1 00:00:00,590 --> 00:00:03,630 Welcome to the Mouse House. 2 00:00:03,630 --> 00:00:07,630 Joel Zimmerman, AKA Deadmau5, invited us out here 3 00:00:07,630 --> 00:00:11,050 to hang for the day and give you guys a peek 4 00:00:11,050 --> 00:00:14,630 at the tech setup of one of the world's most iconic 5 00:00:14,630 --> 00:00:16,430 electronic music artists. 6 00:00:16,430 --> 00:00:21,310 Spoiler alert, this guy is a big, huge nerd 7 00:00:21,310 --> 00:00:32,300 and this place is flippin' awesome. 8 00:00:32,300 --> 00:00:35,280 Okay, now I know everybody else setting foot 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,620 into this castle would start with the, you know, 10 00:00:38,620 --> 00:00:45,030 taxidermy, with, oh, I don't know, the taxidermy room 11 00:00:45,790 --> 00:00:49,570 or maybe the garage of supercars, but not me. 12 00:00:49,570 --> 00:00:52,690 I'm starting where the magic happens, 13 00:00:52,690 --> 00:00:55,110 if you know what I mean, the master bedroom. 14 00:00:55,110 --> 00:00:59,890 And that is an entirely appropriate thing in this case 15 00:00:59,890 --> 00:01:04,310 because Deadmau5 has turned it into one of the only 16 00:01:04,310 --> 00:01:09,310 Dolby Atmos mix studios outside of Dolby themselves. 17 00:01:09,310 --> 00:01:12,890 You actually need a special black box 18 00:01:12,890 --> 00:01:14,770 that he wouldn't tell me about 19 00:01:14,770 --> 00:01:19,770 in addition to the nine custom-made speakers from ATC 20 00:01:20,130 --> 00:01:22,590 that are perfectly positioned in the room 21 00:01:22,590 --> 00:01:26,050 in order to master audio in 3D space. 22 00:01:26,050 --> 00:01:30,150 Remember, Atmos can scale to hundreds of speakers 23 00:01:30,150 --> 00:01:32,090 surrounding the viewer. 24 00:01:32,090 --> 00:01:34,530 This room has actually been under construction 25 00:01:34,530 --> 00:01:37,530 for three years and it's still not quite done, but it is. 26 00:01:39,310 --> 00:01:40,970 It's really close. 27 00:01:40,970 --> 00:01:44,890 I mean, to be clear, slapping a MacBook on the table 28 00:01:44,890 --> 00:01:47,990 and chilling out to some sick jams in here is, 29 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:50,810 as the kids say, dope AF, 30 00:01:50,810 --> 00:01:53,810 but it's about like playing CSGO on a supercomputer 31 00:01:53,810 --> 00:01:57,550 compared to what it will be capable of. 32 00:01:57,550 --> 00:01:58,590 And this is really cool. 33 00:01:58,590 --> 00:02:01,490 So this entire room is actually suspended 34 00:02:01,490 --> 00:02:03,970 from what used to be a vaulted ceiling. 35 00:02:03,970 --> 00:02:05,450 This was done for a couple of reasons. 36 00:02:05,450 --> 00:02:09,090 Number one, for improved acoustics, and number two, 37 00:02:09,310 --> 00:02:11,890 that with access panels under the floor, 38 00:02:11,890 --> 00:02:16,010 the like 800 cables for these pad panels here, 39 00:02:16,010 --> 00:02:20,470 or the like banging optical DisplayPort cables 40 00:02:20,470 --> 00:02:23,130 for the monitors that are gonna be installed here 41 00:02:23,130 --> 00:02:25,430 can all be run without disturbing 42 00:02:25,430 --> 00:02:28,710 the room's otherwise pristine aesthetic. 43 00:02:28,710 --> 00:02:33,390 And the gear in here is freaking unreal. 44 00:02:33,390 --> 00:02:36,810 So the Neve analog console in the center here 45 00:02:36,810 --> 00:02:39,090 would run you about a half a million dollars. 46 00:02:39,310 --> 00:02:41,470 As configured. 47 00:02:41,470 --> 00:02:44,990 And honestly, that's just to take in the inputs, 48 00:02:44,990 --> 00:02:48,530 apply some EQ and compression, and adjust levels. 49 00:02:48,530 --> 00:02:50,250 And check out these walls. 50 00:02:50,250 --> 00:02:53,750 On the left and right of the center console 51 00:02:53,750 --> 00:02:55,310 are different variations 52 00:02:55,310 --> 00:02:57,930 of what are called analog modular systems. 53 00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:01,170 Now, a lot of folks would produce electronic music 54 00:03:01,170 --> 00:03:04,310 exclusively on a computer through software these days, 55 00:03:04,310 --> 00:03:07,110 but you have to remember that those would be 56 00:03:07,110 --> 00:03:08,930 digital reproductions of what is inherently 57 00:03:08,930 --> 00:03:11,990 an analog thing. 58 00:03:11,990 --> 00:03:16,930 So this wall here is the culmination of over five years 59 00:03:16,930 --> 00:03:20,850 of curating and collecting tone generators, 60 00:03:20,850 --> 00:03:24,190 sequencers, filters, I mean, you name it. 61 00:03:24,190 --> 00:03:26,050 This one's called the Modulation Orgy. 62 00:03:26,050 --> 00:03:27,650 How can you not get one of them? 63 00:03:27,650 --> 00:03:31,310 And Joel was kind enough to give us an in-person demo 64 00:03:31,310 --> 00:03:33,250 of how something like this works. 