 In this video, I'm going to be unboxing and setting up the Stream Deck Pedals. So let's just get straight on into it, shall we? We've got a little perforated tab along there that I've just pulled off to save the noise. And opening up, this is what we've got inside in a nice little bag. The actual pedal itself, the label on the back, is quite weighty actually. I mean, I've got another pedal that I've been using for a while, or a set of pedals. This, by comparison, is considerably heavier. So it feels like it's going to certainly not slip around or anything on the floor. Nice little clunk to the buttons. I'm going to be interested to see how this actually sounds when it's on the floor. And if the sort of clunk of the pedals comes through, it is actually quite loud. So I'm using a different pedal on the floor, which is virtually silent. So I can see how this has got some sound to it. Obviously, I'm using it directly under the microphone at the moment. So it will be being picked up quite a bit more than the one on the floor. But anyway, we shall we shall see. Let's come back to that in a moment. What else do we have in the box? Stream Deck Pedal Guide. So there is some things that you can do with this. So it is obviously just three buttons, but we can change the sensitivity of the buttons by adjusting the springs that are inside. So we've got in here some metal some middle pedal stoppers. So you can actually just have it as a two button thing so that if you want to just rest your foot on the middle pedal, then you can put stoppers in there, which I'll be having a look at in a moment so that basically you wouldn't be pushing that one down. And then you just use your feet on either side instead. Just feeling it, though, I mean, you could pretty much rest your foot on that in any case without needing the stoppers. So not sure that those are entirely necessary. Certainly not for me in any case. But let's have a look at what else we've got in here. So there are the middle pedal stoppers. Then we've got in here some additional springs. So these are to change the actual sort of weight of the force that you need to put down on each pedal. So I'll have a look at how we can change those out as well. Apart from that, we've got a cable, which is USB-C, which goes into the back of the actual pedal itself. Into here and then that plugs into USB three on the computer. So how about we actually just have a little look on the back? It does look like I'm going to have to get a screwdriver out to actually unscrew the back plate and have a look at how we go about changing these. So I'll do that first, actually. So I've saved you watching me unscrew some screws there, but I have unscrewed the screws on the back. One thing that I notice is in the diagram in the little brochure here, it's got four of these rubber feet stoppers, whereas on here it's got six. So I don't know if they've realized that they needed a bit more support underneath it. But in any case, there are these two extra feet. I also noticed that the screws there is four long screws that go into the corners. But the ones that are into this, maybe it maybe it wasn't afterthought. Those are shorter screws. So just make sure that when you take them out, you do notice that these are the shorter screws. As you unscrew the screws, by the way, you will notice that the back will spring up. So obviously there are springs underneath this. And this is obviously the plate on which they are resting. So it does actually pop the the backup. This is if I just turn this over. So this is kind of the whether you call that the back of the front, I suppose the back, this is the thicker part of it. And then the plate sort of slots in. So it's got these little slots that slot in there. Once you take that off, though, you can then see that we've got the four screws are just here. So that is where these screws are. Sorry, screws, springs that we are going to be changing out. I'm actually going to leave them as they are. The tension seems pretty fine to me. But we'll just note here that you've got basically these different spring sets. So we've got some with different numbers on them, either 700, 1400, 1000 and 2000. And then it tells you in here which springs to put where to give you either a soft, medium or hard feel to them. And then they've also got obviously some springs that are already in there. The pedal stoppers. So if I was to open these pedal stoppers up here, these would just go in the middle if you wanted to stop the middle one going. So you can just literally take these springs out and replace these with the little stoppers there. And that is to just stop those middle middle pedals from going down. In fact, if I can get these out. He says, having put them in. Let me just take those out completely. So I'm going to put back the original springs and I'm actually going to put this plate back on now. That is just the process of how you change them. When you're putting the plate back in, then there are these little, as I say, notches here. So those just slot in to the little gap in the edge. And then if I put it in the right way, that would always help, wouldn't