 Hello there welcome to the the live stream welcome to the video today. I'm going to do my sort of somewhat annual run-through of my my creator setup So talking through some of the gear that I've got going on in in my studio I've just realized I didn't turn off the AI panning feature on this camera So it's going to move around as I gesture But I'm just going to talk through some of the things that I've got in my studio Some of this is still the same as it has been since my last update if you saw that But I've been slowly adding in a few extra things as and when the need arose or the the gas attacks took took hold The acquisition syndrome is a very real thing And I'll talk also about a few of the other things that I've got sort of planned that I do need to do need to add in Definitely not want definitely need to add these things in So let me just take a another quick view. What I'll do is I'll come over to to this Let me just set up this other camera for a second. Here we go I will come over to this one. So in front of me. I've got my my key lights up here or my key light I should say is this one it is as you can see from the side and none light This is the none light forza 60 the light obviously they're just be behind it. The softbox though is a 90 centimeter none like forza None like softbox and then also on the other side. It's actually exactly the same light. So again a forza 60 but with a 60 centimeter two foot softbox You can see that they've got these the crates on them So the point of those incidentally is to stop the the light from sort of spilling over to the back wall It just makes it sort of highly highly directional. So that's what's kind of illuminating me at the moment There is another light which is also a non light and by the way all of these things are linked down in the In the description as well So I won't post links into the live chat, but they are all there in the description There is another none light though, which is over here on this back wall Just next to the the air con there and that is a mix panel. I've actually created that softbox That's a homemade softbox that has got that grid on it. There is technically one available for these It's basically a flat LED panel from Nanlite again But yeah, the softbox wasn't available So I just use my yet my MacGyvering skills to to make that again with its own little grid By the way incidentally that was I saw mr. Camera junkies that he had made so I basically just copied him The air con there. I always talk about this air con that's out of view But as you can see I say I always talk about it I mentioned it when I'm talking about audio as you can see it is literally kind of like pointing here blowing across so When I talk about audio Then the the noise gate is particularly important there because otherwise there would be this constant hum of the Air con noise over the top of me. Hey George, great to see great to see you I was thinking about you and creator camp and all of the amazing folks there when I was drinking my morning coffee this morning Every morning. I'm drinking out of my my little creator camp mug from from ecamm So for those that don't know all my videos made in one take with no edits using ecamm Obviously, this is a live stream, but so is my my regular content too And so those are the the lights that I've got there the lights in the background That are giving that color on the back wall there Those are none like pavo tubes and the the six C so they're about a foot long 30 centimeters Someone asked me the other day about the distance between me in the back wall. It's about six seven eight feet something like that Two or three meters between me and that back wall. So that's how far it is I can't really reach out to those so if you're thinking about Cameras and sort of lenses and things like that. You need to be sort of conscious of how far you are away from the the back wall if you you know thinking about the The way that you want to be framed you can always zoom and crop But my camera is the Sony ZV-10 and everyone talks about this combination of the Sony ZV-10 and the Sigma 16 lens And it's like yeah, it is a great lens, but it's actually quite wide You know, so I didn't actually want something that wide So I've got a Sony ZV-10, but I'm using the Sigma 30. I've got the 16 as well Which is useful in other occasions when it's not behind my teleprompter, although it usually is But that's the the Sigma 16 and the 30 is slightly smaller than this But it's basically just got this narrower field of view there So that's what gives me the crop that I want Incidentally, you also do tend to get a much more natural sort of look out of the 30 rather than the 16 The 16 will have a tendency to sort of widen things And it's slightly technically slightly distorted in that respect. So that's why I went with the Sigma 30 Other lighting that I've got about the place though lots of nanolite stuff around here So if I come back to this one and it is going to follow me around until I switch it off But down there you can see these ones that I've got in these shelves These are nanolite litolite Four seas and I've got those in those shelves over there. I've also got one that is basically behind this This light so there is a red light over there And so when you see this shot and you can see there's that kind of like red glow in the background That's basically coming from this light over here. That's sort of giving that that sort of wash to the back you can see some other red lights in this Image here as well. So like these ones over here and these are just some generic LED strips, let me get that off the screen some generic generic LED strips that you can sort of stick to the back of things And I've also got those around these ones as well. I would recommend getting you know Some decent video ones one thing I'll say about these is depending on the color. There is a little bit of sort of flashing on screen and the color is not necessarily going to be completely Sort of true true to the the color that you want necessarily so they don't have that much level of adjustment I've basically got these these little remotes that you may have seen you can get these so many different brands on Amazon use these These little remotes and they're really cheap. So Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily recommend using these if you want to get you know, really accurate color and so on But for what I've got in the background they serve the purpose and when I say they were cheap They were like hmm, I want to say a couple of dollars for you know a few meters of it or something like that If you want to get really fancy with this stuff Then El Gato make light strips of this kind as well where you've got much more fine control over the precise Color the the RGB code and so on the hex code for it So you can you can put all of that in but certainly for for my use case This was this was this was fine for what I was wanting to do Incidentally the the lights there and I say that they're behind something if you are Let me come over to this one The those lights that are in that to that top corner just over there Basically that is behind acoustic panels. So I do have acoustic panels. There's one that is right behind me So that sort of black area over there. That is an acoustic panel And so is the one over here. Let me just Move over so there's another one there in that sort of corner and both of those are actually covering windows So my studio is in a little cottage at the bottom of my garden and there those are windows So that one's on a slider so I can slide that completely out of the way So it allows the the light to come in obviously and I can open the window and so on But when I'm streaming or when I'm working in here Then I'll slide that across and it does two things. It is obviously Blocks the light out so makes the the lighting in here consistent, but also it acts as a you know a sort of barrier between You know the inside and the outside from a noise point of view I do most of my most productive stuff in the morning before the kids wake up But otherwise it helps with reducing the the noise of the kids in the garden So then we've got on the the back wall then if I just switch over to this camera and I need to just let me just try and see if I can switch off the the tracking for a second Whoops a daisy. This is This is something I should have said with the beginning. Let me just switch over to this one. Shall I that'll be much easier I can show you from from here. Anyway There we go. So this is these Acoustic panels that I have on the wall and so I've got Where are we here? This is actually mounted to the very top of an acoustic panel So that that you're looking at is the top of an acoustic panel and you've got three on the the wall on that side There is one above my head as well And then you've got one on that that back wall Let me just switch over to this one one second and then we've got Yeah, you've got another couple over there So that up on the top there is another one of these AI cameras. So this is the the obzbot tail air So I've got one up on top of there And then I've got another one which is on top of my my monitor over here So this one They're just next to that little monitor And then this other one that you can see right now is on the top of another acoustic panel She probably shot my jorgen now with all my rubbish in it So that is the the cameras that I'm using though the obzbot I've been really happy with those in terms of just being able to quickly connect them up and give me these multiple different angles One thing I like about them is that they've got all these different ways that you can connect So one of them is connected over hdmi directly into a cam link in my my computer The one that was sort of behind me on that above that acoustic panel over there That one is actually ethernet and then the other one that we're seeing so this one is just completely wireless So it's just ndi into the computer. So that's how these are linked up So I like the versatility that those give in terms of the the way that you can can connect them Incidentally, if we just sort of go back to to this shot momentarily If it was a little bit more in focus, let me just adjust this with this one If we take a look at what my studio started out as when I first moved into it So I actually started out in my basement and all of my early videos on youtube Were just done with a green screen But I found this picture the other day when I was looking around and this is essentially Let me bring it up This is how my my desk setup look when I first moved into this studio space. So I'd Completely cleaned it all out set it all up with these acoustic panels So all you can see in here is just basically that the acoustic panel Behind the monitor there. That's the one that's covering a window. There's the one above my head The softboxes that you can see in the picture there though They were just kind of I think it was something like $40 for a pair of softboxes a pair of light stands and so on And the these like these softboxes were just using Just regular light bulbs. So no real fine adjustment of them But so they still certainly did the job and whilst I'm talking about all of these You know all of this gear and stuff like that The point is um, you don't actually need to have all of this, you know, it's you can start with With whatever you've got in fact in that picture there You can see it's the same monitor by the way that I've got right now. So it's a phillips 43 inch monitor The the small little monitor right above it there That is actually the desvue t3 teleprompter and then a lily put monitor I'm still using that monitor actually but the the small monitor But I've actually taken it out of the teleprompter and it's now sitting Just above here. So what I've done is I've positioned that monitor The lily puts a seven it's just next to this camera So that if I'm looking at this camera Then I can see that monitor just sort of next to it and that monitor