65 00:03:33,250 --> 00:03:35,610 So here's my hip, and I plug it into there, 66 00:03:35,610 --> 00:03:38,690 and then that's the input, and then we wanna go, 67 00:03:38,690 --> 00:03:41,930 maybe an 18 dB output for a filter. 68 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:44,070 So I'm just going from one module to the other, 69 00:03:44,070 --> 00:03:44,910 if I just say. 70 00:03:44,910 --> 00:03:48,520 And oh, now I wanna change the pitch of it 71 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:50,300 to be like a tune, right? 72 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:54,100 So this is a 1V oct, which means one volt per octave. 73 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:57,380 I can get these little nuances of turning these analog dials 74 00:03:57,380 --> 00:03:59,800 and creating these sounds that subconsciously 75 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,060 you probably know just aren't quite right, 76 00:04:02,060 --> 00:04:03,760 you know, which is neat. 77 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,720 Now, he obviously doesn't use that for everything. 78 00:04:06,720 --> 00:04:08,820 I mean, it's the digital era. 79 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:10,960 But from an artistic standpoint, 80 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,040 what's great is having options. 81 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,040 An applied voltage on a stepless dial 82 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:21,160 provides, practically speaking, infinite options, 83 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,820 which I guess leads us into why there are 84 00:04:23,820 --> 00:04:27,260 over a dozen synthesizers in this room. 85 00:04:27,260 --> 00:04:29,400 Now, to the stupid layperson, 86 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,500 one middle C equals another middle C, 87 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:34,300 but that is not the case. 88 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:36,940 All of these have different tonal properties, 89 00:04:36,940 --> 00:04:38,220 and many of them have 90 00:04:38,820 --> 00:04:40,000 multiple stories. 91 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,860 This Juno 106 worth about 1500 bucks, 92 00:04:42,860 --> 00:04:45,420 he got for $20 at a pawn shop 93 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:47,340 from some guy who didn't know what it was. 94 00:04:47,340 --> 00:04:50,360 This Jupiter 8 and this Prophet 10 down here, 95 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,940 these are really, really hard to get your hands on today 96 00:04:54,940 --> 00:04:58,980 because they were built in the 70s using components 97 00:04:58,980 --> 00:05:01,500 that even if the manufacturer wanted to, 98 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:02,840 they couldn't build this stuff again 99 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,700 because that stuff's not available today. 100 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:08,460 And they have this unique retro tonality 101 00:05:08,460 --> 00:05:09,860 that like, for example, 102 00:05:09,860 --> 00:05:11,840 when they went to do Stranger Things, 103 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:14,220 they had to use this equipment 104 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:16,600 because we still don't have the capability 105 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,180 to emulate what these sound like electronically. 106 00:05:20,180 --> 00:05:21,220 Like these guys would have gone 107 00:05:21,220 --> 00:05:23,640 for a couple hundred bucks in the 70s. 108 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,240 Now they're worth tens of thousands of dollars. 109 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:29,760 This one that folds up in a briefcase right here, 110 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,300 this is R2D2. 111 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:35,520 I don't mean this is the same model that was R2D2. 112 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:37,080 This was R2D2. 113 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:38,320 It still works. 114 00:05:38,460 --> 00:05:42,100 And to say this place sounds freaking amazing 115 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:43,200 would be selling it short. 116 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:46,980 I mean, I only even got to listen to a couple of tracks 117 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:51,980 on the stereo speakers, but my God, 118 00:05:52,740 --> 00:05:54,540 it is an audio listening experience 119 00:05:54,540 --> 00:05:58,500 the likes of which I have never come even close to. 120 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,420 And all of that, that's just the surface level. 