it's day 823 and my co lockdown beard
still going strong ion loopy sometimes I
do Wonder Von keeps telling me we moveed but I don't believe her it's all just a
blur of car Studio car sleep I want to
believe her but my gaming setup is still exactly the same if I moved wouldn't I
have upgraded my burnt in Monitor and and where's the RGB lighting what is
this microphone doing in my face why is there an LGC 2 Box on the ground and who
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below the truth is I already have an S tier gaming setup but there are a couple
of things that have been nagging at me since my last upgrade starting with the
monitor as much as I love the inky blacks of OLED this particular model
from aoris is based on an older panel that doesn't get that bright and does
suffer from frequent image retention that it needs a pixel refresher cycle in
order to mostly get rid of it's also
absolutely huge meaning that when I'm streaming my camera even if I have it
resting on the top of the monitor is basically looking down at the floor
behind me which since I haven't finished moving in is not the most most
attractive scene another streaming related issue is lighting to be clear I
love the key light airs Wi-Fi control adjustable color temperature adjustable
brightness freaking awesome but since I prefer to stream in a darkened room I
have to crank these things up so bright that combined with the dimmer display
makes it so that I can barely make out what's on screen and I get a lot of eye
strain now I'm not swapping out the lights I already said I love them but
what I can do to fix that is turn down my lights by changing out to a camera
that offers better low light performance we happened to have an a7s2 kicking
around that has some issues that prevent us from using it for production but with
a bare minimum fix it is definitely good enough for streaming so we're going to
swap out my Rebel t6i for this which will mean better resolution and way
better low light on top of improved low light performance the t6i is limited to
I think it's 720p or 1080i so I'm going
to get way better resolution on my face cam this next one's a very Linus problem
I find that when I'm gaming or using my computer in general I move around I
shift my position a lot which means I am
constantly moving my microphone around to keep it close enough to my mouth that
its cardioid pickup pattern is still going to sound good which made me think
I mean our video we don't use a microphone like this in our videos so
why do I have to use it for streaming wouldn't it be better if I just took a
lavalier microphone or better yet a shotgun put it in a fixed location where
the pickup cone is going to hit anywhere that I might happen to sit and then
forget about it I don't know if this is going to work very well but this mic was
kicking around the ntg8 from road we don't really use it in our production so
I figured hey I'll bring it home and give it a shot at the very least and finally every game streamer needs some
RGB in the background right right what's
in the box oh my God it's got a power
brick where are we supposed to put these
this is 75 Watts I'm pretty stoked
though this should be good I mean the only problem is where do you want to run it all there's a plan
right here the issue yeah though is I
have no idea how this is going to fit in there you can cut these probably yeah
but look how long this lead is that's a pretty long lead yeah it's got to plug
into this Puck yeah where the devil is that supposed to can plug it in here cuz
you have a power outlet there every single one of these shelves needs a
strip there's supposed to be power in a
box here wait what is this is that not
already like a bar of diffused lighting or something no this is a bar of being a
bar and that is power I don't think
these power outlets are supposed to be here what why not like it's supposed to
be an integrated power supply for all the strips sure I mean that sounds great
but I think the electricians just went and put a duple recep so then what are
these like empty leads going to I don't know maybe nothing awesome I'll get a
multimeter do you mind holding this for me for my God yeah sure I just want to
see if these are live sure okay zero yeah nothing try flipping it to AC there
you go yeah that'll do zero yes okay
what the so they're very fragile probably too which is oh good we can not
do the RGB and we can do I can get the CUA and we can more about the displays
let's summon Dan all right hi
Dan yeah you're on speaker how you guys doing great here's what we're dealing
with we've got these diffuser things in here these diffuser channels everything
is wired I think down to this electrical
box which for some reason contains a
duplex receptacle this is the power supply for these strips and because each
one of the enclosures has its own
controller you need to power each one of these little controller dongles
separately one of the other challenges is that the leads on the dongles are
quite long and so if the idea is that we have like the controller pack here and
then the strip in here we're going to have a big dead zone over on the far
left so we're just at kind of a loss okay his profile picture is so perfect
for this conversation uh all right well I'm going
to bring my soldering tools we can shorten a bunch of those uh leads there
I'll grab some stuff and I'll be there as soon as I can okay okay uh do you
have any thoughts on a 12volt power supply that fits in a duplex recepticle