there is basically coming off a splitter from this one So this is my my teleprompter now So I did upgrade my teleprompter to a larger teleprompter If I just come back to it But because the the one that I had there was was fine But it was a bit small when it came to wanting to do slightly more complex things in zoom with more complex presentations and things like that I wanted the The largest screen. So I did upgrade my monitor now. It's a 12 and a half inch rather than seven So that works a lot better incidentally in that picture the camera that I was using for Really quite a long time on youtube. I guess sort of eight eight eight months to a year something like that was my Now I don't know 12 13 year old canon eos 60d camera Giving only a 720 out from the the I was taking the usb out from that into the into the computer And then ecam was doing the upscaling to 1080 or whatever it was So so yeah, you don't necessarily need to Put in place this sort of barrier that you need all this latest gear or whatever to actually Do something productive with it The other thing in there though that has remained pretty much unchanged So the microphone the shore mv7 And then obviously you can see what the stream deck on there the loop deck or the The door stop as I now call it The the loop deck and stream deck Definitely i'm all in on stream deck now rather than loop deck loop deck did have some Uses because it had those dials But then now that we've got the stream deck excel Sorry the stream deck plus I should say with the dials then at the soon as this was available I basically just ditched the the loop deck there because the user interface and the app for that is still just pretty pretty terrible In that picture there, I did have a top-down camera So you can see there's kind of like a light above my head in that picture just over here And that is just a small little yulanzi light that that I was using at the time that is now One of the small lights that is illuminating things at the back. So like this one is just it's over there now It's kind of just illuminating that little clapperboard And then the the the camera for this was just an old iphone that I was repurposing Whereas now what I'm using is if I come back to this one Over here Where are we this one? So I've got a sony zv1, which is my top-down camera. So this is this is up here This incidentally is also Mounted on a mic arm. So I know you can get all kinds of different ways to to mount things But this is actually the ava media live streamer arm And it's it's actually one of my favorite mic arms because of the the sort of length that it gives you and it's one of these ones that You know, you've got the low profile arms that to kind of underslung, which is what I'm using here. So this mic is the this mic arm here is the Elgato low profile mic arm and then I've also got the Elgato wave mic arm over here I'll talk about this mic in a little while But these are basically you're choosing between either one of the sort of over and down arms or one of the low slung ones Whereas what I love about this ava media one is it can actually rotate So it can either be a sort of low profile one coming from underneath Or it can be a you know an over-the-top Style of of arm. So it's a really great arm and it's got a great reach on it So I was using that one for a long time until I until I Sort of switched around my studio and then this one that I eventually started using for my mic Worked best for my my mic, but I do really love the ava media one All of these things are are linked in the in the description as well Let me just say a few hello's and just check in notice some frames that you're losing And I'll have a look at that. I don't have the insta 360 link webcam. I've got the those are the Obs bot tail air. I do have also the obs bot tiny Tiny two the the other ai powered one that they bought out before that So I'll be I'll be doing a review of these things. I've got a load of videos to make actually this Coming for the rest of the month on some various different products that I've not really covered on the the channel Hey obs great to see you here as well Hey, marcio great to see you if you don't know marcio just go and search His name in the ecamm live facebook group I love some of the cool things that you're doing with With ecamm and just the whole sort of design aesthetic that you've got going on with it all is is absolutely superb Jeremy in the in the chat and also in the In the discord as well Hey, yeah, great to see you here as well. I certainly have had a great week. I've had a great start to the year actually as well um, I I do my daily journaling and I've noticed that uh, yeah I've seemed to have had quite a quite an unusually large number of great days this year so far, which is always fantastic Hey, pierre great to see you as well. Thanks for thanks for stopping by One of our channel members as well. So great to see you Um, so let me just continue on with a few other things one of the things that I have changed Certainly since this picture was taken is obviously introduced the the the roadcaster. Hey wane as well Great to see you while we're still saying hello to folks One of the things obviously that's changed since since this image here is the introduction of the the roadcaster I will say that the short mv7 was one of the reasons One of the reasons why I chose this microphone was because it's got this dual input so it can be both xlr But also, uh, usb. So usb meaning you can plug it directly into your computer Which is what I was doing in this this picture. Uh, but also it has a A way to plug it into your with the xlr. You can plug it into an audio interface. So I bought it with the specific um, uh, use case that you know, I was going to be doing some Uh, some development of the studio and potentially adding in a mixer later So I do now have the the roadcaster since last year or year before when did it come out? I forget year before I think um, and uh, I started with the roadcaster pro 2 Um, so that is what you can see on my my desk just here But then I added in the duo and I will say that the duo for me It feels like the ultimate and that is actually sitting over there as a lighting feature But the duo for me felt like they designed it for me That's kind of what I felt like it was and they certainly didn't but it felt like it got everything that I needed In this really nice small compact Form factor Wayne's just saying you finally got the duo it's it's such an awesome device and The fact that it doesn't have pro in the name is a little bit misleading because it's every bit as much as pro as the As the roadcaster pro a roadcaster pro 2 Um, I guess they just didn't I didn't have word for the the name to be so long on the on the device But it's such an awesome device and I've only recently switched back to the roadcaster pro Um two because I've been doing this thing which I'll get into with you know, I've got this mic I've got this other mic over here, but then I also connect the wireless mic as well So I got to the stage where I was actually finally using more than just a two mic inputs But really the duo is just awesome. I absolutely love it It's kind of my favorite of the entire road road line there at the moment Even though I've moved this other one back onto my desk And hello old country off-road great. See you crazy weather here in Tennessee How so is it unusually unusually cold or unusually hot or something else? But um, yeah, so the roadcaster one thing I did do though is I really love the fact that with the roadcaster you can mount it using either the visa mount or you can use a quarter 20 inch Thread on the on the back and for quite a while. I did actually use this arm so technically this one will support the roadcaster, so the The Elgato low profile arm will technically just support the the the roadcaster however, I ultimately moved it onto a Like a monitor arm a visa arm the other thing that happened Relatively recently is I upgraded my computer. So I was on previously a mac mini But now I'm using a M3 max macbook pro And so this gave me an additional monitor here So I've got my laptop down there and previously this monitor was mounted down below there But it's actually giving me a new use case for this extra monitor that I've effectively acquired And what I've done is I've mounted the monitor Actually to this this arm another bit of a MacGyver job here, but Basically the roadcaster is on an arm. So that's what this thing down here is It's mounted using the visa mount at the back because this is just a You know a monitor arm with a visa mount at the back But then I added the addition of this plate coming out of the back with a sort of 90 degree Turn on it. And then I'm just using one of these little Arms that you can get for sort of mounting accessories and things like that That's now coming out from the back of there. And then that is what this lightweight Mobile monitor is mounted to so what that means is I've got this kind of like mobile panel Which effectively becomes my sort of AV AV station if you like And so that's got my roadcaster on it But that's also got all of my my e-cam live controls on it So at the moment my e-cam is in the the window there, but normally e-cam would be in this window E-cam control panels anything related to sort of audio visual and stuff like that is now on there And so that's kind of nicely out of the way because the way that I actually work at this desk Is normally when I'm working I'm kind of sitting here. You'll notice that all of this stuff is kind of at 45 degrees So generally in a working day, I'll be sitting here And just you know working away at this desk. I've got another monitor down this side, which is just I don't use it for streaming. It's a more of a productivity monitor So that has you know things like calendar mail Omni-focused task management stuff like that stuff that I want to have access to Whilst I'm working on my primary monitor over here I also use this obviously when I'm working, but this is my main screen But then when I'm streaming Then I'll just sort of move over here or if I'm on a zoom call and then I'm looking into my teleprompter with my Thing down below And let me just come down here. So I just just saw Jeremy in the discord waving So I've got I suddenly thought oh, it's something something not going through but I guess it is it's just All right, here we go. Let's come back there So So yeah, so this is the way that I kind of work where I'm when I'm streaming or on a zoom call And then I've got all of my sort of content over here So when I'm doing a demo, for example I've got all of the different things that I might want to share will be up on this monitor I'm looking in here But then when I change to a different scene in ecamm, for example, then it's sharing in this case Just that top left part portion of the screen So so that would be you know in that scene that I was just in it's basically just sharing this area And I've set up different scenes in ecamm that basically share, you know, all of these different Areas so I've got six different areas of the screen that I can share with different scenes in ecamm So then the the other thing that I've got on my desk obviously is the the stream decks I've got a stream deck excel, which I had in that very early picture. It was one of the first things I mean really the stream deck and the mv7 were the first two things that I bought to sort of enhance my setup with For you know video production and live streaming and then realized, you know, what a productivity powerhouse the stream deck was I mentioned that the the stream deck plus was something that I added in when when they had the dial so it replaced my my loop deck and The second stream deck I added this into my my setup when it came to a point where Because obviously with the stream deck you can have multiple pages. You can have multiple different profiles So although it's only although it's got 32 keys. You're not limited to that many actions You can have multiple