 Hi everybody. Oh hello. Oh we didn't see you there. Tom and I were just uh hanging out in my new studio. Yeah uh we did a little test run. Thank you to the uh the analysts and advisors who were helping us with that. Uh yes so we uh we actually recorded um a just it's got another version of what we're doing now and as you can see I via my iPhone and a little iPhone app that I uh just purchased I can now switch between my two rebel cams. So that's Tom and me and you know both of us together and then I've got Tom over on this guy um as a little single. I haven't set up a single of myself but I could do that on on the top. Yeah the Logitech which is actually gives us a very good signal. Cross signals with a Y. Yeah and what's neat about the video switcher that I know you guys can't see but I did do a little quick tour on Facebook the other day. Of course I used portrait video. I'm sorry about that uh I didn't even think about it. What are you gonna do? Such a rookie move. I don't do a lot of video to be honest from my phone anyway but um but anyway yeah you can't see the switcher but what's nice is that both of these cameras use an input called uh S I always get this wrong HGSDI. SDI yeah. Yeah and so uh so that's whatever there's like four of those inputs that are capable on the switcher and then there's four other HDMI inputs which would include yeah laptops um variety of cameras uh so it's like we're not in a very big room. This room looks huge. I know and don't forget about the lighting. Lighting is yet to come. Oh yeah the lighting. There is no lighting it's yeah we're getting blasted by the sunset. That's the next step. Wait no you don't like Tom being lit in a very kind of dramatic fashion such as this. So tell me yeah I'm not even sure what that is. Oh look I can I can reflect my phone screen. Yeah all right TG Glass 1976 has tuned in. He'll let us know 1976 was a good year. It was. It was. It's an all right year. Also just off camera are both of my cats um they're being pretty cool right now but they uh will probably try to crash the party and hear from time to time so if you like cats you'll love it and if you don't then you can hate watch the whole experience. It's kind of my life anyway uh but yeah so before we started recording Tom we were talking about just some different options for something like this. Right now I'm working with a set that needs to be turned into something. Yeah yeah it's just good. But this is you know this is like furniture that I could just sort of take out of a corner of my house and kind of cobble together. It's like it didn't take much. No this is just okay the equipment is stuff that you got from a friend who was getting rid of the studio. Right yeah that was good happen stance. Yes. But then the furniture in the decor which honestly looks better than a lot of news sets I've seen for interview shows. I mean. Stuff you had around right. This chest is like something that my dad bought during the Vietnam War in Hong Kong and like got shipped to my grandma and somehow I have it now and so this is our set. So it sounds like we're getting a little clipping when we get loud. Okay yeah. But normal speaking volume is fine. Okay good. So just don't get too excited. So don't get too excited. All right all right. But yeah no we're working out the kinks so we appreciate the help. Yes absolutely and um yeah I'm not really sure why what there might be some internal. There's a lot of things going on so the Sennheiser uh Lavaliers. Yeah they were wearing through the receiver over there. Yep. And then through the black magic into the laptop which is also or I'm sorry no. Into the mixer. No they're going in the mixer. The mixer is going in the laptop. Yeah. And then the laptop's going out to hang out so there's all kinds of little parts of the thing. It's so crazy. I was actually on a um I have a this is off camera to well actually I could show you the box. All right. To the box. To the box. I would call it an unboxing. Oh it's garlic. Yeah yeah. So this guy um the book is right. Yeah it's uh the uh here Tom maybe you could do a little beauty shot. T-Glass says be like BBC News and leave leave the emotion out of it. Emotion. And then our audio will be fine. Oh I see. Yeah okay. All right. Now this doesn't want to work so great. Oh really? That's what you're stuff working? Well let's see if I could just breathe. There we go. But I had such a there. There we go. Yeah so I've I've got this like handy little iOS app that lets me I mean obviously I'm switching you can tell that I'm doing it but if I kind of do it like just like real discreet. Anyway okay so that that is actually what Tom is holding right now. Yeah that's more or less it's like an external sound card. I guess you can think of it. Yeah totally. What's nice about it is that because I'm doing this other podcast totally unrelated to this and I'll definitely talk more about it when we're ready to wireless mic to do so. Yeah you just walk around. But uh but yeah so that I was on a phone call with tech support yesterday for almost two hours. Wow. And we finally pinpointed the problem. We went through everything. I mean we were deleting files I didn't know OS X had. It was on my non-windows machine and it was a faulty USB cable. Oh really? Yeah. There you go. Yeah it's always something like that too. You're like what could it be? Yeah so anyway. We're on Windows right now by the way. We are. In case you're wondering. Yes yeah so anybody who calls me an Apple shill kind of am. But I shill are you. One king of product is not the same as shilling and getting paid by the company. Well that's very true um but I uh you know I'm a um I like all platforms as long as they do the job. This one's doing the job pretty good. Doing the job pretty good. Yeah it's great. So um our Patreon push is also doing great. Oh my god yeah I can't believe just how good it's been. I mean fingers crossed