WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.160 one of the coolest parts of the new house is gonna be the five person land 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:10.160 gaming room here in the basement so that my kids and their friends 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.799 and me and my friends that i'll make some day can all game 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:19.520 together but when elgato reached out asking if they could sponsor a six 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:25.760 streaming setup i thought i mean heck why not make all of the stations 00:00:22.160 --> 00:00:28.000 streaming ready so that is exactly what 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:33.760 we're gonna do this is the Linus homeland center streaming setup v1 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:39.800 concept edition which means could be subject to change but it should be an 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.800 excellent start 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:54.239 now obviously my house is still a construction zone so this video won't be 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:58.480 fully representative of the final setup but it should be pretty darn close other 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:02.079 than you know the lifetime brand 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:07.040 folding tables here now before we even think about setting 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:11.360 up a microphone or a webcam or any of the fun stuff we need a computer to run 00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:16.000 it all in the long term the plan is going to be to virtualize all of these 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:20.960 stations off of a single server in my mechanical room so the conduit is going 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:26.240 to be accessible here so it'll run under all of these desks we probably won't be 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:31.680 able to do sit stand desks for that reason but that's kind of tbd now just 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:35.600 in case we decide to do stand-alone machines in here we do still have the 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:41.759 room wired up for Ethernet but my preference is to have everything in the server for now 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:45.200 Corsair one hey there you go i mean the video is sponsored by elgato and Corsair 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:49.200 so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise so this one right here is the 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:55.439 a200 featuring a liquid-cooled verizon nine 5900x an rtx 3080 and a boatload of 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:59.200 storage and high-speed RAM it's small sleek and well-equipped for even the 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:05.119 most demanding games or streaming setups which is why i won't be using one in 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:10.080 fact i think the final config for each of these stations is going to be more 00:02:06.880 --> 00:02:13.360 along the lines of eight virtualized AMD 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:15.840 epic cores and then maybe more like a 30 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:19.599 60 something like that monitor wise things are a bit more up in the air i 00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:24.160 think 27 inches is the perfect size to have one two three four five and then 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.080 actually we're probably going to have a six station right here that's just 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:32.080 a network port so you could pull up a laptop or something like that make it a 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.720 nice even six but in terms of resolution i'm leaning 00:02:34.319 --> 00:02:40.720 towards 1440p just because i think it's a great balance between the high refresh 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:45.519 rate gaming you get at 1080 and obviously the better image quality that 00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:48.560 you get at 4k this particular model the 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:50.879 lg 27 gp850 has been a lightning rod for 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:55.280 controversy but the panel in it this nice fast response time ips is 00:02:53.760 --> 00:03:01.360 definitely something that i would want in here just like i would want this beautiful 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:06.239 desk pad from ltdstore.com now this isn't the best case scenario 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:11.360 for elgato's poor wave panels here this is an enormous room that is basically 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:15.280 nothing but flat concrete surfaces and we've only got six of them but we wanted 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:19.920 to show them to you guys because they will almost certainly be part of the 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:21.360 final deployment once you know there are 00:03:19.920 --> 00:03:24.799 walls we'll probably put some on the ceilings as well because stopping those 00:03:23.440 --> 00:03:29.599 reflections between the floor and the ceiling is one of the key ways to cut 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:33.360 down on audio reverb are these are these sufficiently mounted i can i can put 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:36.959 wave panels on them now sure 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:40.879 if you want to see a more practical and scientific demonstration of how well 00:03:38.799 --> 00:03:44.959 these work check out our video where we treated our workshop with them it's 00:03:42.959 --> 00:03:49.760 really impressive while Jake mounts the rest of the wave panels let's talk about 00:03:46.959 --> 00:03:55.439 the rest of the audio setup so i could have opted for the much less 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:57.840 expensive wave 3. but some of my 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:02.319 experiences with usb all-in-one microphones have not been the best and 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:07.760 they don't give you the greatest amount of control over your setup so instead 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:12.159 we've gone for the wave xlr which has all the same integrated mixing controls 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:16.959 headphone output and all that good stuff except you can plug literally any xlr 00:04:14.959 --> 00:04:21.040 microphone you want into it so let's