121 00:06:01,420 --> 00:06:05,260 Let's head down to the dungeon of this modern day castle. 122 00:06:05,260 --> 00:06:08,080 First up is the Land Center, 123 00:06:08,460 --> 00:06:11,240 why wouldn't you need a Land Center in your basement? 124 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,220 This is about as tricked out as it gets. 125 00:06:14,220 --> 00:06:18,280 Five small form factor custom built machines from NVIDIA 126 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:22,640 with the cases customized by PC Junkie Mods to match, 127 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,600 get this, to match Joel's cars. 128 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:29,140 Every single one of them is also running 129 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:33,800 a Blackmagic Micro 4K camera for game streaming. 130 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,900 And the capture machine for his game streaming setup here 131 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:38,100 is actually running under this. 132 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:43,100 This like center pentagram console thing that I'm standing on 133 00:06:43,540 --> 00:06:46,420 and it's hooked into their 10 gigabit 134 00:06:46,420 --> 00:06:48,160 home networking solution. 135 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:49,160 You heard me right. 136 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,980 I found the only other person in Canada 137 00:06:51,980 --> 00:06:55,880 with a server room in his freaking house. 138 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:58,600 And I couldn't be more excited to tell you 139 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,460 that it's actually quite a little bit, 140 00:07:00,460 --> 00:07:02,320 maybe quite a bit better than mine. 141 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,360 Not that it's a competition, not that I'm upset. 142 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,920 It's just that that is where the two, 143 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,440 gigabit internet connection comes in 144 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,860 from the 103 foot tower with ubiquity fricking dishes 145 00:07:14,860 --> 00:07:16,940 on the top out in the yard. 146 00:07:16,940 --> 00:07:18,420 This one right here, 147 00:07:18,420 --> 00:07:23,420 this is a custom box with 16 NVIDIA Teslas in it 148 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:28,520 that sounds like a freaking jet taking off. 149 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,260 And this guy right here, 150 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:34,220 this 45 drive Storinator is actually the reason. 151 00:07:34,220 --> 00:07:37,680 This was the springboard for this whole collab, 152 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,880 because Joel reached out to me about a year ago now 153 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:42,680 asking for some NAS advice. 154 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,260 So I got him hooked up with the guys at Unraid 155 00:07:45,260 --> 00:07:48,880 and now he's all set up with 70 terabytes of, 156 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,260 of course, highly expandable storage for all of his music. 157 00:07:52,260 --> 00:07:55,140 And actually now come to think of it, 158 00:07:55,140 --> 00:07:57,400 do music files really take up that much space? 159 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,560 What do you even know? 160 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:00,820 No, of course they don't. 161 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:05,140 But the answer, the real answer is really freaking cool. 162 00:08:05,140 --> 00:08:07,400 Now I have to confess, I never really gave a, 163 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:10,240 gave a lot of thought to, well, 164 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,600 how do the graphics on the cube or the helmet 165 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:14,980 sync with the music? 166 00:08:14,980 --> 00:08:17,400 I just assumed that it was farmed out 167 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,860 to some expensive Hollywood production house 168 00:08:20,860 --> 00:08:23,960 and that it was just kind of done by magic. 169 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,880 But no, Joel and his team actually build 170 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:31,000 a lot of these tools and effects in house, 171 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,520 including 3D modeling. 