1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 Hey guys, welcome back to Dan week. I'm gonna be answering some of your questions today. You 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:08,880 left a bunch on Floatplane, so let's get to it. A bunch of people ask who the f*** is Dan Besser? 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:16,320 It is me. I'm that. My title here recently changed. I'm no longer the infrastructure and 4 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:21,120 technical specialist. Now I am a technical architect, whatever the hell that is. Basically, 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:27,280 as a technical architect, now I'm responsible for designing systems that are kind of more 6 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,680 company-wide. The documentation system and kind of the data management stuff, and that involves 7 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,680 a lot of liaison with every single department and kind of interfacing with everybody's different 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:41,120 workflows to kind of find a system that works for everybody. A lot of process management and kind of 9 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,160 continuous change improvement and working through procedures and things like that that 10 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:52,080 people should be using. It's very much more like higher level conceptual stuff and then 11 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:57,280 some implementation as well. Then you tack on other things to that like when show is tacked on 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:01,520 to what my job is and stuff like this and short circuits and everything like that and doing 13 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:06,320 infrastructure rebuilds and things like that are mostly handled by Sean. So now I'm assisting with 14 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:11,360 those rather than it being like core duties. Core duties are process improvement and change 15 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:17,040 management. Logan's Media Hub asks, what got you into music or audio? I'm not entirely sure. 16 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:22,640 I started classical training and piano when I was quite young and just kind of eventually 17 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:27,760 accidentally found this neat little program. I think it was called Anvil Studios, which let 18 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,920 me make little doodles and things like that. And I was always doodling on the piano and that kind 19 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:37,360 of just spurred things along. My dad was a guitar player and hung out with a lot of bands back in 20 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:43,520 England and I don't know. It just kind of continued from there. Gordon Freeman, well known scientist 21 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,080 and professor asks, what kind of music do you listen to? Most of the stuff that I listen to is 22 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:54,080 kind of downtempo electronic, although it seems to change constantly. Basically, I'm not necessarily 23 00:01:54,080 --> 00:02:00,000 into one kind of music. I'm always looking for a section in a song that triggers what I call like 24 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,960 the cheesecake brain. You know, your brain loves fat, salt and sugar and cheesecake kind of has 25 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:10,720 everything. So your brain's just like, blah. And so there's always like one little nugget inside 26 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:17,440 of a song that I kind of like. I really enjoy metal, but only like the really intense stuff that 27 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:25,520 kind of has a lot of pig squeals and stuff like that. For example, AXCX. They're pretty stupid 28 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,840 and great, but like them a lot. As for what I use for reference tracks, I kind of have a nice 29 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,920 Spotify playlist that goes through everything. Mostly they're tracks that I've listened to a lot 30 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:38,720 where they have really weird things in them, or they're varied enough to kind of keep things 31 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:44,480 interesting. A big one that I keep going back to is The Wheel by Son, which is kind of a nice 32 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:49,520 varied song. The start kind of is quiet and then it kind of gets more intense after that. I've got 33 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,320 some BTS in there, which is also interesting. You know, like what people would listen to a lot. 34 00:02:54,320 --> 00:03:00,240 Pop Music Austin has better production quality, or at least simpler production than a lot of other 35 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:05,360 kind of indie artists or smaller bands. So that can kind of give a nice general feel to 36 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:11,040 what things are going to sound like, but often a good mix can make up for a bad speaker kind of 37 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:16,000 thing. So there's another one in here called Pink Lemonade by James Bay on extremely high-end 38 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:22,080 systems, especially if you're using something lossless like Deezer. What that'll actually show 39 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:26,560 you is that the song wasn't mixed very well on. It's kind of bad. You can really only hear that 40 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:32,480 it's bad on super high-end systems. I've got a pair of HD 800S's and you can immediately kind of tell 41 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:38,080 that something's wrong with that song. Another great one to listen to speakers on is I'm Sorry 42 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:44,320 by Madonna, because for some reason whatever remaster they did, the S in Sorry is extremely 43 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,560 sharp and painful. I have a playlist of reference tracks and perhaps we'll make that public and 44 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,040 then we'll post that. Mad Economist asks, what's your dream speaker setup? I think my dream speaker 45 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,320 setup is actually a nicely treated room. I've already even got a pair of NS10s and I have the 46 