pages as I say multiple profiles and Folders as well with different actions. So there's ways that you can get more buttons on it The reason that I added a second stream deck excel to the mix though Was when I was doing things that's basically in any given live situation If I needed more than those 32 keys because one of the things that's really important is having that muscle memory So being able to switch between You know scenes for example, I don't necessarily need to look at it I just know that if I put my finger Down here on this button Then that's going to take me back to my main scene. This this one here will take me back to my my top down scene And I can just kind of feel around on here where the buttons are So this one down here in the bottom corner always will take me back to this main scene So having this muscle memory so that you don't have to be looking down at the buttons when you are pressing them For me is really key and important to to sort of keep that sort of flow So as soon as it came to the point where I would have to switch pages Between a different set of buttons then suddenly that muscle memory is kind of broken because then you have to think to yourself Which screen are you on? And it might be that you go and press the button that you think is going to take you to a particular scene But then it does something completely different altogether. So that was the point at which I added in this second stream deck excel Was when I you know, I wanted to be able to have these controls All at my fingertips, you know when I'm delivering a zoom webinar a zoom workshop or something like that So then I've got, you know, all of my ecam controls over here, you know, some other things over on this side that may be related to specific use cases So that's that's when I added that one into the mix I've also got two of the stream deck pedals down beneath my my feet. Those are something that is Yeah, if you've never used pedals before in your computing Life, then you may think that just sounds crazy But actually, uh, if you uh, you know, once you once you start using them You realize that yeah, they've got some really some really great productivity use cases as well So, you know switching scenes I can switch scenes with those as well but you know things like um You know where this is weird that where I use them a lot actually is I will program shortcuts to them for excel So I do a lot of things in excel And there's little small sequences of keystrokes and things like that that you may want to press And so I find myself, you know typing away and doing things in Excel, but I'm also Doing things with my feet. It sounds that sounds totally geeky and weird, but it does actually it does actually work Let me just have a quick check in with the chat before I before I go on Wayne I'm running two wireless goes on slider one and two and nth 100 on three and my mobile 12 pro on four Buttons on virtual. I love it for streaming and sports. Yeah, it's it's It's it's awesome. And when they added in the the wireless pros as wireless go, sorry When they added in the ability to pair those directly with the the roadcasters. Yeah, that's it's pretty cool. So I use the The the the roadcaster the the wireless Pro and then I have that sort of I have one of those paired to one of the one of the channels and then Yeah, using the The road lovely and Mike Plugged into the wireless. So then I can I can be sort of mobile I don't really I'm not really mobile in this studio much as you can tell I'm generally kind of sitting here on time But I do use them occasionally um so Oh the weather minus 14. Oh that is that it's pretty cold Hmm I don't know what's kind of brilliant, but oh, I guess it's the arm actually That would have been when I was talking about there The road streamer x but bad alpha product When when it comes to video on m1 mac. How so I've not found an issue such with the The streamer x it's funny actually because the streamer x was what I was using for my My main camera going into going into e-cam going into the computer I actually took that out recently just because of I stripped a load of things out of the studio when I When I updated my when I upgraded to my yet my new laptop and then I've I was rooting cameras in that previously were over hdmi Then I'm using these ob spot either wireless or ndi Ethernet or wireless ndi cameras. So I had I had a few cam links spare. So I ended up just using those one of the things that I will be Uh adding into this though is There is the the deck link from black magic deck link quad 4k, which enables you to basically plug in four hdmi video sources But then takes it into your computer just over thunderbolt on a single cable and so that is Um A benefit to that is first of all, it's just one cable instead of multiple cam links The other thing is the computer can get confused with their cam links So sometimes you'll start them up and they'll be you know, what was you thought was one camera Will now be switched over to another one because of the way that apple assigns Things to them apparently so so yes, that's something that I will be adding in at at some point But yeah, not sure what the uh Streamer x issue is that you've you've had um Yeah, we'll have to have to see although I know that folks did have issues with them So the I definitely know that folks did have Issues with uh with a few things now that you mentioned it. So but no it was more to do with audio. I thought but anyway high digress Um Curious, uh, though jealous when I see amazing studio setup have all of these expensive toys added to your goals or bottom line I get the improved quality of image and audio, but other than that Yeah, so this is why I always do start this With the with the caveat that Yeah, this is what all of my the majority of my videos on my channel were made with this setup So I haven't actually last year. I recorded 11 pre-recorded videos Compare that to when I started on youtube. I did 100 videos in my first 100 days and in the first year I did kind of 320 or something. I was aiming for 365 but I fell short But I was basically producing almost a video a day And it would have been using this 10 year old camera over here That's in this shot or 12 13 year whatever it is now. My top down camera was an old iphone 5s the little light there was the light The the the softboxes I mean Were were just these generic softboxes to you just changed the bulbs So if you if you say like should any of this stuff be a requirement I would say that the only things that I That I would say definitely start with this would be Buy a decent mic and as I say the mv7 is a great choice because It's it's both xlr and usb Which means that it can grow with you if you get to you know an interface later So that is for me, you know Of the first thing make sure your audio is on point and then the stream deck for switching scenes and doing all this stuff is amazing But the other thing about the stream deck, which I didn't realize until I got one is It's just a general productivity Powerhouse really in terms of what you can do with it outside of the streaming and video production But yeah, the gear don't let that be a You know an issue But to your point is has this improved things Obviously the lighting has given me more control over the lighting So the fact that I've now got you know these these lights I have got a lot more control over Over what's going on in the light. I can control the light in my studio more I mentioned that the image quality out of my 10-year-old camera was basically 720 This you know could be 4k. I think I'm actually streaming at 1080 at the moment But it was 720 out of my old camera And the you know the low light perform it just wasn't as good an image So the camera has definitely improved the image the the roadcaster Arguably hasn't really Improved the audio quality because I was already getting good quality audio out of the microphone What the roadcaster did for me though is it's the audio routing capabilities That's why I I'm in love with the roadcaster because what that allows me to do is I can have My e-cam live on one fader. I've got my zoom on another one I've got discord going on on another one and I can control all of the various levels of that And who's hearing what and at what level they're they're hearing it And it's doing this routing. So for me, that is quite specific. It's not really I don't use the roadcaster as much as like a Content creation thing. It's actually more a facilitation tool for me Facilitating meetings workshops webinars and things like that where I want to do the the audio routing Although technically I am using it right now in any case because I've got a discord back channel going So I stream into that as well at the same time and then we'll carry on in there after the the live streams finished And so I've got the audio from that coming into my ears, but it's not going into the live streams So from that point of view that has been something that has has added added Added value to to what I'm trying to do The the multiple stream decks I mentioned that yeah, you certainly don't need to have You know Three stream decks on your desk and two down by your feet But for me, I've added them in at a point where I thought You know what this would be something that would be beneficial for what I'm specifically doing with this stuff Which as I say again is is outside of just just live streaming Um, thinking about some of the other uh gear acquisition things again, you know So to full disclosure the obzbot Cameras I've got one up there. There's one that you're seeing here These are useful for me in doing, you know demos like this and showing things Um, so so they are useful for that But full disclosure they were sent to me by obzbot as a you know to do a test and review on And I do like them previously. I had a In fact, previously I had my old camera was the one that I moved over onto the to this side So I was back down to that 720 image out of it. And then I had some So some old webcam a logitech webcam that was behind me. So they've it's basically for me These have improved the image quality Um, but again, you know, that's because I'm doing things where on my channel specifically It's kind of a bit meta at this point, isn't it? You know, I'm I'm making content about making content. So for that point of view Um, the the it it's it's kind of used for that essentially Um, but it is a great point and that's why I do always try and stress this that you know, it's a case of Not not making a list of the things that you need because everyone else is saying you need them I mean the the the sony camera with the sigma 16 lens is such like a thing that's talked about all the time people, you know content creators talk about it, but It's not necessarily going to be right for you if In like as in my case, I use the sigma 30 lens because it's a you know more cropped in Look and that's what works for me. So I'm going through and basically You know, I am adding things in when I see that there is some sort of need for them or desire for them But again all the lighting, you know the colored lights do I really need to have You know that going on behind me Possibly not so you can have a perfectly good just background with you know, a really nice sort of natural light going on. So Yes, this is not intended to It's difficult really isn't it because on the one hand I don't want to fuel people's gas attacks the gear acquisition syndrome And certainly not feeling like oh, I need to have this thing before I can create content or whatever Yeah, you definitely don't don't need it So You have a rocaster pro to a rocaster pro, but will upgrade to the duo. It's it's such an awesome thing. I absolutely love it And orbs is in love with her pedal too So could I control a space launch from this desk? I suppose technically yes, actually, you know what there was a really interesting interview or interesting article on LinkedIn that Elgato funnily enough shared Which was all about how the the european