it, if I put it the right way around. There we go. And then I'll just screw it down again. So once again, just remembering that the short screws go in these two central holes here. Like this. And once you've screwed one down, obviously, it doesn't bounce up anymore. So he says having not screwed it in properly. So what I shall do, in fact, that just goes to show you those short screws are only going into the back plate. Just to prove that there is no pre-planning in these videos, they're all just one take. This is what I need. The longer ones that actually go into the base itself, of course. So in actual fact, there is no need to remove these smaller screws from here. You wouldn't necessarily know that. But yeah, these two, you don't actually need to remove the screws if you are removing the back plate. There we go, all back together. So let's just actually get it plugged in. So what I'll do is I'll pop this on the floor, plug it into the computer, and then we shall open up the Stream Deck app. And we'll have a little look at how we get this set up. OK, so I've got the Stream Deck pedal plugged in. And when you plug it in, it will pop up a little notification on the screen to let you know that it's there. But also it will specifically ask if you want to copy over a profile from another Stream Deck device over onto this Stream Deck device. So just as if you're plugging in a regular Stream Deck, you'll get this notification up. It's the first pedal. I don't have any profiles or anything like that to copy over. So I'm just starting from scratch. One thing you'll also notice is once you acknowledge that, then if I come into the Stream Deck software, it looks something like this. But you'll also have this little sort of floating thing as well, which sort of shows you what is showing on the on the Stream Deck. I wondered what that was at first. But a little investigation showed me this is something called the Action Bar and you can actually put a button on your regular Stream Deck if you want to have this one pop up on screen so that you can actually see what the pedals are. I don't think I'll be using that. I think I'll be able to remember what the three different pedals are. But in any case, if you want to, you could have that button on your regular Stream Deck and then it would pop this up on screen so that you could always see. You know, if you forgot which pedals were which. So I will just close this one out. But like I say, you can always action that or activate that using this action function, action bar rather, which is just in the Stream Deck list of actions. So it's just appeared in there as I installed the pedal and that is, as I say, available. So if I come to my regular Stream Deck over here and then if I was to put this action bar item onto here, press that button on my regular Stream Deck, you can see that we get the little foot pedal thing pop up and press it again and it will disappear. So as I say, I don't think I shall be using that. I'll just try and remember those three pedals. So if I come back to the Stream Deck pedal, though, it's basically if you know how to use Stream Deck, you know how to use this interface. There's basically just three buttons for the three pedals. They do insist on putting this little welcome link to link you to the Elgato website that we just delete off every single profile. But that's it, really. You can set up multiple different profiles. So what I'll do for this one is I'm using Ecamm Live at the moment. So this will be my Ecamm Live profile. What I'll tend to do is always have a way to get back to my main scene. So if I just drag this one over to here and I shall give this a little this one. So there we go. That is now my main scene. So if I press that button on my pedal, then it will take me back to back to that scene. So and I can always get back because I have my other pedals to take me back to this one. Obviously, all of the icons and things like that, you can change in here, but it's a bit pointless, really, because they're not going to appear on the the pedal themselves. However, it wouldn't be pointless if you were going to use that little feature there to have the the little image pop up. So which one the action bar. So if you did want to have some icons that symbolise, you know what these things did, then that would make sense then because then they would appear in that little little floating window, I should say, losing my words there. So let's have a little look at what else I might want to put in here. When I'm recording, I do tend to occasionally use my pause button. So I might want to just have one of these as a pause. And then I also might want to have one as the end recording button as well. So I just put that one on there. So that is basically the profile that I might use when I'm recording my videos using Ecam Live. But then I also may want to have one for when I'm using Zoom. So what I'll do is I'll just come in here and create a new profile, just exactly as you would do regularly. And I'm going to just delete that one again. Once again, it's always there. So let me come down to my Zoom controls here. So let's