that we get this done by October 1st. It's looking really good right now. We're 90% from zero to the milestone. We're at 90% yeah and we're more than 50% of where we from where we were to the goal. Correct. I don't know if you guys can hear that helicopter outside but I live. They're coming for us. I live. Back the Patreon. Help us. We're locked in my studio hiding from the feds. No that's a that's a hole. So you guys another thing you can't see. I was thinking actually of doing like a little beach cam out the window because it's like it's gonna just be loud down here sometimes and if people can put the two together then it's more forgiving. Yeah exactly and it's just sort of fun. You know I've got a little beach view but but the Coast Guard and LAPD they do they do sweeps. You just get used to helicopters around here. I saw a president fly down the beach one time. I mean I didn't see him but it was how did you know it was his because it was the presidential copter. I mean probably wasn't in it. They're probably dummy copters. Is there an Air Force One copter? I don't know. It's not called Air Force One but yeah it's an official presidential copter. That's pretty cool. So yeah thanks to everybody who has contributed whether you're a first time contributor and I know a lot of you are because you've been tweeting at us and yeah just giving us a lot of feedback and thanks so much. Or the patrons who have just been loyal already and have upped their contribution. That's amazing. Yeah you guys are the best. Yeah. Oh that's the essential phone. It wants you to know it's still here. Why would the essential phone want to be like I'm still here. There's motion in my dining room. That's why. It's a notification. In other words Sawyer's walking around. Well let's hope so. Where's a dog. You guys all know that. So yeah so thanks to everybody who's just contributed or spread the word and kind of retweeted us and I do I do owe everybody sort of a longer I don't owe you anything. I would like to you know sort of extrapolate a little bit on sort of the journey that got Tom and I to this point because it's like we didn't just sort of like wake up one day and say hey let's like let's work together again. It's like you know we've we've always kept in touch. We've obviously worked together in the past. We've remained friends. We now live 10-minute drive from each other in Los Angeles which is unheard of. Yeah unplanned. Unplanned. Just happened. Yeah and so and actually we were having breakfast with Irene my wife which is when we first started to be like oh we should we should talk about collaborating. Yeah exactly. It was it was sort of a let's of course do that. We're you know not that we don't do things remotely fine. It doesn't totally matter that we're close together but it does allow you to sit here right now without it being a good string on you or a plate or I mean most of the time I'm going to be in my studio doing DTS and by the way this has really inspired me to change things up. So we were talking about that earlier. Yeah about maybe like tweaking the shot once we hit the milestone. Because you have this room these cameras are really wide angle so they're they're it's a little smoke and mirrors. This is a pretty narrow room. Your the room that you shoot DTS out of is yeah so you could even if you go at an angle you could gain some depth. I don't know. See this is what I get with Sarah joining the team. Someone who actually knows how to do that. I mean Roger knows how to do it too but more people is better more brains behind it. It's also just fun to change things up. Yeah the content itself obviously that's the point of the show. So you know as long as that's solid it's like you know you kind of get some new artwork going on in the background. Sometimes I could be here sometimes you could be there. Absolutely. And we were even talking earlier about maybe even doing those round table shows here. Yeah. Because you've got multiple cameras and switcher. Exactly. With an actual round table. Something that wouldn't be this. I don't know. This looks really good. I don't know why you keep apologizing. No it's just not wrapped. It's a very non round table. Well we could change it to a square table. But yeah something and you know these cameras unfortunately I can't figure out through the iOS app it might not be possible how to like pan and tilt but they do that too remotely. Yeah. Yeah they're really. You did that from the laptop earlier. I did. Yeah touching the camera. Yeah exactly. It seems to me that all I can do. You can't do. Is switch. Yeah now you're gonna do a real cool kind of like album cover look going on here you know with the like the 80s kind of blind vibes. Blind not not that you're blind. Blinds on a window. Window blinds. But yeah so this is quite honestly a pretty simple setup. It's on one wall of the room. Everything's literally on one wall. To move a camera over on this side of the room which is really just a wall I'm not using you know to maybe like black out the window and and really create a nice sort of warm studio in here. Another option. Yeah so light lights are kind of your next thing. Yeah and decor decor is bad but it's not bad it's just a it needs some it needs some color it needs some love. Right needs a little splash here and there. You know I've lived in this apartment for a year and a half and this room has been kind of mostly storage or you know I never really did anything with it you know I didn't want to make it a guest room because then people stay with you. You don't want to do that. You just make it a studio and then everyone goes oh it looks complicated. I won't get in your way and then. No it's funny when we have had like relatives stay and have to sleep downstairs they get a little freaked out because downstairs is where my studio stuff is. Oh right right right yeah. I don't want to touch anything I don't want to ruin