one of the coolest parts of the new house is gonna be the five person land
gaming room here in the basement so that my kids and their friends
and me and my friends that i'll make some day can all game
together but when elgato reached out asking if they could sponsor a six
streaming setup i thought i mean heck why not make all of the stations
streaming ready so that is exactly what
we're gonna do this is the Linus homeland center streaming setup v1
concept edition which means could be subject to change but it should be an
excellent start
now obviously my house is still a construction zone so this video won't be
fully representative of the final setup but it should be pretty darn close other
than you know the lifetime brand
folding tables here now before we even think about setting
up a microphone or a webcam or any of the fun stuff we need a computer to run
it all in the long term the plan is going to be to virtualize all of these
stations off of a single server in my mechanical room so the conduit is going
to be accessible here so it'll run under all of these desks we probably won't be
able to do sit stand desks for that reason but that's kind of tbd now just
in case we decide to do stand-alone machines in here we do still have the
room wired up for Ethernet but my preference is to have everything in the server for now
Corsair one hey there you go i mean the video is sponsored by elgato and Corsair
so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise so this one right here is the
a200 featuring a liquid-cooled verizon nine 5900x an rtx 3080 and a boatload of
storage and high-speed RAM it's small sleek and well-equipped for even the
most demanding games or streaming setups which is why i won't be using one in
fact i think the final config for each of these stations is going to be more
along the lines of eight virtualized AMD
epic cores and then maybe more like a 30
60 something like that monitor wise things are a bit more up in the air i
think 27 inches is the perfect size to have one two three four five and then
actually we're probably going to have a six station right here that's just
a network port so you could pull up a laptop or something like that make it a
nice even six but in terms of resolution i'm leaning
towards 1440p just because i think it's a great balance between the high refresh
rate gaming you get at 1080 and obviously the better image quality that
you get at 4k this particular model the
lg 27 gp850 has been a lightning rod for
controversy but the panel in it this nice fast response time ips is
definitely something that i would want in here just like i would want this beautiful
desk pad from ltdstore.com now this isn't the best case scenario
for elgato's poor wave panels here this is an enormous room that is basically
nothing but flat concrete surfaces and we've only got six of them but we wanted
to show them to you guys because they will almost certainly be part of the
final deployment once you know there are
walls we'll probably put some on the ceilings as well because stopping those
reflections between the floor and the ceiling is one of the key ways to cut
down on audio reverb are these are these sufficiently mounted i can i can put
wave panels on them now sure
if you want to see a more practical and scientific demonstration of how well
these work check out our video where we treated our workshop with them it's
really impressive while Jake mounts the rest of the wave panels let's talk about
the rest of the audio setup so i could have opted for the much less
expensive wave 3. but some of my
experiences with usb all-in-one microphones have not been the best and
they don't give you the greatest amount of control over your setup so instead
we've gone for the wave xlr which has all the same integrated mixing controls
headphone output and all that good stuff except you can plug literally any xlr
microphone you want into it so let's get this set up i've never used
this thing i think it looks pretty cool yeah
i mean one of the things that elgato does really well is that everything they
do is designed for streaming so a lot of the xlr interfaces out there for example
they're designed to lie flat right yeah but that's not what you want when you're
when you're gaming you want something that you can you can reach for more easily so this is knob feels good
got usbc there's your headphone jack and there's your xlr input
right around there is where i want that no i want it on the left side left side
and then i can have the stream deck on this side actually
no okay no so no i do want it the other way around because the stream deck i'm
gonna mess with more often and i'm more likely to want to take my hands off of
my mouse then oh right yes
yeah i want to be able to keep my hands on wasd so
yeah let's go xlr on this side wait how the hell are you going to put this one
on here screw on the side oh really as long as it holds itself up
right okay where's the mic ARM it seems pretty standard as far as mic arms go
caution spring loaded don't get don't get bashed in the face you know
little things like that but there you go that guy just goes in there
we're just gonna try it this is terrible
i mean tell me how horrendous this is
you kind of nailed it yeah damn straight i did
i'll never call you a screw-up again oh
god what come on that's funny you've never called me screw it before but it's