get this set up i've never used 00:04:18.880 --> 00:04:24.720 this thing i think it looks pretty cool yeah 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:30.000 i mean one of the things that elgato does really well is that everything they 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:34.960 do is designed for streaming so a lot of the xlr interfaces out there for example 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:38.160 they're designed to lie flat right yeah but that's not what you want when you're 00:04:36.960 --> 00:04:45.520 when you're gaming you want something that you can you can reach for more easily so this is knob feels good 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:49.199 got usbc there's your headphone jack and there's your xlr input 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.320 right around there is where i want that no i want it on the left side left side 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:57.199 and then i can have the stream deck on this side actually 00:04:55.040 --> 00:05:00.720 no okay no so no i do want it the other way around because the stream deck i'm 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:05.759 gonna mess with more often and i'm more likely to want to take my hands off of 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:07.440 my mouse then oh right yes 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:11.680 yeah i want to be able to keep my hands on wasd so 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:15.759 yeah let's go xlr on this side wait how the hell are you going to put this one 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:20.720 on here screw on the side oh really as long as it holds itself up 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:26.720 right okay where's the mic ARM it seems pretty standard as far as mic arms go 00:05:24.479 --> 00:05:31.199 caution spring loaded don't get don't get bashed in the face you know 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:35.120 little things like that but there you go that guy just goes in there 00:05:36.479 --> 00:05:40.320 we're just gonna try it this is terrible 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:45.600 i mean tell me how horrendous this is 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:50.960 you kind of nailed it yeah damn straight i did 00:05:47.840 --> 00:05:53.520 i'll never call you a screw-up again oh 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:56.319 god what come on that's funny you've never called me screw it before but it's 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:01.120 a screw because you're putting a screw i probably called you a screw i figured out what all these pieces do 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:04.560 this is a riser so it can be like 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:09.120 up higher if you want there's a little hex lock i don't think we're gonna need 00:06:06.880 --> 00:06:13.120 oh do you wanna know what that's for apparently people 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:17.199 install these behind their monitor and come over oh really yeah i don't know why you 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:22.479 would ever do that but um if you had a very like wide-ranging 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:25.440 microphone that could pick up really far then maybe yes 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:28.720 yeah that's not going to be what we're doing today and i'm probably going to 00:06:27.039 --> 00:06:33.199 need the counterweight because for our microphone we've settled on an sm48 from 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:37.759 sure check it he checked check it he checked check it does actually sound a tiny bit 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:42.479 less bad i think yeah it's just that most of the 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:46.639 echo in here is off this concrete floor and those flat walls back there 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:50.800 that shouldn't be too much of a problem for us though the sm48 from sure is a 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:55.039 dynamic microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern that means it should 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:58.720 reject most off-axis noise and pick up your voice nice and clear let's get this 00:06:57.440 --> 00:07:03.840 cable managed and then we'll give you guys a quick demo this is not a perfect 00:07:01.039 --> 00:07:08.400 solution oh lordy oh god don't do that no 00:07:07.039 --> 00:07:13.120 i don't want to have to take this down like that later see but look look it'll 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:17.840 stay out of the oh stay out of the way oh did you oh yeah well you're you're 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:17.840 doing it now 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.800 there we go normally on an xlr interface you would 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:27.759 want to plug your headphones for monitoring yourself directly into the 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:32.800 interface so you have zero latency let's see how well elgato's software 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.680 ecosystem handles that all right we're firing up our game 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.960 stream here ladies and gentlemen going to play some duo actually we should just 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:41.840 move on to the next part of the video we're going to host and we can just do 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:48.400 it on here what's the next thing we're going to do lighting man this sounds great 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:50.960 also they have come a long way on their 00:07:48.400 --> 00:07:55.840 software elgato this is handy the wavelink software has a quick link to 00:07:53.280 --> 00:07:59.120 your advanced audio preferences so as soon as you launch your game you're 00:07:57.039 --> 00:08:03.840 going to want to set its output to elgato's game 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:08.319 wavelink game here we go and then that way obs will be able to pick it up you 00:08:06.080 --> 00:08:13.199 can access this through Windows just by right-clicking open sound 00:08:10.840 --> 00:08:16.639 settings app volume whatever but it's a lot more clicks whereas it's just right 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:22.240 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 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:26.160 to wavelink game yeah you can then have it come up as a track in here and then 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:29.120 you can create separate mixes for your monitor mix and your streaming so if you 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:33.599 