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:04,560 HS8s, also a Yamaha, but my room is bad and you know you put any speakers in there. You've got a 47 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:10,640 pair like Bluetooth speaker. It's big and it'll probably sound okay, especially if your room is 48 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:17,120 sort of wide but short. That's bad. You want like a long and thin kind of thing and then you also 49 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,560 have to position your desk properly and you have to make sure the speakers are far enough away from 50 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:26,080 the wall and you also have to have like reflection things like a scout room. If you had a six foot 51 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,040 room, that's bad, but there's some calculators online that allow you to decide your room and find 52 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,440 your modes and nodes and what frequency they're going to interact in and then kind of place your 53 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:41,680 desk there. But a lot of the time you don't have a choice. So Nat for Sale asks, what's your paper 54 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,920 game release in the last five years or so? I really enjoyed Bellattro for a while. I enjoyed 55 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:51,680 Hell Divers 2. BG3 is also fantastic. The new Armored Core that came out a year or so ago. I find 56 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:57,760 myself, I'll play a game for a little while and then I'll kind of just move on quickly. I wouldn't 57 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,080 necessarily say I'm the biggest like sweaty gamer or anything like that and there's not a lot of 58 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:07,120 stuff that catches my attention for a long time. The title I kind of keep returning to though is 59 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:13,440 Thumper which came out in 2016 unfortunately. I think right now I'm global rank like 50 or at 60 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:19,200 least top 100 which is kind of interesting. It's a really fun kind of rhythm horror game. I really 61 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:23,840 like rhythm games and that sort of thing but often they can just be a little bit too technical 62 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:29,200 and not necessarily fun. This is kind of a nice mix of both and it's the only game I've ever played 63 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:35,120 that I've like I get and that I'm good at and that I can score consistently at. So yeah that's 64 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,920 pretty damn good. Pick it up please. As for game OSTs I think there's a really good YouTube channel 65 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,320 like I think it's called 8-Bit Music Theory and it seems like Nintendo titles often have some of 66 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:48,720 the best. I think for a lot of titles I'm more into like the fun stuff rather than the atmospheric 67 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,760 stuff. When I'm writing my own OSTs and things like that I'm always trying to make them invisible 68 00:05:53,760 --> 00:06:00,160 in a way but sometimes if the music is like bright and front and center then that can kind of get 69 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,480 onto your brain more and it's just kind of like more casual and cool. I like that sort of thing 70 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,280 and Nintendo games seem to really push for that type of thing where the music is front and center 71 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:15,280 and really part of everything. A Fishkin04 asks how do you stay on task? For me it's kind of difficult 72 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:23,040 you know. I've got ADSL, AADHD, I guess you know broadband and it's difficult. It is really 73 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:28,080 difficult. There's a lot of stuff in my life I have basically blocked every single hour of the 74 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,600 entire week to things and there's maybe a couple hours left that I haven't found placement for. 75 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:40,400 For me I've tried notebooks, I've tried calendars and things like that and it all just kind of 76 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:46,640 doesn't work you know to-do list task things apps everything it doesn't work. Google sheets for me 77 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:51,360 works really well because it's cell-based you can kind of lay things out and reorder them really 78 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:55,600 easily. The biggest thing that I found was countdown timers. There's a great program that you can get 79 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,920 on Windows called Time Left. It's kind of free and you can have one countdown timer and you can set 80 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:05,440 up a bunch of automations and stuff like that. For me ADHD one of the big things is time blindness 81 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:11,840 or at least a malformed perception of time and so there's a lot of mental bandwidth of like 82 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:17,520 when do I leave? When do I have to do this thing? How long do I have? And so say I'm taking my 83 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:23,680 lunch break at noon when I look at my clock there I can see exactly that I have 24 minutes left or 84 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:29,920 like two hours and 40 minutes and 30 seconds which allows me to go okay now I don't have to think 85 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,800 or conceptualize how much time is required to do a task and I can go okay well this is probably 86 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,360 going to take an hour and 15 minutes so yes I can dive right into that. Everything is kind of planned 87 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:44,720 and it removes a lot of mental bandwidth of time management and knowing how long I have to do 88 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:49,280 something. If I have to go to bed at 10 p.m. I know that I can play video games for two hours 89 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,320 and then ignore the timer and go to bed at 2 a.m. anyway. Casper Explorer asks, 90 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:56,880 does Dan play any instruments besides piano? I guess I play accordion which is a type of piano 91 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:03,600 I guess. I also play the saxophone. Lisa stopped playing that stupid saxophone. It's 92 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:09,600 alto for me. I guess baritone as well they're both in E flat. Does synth count? Yes, it counts just 93 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:17,040 for you. And play the computer. Mirawin asks, why did you want to work at LMG? So I had been in the 94 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:23,440 music industry for about seven years I think before that point and the ceiling is like pretty small. 