space agency. I think it was was using Streamdex in their workflows. I don't think they were quite I don't think it got to the point where they had the launch button on it But they were certainly using it In their in their flow. Hey keely, great to see you here Um I have similar tool toys and you're 100% accurate I think alec and I both integrate only useful toys tools They may start out as toys, but the real tools eventually survive the purge. That's it really as well. Yeah, um, but I am always conscious about Uh, I always give myself a cool-off period as well. I I constantly have things in my cart Like the shopping cart. Um, and I just uh, it it migrates it goes to wish list Then it migrates into the cart and then I leave it there for a while as well before I pull the trigger and just say Am I really sure about this because I know in the past I've made I've made impulse purchases that uh, I just pure gas attacks Keely's the the master of the the minimalist approach and working with Yeah, keeping keeping a real slim down approach um The let's have a look the the remote. Oh, yeah, the remote cameras are useful incidentally one of my coaching clients is Is a sports coach and so he's now using the ops bots and we've just been yesterday in fact talking about the setup so he's got a studio setup where he does all of his uh talking about the the product talking about his his specialized field of Athletics performance coaching. Um, but then he's also got an outside facility that uh, he's going to have these um These same remote cameras because one of the things they do well Is actually tracking. Um, so, you know tracking of people Doing drills and things like that and uh, and so on in the field. So Yeah, they're pretty pretty awesome cameras um Is it true that the duo doesn't load on? Uh, uh, is that road central on my m1? iPad the oh, sorry the ai micro came up, but nothing for ipad doesn't load um Uh, the uh the road central does work with the uh with the ipad, but it doesn't connect over the the ipad I don't think so. Yeah, you would need to upload. I think you would need to upload them on your uh on your laptop or maybe just uh Glitching out of this, but yeah, it's not it doesn't connect in the same way that the um You know like the road wireless mics and things like that do so. Yes You I think you would need to upload those on the on the ipad Incidentally, that is probably one of the the the things that uh, I think could definitely be improved on the roadcaster pro 2 And on the duo is the sound pads. So uh, just to sort of explain what i'm talking about there Um on the on here. Let me just zoom in a little bit On here, you've got a load You've got a load of uh sound effects sound effects. I just noticed that yeah, the the top one here is is dock Oh I didn't do some stupid. There you go. That's my dog rock sound effects But you can you can assign these now What's really weird is that it's really easy to move these faders around so if I want to change the position of You know, this fader is for something else. I can just go into the settings and drag and drop them So it's real sort of drag and drop However, if I want to change anything on these sound effects Like let's say I wanted that sound effect to be over on another one Um, you can't just sort of drag them around you do have to go in and and effectively Delete them on the uh in the in the app and then in the road central app on the computer and then like re uh Re-uploaded to the new sound pad. So that is definitely one area where I think that that could be improvement in any case even just on the um on the uh In the in the app on the computer Um The light there the colored lights I have another actually so although I am technically all in on nanlite I'm not all in on nanlite for a couple of reasons. So first of all, uh, I do I really like the nanlite uh products And I've got the nanlite mobile app I have that on my desktop because on mac you can since a couple of versions ago You can install ios apps on your mac. So I installed the nan link app on my computer So that then I can control my lights from here set up different scenes and so on However, I did buy another light which is This one over here, which is kind of like the pavo tubes, but this one's like a two foot and it's the uh, What's the name? I'm I'm bit full And it's I think it's like the uh a lower cost From the makers of amaran Lights so and I only picked it up because it was in lazada, which is the uh the kind of Amazon for southeast asia It's the you know the e-commerce site that everyone uses over here. There isn't an amazon thailand Although unbelievably amazon us have just started doing free shipping to thailand I mean that's just unbelievable like on pretty much all products I can order now from amazon us and have it shipped free to thailand And I wonder if there's something going on where uh because I always wondered, you know, why isn't there an amazon thailand? There's amazon singapore. There's amazon, you know surrounding countries But no amazon thailand and I wondered whether maybe there'd been some sort of block on them coming in here as can happen with Thai politics And so I wondered if they just said all right and fair enough. We'll just start doing free shipping to thailand So, uh, yeah now you can get free shipping to thailand You still have to pay obviously import taxes and duty and stuff, but it will work all that out for you But suddenly it's made Shipping stuff from america a lot uh more cost effective for me here in thailand, but I digress the uh Lazada is the kind of the main e-commerce site that people use over here and throughout southeast asia Um, and then they have these these sort of sales and this thing just popped up and it was basically like I want to say Uh, I want to say about 30 which is considerably less than The 120 or whatever it is for the uh, the pavo tubes of the same same sort of length these two foot ones Um, so I've got one of those and uh, that seems to be fine as well I have now then got a light that is completely out of my my ecosystem So that one there, uh, and that is actually shining on that that back wall over there And what I've done is I've kind of set up a different scene So at the moment, I'm generally always sitting in front of my desks, but I've got another Scene set out there now. I wouldn't be using this camera that you're looking at it through now So I've got a different camera setup for this particular scene But this is for some some short form content I'm thinking of doing that's something that's different to the way that things look in here So that was as I say different scene. I've got a different lighting Scene setup as well. So it would change all the lighting, but that's why I do have This this mic here, which is another great mic by the way. It's the the road usb Hang on the road pod mic usb and it also has xlr and usb inputs And to mount this I actually got the the elgato Wave boom arm So I was using over here as I mentioned earlier the the elgato low profile and I absolutely Sorry for making anyone see sick with all this moving. I really love this this mic arm and it gets it sort of out of the way When I'm not using it. So I really love this low profile arm. It's really well made like solid metal I got these little magnetic things to hide the cable So the cable just sort of pops into that like that But yeah, I got this one because I wanted something that would fold out of the way But then for this particular setup, I could use it. This is really a solid mic arm I've used a few of these kind of like up and over type mic arms But this this elgato Wave the regular mic arm and it's $99. You can use it either with or without the riser. So there's a riser Section up here, but it's just really really solid Nice little groove for the the cable to to drop into so Yeah, if you're looking for either an over on the top or the You know the low slung ones either of these these road. Sorry elgato Mic boom arms are just really solid the other thing about this one is Usually there's an issue with like it just holding its position But I've tried it with a few different weights on it There is actually a a weight thing that you can drop over here as well If you've got a really light mic to just sort of keep it balanced But there's no real adjustment to it. And yet it just stays exactly Where it's put no matter like how far out it just stays exactly in in place It's it's really amazing the mic I think I haven't made a video about that one But so that's on my my list of things to make as well But that is all part of this kind of like other little scene thing that I've got going on over Over there, which you'll be seeing some short form content coming out using that as well I'm also doing a starting another podcast And rekindling my old live streamer backstage podcast I shouldn't call it old. I should just say I'm going to be doing season two to 25 episodes So season two of that is coming soon But I'm also doing another podcast, which is more of a A solo thing and so I'm considering doing That's all on this other scene and it'll be on youtube but also Taking some short form clips out of that as well Um, so that was a slight digression from Pierre's comment about lighting And I was just pointing out that I've got another one over there while we're talking about lighting Um, there's another thing that I'm going to be reviewing soon. Uh, which is, um Pretty awesome. Uh, this light here is, uh, uh, let me get the name right Uh, Ja-yoon Everybody pronounce it is a bit of a running joke that everybody on youtube pronounces it wrong. I'm sure I have as well Uh, but this is the the new product, which is the fivre m20c And they sent me this for review as well. I literally just got it a few days ago But what's amazing about it is it's really really compact. So that is the size of it But it's a 20 watt light. I've got it mounted on something at the moment But it's a 20 watt light But what's cool about it is if I show you that that is the actual light itself Um, so it's a flat panel light. You've got the battery at the back 20 watt Um, but if I if I just switch it on And then I'm going to blind you all obviously as well But this is the the light panel But what's cool about it is it's got these these attachments. So there's an extra diffuser here You can add that to it and it's just magnetic. It just sort of clips on like that There's also a a grid. So there's this thing which is a grid So that's to uh, you know, it's a little tiny, uh Grid but it's as big as it needs to be so that when it's on Like there you can't see you obviously see the light coming out of the side Let me take the that diffuser off. So we just it helps with this demonstration There you go. You can't see the light coming out of that now But as I turn it, uh, then now obviously you can And then also it's got a The barn doors that go with it as well So if I just drop this on, uh, then you've got barn doors if you want to Sort of direct this light to to whatever So it's pretty. Yeah, it's really a pretty neat design. And I've got to be honest. This is I mentioned about having Things in my in my shopping cart and then Just waiting a while giving myself some breathing space before pulling the trigger I actually had two of these in my shopping cart for amazon us because they I couldn't find them in there in In here and then Whilst they were sitting there waiting for me to actually make the decision and pull the trigger The company actually reached out and said, you know, would I Be interested in reviewing them. So I said certainly Because I was planning on buying them in any case and I'm really really pleased I'm going to be buying a couple more my myself actually because Yeah, they're really useful and talking about this other setup that I've got for some different Um content that I'm going to be creating Actually, the this is what I'll be using for that So give me some of the lighting without them to move my my large lighting around You find a link to all these