so it's no secret we have some uh
stability problems around here hey I'm
talking about the W Show streaming computer what are you implying anyway
it's Friday which means of course that today is the perfect day to follow
through on my commitment to Corsair they called me up they were like we love the
W show we think it's the greatest show the best except that it has a few small
problems the audio sucks the video cuts out and the system is unstable what are
you going to do about it they said look we will sponsor you to fix the W show so
today we are rebuilding the W show PC we are redoing the streaming setup and it
is all courtesy of our friends at
Corsair the W show now with 300% more
RGB
so the first step in any disassembly project and my parents would do well to
remember this is to take pictures of everything involved so you have
something to refer back to when it's time to put it all back together though
with all the cables that straight up weren't even connected to anything from
troubleshooting stream issues over the last couple of years I'm not even sure
how helpful they'll be some of the old n
PC's Hardware will be reused the x99
deluxe motherboard and 6 core 5930k CPU
got a dust off because they were already added a couple of months back to address
stability performance and resource allocation issues but pretty much
everything else is going to go we've got 64 gigs of Corsair Vengeance LED RAM in
white an NVMe sp500 SSD a tempered glass
case with RGB lighting I mean come at this 2017 what else was I going to use
an RM 1000x power supply even more RGB
now with the fans Corsair sent us extra
for the aiio water cooler and the rear slot and some orange sleeved cables to
manage along with all the other cables
man cable management is tough in an all glass case and I don't make matters
easier for myself when I put in in the wrong order the good news is that the
finished product IMO is totally worth
the effort this thing looks badass next up it's time to tear the
rest of the stuff on the desk apart for some good oldfashioned Cable Management
there is a lot of wasted space here and
holy crap is this table ever dirty I
don't think it's been clean since we moved and neither have the multiple bins
under the desk that make up what I call the streaming gear graveyard in here
you'll find everything that stopped working for us at some point or
another reassembly time now I'm going to
put all the wicked stuff that Focus right hooked us up with into the Retro
server cabinet I made a video about here
these guys are awesome they flew all the
way out here to not just set us up with gear but to actually set it up with us
it starts with a solid new microphone an se4400a on a road ARM it's got a handful
of pickup patterns including cardioid and super cardioid it sounds awesome but
could be improved by some acoustic baffles in front of the table stay tuned
our Soundcraft mixer mainly serves as
well a mixing board so the main feature is just Lots of places to plug stuff in
this allows us to use Hardware rather than software to adjust audio levels EQ
controls and to send auxiliary outputs with a different mix our dbx 166 XS
compressor is back we actually bought
this ages ago because theoretically it
would make it so Luke doesn't sound so quiet all the time and I'm not clipping
when I'm ranting unfortunately we and
didn't have a preamp for it that's why it never worked which is exactly where
Focus right Z 18i 20 comes in we could
use it to accept up to 20 inputs with an
optical expander we could do our headphone monitoring off of it instead
of the dedicated headphone app that Focus R set us up with as well but we're
just concerned with the quality of the audio capture in this case and focus
rights claim to fame is their awesome preamps
is it Overkill yes and so is the 6 I6 that
we're using purely as a digital input for an additional laptop on the table
but hey come on this is lineus Tech tips we're also going to use it to monitor
audio levels to ensure that no other parts of the audio chain need to be
adjusted in the event that we change our microphone pickup pattern placement or
even our microphone all together so next
up is moving the computer into place and upgrading the
peripherals okay arguably the peripherals are a bit of a side grade
but going from a full size to a 10 keyless keyboard gives me a lot of extra
space for laptops and stuff loving it so
far time then for some cable management
this dudad from the manly guide to cable management is awesome and so are the 3D
printed velcro tie anchors that Jake whipped up on our ultimaker 2 another
big improve Improvement is that now both of our hosts get HDMI cables for their
laptops we're running these and our
camera into new capture cards from epan
I can't say enough good things about these we've actually been using them for
a couple months for the W show as well and for screen capture around the office
and they're responsible for some very significant improvements in our
production values they just make it so
easy to capture at any resolution
without tinkering and did I mention they're Canadian flipping awesome the
capture cards are USB so we needed to add another USB card to the system to
avoid resource conflicts with three of them attached but once we figured that
out it was smooth sailing and I really
have nothing else to say about them time to power things up then I asked cable
mod for five power cables some
combination of orange black and carbon
they sent five each of multiple styles
of sleeving of each color holy crap you
guys anyway at least they look great
once they're in place and I will put the giant box of power cables that I have
left over in a corner somewhere so time to hook back up and
power up the audio gear and take you guys now on a grand tour of the finished
setup Hallelujah the wo computer is on we are
ready to tour the finished wo set so
Improvement number one to make it so the wow is more likely to be on time these
TPL link um Wi-Fi smart plug things
basically we just use an app when this
phone is dead but don't worry about it there's an app we use an app press a
button and boom when show lighting turns on Improvement number two
we won't trip over this while we're running around getting ready for w show
Improvement number three dramatically
better Cable Management now instead of
having the entire desk full of the gear that we need to run W show it'll just be
full of the gear that we need to host when show so we'll have our streaming
computer our laptops we've got HDMI
cables for our laptops we've got uh oh
yes all of the audio gear off the table replaced by a power Distribution Hub
thing here which is awesome all our audio gear is in this badass retro
server cabinet thing and our when PC is
of course heavily upgraded to be much
more reliable and much sexier all at the same
time so I guess I better get this show on the
road then shall I
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