95 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,760 If you can think about the pool of people who are professional engineers it's pretty small 96 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,400 and it's also pretty incestuous. I think there's maybe like three or four studios here in Vancouver 97 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:36,560 and generally you have a senior engineer and a junior engineer. So I was acting as a junior 98 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:42,880 engineer and so what that's like one of eight people. I'm not going to be going to move to work 99 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,960 for a big studio. The guy I trained under had been working as an engineer for longer than I'd 100 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:51,280 been alive and then okay well you think about the big concert it's like okay who's Beyonce's 101 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,240 engineer at a concert? That's going to be like one person. Where do you go in that kind of space? 102 00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,320 I mean I was lucky enough to get into a studio at all. You see all these people coming out of 103 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:05,680 recording college and stuff like that and they're okay well I want a job now and you know how are 104 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:11,040 you going to get a job? I actually started there as a camera operator and eventually moved up into 105 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:16,240 engineering and things like that because I had been doing it forever. I'm mostly self-taught and 106 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:22,000 I'm still bad and I wish I was better and it's just practice all the time and I don't know 107 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:27,440 how to get to that next level. It's very difficult. It's kind of like a black art almost very very 108 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,040 strange. We did a lot of live concerts too so live sound mixing 109 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,040 and that whole kind of thing turned into a full production house so that's kind of 110 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,560 I grew from just a camera op to the technical director of like the whole studio. We did 111 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:46,160 concerts every weekend because our main booth was set up for live orchestra so the main recording 112 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:53,600 room could seat about a hundred person orchestra. In 2019 pre-pandemic I did 192 concerts which was 113 00:09:53,680 --> 00:10:00,160 a lot and then I also moved into developing our own like online streaming platform. I used a system 114 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,520 called MUX which is on the back of AWS and then we have player integration and VODs and live streams 115 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,920 and all that sort of stuff and then a team of editors including myself who would edit the footage 116 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,480 and kind of get it going during the week and studio maintenance and everything. It was a tiny team 117 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:19,760 basically just the two of us and we had the head engineer and then myself who did everything else. 118 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,960 If there was a fire then I had to put it out and there was always like 119 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:26,560 15-20 fires at the same time. I needed to get out of that environment. That's one of the 120 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:33,040 reasons why I started working at LMG and it's really nice here because if I die in a car accident 121 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:39,120 the business doesn't fail like someone can do the job and that is kind of nice. I can take vacations 122 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:44,240 and I can take weekends off and I still do WAN shows so my Fridays are still destroyed but 123 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,880 now I get Saturdays back and having a social life is sort of possible. 124 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,320 I'm going to knock on wood for you dying. Don't die. 125 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:58,080 I'm going to knock on wood for you dying. You Sammy gets me. I love you man. 126 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,680 Shrishach asks what are your interactions like with Linus and Luke outside of the WAN Show? 127 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:09,040 I would say it's pretty similar to be perfectly honest. Obviously there's a little bit of heightened 128 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:14,800 antagonism I think on the WAN Show set but I mean Linus takes that elsewhere outside of the WAN 129 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:20,240 as well. It's maybe a little bit more friendly and jovial than the WAN Show set. It's kind of 130 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:26,880 heightened a bit to boost the entertainment thing like I would never really jump in with quips or 131 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:32,320 digs kind of outside of the WAN Show wouldn't necessarily be appropriate for kind of like 132 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:37,440 a business working relationship but sort of you know water cooler you know he makes fun of my car 133 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,840 that sort of thing. Luke is less like that but of course on the WAN Show we don't have as much 134 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:51,040 antagonism kind of fun place to dig at him and he can dig back and it's good. It's like a cathartic 135 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,280 in a way but very similar very very similar. Curse rotted great wood asks what