that can do like a lot of oh my goodness these are
24v why why the devil did we end up with 24
volt L strips I love Jake love you Jake you know what I told Jake I wanted I
told him I wanted a simple 5volt power supply addressable RGB like 5 Vol with
the thing these are like house lighting I just want some
Ambiance the good news is I found where
these wires go great you're not going to like it where
what they're all in here oh my God and in terms of powering them well we've got
this WOW bare AC wiring which is great I
called the contractor and he's talking about ripping open the wall behind this
in the closet and I'm sitting here going I do not need this project to drag on
any longer so here's my proposed solution we put the little boxes with
double-sided tape right here we wire up these with the barrel plugs that come
with the included power supplies and just wire it into the back of the box
right here we cut a little hole in the edge of the diffuser strip right there
so it fits in there like that and every shelf just has its own little controller
dude out ofama jig sitting in the corner like that the wife approval factor of
this solution is quite low but it apparently did make it over the bar
because Evon also doesn't want to rip open the drywall in the closet I might
have another solution for you but I'm unsure if you're okay with you want like
blue and RGB and all those different colors I was hoping for different colors
yes okay cuz what we can do is we could probably just take the positive negative
and white leads splice them together in the backside and then you just have
white LEDs with your two cables I really prefer to have RGB then we got to do the
boxes could you pick a color and then just wire that color then you're stuck
with one color though we've got these fancy zwave aot Tech strips and we're
GNA run just one color I mean come on okay all right cool bye um do you need
something this is interesting well this is not a table
what is a table I guess a table is anything that
you want to be a table but we were hoping to use this monitor for something
can I help set you up somewhere else now that this one's liberated let's talk
about the two main options for a king tier gaming monitor right now starting
with the Alienware 3423 DW it's a 34 4
in curved Ultra wide and it uses Samsung displays QD OLED technology in the panel
that means you have all the benefits of OLED like perfect blacks and amazing
pixel response time but without the drawbacks it shouldn't burn in nearly as
much or at least nearly as quickly and it's much brighter but LG maker of
classic W oleds hasn't been sitting on their butts either this is the 42-in
version of their C2 Evo which is is
brighter more color accurate generally better than their last gen in every way
and most importantly is 6 in smaller because as much as I have tried to make
48 in work it's really big it's a little
small yeah it's a little small I did not
think about how much smaller this was
going to feel it looks gorgeous aside
from that it's not running at the right resolution right now like the colors
obvious serously just pop on this thing I know this is going to sound kind of
weird I do not like having multiple monitors at home I don't work at home I
don't want to be tempted to work at home I just but it's not even about work it's
like oh I want my game here and then I want like Discord or Reddit or something here I mean I usually put my chat here
on my phone okay sure so I do have a secondary display but I don't cuz yeah
that's the other things is I usually use it for like twitch chat and stuff on I like to just do one thing at a time
we're in a thousand nit Peak brightness mode right now by the way like look at
these lights they don't look like white spots on a wall they look like wa hi
buddy they look like lights and uh it
does 175 HZ regular but if you want 10 bit color you got to go down to 144 I'm
okay with 14 right 144 is fine 144 is a lot look fire it's fiery see this is
what cuti OLED does this is not just a
green colored kind of whitish thing with
some green around it that's a green light it casts everything glowing green
it's just a different level of realism you haven't seen the C2 yet though we do
have to give the C2 a chance but I do definitely like this eyeline a lot
better and at 42 in the C2 is going to be a lot higher I'm not a huge fan of
this stand but I could always just install an ARM that is an option the
bezel is almost too thin my webcam is going to interfere
unless I put I'll just put like a little spacer in here or something like that so it sits up a little bit higher mine does
yeah that'll that'll how's this going it's going really well
are you being like Dan about it or no no this is actually fine you'll get what
you want and this will all work really well come with me if you want to
live I've got a full light hooked up
already I've gone through and traced all
of the power cables for it and I cut the
end off of your power supply cool y see you later and so when we plug this in
here no fire yet yeah and we'll go back in the other room
what if we just uh take this end and pop that off and attach the wires directly
to the box and we don't need that big cable and we got a nice hole here it'll
oh actually that seems way better uh and
yeah yeah so we we do put the housing back on though right yeah the housing will still be on genius well relative to
how today's going room temperature IQ I