want to listen to copyrighted music in your headphones while you're streaming but want your stream to hear monstercat 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:37.279 or whatever you can give them two different audio tracks and it's all done 00:08:35.599 --> 00:08:41.039 in wavelink you don't need like virtual audio cable or any stupid crap like that 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:44.800 that's pretty cool most streamers like to have a face cam 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:49.519 of some sort so that is where the aptly named 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:51.839 elgato face cam comes in now 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:56.720 at home i actually use a different setup i've got an elgato cam link 4k usb stick 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:00.160 and i've used that to connect to a canon dslr camera it works 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:05.760 great but it is large it's more complex to set 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:10.399 up and troubleshoot if it has issues and that is even before you consider how 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:15.600 expensive it would be to kit out a dslr or a mirrorless camera for every station 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:20.320 in the room so that's where 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:24.240 a more reasonable setup like a webcam comes into play on the outside this 00:09:22.959 --> 00:09:31.519 thing is pretty minimalistic looking it's you got your 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:34.240 lens your detachable long USB-C to a 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:38.880 cable a small status led over on the left of the lens and an included monitor 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:42.880 mount on the inside is where things get a little bit more fun elgato designed 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:46.560 their own eight element all glass lens which is paired with a sony starvis simo 00:09:45.040 --> 00:09:51.920 sensor that's designed to provide excellent clarity with minimal noise up 00:09:48.640 --> 00:09:54.000 to 1080p 60fps they also included a bit 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:58.399 of storage on the camera itself so that any settings changes that you make 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:01.600 follow the camera not the computer one cool feature or rather lack thereof is 00:10:00.320 --> 00:10:06.000 that the facecam doesn't have a microphone and it prevents you from 00:10:03.839 --> 00:10:10.480 getting pop-ups and notifications anytime say for example you unplug or 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:13.279 plug something in and discord's like hey do you want to switch to a new audio 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:16.640 device it's so freaking annoying how does it not have a never ask me again i 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:20.320 think there is a never asked me i think there is i don't think it works 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:26.320 anyway we're not going to be using the built-in monitor mount because we are going with 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:32.000 the elgato ring light now at home i actually prefer my pair of key light 00:10:29.839 --> 00:10:35.839 airs these are basically the same product they're just little square 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:38.880 panels instead of a big ring shaped one so you've got the same adjustable color 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:42.959 temperature the same adjustable brightness and everything can be done 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:48.640 through software the big difference is that with my giant 48 inch display i can 00:10:45.680 --> 00:10:51.680 put them out on the sides and then i can decide do i want like kind of a more 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:56.240 dramatic look so i have a little bit less lighting on this side a little bit more on that side whereas with the ring 00:10:54.800 --> 00:11:00.959 light what you're getting is what ring lights are good for which is nice even 00:10:58.079 --> 00:11:05.200 illumination clock's ticking gotta shoot the video 00:11:06.480 --> 00:11:11.440 no i i really like their mount it's super easy to use yeah i think luke had 00:11:10.079 --> 00:11:16.640 trouble with it but you know whatever yeah just loop things i know this video is 00:11:14.560 --> 00:11:21.760 sponsored by elgato but i really do need to complain about one small thing like 00:11:18.959 --> 00:11:25.519 this is this is the longest power brick what are you compensating for 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:31.200 i can how am i supposed to plug this in 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:33.680 takes up an entire power strip 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:36.240 hold on i think i think i managed to jam it in there 00:11:34.880 --> 00:11:40.480 uh hello hey there we go i can't believe we made 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:44.560 it this far without setting up a stream deck if you're not familiar with these 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:49.279 come on guys this one specifically is elgato's stream deck mk2 which features 00:11:47.040 --> 00:11:54.320 type c interchangeable faceplates as well as a detachable 45 degree fixed 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:56.399 angle stand but each of the 15 keys is 00:11:54.320 --> 00:12:00.480 an individual display so you can have whatever icon you want 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:04.959 their full color and you can configure them to do anything from button presses 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:08.720 to macros to starting and stopping your stream now 00:12:06.800 --> 00:12:12.160 the light is connected to wi-fi we can adjust our color temperature to be 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:16.160 warmer cooler we can adjust our brightness whoa 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:21.519 that's that's pretty bright boys 5600 sorry about that 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:25.440 okay what do you want you want 5600 yeah all right there we go and then it's 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:29.920 probably a little bit on the right side right now let's at least get a couple of 00:12:27.839 --> 00:12:34.320 things uh configured on our stream deck here all right let's go ahead and i mean 00:12:32.079 --> 00:12:37.839 i don't know this one can be record boop basically 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.680 uh instantaneous know scene i have a gift 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:47.200 oh you have such a terrible