kind of questions 136 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:01,680 are you allowed to answer on the WAN Show and are there any guidelines and stuff like that. 137 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:07,040 WAN Show questions are a bit difficult. There's not really been any training on it. You kind of 138 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:11,280 build up an intuition after doing it for a long while. That's one of the reasons why we initially 139 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:15,760 wanted just a single host or at least Linus did. Originally the plan was to have four or five 140 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,800 rotating hosts so that we would only lose like one Friday each. Having repeat questions every 141 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:27,120 single week is very irritating and kind of boring and because we got you know two 300 merch messages 142 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:32,880 every single week being able to know what those 300 messages were for the last few weeks is really 143 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,360 useful to be able to keep the show interesting. I'm always looking for something that can 144 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:43,040 spark a discussion so that intuition isn't perfect. Sometimes I think questions that would 145 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:49,040 be really interesting are actually really boring or Linus won't engage with or Luke won't engage 146 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:53,360 with. It's just kind of like yep okay next question. Another stuff that I think is a little bit 147 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:58,640 innocuous and that I would expect a yes from actually sparks of 40 minutes of tangents and 148 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:05,040 things like that. Some of the stuff that I would kind of archive and not really push through are 149 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:11,120 maybe anything with a link. Anything that seems overly antagonistic. Obviously I answered a question 150 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:17,360 about wages ages ago that I thought was pretty innocuous and that caused an entire spark of 151 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:22,560 controversy as well. So generally anything business related to anything that would be me 152 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:28,400 speaking for another person. So if somebody asked like what does Sammy think about this? 153 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:34,640 I would probably respond to that and say like I don't know ask him and then next question right 154 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:39,360 just kind of like throw it away dumb answer kind of thing. I think the intuition now is basically 155 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:44,160 don't say anything and that's really sad and it makes me sad because I'd like to have a more 156 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:49,440 engaging discussion and like respond with heartfelt things or give information about the 157 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:55,200 business but everybody seems to misconstrue that and it makes it disappointing to be able to engage 158 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:00,080 with things. How do you think Chewy did when he was doing the merch messages for the charity stream? 159 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,840 I think it was pretty good. I'm trying to train him as a replacement for the Wanshoes. Right now 160 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,760 there's no replacement so I can never take a Friday off. That's dangerous because again 161 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:14,000 bust factor of one if I get hit by a bus on the way to work right then there's no yeah thanks Sammy 162 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:21,920 wishing for death. He's so mean right and I think he did okay. There wasn't too many 163 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,080 merch messages during the day stream this may be 20 to 30 maybe 50 something like that 164 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:30,400 and Chewy would be perfect because he's already the community manager and already knows how to 165 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:35,360 not start controversy so he can pretty much say whatever he wants and we've worked together a few 166 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:42,320 times on dealing with the fallout from shit I've said. Fancy Pingo asks what's the most frustrating 167 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:47,440 thing about running the Wansho? Right now it's been the computer there's been decades of bugs 168 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:52,000 with that computer a couple streams ago it just hard freezes right before the show right I can't 169 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,520 do anything it takes a stream down I can't trust my equipment and it makes Wansho extremely stressful 170 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:04,080 the whole time every single time Fridays are not a good day for me I don't it's awful every stream 171 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:10,720 is like the computer failed again and I built another one and that failed in the same way 172 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:17,120 we put a 3,900k on a test bench and I ran some Cinebench and benchmarks and things like that 173 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:22,000 and it was failing after 15 seconds after one second so I gave that to Labs because it didn't 174 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,200 make any sense why this was happening and then we built another system on AMD and I was running 175 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:38,720 Cinebench, Furmark, MSI, Buster, Prime95, eight chrome tabs full of 8k video and live streaming 176 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:43,920 simultaneously oh and playing back audio in Reaper and it ran for two hours straight just 177 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:48,240 humming along and I oh I was also doing some photoshop work too so the computer was a hundred 178 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:54,080 percent everything 95c perfectly two hours so that's been in service now and it hasn't 179 00:15:55,040 --> 00:16:00,960 failed yet um the stream cart exploded on the last stream we did this Wednesday or last Wednesday I 180 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,680 think it