things in the description But yeah, these are really really cool You can just power them permanently as well. So there's obviously usb to power them from there They are intended, you know, they're 20 watt, you know, mobile like really But I'll be using them just pretty much in here But they've got a cold shoe attachment here to attach to your camera and then they've got You know multiple other mounting points that you can mount other things to them I've got this on a little quick release thing. Let me just turn it off for a second. Oh, and incidentally, it's rgb There's all sorts of effects, you know, so you can have Various different effects lighting effects strobes all of that kind of stuff So all the same sorts of things that you have with, you know, the other brands of lights as well Have it moving in time with the the music If I was playing music It's moving in time with my voice at the moment So there's that. But yeah, I'll be I'll be using it in a much more conventional way But yeah, it's a really nice little light Um the it is in this case. So let me just switch it off for a second I'm going to do it. As I say a full full review of this, but there's basically the the Bondor attachment. There is the grid attachment and then there is the extra little Diffuser there as well. But this itself is in a case as well So there's a little latch that you can open up and you can actually take the light completely out of that and that is the the sides of it unusually There is no sort of mounting point on the light itself So although it can come out of this frame, which you know is is fine. If you don't want this sort of heavy duty Uh, I say heavy duty. It's it is plastic, but you know pretty strong to ABS or whatever it is But yeah, if you didn't want it in that and you were going to use it like that then There is no, uh, there is no mounting point as such Um, so, uh, so I guess you will be pretty much using it in that case all the time in any case And then you've got that little door that closes on the back But anyway, as I say, I'll be making a video all about that in in due course Let me just switch that off so we don't There we go Uh, let's see where we're up to So, uh, thank you very much. You're very welcome. Um I'm always happy to uh, I mean, I'm always happy to share knowledge, but I'm also always happy to geek out about tech in general. So Um, and uh, bicky, you do the same. Oh, I'd love to see how your studio is going on by the way, bicky Yeah, uh, any any updates on that? I'm always looking forward to to seeing them. Um, yeah Let me know. Let me know how it's going But yeah, yeah, so my my cart is like my I've got my wish list and then my The things move into the cart when it's like, um, still not sure. Let me just give myself a cooling off period Uh, you haven't tried your tail air with umpires yet. Can't wait to see whether it's useful Uh, and if not anyone want to buy a tail Well, I'm sure we'll we'll find a home for it if you don't want it I don't need it. Um Hey rich, how are you doing? That's right, they had to the yeah, yeah You and I I'm not going to be able to pronounce that but yeah any suggestion on A pro mouse bug the zoom shortcut many time just don't work on two of my computers So I've done something which I think keely's also done as well Which is I've um, I've set up a keyboard shortcut or a button on my stream deck to quit pro mouse and reopen it Um because yeah, I was having some issues with it. Um doing that as well. So uh, yeah have a button on my stream deck that is set to just Quit pro mouse reopen it and then it seemed to to reset it. Um because I was having the exact set I mean, I've got it right now in fact So if I run that then yeah, it should pop back up Um, so uh, so yeah, that's that would be my suggestion quit pro mouse and reopen it and Honestly, I mean it's one of these things that I absolutely and by the way pro mouse for those that are not sure Is this little tool that I use here to highlight things on the on the screen and you know spotlight things and so on but um, yeah, it's a great tool, but I found that the The the developers kind of unresponsive effectively And I made a video about it. It's one of my most popular videos But then uh, there was some people had issues So I made another video which was like, you know troubleshooting And I did reach out to the developer and say, you know, hey Have you got any suggestions for this? I want to include it in the video to make make sure people are aware of how to Get the most out of it because I absolutely love the the the products and whatever But I didn't hear back and I know that lots of other people reached out and haven't heard back. So I don't know but I do like it. There is another program, uh, which Funnily enough, I used to use this program before pro mouse and it was called mouse pose um, and uh, there is a reason why I switched and I can't remember what it is now. Uh It may well be actually the way the zoom feature works when it works is better in pro mouse But mouse pose does the whole highlighting of the thing But I think that that was the thing that I switched for with with pro mouse just because it Yeah, it does the zooming in the the highlighting of the screen or the Spotlight so it darkens the rest of the screen But that might be another option if you if you get frustrated with with pro mouse But yeah, the stream deck button just did it for me though to quit pro mouse and restart it When are you doing your quitting youtube video everyone else is Yeah, it's all just getting it's all just getting too stressful for me I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed and uh, yeah, this is this is the this is the last one I mean, yeah, I do you know, I'll there is something to this incidentally because Um, some people are doing youtube for doing youtube and that is fine And what they're trying to do is grow their youtube channel And their ultimate goal is to be a bigger youtube than they are youtube Uh channel than they are right now I've got to say that that isn't my motivation with doing my youtube channel Ultimately my youtube channel is to Share information and share all the the love with the world, of course But it is also an inbound marketing tool for things like My consultation services if you would like to book a consultation with me to learn how to get the most out of your studio space You can do so at take one tech dot i o slash consultation Um, or you can go and check out my take one tech academy if you want to learn all about You know how to do all this stuff when you want a load of courses and resources and things like that Um, so ultimately, you know the youtube for me at this point is an inbound marketing tool for all of my other stuff And it's an opportunity for me to uh to keep in the the process of making videos in one take I mean, that's that's why I started the channel take one tech was about Creating videos in one take with no edits for me to practice the process of making videos with no edits That's where it all started from for me Uh because I was making course content now at that point the course content was completely unrelated to uh the channel I was just practicing the process of doing screen demos and tutorials and things like that And so that's kind of why I started doing the started the channel originally Now take one tech has grown into its own thing its own business its own ecosystem But uh, yeah for me the goal is not the youtube the youtube is an end to the to the goal And the growth in youtube is obviously Yeah, I'm not going to say I want youtube to be stagnant. No, I do want it to grow because that's going to increase this You know top of funnel Source of you know clients Students in my courses and all of that kind of thing But if I was only focused on youtube And and that's what I wanted to do was to grow to be the biggest youtube channel. I could get take one tech I would actually be doing things differently because This live stream right now is about my studio setup The live stream I did last week was all about kajabi and how you can use kajabi or the week before last Was how I can use kajabi to make courses Then there'll be a video all about roadcaster and another one about stream deck, but then another one About productivity and and actually really as a channel You you know people talk about finding your niche In your youtube channel really my channel is doesn't fit that totally I mean it kind of does but it doesn't completely I could get really more hyper niched I could make my channel the stream deck channel where that's all I talk about stream deck productivity hacks Stream deck use cases and all of that because if I look through my videos my stream deck videos are without a shadow of a doubt They're all of my top videos apart from a couple of anomalies Like another one my third most Popular video is a video on how to use this The logitech presenter so that is like video number three is something about it's basically troubleshooting using this with a muck Because there's people have issues with it. Um, so that is probably People who are literally just searching for an answer to that problem And then they found my video and my video gets served because probably not many people are making videos about these little things So so apart from that the rest of my videos are really the the most popular ones are all about stream deck so if I was interested in You know with my priority was growing my channel Then then I would focus just purely on stream deck content because Everybody would be getting exactly what they were expecting instead of somebody finding a stream deck video subscribing to my channel and then the next week they're being I'm talking about kajabi, which is kind of like oh well I'm not interested in that and kajabi is the course platform that I use for hosting my courses and so on but The way that i'm looking at it is that actually my channel is where i'm delivering free content to my core audience and my core audience are People who ultimately come through to book coaching with me people who come to Join the take one tech academy. Um, and those are generally Business folks who are looking to use all of this tech in their business So they want you to look better on their zoom calls in their webinars and so on Often kind of solopreneurs small business owners people who are looking to sort of create content as well So many people in the academy are also Using kajabi as well. So that's why there's that kind of fit to it. So Yeah, this is all a big digression But it is a little bit of the way that I think about youtube And I think that if you are getting into youtube as a youtube thing And that is the business that you're doing you're just in the business of youtube Then that's something that could well lead to to burn out To use that that word And and so on so just to just to answer. Uh, yeah, I've got no intention of quitting youtube anytime ever Because it's always going to be I might well at some point in the future, uh, you know have other You know have content created for for things, but I'm always it's always going to be a great source of When I say ever, you know, you know barring in but you know, except for things like, you know at one point You know my space is a thing and people would say oh, I'll never quit my space. But you know, but barring that My main monitor so to get back to the gear You know, this is something that I haven't done a video about and the reason I haven't done a video about my monitor Although I absolutely love it is because it isn't available in the u.s. Now. Let me just Come to get you the link it is It's available in Australia and it's available in southeast asia, but it is not available in the In the u.s. For some reason or at least it wasn't at the time that I checked. I'll drop a link into Um To the monitor in in phillips. So it's a phillips monitor is not a tv So often when I was looking for monitors often these ones that are a regular aspect ratio But just large Often people who use