have a question do we have to go morrettes on these ones or could we just go shrink wrap shrink wrap or soldering
or crimping whatever you want it's easiest for me to just do morrettes
right now because we got to get rid of all that extra cable I need to figure out a solution to deal with the crappy
crappy GST plugs that are in there we'll uh we'll figure out a solution make it
look nice hey Von how's the wife approval Factor here it will sit like
that on the bottom of each shelf yeah I think that's good okay we're good yep
yes that's the biggest hurdle ooh all
other things being equal I think I'm kind of leaning this way right now man
it's much the screen Space is really
good that is a good size let's just go
ahead and get it it it'll turn on PL oh
sorry sorry I don't have an HDMI cable well I don't I don't know what you're
going to do then it's a TV lineus it doesn't use DisplayPort unlike your old
aorus monitor crap I have a whole thing I've got an optical DisplayPort cable
running downstairs I'm I'm DisplayPort ready boys I checked your Hub and
everything hoping that there was HDMI and nothing we've got a hub uh and it's
got HDMI but then it's going to display
port over USBC so I don't know how well the signal is going to transfer over
everything but uh we'll see we'll see
whoa hey how you doing oh oh look at that 30 HZ hey see if it'll do 60 it
will it will it'll do 60 it should do 60 oh it'll only do 30 yeah we're going to
need another solution fortunately I brought home this Optical HDMI cable
with the intention of running it to the theater room from my PC so that I could
game in the theater room from my computer which is uh in the mechanical
room uh but I guess we can use it for this for today with the way I have
things set up all I need to do is wrap a little piece of tape around this cable
and uh Hey ploof start pulling I'm
pulling wait what a slick idea oh crap
wait wait wait oh okay go go for it you can pull the cord back I might need a
little bit off the spool no you're good I already loosened the spool a bit all
right hey we're golden check this we're
golden here we go 120 HZ 120 oh my God
uh might have jumped the gun a little bit there 2.0 right not 2.1 I think the
cable is the weak point in this particular link I think it'll do 60
that's okay though because I think can still evaluate it like this if I just
set it to 1440p 100 or something like
that ooh oh active cable it might not even do that oh balls okay 60 then I
guess I know it hurts Man TVs
have ah get huh that's funny yeah you
should be a writer oh wow I'm trying 1440 120 and it is doesn't want to not
working yeah it should do 1080 120 yeah
but 1080 panel this size oh doesn't want to
do HDR 1080p 120 you got to choose
bloody cable man you got three points on the triangle and you can only choose
to okay 1080p 60 HDR try that it does do
like up to 800 nits or so Peak brightness which isn't quite the 1,000
that the Alienware or the G2 does but it's still significantly brighter than
the C1 or the G1 other than that it's pretty similar one of the biggest
factors though is going to be how bright it gets relative how bright these need
to be once we swap out the camera cuz that's why it's so distracting because
they're so much brighter than my display ah flipping on HDR was a yeah it really
doesn't like it it didn't give me the reverse settings prompt uh I'm doing 4K
60 HDR I don't think it's going to work I think it'll work okay use HDR ready
here it goes we got this balls it's a
lot of bit it's a lot of signal man 4K 60 HDR cuz it switches 10 bit col
but look it's got vrr and gsync and free sync
premium yeah and the size is like
perfect right it's it's pretty great you assumed I was going to settle on this
one yeah 100% yeah eight bit okay that's
fine I can live with that for this for this it's it's totally fine and you can
fix this in the future get a get a proper 2.1 cable it's
not quite as good as the qdl I know
but it's really close really close and
and you don't you don't want more screen like extra you just want more space so I
think this is the one it fits your desk like perfectly it kind of does and the
camera is in a way better spot actually
we should grab OBS and let's have a look at how we're doing there oh that is a
way better way better angle time to swap
out this camera uh Ken and asked me to point out that we haven't actually
filmed the conclusion for the video repairing broken camera and you guys can
stay tuned to see that am I just using that lens and I'm just using thison
Speed Booster we got an ount and uh or whatever and I've got the cables that
should work for it power we're not 100% sure right now but I bought a I brought
a bunch of batteries okay so we'll use it batteries if we have to but I think
it can use uh the USB cable I brought okay let's give it a shot cool sorry
what kind of HDMI am I expecting to use here uh micro here oh okay yeah I have I
have a micro 2 HDMI this cable well well
really the receptacle on the camera side of it is the reason that these keep
having to be put out of service for us because when you're shooting a video you
can't rely on this tiny little screen you need an external screen that's big
enough that you can see if the image is in focus and unplugging and replugging
and unplugging replugging and strain from moving around they just all break
um but sitting stationary it's fine should be okay yeah I can't see anything
let's try deactivate activate hello oh hey look at that easy peasy you want