was right before the stream the whole computer exploded so I put the Wansho to computer 181 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:10,160 in there and then now we're building an identical system out of AMD which is going to be like our 182 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:16,160 streaming cart and probably combined with an away kit um because we need to figure out how 183 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:21,520 that works a little bit better it needs to be easier. Dr. Raccoon asks you use Vmix, how long 184 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:26,160 did it take you to kind of grasp it? Vmix is very similar to any kind of streaming platform it's 185 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:31,120 very similar to OBS except it's a little bit more advanced it costs money it's about $700 186 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:36,560 for the 4k one but Vmix has a lot of features that OBS doesn't and it also doesn't require any 187 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:42,320 plugins it does everything in the box it also has a bunch of advanced things too like web scripting 188 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:47,680 and integrated tally lights we can turn any phone that we want into a tally light for anything 189 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:54,480 it's great um one of the things about Vmix is it has four sub mixes so it's like four OBS instances 190 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:59,600 in one that can all talk to each other that takes a little while to grasp but the same thing can be 191 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:06,880 applied to OBS in that the way that you lay out your scenes and sources in a very particular way 192 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:12,080 so that if you make one change in one place it propagates everywhere also some techniques like 193 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:18,560 sending in a married audio and video mix or just sending in a single pre-mix like I do with Reaper 194 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:23,200 can simplify workflows as well and make it more stable and you just kind of find these things that 195 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:29,200 make your life easier eventually so it's a long ongoing process but the whole kind of setup is 196 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:35,280 I don't know it took a year or so to kind of get it down pat lucky falcor asks what is the part of 197 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,560 the streaming setup that you're most proud of I would definitely say the audio routing system 198 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:43,200 it simplifies everything it means that I can get set up in like five or ten minutes I don't have 199 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:48,560 to worry about Linus's mic level Luke and Linus can whisper and everything will kind of be fine 200 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:54,400 and Linus can also scream into his microphone and there's no clipping and it's all really stable 201 00:17:54,400 --> 00:18:00,240 Mcreed asks where do you get your sense of humor uh trauma just lots and lots and lots of trauma 202 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:05,200 cheeky prawn asks what was the biggest what the f*** that you've had at LMG why are we doing it this 203 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:10,320 way it was almost immediately after I started I looked at the ShortCircuit set and I think I asked 204 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:15,840 Andy like how often do you tear this down and he basically said oh no never it was really interesting 205 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:21,760 coming from my kind of well oiled production machine at the studio where we could get a live band 206 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:27,360 live stream setup the whole thing tested all the cables routed in about two hours with two people 207 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:33,280 nobody hears lazy and they all seem to like working I'm lazy and I don't like working 208 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:40,000 so the less work that I have to do the better why isn't Daniel ask what is a typical day for you at 209 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:46,800 LMG that is pretty difficult to pin down I do a lot of random stuff I mean even before this Sammy 210 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:51,840 I was crawling up around in the ceiling in the in the lab here pulling cables that I ran 211 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:57,440 when we first started moving in here yesterday I was playing with some of the Q-SYS system 212 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:03,360 and doing audio routing for the Dante system for smash champs that's coming you know I'm doing tech 213 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:08,160 support and things like that I'm fixing people's problems it's just all over the place and it's 214 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:14,800 really weird so following me around for one day would not be an accurate representation of what I 215 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:19,840 do and thankfully quarterly goals and things like that have been restructured so that my role is now 216 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:27,840 much more fungible and like malleable to kind of do what the business needs rather than doing task 217 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:33,520 which would actually be a huge detriment KC be a news as well please show us your home audio setup 218 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:40,560 I am actually doing a LTT we're doing an upgrade at the end of the month it's not an AMD upgrade 219 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:45,920 but it's a magnetic cable management upgrade I believe Sammy was first I'm up next which you'll 220 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,560 see my full recording setup there which we have to rip out I currently use a studio console with a 221 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:55,920 24 track mixer and things like that and that's all gonna go because it sucks I have like this much 222 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:01,520 room for a mouse and keyboard my mouse pad is actually like taped to a clipboard so that I can 223 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:06,720 use my mouse yeah it sucks so I want the thing gone and I'm building a custom desk with Sebastian 224 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:11,920 