anything. Right right yeah no I'm kidding people can stay with me and come on you know you could still stay with me. Come on come on I got a couch. Oh marine one by the way marine one is the name of the helicopter. Oh teaglass said marine yeah like m a r i n e oh okay well there you have it the hive mind delivers so what else do we have to talk about tom well we've covered most of the stuff we didn't cover from here we took a we took a few pictures of this setup so tom maybe you could like so we've got we've got the panasonic robo cameras we talked about two of two of those we got the black magic switcher which is what you're controlling yeah there yeah you got the sennheiser wireless mics that we're using right now which we're both wearing and the preamp and then you got your yamaha mixer yep and that's pretty much everything there I mean your hyal mikes hooked up we're not using them right now yeah I that's um but that's what I'll use for dtns because it's it's the best mic I have yeah um and it's just you know sort of a delight you just wait a while so I could sit back here yeah just chill have some coffee have my coffee you know like I'm doing right now just look on your phone be like oh headline so hey loose do you want to say hello you're going to anyway all right well now she doesn't want to so yeah cat cameos did your cats get shy they're you know the cats have it's been very interesting to watch them watch me go through kind of audio madness uh you know where like I descend into madness once a day you know where there's a couple hours where I'm like so they're just sort of like wow this room kind of was unused and more or less hours until very recently so they don't know what to think so yeah they're put out right but uh but yeah it's um it's amazing what you can do when you uh at least for me I like figuring things out and what especially particularly with audio but certainly with video and switches and inputs and google hangouts and the whole thing it's like it's like a the chess game every time like trying to figure out I like figuring things out how you get to the I like my things that I use to figure things out to just work that's when well so why that's why I have such a simple setup but it doesn't I don't want to have to I don't want to have to mess with it well I don't want to have to mess with it in a perfect world but no I know but knowing that it works and trying to figure out how to get there I mean there's kind of a bit of daisy chaining going on but um you know it's a nice fun new project I haven't been this into audio since I bought my fancy speakers like six years ago and also descended into madness I feel like for months on end okay I'm gonna get over dramatic you know I feel like we're on the cusp of something really cool like a Cambrian explosion of creativity well that's sounds good to me yeah me too yeah it's um because this is not just dTNS for you this is also going to allow you to do other things sure and likewise it's not just bringing you on to dTNS for me it also gives me flexibility to do other things and you can do new things within dTNS that we couldn't do before exactly it's yeah I mean there are a lot of show I mean a spin off is probably not the right way to put it but there are really cool things that are um directly involved with the content of dTNS that we can just explore more in depth you can't do all about yourself but I can help you do that no exactly because daily tech headlines is example of what you're talking about yeah but that was me saying I will do more and in a weird way it actually made it easier to do daily tech headlines because I was trying to do daily tech headlines within dTNS yeah which took away from some of the discussion time so daily tech headlines kind of took the pressure off of dTNS to say hey spend time discussing things on dTNS daily tech headlines be that and so yeah I think there's opportunities for that sort of thing to also branch out without weakening dTNS in any way just letting it be good at what it's good at yeah and just yeah just let it breathe a little bit seeing seeing what we can evolve about it like a fine Cabernet sounds good doesn't it too bad it's so hot outside it's like red wine is off the table for me right now living in LA you know you know it's not much to complain about except that I can't drink red wine too hot such a hard life but yeah this is um I'm excited to uh you know let's let's tear apart your studio and see what we can come up with all right um like I said I mean I had an expert for sure helped me with my setup but you know once you know how things work you're like oh yeah that makes perfect sense it just wanted someone else's like rack you go oh that looks very well because you don't know what complicated pieces fit together but they're not that many they all make perfect sense it's like of course you need yeah the Sennheiser mics are gonna have to talk to a certain unit and the mixer and and the laptop and and everything else so yeah I think just for my own piece of mind um I've got a windows solution that we're using now everything's running off of a laptop and um then I've got a MacBook Pro mobile solution for some podcasting I'm gonna be doing from the road with like you know you and I are just two mics like four mics at a time so it's a little bit more of like writing one of the other projects yeah exactly this is you know you gotta you gotta watch levels a little bit and make sure that you're recording the solid but um so yeah it's it's um you know it's a whole new world I'm excited me too I'm super excited well Tom um thank you for coming over yes and uh enjoying studio 1.0 let's call this 1.0 right you know alpha it's a studio beta you could be beta I could pre-release release Canada yeah yeah it's studio beta sarah studio beta ssb it's a new input on my mixer all right all right thanks everybody goodbye stop the broadcast stop the broadcast