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 down tempo 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 --> 00:02:24,400 kind of has a lot of pig squeals and stuff like that. For example, AXCX, if you know them, they're 28 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,440 pretty stupid and great, but like them a lot. As for what I use for reference tracks, I kind of have 29 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,920 a nice 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 Song, 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 00:03:32,560 --> 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 --> 00:03:48,480 sharp and painful. I have a playlist of reference tracks, and perhaps we'll make that public, 44 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,320 and then we'll post that. Mad Economist asks, what's your dream speaker setup? I think my 45 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:57,840 dream speaker setup is actually a nicely treated room. I've already even got a pair of NS10s, 46 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:03,360 and I have the HS8s, also a Yamaha, but my room is bad, and you know, you put any speakers in 47 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:08,960 there. You get a pair like a Bluetooth speaker. It's big, and it'll probably sound okay, especially 48 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:16,560 if your room is sort of wide, but short. That's bad. You want like a long and thin kind of thing, 49 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,680 and then you also have to position your desk properly, and you have to make sure the speakers 50 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,880 are far enough away from the wall, and you also have to have like reflection things like a scout 51 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:29,440 room. If you had a six-foot room, that's bad, but there's some calculators online that allow you to 52 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:34,560 decide your room and find your modes and nodes, and what frequency they're going to interact in, 53 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:39,040 and then you can kind of place your desk there. But a lot of the time, you don't have a choice. So 54 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:44,000 Nat for Sale asks, what's your favorite game release in the last five years or so? I really 55 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:49,280 enjoyed Bellattro for a while. I enjoyed Helldivers 2. BG3 is also fantastic. The new Armored Core 56 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,720 that came out a year or so ago. I find myself, I'll play a game for a little while, and then I'll 57 00:04:54,720 --> 00:05:00,960 kind of just move on quickly. I wouldn't necessarily say I'm the biggest like sweaty gamer or anything 58 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:05,120 like that, and there's not a lot of stuff that catches my attention for a long time. The title I 59 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:11,040 kind of keep returning to though is Thumper, which came out in 2016, unfortunately. I think right now 60 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:17,280 I'm global rank like 50 or at least top 100, which is kind of interesting. It's a really fun kind of 61 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:22,800 rhythm horror game. I really like rhythm games and that sort of thing, but often they can just be 62 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,000 a little bit too technical and not necessarily fun. This is kind of a nice mix of both, and it's the 63 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,360 only game I've ever played that I've like, I get, and then I'm good at, and then I can score consistently 64 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:39,200 at. So yeah, that's pretty damn good. Pick it up please. As for game OSTs, I think there's a really 65 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,360 good YouTube channel. I think it's called 8-Bit Music Theory, and it seems like Nintendo titles 66 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,840 often have some of the best. I think for a lot of titles, I'm more into like the fun stuff rather 67 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:51,840 than the atmospheric stuff. When I'm writing my own OSTs and things like that, I'm always trying to 68 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:58,960 make them invisible in a way, but sometimes if the music is like bright and front and center, 69 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:03,520 then that can kind of get onto your brain more, and it's just kind of like more casual and cool. 70 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,120 I like that sort of thing. And Nintendo games seem to really push for that type of thing, 71 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:12,400 where the music is front and center and really part of everything. A Fishkin04 asks, 72 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:18,720 how do you stay on task? For me, it's kind of difficult. You know, I've got ADSL, AADHD, 73 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:24,400 I guess, you know, broadband, and it's difficult. It is really difficult. There's a lot of stuff in 74 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:30,640 my life. I have basically blocked every single hour of the entire week to things, and there's 75 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,920 maybe a couple hours left that I haven't found placement for. For me, I've tried notebooks, 76 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:41,200 I've tried calendars and things like that, and it all just kind of doesn't work. You know, 77 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:47,280 to-do list, task things, apps, everything, it doesn't work. Google Sheets for me works really well, 78 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:51,920 because it's cell-based, you can kind of lay things out and reorder them really easily. 