say I want to toggle the mute. Maybe I also want to toggle my video. And let's just say, leave meeting. There's always that awkwardness on Zoom meetings when it's like, okay then, bye, no, you hang up, you hang up, as people are fumbling around trying to find the hang up. So that just makes it nice and simple. So what I might want to do here then is actually just rename these. So I know that obviously this is quite a logical and straightforward process if you've used a regular stream deck. So if I come to Zoom, so if I come to Edit Profiles, this one, I'm going to call this one Ecamm Live. I'll just move this box out of the way, get my keyboard back. So call this one Ecamm Live and then this one here, I'm going to call Zoom. Now the reason for me doing this, because obviously as I say, it's pretty straightforward process really, but now what I can show you is if you have a regular stream deck, which indeed I do, I'll come over to Stream Deck Excel. What you can do with Stream Deck, for any stream deck actually, is you can change profiles from a button. So you use a button to switch between profiles. I've done a whole video on why profiles are better than folders for organizing your actions and things like that. I'll leave a link to that in the description. It's actually my most viewed video on my YouTube channel. But the way that you do that is you basically just use the built-in stream deck function to switch profile. But the interesting thing about this, or at least interesting to me, is that you can actually switch profiles on a different device. So here you can see, if I use that switch profile, it says the device name is the current profile. It's the current device rather. But what you can do is I can go to Stream Deck Pedal here and then the profile what I can do is I could have this be Ecamm Live for example and then I could have another button be Zoom. Or you can see there that I can just put next to profile. So it would just be a case of clicking between them. Only thing about using it that way is you'd need to know which profile you were on. So I think I will explicitly say that one is for Ecamm Live. This one over here is going to be for the pedal and is going to be for my Zoom. I'll obviously go and create icons because you can see how I'm a bit like that. My icons, they all have to match, be the same style. But basically now I can just use these buttons to switch the profile on the actual Stream Deck itself. And in fact, if I was to just say delete this one over here and I'll put the action bar up for just one second and to show you, if I show that on the screen, here you can see I've got my Zoom controls up. So that's just showing you what's on the pedals. And now if I press this button down here on my Stream Deck, you can see now it's changed to the Ecamm Live buttons. So that is how we can switch back and forth between different sets of buttons on your pedals. So I will be setting up a few different ones. What you can also do with this is if you are using, so I have like a home folder, this is the button I press when I go to my Ecamm Live. Well, what you can do is have a multi-action so that if you have a set of buttons that you want or a set of actions that you want in a profile on your regular Stream Deck and you want that to match up with what you've got on your foot pedal, then here I've just shown you how you can just add this in to here. But what you may want to do is actually set up a multi-action so that when you are switching profiles on your Stream Deck, so for example here, if I just delete this one and I'll create a new multi-action and in this multi-action what I'm going to do is if I open it up, whoops, a daisy. Don't want to open it like that. That's the wrong way to do it. If I open up the multi-action, what I can do here is I'll do switch profile and then I'll call that this is the profile on my current device, which is the Stream Deck XL. Let me just move this up here. I'll move that one out of the way a little bit. So here what I want to do is this was my, this one here, take one tech recording. And now what I'll do is I'll also switch profile and switch profile on the Stream Deck pedal and that one will be Ecamm Live as well. So now basically when I want to go and do my recordings, then I will just come in here and press this button and it will actually switch profiles on both devices. So it's actually on the Zoom profile at the moment. Did I select the right one? I think I may have selected the wrong one there. Just a second, profile is Ecamm Live. Just like that. Let me try that again. Cause I noticed it has gone to the Zoom one. And there we go. It has changed. So it changed profiles on the regular Stream Deck but it also changed profiles on the Stream Deck pedal as well. So that's what I'll be doing. I'll be setting that up for all the different use cases, making sure I do have all of those pedals. I'll leave a link to the Stream Deck pedal by the way in the description down below. Now, if you are interested in learning more about the Stream Deck, I'll leave a link also to the playlist all about Stream Deck over on the right hand side.