tvs and the trouble with that is although it's technically all right You've got different things like refresh rates and so on that can be an issue Whereas this is actually um a uh a 4k monitor. It's just massive. So it's 43 inch I never got into the the The the idea of these ultra wide monitors Because they're great for ultra wide things, but they're crap if you want to do any, you know, large documents What I love about this monitor here Is the fact that You know, I could have a document that is running down here So let's say I've got this document that's running down here But at the same time I could have things in different windows And in fact if I just if I just open up a few other windows So I use moon for my window positioning So I can just basically put things in any position on screen. So I could put this one Let's say over here put it over here or like this. I can also put it running along the top I could put this one over here Like running down at the bottom like that So I work with excel as I've said quite a lot and so Having a massive big wide screen down here for my excel file But then at the same time Maybe having a few different things up top that might be, you know, one over here One in the middle and one over there It just gives me this versatility of layouts that I can put things if I'm working on a document It can be right down the middle It gives me this versatility of layout That I can put things exactly where I need them to be For the an incidentally moon I've got a thing set up on my my stream deck here So that I can press a button and it would just position windows Exactly where I want them to be and The touch of a button So that makes it really quick from a workflow point of view to just get things to where I want them to be For whatever it is that I happen to be working on at the time But I digress. Let me take you back to this monitor So it is a as I say is a 4k monitor It does have four hdmi inputs and you can actually use it with four different monitors So if you'd got, uh, you know a pc and a mac or multiple things You could technically have them all coming in And they would be, you know, sort of one in one corner one in the other and so on It's a 4k monitor. Obviously it's 43 inch. So it's pretty massive So it's you know, the pixel density is there there. So you could think of it as being You know, 43 inches. So it's basically, you know, 421 and a half inch monitors side by side Or in a 2x2 grid So so yeah, it's it's great and it's actually not that expensive. Um, I want to say it's like five equivalent of five Uh, maybe maybe the equivalent of three or four hundred dollars in fact Something like that maybe 450. Uh, but as I say, this is the link that I dropped in is for philips australia It is available in australia new zealand south east asia, but I didn't see it in Uh in there and the actual model number because I don't think it actually says that quite clearly there Let me just drop that in is the philips four three eight p1 slash 67 Is the is the exact uh, uh model number Uh, so I'll just drop that into the chat as well Uh, roi. Uh, hello roi. Welcome to the uh the stream. Uh, is that a pc or mac setup? It is a mac setup. Yeah, uh, and actually the the software that I use for Doing all the camera switching and things like that that I'm doing is a program called ecamm live Which is mac only there is other software that you can get that does A similar thing. Uh, so obs being the free cross platform software that that does this so Yeah setting up these different scenes to be able to share different areas You could do that with that with obs as well, which is free software What you'll find is if you're on a mac And you're in the ecamm group pretty much everyone who uses ecamm has as probably tried obs as well And there's something about ecamm that uh, personally, I just think Works well and sort of fits in with my uh, my my way of thinking shall I say it is It's a great piece of software. You can find a link to that in the description. Um, I should also have A thing in here about that, but yeah, it's it's an awesome piece of software Um, so let me just come back over to here I was out to my uh, thing. So, uh, yeah, we're talking about the monitor. So that's the the monitor and by the way Hello, gary. Welcome to the stream Basic networks and streaming. Hello. Welcome. Hola And uh, we've got dan another one of our academy members popping in a bit late So you could avoid the gas. Yeah, it's always dangerous. Isn't it going on to a studio tour live stream? Oh, by the way, uh, dan has put me onto something Absolutely amazing. Let me just show you this Uh, and it's one of these things that I kind of don't have a use case for it Um, but it's still amazing nonetheless, and I think it's worth sharing. So I'm going to drop a link in Uh, If you've got an affiliate link dan About all means drop that one in but it is this thing and it's just an amazing idea Um for a portable monitor. So it's called splay. Um, and uh, what it is Is essentially like a rear projection monitor. Um, but it collapses down. I've got to just find something. There you go Let me just see if there's a picture of it It's basically a small little projector in the back. Um, but then it's got it's almost looks like a softbox really You know the way that softboxes expand out, um, and then they've got the diffuser in the front Well, it's a bit like that but behind this, uh, where this lady's holding here is uh, like a small little micro projector Um, but then the whole monitor sort of pops out and unfolds And then you've got like a whatever is 27 inch monitor or something like that As a portable monitor. Now, um, the image is uh, you know, really crisp It's obviously not going to match having an actual lcd panel, but the the image is really, uh, you know Great quality on it and you can see here like an idea for a use case If you've got some sort of mobile setup where you want to have a large monitor But you don't want to be carrying around a large monitor. Um, it's pretty pretty amazing Um, it's this is one of these things that's in my In my cart now that I definitely don't need but uh, it's one of these gas attack things But you can also by the way use the the little rear projector that's inside into You can actually just use that as a small mini projector so you can see the size of it there So it's projecting onto the wall and the whole thing folds up and fits in a little case with the little projector And the the folded up screen so it becomes really portable, but you've got this this mobile monitor It's a it's such a cool design. It was on kickstart. They can see it's opening out. How cool is that? uh, and I only mentioned this because uh Dan was uh saying this is payback. So when he showed us this in the in the take one take academy We have weekly q&a section sessions and uh, you know, we're all there to help one another really but Yeah, he said he says this is payback time and show me this and I was like You got me But anyway a digression not something I own but I've heard great reports from from dan And uh, and it looked cool when he showed the the demo of that as well Um, so uh, pierre you've made me adventure into setting up my studio so much more easy Well, I'm really glad to hear about that and obviously any any questions that anybody's got about any of this stuff You can always come and and ask in the in the discord If I can just quickly switch my thing up. Here you go. If you are interested in joining the uh, the discord that is free to join You can go to take one tech dot i o slash family and in there We've got a whole load of channels that are about all of these kind of things in fact that monitor When you asked me for the link for my monitor. I basically went over to the discord server and uh, this is you know studio gear We've got a section here for studio gear and this was something that came up Just uh a few days ago. Somebody was asking about the monitor. So I just dropped the link in there, but we've got uh Channels in here on ecum live road caster stream deck video ideas studio gear creator tools all of these kind of things So, uh, yeah, this is where you can get your questions Answered about road caster or or otherwise you can go and drop them in in there And incidentally if you are a channel member Then at the the backstage level Then you also get access to the the backstage area for these live streams So we always start the live stream in there 15 minutes early have a bit of a chat and then after the fact Then after the the live streams finished then we'll continue the conversation in there as as well Um, let's have a look where we're up to. Um Uh, just guessing out at the moment on the uh the studio Don't we all I love these I love watching these kind of streams as well because it always gives me some cool ideas Glad you're getting some good tips Uh I'm guessing it's logged off already catching up with the chat, but um, great to great to see you here and glad uh Uh Glad you've been enjoying the uh the content Uh, certainly is uh is payback time For me with the the gas attacks. I'm as I'm as easy to be swayed with these things as anybody. Um, so just thinking about what, uh, Else I've not covered in my studio As I say pretty much, uh, the microphone and the stream deck have remained the same I almost wished I had a sort of time lapse that I could show That was like how the studio's evolved and basically this microphone and the the stream deck would have been the one thing that has been constant in in everything, uh, the laptop by the way is a Uh, oh, I always forget the the name of it Uh, it's a portable monitor though and it comes with like a a bit like an iPad folio style case So you can use it like that, but it's got a vis amount as well. Uh, the other thing that I've been using Recently as my primary keyboard, uh, is this thing now? This is I've got amazon links in all of my youtube videos Um, and I've made a couple of videos about this folding keyboard Um, and it's it's for my mobile setup. So, um, uh, some of you may well know that, uh, I'm not really a mobile phone guy I am still rocking my iphone 6s I don't take calls first of all, um, and I don't really use the the phone But I use it my ipad mini and so in my, uh My Tech pouch This is my little manbag that I carry around all the time And it has in it my ipad mini and this folding keyboard And one of the things that I love about this well the thing that I love about this folding keyboard is It's got regular sized keys And it's got the the function keys along the top and you'll notice that when you look at it like that It is just a regular shaped keyboard There's none of this weird stuff going on like you get with folding keyboards where there's a line down the middle And so the keys aren't all in the right place and the way that it achieves that is by this ingenious Sort of folding mechanism that the keys kind of like fold in on themselves a little bit And it's it's not like a straight folding line almost. Um, so that means that when it folds up It folds up to about the size, uh, of an ipad or smaller than an ipad Um, but when you get to the coffee shop or wherever you are, um, it folds out When I went for my trip to the u.s. Last year for ecam live creator camp Um, I didn't take a computer with me. I just literally took my ipad mini and this And it is literally my my mobile working setup and Uh, you know, I'm not going to claim that I can do heavy excel work iPad mini, but for general stuff it works well. Anyway, I had the This was just purely for my my mobile setup with my ipad But then my uh, I had some issue where it seemed like my apple keyboard An old apple keyboard. I should say the batteries just kept draining and it was having some trouble So I ended up just pairing this with my my my thing my my laptop Um, and I'm now using this as my primary keyboard and I figure that actually Why not be using this as my primary keyboard as well because then Literally, you know, there's always this thing of if