79 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:55,440 The biggest thing that I found was countdown timers. There's a great program that you can 80 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,360 get on Windows called Time Left. It's kind of free. You can have one countdown timer, 81 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:04,080 and you can set up a bunch of automations and stuff like that. For me, ADHD, one of the big things 82 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:10,720 is time blindness, or at least a malformed perception of time. And so there's a lot of 83 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:15,440 mental bandwidth of like, when do I leave? When do I have to do this thing? How long do I have? 84 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:22,160 And so say I'm taking my lunch break at noon. When I look at my clock there, I can see exactly 85 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:28,160 that I have 24 minutes left, or like two hours and 40 minutes and 30 seconds, which allows me to go, 86 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:33,680 okay, now I don't have to think or conceptualize how much time is required to do a task. And I can 87 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,840 go, okay, well, this is probably going to take an hour and 15 minutes. So yes, I can dive right into 88 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:43,040 that. Everything is kind of planned, and it removes a lot of mental bandwidth of time management, 89 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,360 and knowing how long I have to do something. If I have to go to bed at 10 p.m., I know that 90 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,440 I can play video games for two hours, and then ignore the timer and go to bed at 2 a.m. anyway. 91 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:55,680 Casper Explorer asks, does Dan play any instruments besides piano? I guess I play accordion, 92 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:01,760 which is a type of piano, I guess. I also play the saxophone. Lisa stopped playing that stupid 93 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:08,480 saxophone. It's alto for me. I guess baritone as well. They're both in E flat. Does synth count? 94 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:15,200 Yes, it counts just for you. I play the computer. Mirawin asks, why did you want to work at LMG? 95 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:20,640 So I had been in the music industry for about seven years, I think, before that point, and the 96 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:26,560 ceiling is pretty small. If you can think about the pool of people who are professional engineers, 97 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:31,600 it's pretty small, and it's also pretty incestuous. I think there's maybe three or four studios here 98 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:36,000 in Vancouver, and generally you have a senior engineer and a junior engineer. So I was acting 99 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,320 as a junior engineer, and so what? That's like one of eight people. I'm not going to be going to 100 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:46,720 move to work for a big studio. The guy I trained under had been working as an engineer for longer 101 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:50,320 than I'd been alive, and then, okay, well, you think about the big concert. It's like, okay, 102 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:55,360 who's Beyonce's engineer at a concert? That's going to be like one person. Where do you go 103 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:59,680 in that kind of space? I mean, I was lucky enough to get into a studio at all. You see all these 104 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,120 people coming out of recording college and stuff like that, and they're, okay, well, I want a job 105 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:08,800 now. And, you know, how are you going to get a job? I actually started there as a camera operator, 106 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,680 and eventually moved up into engineering and things like that, because I had been doing it 107 00:09:13,680 --> 00:09:20,320 forever. I'm mostly self-taught, and I'm still bad, and I wish I was better, and it's just practice 108 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,880 all the time, and I don't know how to get to that next level. It's very difficult. It's kind of like 109 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:31,040 a black art, almost very, very strange. We did a lot of live concerts too, so live sound mixing, 110 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, 111 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 112 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 113 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:52,800 room could seat about a hundred person orchestra. In 2019, pre-pandemic, I did 192 concerts, 114 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:59,360 which was a lot. And then I also moved into developing our own like online streaming platform. 115 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,160 I used a system called MUX, which is on the back of AWS, and then we have player integration, 116 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:08,400 and VODs, and live streams, and all that sort of stuff. And then a team of editors, including 117 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:13,200 myself, who would edit the footage and kind of get it going during the week, and studio maintenance, 118 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:17,280 and everything. It was a tiny team, basically just the two of us, and we had the head engineer, 119 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:21,760 and then myself, who did everything else. If there was a fire, then I had to put it out, 120 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,080 and there was always like 15, 20 fires at the same time I needed to get out of that environment. 