thing gets crazy bright. 60 Watts, at least from Amaran is like all you need. Okay, I think that's it. On a personal note, I'm actually really sad to be leaving this space. I've been in this particular office for a year now but then I think maybe two years at this spot called the Film Hub. The people here are amazing. I've really enjoyed getting to know the owners. They do a lot of community events. It's been a really fun space to co-work in. I think co-working is awesome. I'm never going to move for a job but being able to have a space where you kind of see people regularly is a really nice touch of life, I think. So that's it. That's my 2024 studio setup. This will probably all go up in my house so the next time that you see a video from me, it will be from my home office again. I hope that you enjoyed this peek behind the curtain of how I make videos and yeah, I'll see you in the next one. Bye.