the keyboard feels slightly different And I've got to say that this always has the key travel and things like that We're pretty close to the apple keyboard in any case But I figured well, if I just actually use this as my regular keyboard Then it means that when I'm mobile I have actually got the exact same keyboard like in mobile as well And this compare with up to three devices over bluetooth But if you're someone who doesn't want to use bluetooth, um, there is a, uh, usb Mic micro usb in the back and you can plug that in that's first of all how you charge it a charge will last for You know months in any case but If you plug that directly into the computer, uh, then you can use it as a wired keyboard as well It's about $50. It is the best keyboard. I've The best folding keyboard, uh, I've owned and I've owned a load of them always looking for, uh, uh, you know always looking for a, um Uh, a good one for for travel and they all had various different issues either the fold wasn't right or whatever But this just sits really nicely and works really well. So, uh, yeah, that is now actually as well as being my travel monitor That is my The only monitor that I've now got on my desk and I just pack it away and put it in my bag with everything else Uh, another thing that I've got on my desk, actually, that's not really studio equipment And I'm going to be making a video about this. Um, this again is something that was sent for review Uh, I don't know if you have the same issue with me is where you've got things like cables in your bag And then they're they're like all over the place. I try and solve this by having cables as short as possible So that they don't get all tangled But these are pretty amazing This is a cable and it looks like, you know, a cable that has just come fresh out of a box With the little things to hold it together. Uh, but the genius of this is it's magnetic So it means that when you just sort of fold it up, uh, it still just completely stays together They've got one which is a sort of regular circular Um, type of cable and then there's another one that is flat. So this one is More of a sort of flat. They're really nice sort of braided cables But the other thing is it's like if you are I've got this plugged in and on your desk, for example Then you can literally just sort of sort of pull out as much cable as you need and the rest still all stays Nicely, uh, nicely rolled up like that. This is doing a terrible job of the focus There's no point me putting my hand in front of it to focus it It's the let me try that way. There we go. I'll go cover my eyes But I just thought what a genius idea that is and these are called magtame is the is the brand Uh, I should have set up my affiliate link. I haven't done all of that yet But let me just find the website for you. Anyway magtame.com Uh, I will as I say, I'm going to do a full full video about this but um, yeah, they're, um Uh magnetic cables, they're the future and uh, yeah, they asked if I would like to to review these and I said It's one of these things I get contacted by people asking me to review products or services or things like that And the majority of the time they kind of like they're not a fit for my my channel my audience or they're not something that I Use already um, and I don't mind testing things that you know, I don't use already If it's something that I can see that there's a real, uh, you know, I've got a real use case for Um, and as soon as they sent these through it's like I'd never heard of this idea of maybe I'm you know, uninformed I'd never heard of the idea of um using these Uh of magnetic cables. I didn't realize it was even a thing But then when I got them as well, um, and they sent me two of them Basically one of each style the flat one and the the other one They come in different connects as well. So these are both usbc to usbc But there's usba to usbc us, you know lightning and all of that sort of stuff Uh, but yeah as soon as I got them I was like, right I'm I think I'm going to replace all the cables in our house With these ones because they're just yeah really subtly built and this This magnetic feature and obviously you can make it, you know, you can make it a really Small one if you wanted the magnets are really strong. So I could coil this off if I wanted it a different size So now we've got it in a little loop like that My preference is for these flat ones. I like the fact that they Obviously that is now quite kind of quite bulky, you know from that point of view Um whereas these ones here, uh, they perfect for you know, if I'm in my uh through my This bag the the the tech pouch that now just nicely drops into one of those slots I want to take it out. It's all still nicely wrapped up again. So yeah, awesome. Awesome cables. I'll be uh I'll be uh, I'll be making a video about those in the next in the next week so Oh and uh, yeah, keely was waiting for so long for one of those folding keyboards and uh, I'm glad you liked it after such a long wait because I'd kept going on about it and I was thinking I hope you like it after it's taken so long to get there So you're already kind of bent your power supply plug on the new Oh Yeah, I have actually got a thing for that. So Where the cable attaches to the back of the duo? How am I going to show this now? Let me just go and get my duo bear with me one second and excuse the shorts Um, so here is the duo now you may have seen now I I I made a little short video about this and some people said that oh They didn't get that in their box But you may have seen that there is A little thing that looks like this in the box And it's like a little rubber thing and it may well even have been connected to the power cable and what that is Uh, if I uh, I'll have to take this comment down for a second Let me just shift that out of the way In the back of the the duo you've got the Kensington lock So the point of this is these little things are a Kensington lock is for security So there's a thing that can plug into there with a little key on it And then it's got like a cable that attaches to your desk to stop people stealing it basically So that's what that thing is for traditionally. That is a thing in computer equipment or electrical equipment And it's called the the Kensington lock But this thing that comes in it that people seemingly have no idea what it's for is actually intended that you will Put your cable into that so or rather clip that Clip that onto your cable Like that And then you put that into the Kensington lock So if I push that into here, uh, and then give it a little twist What happens is now we've got the cable Attached to the back of the row custer duo and now you can turn that round and plug it into your power socket And now if you are pulling on this cable The strain is on that little rubber thing and it's not putting any strain on to to this And obviously you can make the loop as long as you want probably a little bit don't pull it too tight But that is now, uh, you know putting all the strain there on that little rubber thing Rather than on the socket itself. So that thing that is A mystery that is in your box Um, hopefully is uh, that's what that's exactly what that's for But as I say it doesn't really explain what it's for in any of the the documentation or anything like that So that's what uh, whoops, that is what that is for So, uh, so yeah, so hopefully Wayne that that might help. I hope I hope you've got one of those things in there though Um Peter hi, uh, what is shown on the different monitors? So the way that I have my monitor setup is Uh, this monitor over here, which is attached to the back of my roe caster That's kind of like my av setup. So that's where I have all of my ecamm live Um, and like if I'm on a zoom call, I've got the uh, let me take this off This is the website. I've dropped a link in for these these cables But I'll just close that down. Um, let me come back over to this one. Uh, let's take this to back to just a plain thing There we go. Get out of the way. Um, so this uh, this monitor is my av stuff So this is where audio video. So this is where I have ecamm Bearing in mind that I predominantly use this stuff like in zoom really. Um, so this would be where I just have all of my Ecamm live controls. So that's the software I'm using to do all of my live video editing and uh, Live video production, I should say. Um, so that's all over here Um, when I'm live streaming, I have my own output there So I'm basically looking at what you're seeing in my teleprompter Um, so therefore I can just see, you know, when your comment comments up on the screen or whatever Or I can just take it down and I'm seeing the outputs So it means that I can be sure of, you know, what's going out. Um on the monitor down below for a live stream I'll have the chat. So I've got the live stream chat down here Um, and then over on this monitor, this is where I put all the stuff that I potentially want to share Now at the moment, I've just literally got a website up there. I've also got my discord So I can share those two things By switching to a different scene and that's sharing basically Those two different areas of the screen From a work perspective, this is just my primary monitor that I work on But I've as I say, I've got these six areas set up so that when I'm on a On a live stream or when I'm on a zoom call or when I'm in a zoom workshop All of the content that I'm sharing is over here Um, I do things in zoom as well where I'll have Keynote coming into ecamm Combined so that I'm doing these kind of like immersive presentations. So I'll tend to have my Maybe the another zoom window down here and my keynote over here as well And then the stuff that I'm sharing up at the top the monitor that I have down the side here This is basically just a regular 24 inch monitor turned vertically And that is where I have when I'm working that will have like my calendar email Task manager and things like that and depending on what I'm doing is depends on which one Is there so this is kind of like my primary working space That one over this side and maybe some stuff off my on my laptop But then when I'm streaming or doing a zoom workshop or whatever, I'll be sitting here with all the content over over there So, uh, so that's that's to answer that question. What is on those different monitors? Yeah, these cables are pretty pretty sweet actually and it's one of these Really delightful, uh discoveries where you know, you didn't even know a product existed and then suddenly it's like, oh Yeah, that does actually solve the problem I see everybody's thinking the same as well interesting cables more gas Sometimes it's the little things that get you as well, isn't it with the gas attacks. It's like, oh it's uh, yeah Um Wayne I guess that I guess that is the little the little plastic thing Which they should make more of a thing about that I made a short about it and posted it everywhere because I think nobody knew what that was for that was for You have the, uh, On a stand. Yeah, so actually so, uh, that's another thing the road caster itself the road caster pro 2 that I'm using is on An arm, uh, but actually this one here is The road caster duo is on uh, it's like a freestanding monitor stand So this one you can obviously just adjust the uh, the the height of it the angle of it and all of that kind of stuff So, uh, that is what I use the uh, have the the duo on and if I get the uh, The link for that It is, um, let me have a think where I don't have I usually have shortcuts for all of my links But I may not have one for that, but I can certainly find it It is a uh desktop desktop monitor stand as opposed to an arm And it's it's like a really generic thing. It's not a, um Desktop visa monitor stand I'm just trying to figure out how to search for it. I know it's on amazon And it's not like a, you know, a particular brand and it was pretty low cost There you go. It's this one. Let me grab the link for you Uh Copy this link And I'll paste that into the chat Um, and