a screw because you're putting a screw i probably called you a screw i figured out what all these pieces do
this is a riser so it can be like
up higher if you want there's a little hex lock i don't think we're gonna need
oh do you wanna know what that's for apparently people
install these behind their monitor and come over oh really yeah i don't know why you
would ever do that but um if you had a very like wide-ranging
microphone that could pick up really far then maybe yes
yeah that's not going to be what we're doing today and i'm probably going to
need the counterweight because for our microphone we've settled on an sm48 from
sure check it he checked check it he checked check it does actually sound a tiny bit
less bad i think yeah it's just that most of the
echo in here is off this concrete floor and those flat walls back there
that shouldn't be too much of a problem for us though the sm48 from sure is a
dynamic microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern that means it should
reject most off-axis noise and pick up your voice nice and clear let's get this
cable managed and then we'll give you guys a quick demo this is not a perfect
solution oh lordy oh god don't do that no
i don't want to have to take this down like that later see but look look it'll
stay out of the oh stay out of the way oh did you oh yeah well you're you're
doing it now
there we go normally on an xlr interface you would
want to plug your headphones for monitoring yourself directly into the
interface so you have zero latency let's see how well elgato's software
ecosystem handles that all right we're firing up our game
stream here ladies and gentlemen going to play some duo actually we should just
move on to the next part of the video we're going to host and we can just do
it on here what's the next thing we're going to do lighting man this sounds great
also they have come a long way on their
software elgato this is handy the wavelink software has a quick link to
your advanced audio preferences so as soon as you launch your game you're
going to want to set its output to elgato's game
wavelink game here we go and then that way obs will be able to pick it up you
can access this through Windows just by right-clicking open sound
settings app volume whatever but it's a lot more clicks whereas it's just right
here they just have a shortcut to it that's kind of handy you want to see what's really cool if you set your game
to wavelink game yeah you can then have it come up as a track in here and then
you can create separate mixes for your monitor mix and your streaming so if you
want to listen to copyrighted music in your headphones while you're streaming but want your stream to hear monstercat
or whatever you can give them two different audio tracks and it's all done
in wavelink you don't need like virtual audio cable or any stupid crap like that
that's pretty cool most streamers like to have a face cam
of some sort so that is where the aptly named
elgato face cam comes in now
at home i actually use a different setup i've got an elgato cam link 4k usb stick
and i've used that to connect to a canon dslr camera it works
great but it is large it's more complex to set
up and troubleshoot if it has issues and that is even before you consider how
expensive it would be to kit out a dslr or a mirrorless camera for every station
in the room so that's where
a more reasonable setup like a webcam comes into play on the outside this
thing is pretty minimalistic looking it's you got your
lens your detachable long USB-C to a
cable a small status led over on the left of the lens and an included monitor
mount on the inside is where things get a little bit more fun elgato designed
their own eight element all glass lens which is paired with a sony starvis simo
sensor that's designed to provide excellent clarity with minimal noise up
to 1080p 60fps they also included a bit
of storage on the camera itself so that any settings changes that you make
follow the camera not the computer one cool feature or rather lack thereof is
that the facecam doesn't have a microphone and it prevents you from
getting pop-ups and notifications anytime say for example you unplug or
plug something in and discord's like hey do you want to switch to a new audio
device it's so freaking annoying how does it not have a never ask me again i
think there is a never asked me i think there is i don't think it works
anyway we're not going to be using the built-in monitor mount because we are going with
the elgato ring light now at home i actually prefer my pair of key light
airs these are basically the same product they're just little square
panels instead of a big ring shaped one so you've got the same adjustable color
temperature the same adjustable brightness and everything can be done
through software the big difference is that with my giant 48 inch display i can
put them out on the sides and then i can decide do i want like kind of a more
dramatic look so i have a little bit less lighting on this side a little bit more on that side whereas with the ring
light what you're getting is what ring lights are good for which is nice even
illumination clock's ticking gotta shoot the video
no i i really like their mount it's super easy to use yeah i think luke had
trouble with it but you know whatever yeah just loop things i know this video is