just 1080p probably right yeah I think 1080p is fine
whatever's easier on the camera twitch can't do 4K anyway speed to one 60 as
yeah sup David I can see that printer behind me
though I got a solution you remove the printer from the room oh my God that's
where the printer goes oh yeah that's not annoying right okay yeah this is way
better I don't even notice them okay they could go brighter yeah having the
much brighter oh man oh
man well that's not going to work uh okay you want one a little
brighter than the other go like 8% sub Dan hey freaking
awesome love it we're definitely going to need to do a bit of a before and
after for this this is my road podcaster good mic just has to be in my face all
the time let's give this a shot with a shotgun I do have to say I feel like I'm
compensating for something a little bit right now uh maybe a little bit maybe a
little bit it's going to fill up you're going to get every single part of the
whole room with this thing yeah well so
yes and no this is actually a pretty narrow pickup field microphone it's
designed to be held by a boom operator like a solid 3 4T away from the mouth of
the talent so maybe but maybe not David says that
this particular microphone might not have the ideal pickup pattern for an
indoor applic where we're going to have Reflections
from my voice bouncing off the wall behind me coming back to it we want more
of like a a spherical pickup pattern right in front of it but at the very
least we can use this to validate the concept so I think I've got this dialed
in in my go XLR settings here I guess all that's left to do is Monitor and see
how it sounds hey now I can hear what's up guys what's up out there in radio
land uh actually you know what it's not perfect it's definitely not perfect but
if I have it like kind of here let me
think I'll so I'll move around move around move around move around a little bit might have to go back just a touch
in the meantime if I really wanted to have something like sitting in my face I
could also use it like this and turn it down a little bit and there's still more
Echo absolutely more Echo but with a little bit of treatment yeah I'm I'm I'm
just going to do it yeah I'm going to get away with this I think I never have
to think about my microphone I never have to look at it it's not in my way
yeah I like it I'm doing it aside from being stuck with HDMI one of the
challenges of using a TV as your computer monitor is that it won't
necessarily be able to wake up properly when you come sit down and move your
mouse when your TV's off it's off and the computer has no way to tell it to
wake up however did we end up using the service remote or I didn't use the
service remote oh it's through an app called lgtv companion is that from LG no
I don't think so I got it on GitHub I don't know if it's going to do exactly
what you want but I think it'll get pretty close basically what I can do
have at least with this is that you can make your TV go into a blank State and
then you use wake on land yeah you use wake on land as soon as it uses your
mouse as soon as it detects your mouse it'll go back on that is a really janky
solution but it works I swe I swear to
God it actually works okay so try it out
turn it on touch the mouse touch the mouse
hey look at that that was really fast it's because it's not like fully
sleeping or anything it's just blanking the transmission but you're not going to
get burning or anything because your TV is blanking and I've got it set to 1
minute right now but you can change the settings to like 10 minutes without any
kind of uh motion on your keyboard or mous I do this at work yeah that's kind
of awesome it's actually pretty sweet right yeah that was one of my biggest
complaints using a TV as a monitor this is great but that worked right yeah so
uh open the app again how cool is J person 77 hell yeah shout out doing
doing the Lord's work naturally Logistics will want me to take some of this stuff I borrowed back to the office
so I'll just pack it all into my LT store backpack which is finally
available for order get yours today LTT Store.com so durable and as much as I
love my office Master om5 it's okay the
butt cushion is not firm enough for my for my butt I go through it and then it
kind of goes to sleep after like an hour hour and a half so I've gone with a
secret Labs chair that complete with Magnetic headrest oh yeah this is going
to be awesome I need to not put my screwdriver in my back pocket when I do that see call me
Chris video break her chair or what
stuck a bit through the back of her chair did that not make it into the
YouTube cut I haven't seen her video yet it's definitely in the 6-hour cut on Floatplane for those of you who are
wondering where and when I stream these are my bancal Gardens by the way and
then I think I also have my Zoo here hey there we go there's my Zoo uh usually
it's on Twitch and Floatplane and then the archives go on Floatplane decom oh
look at that damn Daniel I got a couple
more boxes to get in we're nearly there wow that's awesome and over on the other
side we've got uh you used only one
power brick for 13 of them that's right
yeah and now it's it's only at about 190 C so it's not going to start melting the
plastic yet I hope this doesn't start a fire probably not okay now what remains
to be seen is um whether or not they will like work
hey it works let's try 99 it's
blue green uh 50 I don't I don't know
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