so that is this one So it's a 38 dollars Is the price of it so Um, yeah, and that's that's it. It's pretty heavy duty. It's really, um It's like it's like stiff. So you're not going to have an issue with it You know, it stays exactly where it's put. Um, almost to the point of You know, you could see that how difficult it was for me to move it actually Um, but yeah, once you've got it set up with the rocaster It's not going to go anywhere with whatever you do with the rocaster to to move it or Adjust it or wherever it stays firmly put and then it's got a little rubber feet on the underside So, uh, it doesn't slip around the desk or anything like anything like that Uh, let me come down to where we are Um Let's have a look where we at So you're going to look in your rocaster two box just to avoid any disc I've just noticed so he said that he's going down to look at his, uh, rocaster two box and I notice He's probably not listening because I see him in the discord and it says I'll be right back. So But the thing is it seems like it's not in all of them. I don't know what I don't know whether this was something It was added later Um, but it was it it's not in all of even in the duo So even in the later stuff and in the stream x so I got one in with the the stream x as well Um, so it works with uh with that as well. But uh, yeah Um So, uh, so yeah, what's shown on the prompter it comes from ecamm indeed it does now in fact There is two ways that you can do this with ecamm so, uh There is a an option in ecamm if you go into your output menu Uh, you can say video monitor and you can select your teleprompter And that will basically put your ecamm output into your teleprompter and it will completely take over the screen Um, and actually when I had a really small Seven inch teleprompter That's what I used to do because then I could keep my main ecamm Window somewhere where I could see it a little bit better But then it was just the output that was going over onto the teleprompter One thing though when you use that option as the video monitor going out to a particular Monitor is that it does take over the whole monitor and you can't put anything else on there At least you can't see anything else on it. Um, I've now with this larger monitor I do tend to just have my actual main ecamm Output is the thing that is on the monitor itself um And uh because it's it's big enough for me to still be able to do anything I want to do in the main ecamm window But what it means is I can actually lace stuff over the top of it now I don't use teleprompting software generally certainly all of my videos are unscripted and and so on and like all my course content There's two instances where I do use scripts though. Um, that would be my live streaming backstage podcast Which is on hiatus at the moment, but I always use the I always have this a scripted intro for that because I'm introducing a guest. I want to make sure I get their details right Uh, I don't want to be doing my usual Waffling style of digressions and rabbit holes if I'm introducing a guest So I do script that part the other place where I use scripts is actually on the sales videos on my landing pages for For content where I want to make sure that I've got like a really tight You know three minute video or whatever um on that thing So I will use a script for that. Um, and so I use teleprompting software then and I've the the one that I use is called Uh teleprompter plus I want to say and uh teleprompter pro I'll get the name of it for you. Um, but but that one has a transparent window So I can I can basically have my e-cam on the teleprompter but have the transparent thing over the top I said it was either called teleprompter pro or teleprompter plus It's called teleprompter pro plus So so that's the one that I use I've tried a number of these The uh, yeah, I've tried a number of them. This one. I just like it because it's got the uh, the transparency There's some other features and then I've got that linked to my pedals as well So I can sort of scroll the text and current control that that way But as I say, I only really use that in uh intros to guests on the podcast and also You know short scripted sales videos um, obviously if you're using The prompter as in the the new algato prompter, um, then that one's got its own prompting software built in Um, but anyway, that is how uh, that is what I'm using that for Um So that's what's showing on the prompter and I'm incidentally That's what's showing right now If I'm in a zoom call then the way that my setup works is um, I've got my e-cam over over here So all of my e-cam stuff is on this and then in zoom I'll have my uh, my zoom Participant in there, you know, the person I'm speaking to Is in is in this window and then I'll have the second zoom window down here So on coaching calls, you know, often somebody's sharing their desktop or sharing some content So then I can see them in the teleprompter and whatever they share then comes on this screen Down here. So that's a slightly different setup. And if I'm doing a zoom Webinar or a zoom workshop, then then I've got a slightly different setup again You know with with different views depending on what I'm what I'm doing Um, so, uh, let's have a look and george is saying how am I connecting all the monitors to your mac? Um, so I am using a wavelength hub So there is uh, sorry a wavelength doc. I should say And I'll show you which one it is and this allows me to add in Uh, you can get them actually with up to four, uh, four or more monitors mine is just, uh, mine is just two Two additional monitors and then I've got one that's plugged directly into my laptop And another one that is plugged into like a dongle going to hdmi So certainly with the mac minis there was this limit of you can only plug two monitors in But as long as you've got a doc that has, uh, uh, display link software And display link technology, let me just get it up. I'm trying to talk and type and I can never do that Uh, I'll show you an example of one here This is actually not quite the one that I've got But what you want to look for is that logo if it's got display link written on it Um, then that enables you to, uh, connect more than whatever the limit is on your mac So if you've if you've got a limit of two monitors that you can plug into the mac mini for example And I'm not just talking about ports. I'm talking about it doesn't support more than two, uh, two monitors on the mac mini However, uh, if you are plugging into one of these you basically have the display link app That runs in the menu bar on your mac, uh, and then you can plug in multiple monitors And so this one in particular, uh, this is just two monitors The one that I've got is slightly different, but it's the same kind of thing. Here's another one Um Plugable as well is another company that make ones with display link technology Here you've got one with, uh Enterprise level four monitor So here you've got four different, uh, connectors Um, so yeah, you can have, uh, you know, uh multiple monitors this way I mentioned before that one of the things I'm going to be doing is, uh, adding in the deck link quad 4k Which is to bring in four cameras into my computer Um, I'm also going to get a card that will plug into the same enclosure. Uh, that's going to just give me the four Monitor outputs so that I've I am just basically consolidating it all into one place. Um, but it's you've just got to look for the display link Um, uh technology if you want to connect more. This is the one that I've got here specifically um, and it's uh, it's got, uh Yeah, the two two monitor connections there um And then apart from this so I have one of these is for my monitors really it's got some usb sockets on there as well But then I use the cal digit element hub Uh, what I'll do is I will just drop the link in in case you're interested in this one Uh, I can drop that in there fave link dock Uh, and then I for to give me more usb connection. I use the cal digit element hub So the difference between a dock and a hub, uh, a dock is going to give you, um Multiple different types of connection. So you've got like a usb or thunderbolt going into your computer But then you can attach thing attach things like, uh, you know, ethernet audio monitors more usb and so on The difference so that's a dock. So that's and if you think about it when you think about a docking station It's kind of like yeah, you plug one thing in and you've got all of your peripherals connected to that Whereas a hub on the other hand is basically just multiples of the same connection So the cal digit element hub is a thunderbolt 4 Connection, uh, but then I can plug multiple different usb devices into it So you see it's got three usbc on this one And four usb on the other side, but it is a powered hub as well. So, uh, yeah, it's a high powered hub So that is what I plug in Uh All of my other stuff. So for example in that one hub the cal digit Uh, let me just drop the linking for you, uh, the the cal digit I have plugged in Into those usb c sockets. I've got my, uh, roadcaster Two channels plugging into that, uh, and then I've got my three stream decks plugged into it And then I've got something else. So basically that all of the, you know, the main tech stuff I've got on my desk, uh, you know, the the the heavy lifting stuff is actually all going through that cal digit element hub. Um, the Uh, the dock is then for the monitors and a few other sort of peripherals that are going into the the computer that way Um So, uh with that said, I'm just thinking I think I've pretty much covered most of the things in the the studio I have um created a page and I realize when I drop the link in it's actually right at the top of the chat and you'll find it at the top of the The description as well a place for you to go to register for my my upcoming gear guide and the uh, the somewhat shameful shameful thing to share with you is that I did one of these live streams about this time last year Um, which was all about my 2023 setup Um, and it was the same link and it was also for the the same upcoming gear guide And then now it's only now when I do this stream that I realized I still didn't make that that upcoming gear guide, but it is genuinely coming this year And I would say within the next within this quarter as well because it's all part of a larger Part of larger Thing that I'm building out with you know lead magnets and things like that and So yes, but there is a place for you to go and sign up your email And then as soon as it's available within the next couple of months, uh, then then you'll get that Incidentally my ecamm live masterclass. I've got a huge update to that coming as well There is a few things that I still hadn't updated with it, but there's also some New things that I'm adding into that as well. So the ecamm live masterclass You can find that if you're interested in leveling up your ecamm Game then you can find that at ecamm live masterclass.com. Let me just adjust my massive head size there. There we go. That's a bit better And this gives you access to over 140 lessons related to all things ecamm And you get lifetime access to it. And as I say, there is a massive update I'm in the process of doing for for that in the in the works as well So with that said any other questions you can feel free to address them in the the comments But a much better place is in the discord. I've got to say I do get Terribly behind with responding to youtube comments because it's just like a fire hose, frankly And there are just too many messaging apps too many messaging services And it's hard to keep on top of them all but the discord is somewhere where I try to keep on top of that one a lot more So with that said, thanks for stopping by. I hope you found some of this useful Once again, I should say thank you to my channel members as well If I drop the sound of this uh audio down a little bit Much appreciated for your ongoing support Hope you all have a wonderful day and I'll see you next time