right now so you'll get to see everything it'll be pretty cool and hopefully uh hopefully it 225 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:17,680 doesn't look too bad dab jam 1990s what's the most non-tech hobby you have I was doing cross stitch 226 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:22,640 for a while oh yeah that's kind of fun it's very cathartic and chill I'm doing one called 227 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:27,600 crippling anxiety right now oh yeah I also like draw and doodle and things like that 228 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:33,760 I do stippling I've never really been able to transfer that to digital art so I guess 229 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:40,000 analog art yeah acoustic art phony Tony asked what happened to the fold three do you still daily 230 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,240 drive it where is it what's going on um I tried to daily drive it for a while and it just wasn't 231 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:52,800 working for me it's a stupid phone and I don't like Samsung phones anyway they're really locked down 232 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:57,440 and stupid and dumb and I hate them and they're bad so I gave it to my dad he runs it out you 233 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:04,640 can't say that to a Korean I mean long live Samsung sorry Sammy I'm crying right now no 234 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:11,440 babe princess asks what is your ideal deck I actually really like the jds Labs one Jake got 235 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:16,320 one out for a video that we're doing I think like the audiophile fake products or something like that 236 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:24,240 and that was amazing so I like a deck that is loud transparent cheap and simple if you're talking 237 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:30,240 more about interfaces and stuff like that like an ad da I don't know whatever's in your budget 238 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:34,640 literally none of it matters just use your laptop it's totally fine and lastly we have a question 239 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:39,600 from tour deck here Christmas album remaster when I don't know should I answer this honestly 240 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:45,040 or should I give a dumb answer the honest answer is if I were to do that it would have to be work 241 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:51,440 sanctioned I did do a track that was like a Christmas song that I wrote in the style of 242 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:56,480 the Christmas album and the problem is that there's a little bit of overstep and overlap there 243 00:21:56,480 --> 00:22:01,200 between what the company does and what I would do in my free time so it needs to be company 244 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:07,840 sanctioned otherwise it's a conflict of interest so maybe never maybe a new Christmas album maybe 245 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:15,920 some sort of agreement there but I think it probably doesn't need it too much so for 3000 likes 246 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:23,840 you'll do it for 3000 likes you'll make Luke allow me to do it well for 300 likes we'll ask Luke 247 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:30,560 we'll ask Luke yeah and he will say uh gotta do a f*** off Dan thanks for tuning in not yet Dan 248 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:36,160 we actually have a speed run oh speed run okay yeah it's gonna be one minute of the million 249 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:41,920 bread questions uh oh yeah bread questions oh god favorite type of bread favorite type of bread 250 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,880 sourdough uh if you had to take a if you had to pick a type of bread what would you pick and 251 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:55,920 why is it sourdough it's sourdough bread yes favorite bread phones uh brioche uh everyone's 252 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:00,640 asking you a favorite type of bread I want to know what you put in slash on your bread more bread uh 253 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:06,720 or beef how do you get me to buy a blood plushy plushy oh my god I felt how soft they are you 254 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:13,920 you can think of me pressed against your cheek uh Dan what would you do a bread taste 255 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:19,280 tasting as a full pain exclusive dressing the loafs beforehand in wigs slash glasses slash hats 256 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,200 and giving the names before tasting is my recommendation sounds a little horny but that's 257 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:29,440 up to that's up to you Sammy absolutely what happened to the bread uh it got eaten by rats 258 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:37,280 should a wanshoe be more or less bread based I think that meme is dead bread then 259 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:43,120 deep bread and if so how often and what kind bread bread every day and that's all the time we have 260 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,960 I was enjoying that that's that's fine you know what just for you we'll do the last two all right 261 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:53,920 two more two more two more how hard is it to bring in all that bread Dan oh there's so much cake 262 00:23:53,920 --> 00:24:01,360 well I think they meant money but oh it might have been cake oh I don't know my wallet's fat 263 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:06,960 just like my uh just like my carb intake what kind of bread have you experienced in life 264 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,840 what kind of bread was your favorite what kind of what are your top favorite bread topics do you 265 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,880 like do you like to toast your bread topics what are your top five bread and topping combinations 266 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,640 I'm not repeating that a yeast infection I don't know 267 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,120 thanks for thanks for tuning in I guess the next one it'll be a desk rant or something 268 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:35,840 like that I also did one about my car which Linus makes fun of all the time uh yeah I don't 269 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,480 know have a breadty day bye