sponsored by elgato but i really do need to complain about one small thing like
this is this is the longest power brick what are you compensating for
i can how am i supposed to plug this in
takes up an entire power strip
hold on i think i think i managed to jam it in there
uh hello hey there we go i can't believe we made
it this far without setting up a stream deck if you're not familiar with these
come on guys this one specifically is elgato's stream deck mk2 which features
type c interchangeable faceplates as well as a detachable 45 degree fixed
angle stand but each of the 15 keys is
an individual display so you can have whatever icon you want
their full color and you can configure them to do anything from button presses
to macros to starting and stopping your stream now
the light is connected to wi-fi we can adjust our color temperature to be
warmer cooler we can adjust our brightness whoa
that's that's pretty bright boys 5600 sorry about that
okay what do you want you want 5600 yeah all right there we go and then it's
probably a little bit on the right side right now let's at least get a couple of
things uh configured on our stream deck here all right let's go ahead and i mean
i don't know this one can be record boop basically
uh instantaneous know scene i have a gift
oh you have such a terrible ugly background
that's true i do let's fix that this is elgato's green screen they actually have
two models this is the floor standing one they also have one you can hang from
the ceiling that's a bit bigger but for our purposes
this is just fine all you gotta do is open the locks
grab this bad
boy and you have a green screen i think the manual probably says
adjust the feet first
before you open it but there it is
i do that again the subject
you can play around these settings in here you can say how similar the color needs to be
there you go so here we filter out basically anything that has any color
other than red uh here we're basically not filtering
out anything so you just want to find that
right about there gives us a nice uniform
uh gray on our green screen that's what we're looking for
is that it i noticed we had some other stuff over there yeah they've got the
pop filter which we don't need because of our mic choice uh capture card in
case you've got like a you know next-gen console you want to stream your 4k
gameplay or whatever else
shock mount we didn't end up using the wave 3 so we don't need that light
strips we got the green screen so we don't really need that
okay we're gonna play we're gonna play some competitive cs go here ladies and
gentlemen we're getting competitive today now that we have cs go configured
to use our wavelink game output we don't
actually have to have our desktop audio play a role in obs at all everything
just goes out into the stream mix which we control through the wavelink app so
you're going to see when i highlight this window
our in-game music shows up here that's a little loud both in my headphones and in
the stream so we're gonna turn that down a little bit have a look at our levels
that's about where i like to have my background music going like somewhere in the minus 30 minus 25 range so that's
pretty good now if i was actually playing competitively i would restart it
because counter strike does not like being changed from windowed to exclusive
full screen but i i suck anyway so all right
official matchmaking oh god really oh god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die Jake i'm
gonna die um oh god they're gonna come through
they're gonna come through here they're gonna kill me i'm too casual Jake this
guy's telling me to go back i disagree this is the worst live stream
officially pro gamer Jake
where are you at oh come on
wow i helped i helped i did 21 damage to him
all right let's make sure this recording is actually good hey this is awesome
yeah you look great look at your i know it's clean you should get a you
should get a green screen that looks so pro i probably i probably should it does
look so pro like look at that and then look at the room we're in right now i
know right you would have no way of knowing it looks legit okay let's try
and get one more kill i want one more kill oh oh the buy period has expired okay
that's a problem it's slightly mildly problematic
yeah yep come on
well all right didn't even manage to hit him
man it's amazing how much this stuff has improved back when we set up our
original green screen for techwiki in the old house we spent a hundred dollars
on just the material and then we had to
like jury rig our own like hanger for it that took a lot of
time and probably end up costing more than this obviously this is a little bit
smaller this is really designed for a game streaming setup as opposed to a
full host with you know full arms reaching out and stuff like that but
they have a bigger one that's super reasonable actually all things
considered yes you too can look and sound that pro even in a horrible
environment that is not conducive to streaming and it's that simple all you
have to do is spend a bunch of money obviously we're going to have everything
linked down below thanks purcell for sponsoring this video or elgato i guess
thanks to you for watching pro streamer Jake in three
two one
did i get it oh yeah
wow i sound like a streamer streamer
okay bye