172 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:34,600 So most of those gaming machines over there, like, 173 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:34,620 So most of those gaming machines over there, like, 174 00:08:34,620 --> 00:08:35,720 So most of those gaming machines over there, like, 175 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:36,460 So most of those gaming machines over there, like, 176 00:08:36,460 --> 00:08:37,400 So most of those gaming machines over there, like, 177 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,740 when there are no friends over playing Rocket League, 178 00:08:40,740 --> 00:08:43,720 are actually being used as render nodes. 179 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:48,720 And this is in addition to the Teslas in the server room. 180 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:50,140 There are a total, 181 00:08:50,140 --> 00:08:53,880 and I think it's 43 NVIDIA GPUs in this house 182 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,320 that are all used for rendering. 183 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:59,580 So one of the animations for the cube that Joel showed us 184 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:02,480 was actually recorded using motion cap 185 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:04,920 from like his Microsoft Connect. 186 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:06,940 Then he used a model 187 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:10,380 from non-stop night, redid the head, 188 00:09:10,380 --> 00:09:12,780 and animated it using Cinema 4D, 189 00:09:12,780 --> 00:09:14,960 then rendered it out using Octane. 190 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,680 And the visualizations and the synchronization 191 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,700 to like the head, which by the way, 192 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:22,920 I absolutely did get to wear, 193 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:24,920 there is exactly as much sweat in there 194 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:26,160 as you would imagine, 195 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,940 were designed by him and his crew as well. 196 00:09:28,940 --> 00:09:30,680 And if you're a networking nerd, 197 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:33,740 this is where it gets even cooler. 198 00:09:33,740 --> 00:09:36,480 So this massive touchscreen, 199 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,920 that's a relic of Microsoft's acquisition 200 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:40,360 of perceptive pixel, 201 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,380 there are only four in the world by the way, 202 00:09:42,380 --> 00:09:44,800 can be used through the network 203 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,620 and some custom software that Tim and his team developed 204 00:09:48,620 --> 00:09:51,360 to allow audio effects and animations 205 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,240 to be controlled in real time on a massive touchscreen. 206 00:09:55,240 --> 00:10:00,240 So pretty much the entire show can be run out of this box 207 00:10:00,380 --> 00:10:04,040 with a couple of Mac Pros with this nifty mount on it, 208 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:05,760 and this front house mirror. 209 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:13,160 And this is the whole mixer. 210 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:18,280 Well, I hope that this whole thing has been 211 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,680 at least 30% as fun for you guys as it has been for me, 212 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:24,620 because that means it's been pretty fun. 213 00:10:24,620 --> 00:10:26,320 Thank you to you guys for watching. 214 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,660 Thank you so much to, 215 00:10:28,660 --> 00:10:31,340 oh, he's standing out in the driveway over there, 216 00:10:31,340 --> 00:10:33,060 but he's waving. 217 00:10:33,060 --> 00:10:35,500 I definitely had permission to do all of this. 218 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:38,280 Thanks to Joel for allowing us to hang out here for the day. 219 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,800 And I guess that's pretty much it. 220 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:41,400 If you liked this video, 221 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:42,580 hit that like button. 222 00:10:42,580 --> 00:10:44,440 If you really liked it, get subscribed. 223 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:46,020 Maybe consider checking out our merch store, 224 00:10:46,020 --> 00:10:47,560 which has cool shirts like this one, 225 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:50,280 and our community forum, which you should totally join.