ugly background 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:50.639 that's true i do let's fix that this is elgato's green screen they actually have 00:12:48.880 --> 00:12:53.839 two models this is the floor standing one they also have one you can hang from 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:57.519 the ceiling that's a bit bigger but for our purposes 00:12:55.920 --> 00:13:01.920 this is just fine all you gotta do is open the locks 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:01.920 grab this bad 00:13:04.839 --> 00:13:12.240 boy and you have a green screen i think the manual probably says 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:12.240 adjust the feet first 00:13:12.880 --> 00:13:16.639 before you open it but there it is 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:22.480 i do that again the subject 00:13:21.279 --> 00:13:27.440 you can play around these settings in here you can say how similar the color needs to be 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:30.639 there you go so here we filter out basically anything that has any color 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:34.240 other than red uh here we're basically not filtering 00:13:32.800 --> 00:13:38.399 out anything so you just want to find that 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:42.880 right about there gives us a nice uniform 00:13:40.560 --> 00:13:45.920 uh gray on our green screen that's what we're looking for 00:13:44.160 --> 00:13:49.199 is that it i noticed we had some other stuff over there yeah they've got the 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:53.120 pop filter which we don't need because of our mic choice uh capture card in 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:57.760 case you've got like a you know next-gen console you want to stream your 4k 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:57.760 gameplay or whatever else 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:04.560 shock mount we didn't end up using the wave 3 so we don't need that light 00:14:02.800 --> 00:14:08.240 strips we got the green screen so we don't really need that 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:12.000 okay we're gonna play we're gonna play some competitive cs go here ladies and 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:17.279 gentlemen we're getting competitive today now that we have cs go configured 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:19.199 to use our wavelink game output we don't 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:22.800 actually have to have our desktop audio play a role in obs at all everything 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:25.680 just goes out into the stream mix which we control through the wavelink app so 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:30.399 you're going to see when i highlight this window 00:14:27.680 --> 00:14:34.320 our in-game music shows up here that's a little loud both in my headphones and in 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.600 the stream so we're gonna turn that down a little bit have a look at our levels 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:45.279 that's about where i like to have my background music going like somewhere in the minus 30 minus 25 range so that's 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:49.440 pretty good now if i was actually playing competitively i would restart it 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:53.360 because counter strike does not like being changed from windowed to exclusive 00:14:51.839 --> 00:14:58.399 full screen but i i suck anyway so all right 00:14:55.920 --> 00:15:03.279 official matchmaking oh god really oh god i'm gonna die i'm gonna die Jake i'm 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:06.639 gonna die um oh god they're gonna come through 00:15:05.760 --> 00:15:11.519 they're gonna come through here they're gonna kill me i'm too casual Jake this 00:15:09.040 --> 00:15:16.560 guy's telling me to go back i disagree this is the worst live stream 00:15:13.199 --> 00:15:16.560 officially pro gamer Jake 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:21.519 where are you at oh come on 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:25.600 wow i helped i helped i did 21 damage to him 00:15:23.920 --> 00:15:30.399 all right let's make sure this recording is actually good hey this is awesome 00:15:27.920 --> 00:15:34.880 yeah you look great look at your i know it's clean you should get a you 00:15:32.880 --> 00:15:40.079 should get a green screen that looks so pro i probably i probably should it does 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:44.079 look so pro like look at that and then look at the room we're in right now i 00:15:41.839 --> 00:15:47.680 know right you would have no way of knowing it looks legit okay let's try 00:15:46.160 --> 00:15:54.720 and get one more kill i want one more kill oh oh the buy period has expired okay 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:58.399 that's a problem it's slightly mildly problematic 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.880 yeah yep come on 00:16:02.399 --> 00:16:08.959 well all right didn't even manage to hit him 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:12.480 man it's amazing how much this stuff has improved back when we set up our 00:16:10.480 --> 00:16:16.160 original green screen for techwiki in the old house we spent a hundred dollars 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.440 on just the material and then we had to 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:25.440 like jury rig our own like hanger for it that took a lot of 00:16:23.759 --> 00:16:29.839 time and probably end up costing more than this obviously this is a little bit 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:33.759 smaller this is really designed for a game streaming setup as opposed to a 00:16:32.079 --> 00:16:37.600 full host with you know full arms reaching out and stuff like that but 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:41.759 they have a bigger one that's super reasonable actually all things 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:47.279 considered yes you too can look and sound that pro even in a horrible 00:16:45.040 --> 00:16:51.920 environment that is not conducive to streaming and it's that simple all you 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:54.639 have to do is spend a bunch of money obviously we're going to have everything 00:16:53.199 --> 00:16:59.920 linked down below thanks purcell for sponsoring this video or elgato i guess 00:16:57.920 --> 00:17:02.880 thanks to you for watching pro streamer Jake in three 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:06.800 two one 00:17:05.439 --> 00:17:10.500 did i get it oh yeah 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:15.760 wow i sound like a streamer streamer 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:18.160 okay bye