121 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:30,480 That's one of the reasons why I started working at LMG, and it's really nice here because if I 122 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:37,200 die in a car accident, the business doesn't fail, like someone can do the job, and that 123 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,240 is kind of nice. I can take vacations, and I can take weekends off, and I still do WAN shows, 124 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:47,040 so my Fridays are still destroyed, but now I get Saturdays back, and having a social life is 125 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:54,080 sort of possible. I'm gonna knock on wood for you dying. Don't die. Don't die. I'm gonna knock 126 00:10:54,080 --> 00:11:00,240 on wood for you dying. No, no, no, no. Sammy gets me. I love you, man. Shrishach asks, 127 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:04,240 what are your interactions like with Linus and Luke outside of the WAN Show? I would say it's 128 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,160 pretty similar, to be perfectly honest. Obviously, there's a little bit of heightened antagonism, 129 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:15,520 I think, on the WAN Show set, but I mean Linus takes that elsewhere outside of the WAN as well. 130 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:20,880 It's maybe a little bit more friendly and jovial than the WAN Show set. It's kind of heightened a bit 131 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:28,480 to boost the entertainment thing. Like, I would never really jump in with quips or digs kind of 132 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:33,040 outside of the WAN Show. Wouldn't necessarily be appropriate for kind of like a business working 133 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:38,960 relationship, but sort of, you know, water cooler, you know, he makes fun of my car, that sort of thing. 134 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:44,640 Luke is less like that, but of course on the WAN Show, we don't have as much antagonism, 135 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:49,280 kind of fun place to dig at him, and he can dig back, and it's good. It's like 136 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:56,080 cathartic in a way, but very similar, very, very similar. Curse-Rotted Great Wood asks, 137 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,720 what kind of questions are you allowed to answer on the WAN Show? Are there any guidelines and 138 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:06,160 stuff like that? WAN Show questions are a bit difficult. There's not really been any training 139 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,920 on it. You kind of build up an intuition after doing it for a long while. That's one of the 140 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:14,640 reasons why we initially wanted just a single host, or at least Linus did. Originally, the plan 141 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:19,760 was to have four or five rotating hosts so that we would only lose like one Friday each. Having 142 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:25,520 repeat questions every single week is very irritating and kind of boring, and because we got, you know, 143 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:30,240 two, three hundred merch messages every single week, being able to know what those three hundred 144 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:36,080 messages were for the last few weeks is really useful to be able to keep the show interesting. 145 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,520 I'm always looking for something that can spark a discussion, so that intuition isn't perfect. 146 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:47,600 Sometimes I think questions that would be really interesting are actually really boring, or Linus 147 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,840 won't engage with, or Luke won't engage with. It's just kind of like, yep, okay, next question. 148 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:56,400 Another stuff that I think is a little bit innocuous, and that I would expect a yes from, 149 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,800 actually sparks a 40 minutes of tangents and things like that. Some of the stuff that I would 150 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:07,280 kind of archive and not really push through are maybe anything with a link, anything that seems 151 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:13,760 overly antagonistic. Obviously, I answered a question about wages ages ago that I thought was 152 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:19,360 pretty innocuous, and that caused an entire spark of controversy as well. So generally anything 153 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:26,640 business related to anything that would be me speaking for another person. So if somebody asks 154 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:32,480 like, what does Sammy think about this? I would probably respond to that and say like, I don't 155 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,640 know, ask him. And then next question, right, just kind of like throw it away, dumb answer kind of 156 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:41,840 thing. I think the intuition now is basically don't say anything. And that's really sad and it 157 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:46,720 makes me sad because I'd like to have a more engaging discussion and like respond with 158 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:52,080 heartfelt things or give information about the business. But everybody seems to misconstrue that 159 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:57,200 and it makes it disappointing to be able to engage with things. How do you think Chewy did 160 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:01,120 when he was doing the merch messages for the charity stream? I think it was pretty good. 161 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,240 I'm trying to train him as a replacement for the wanshoes. Right now there's no 162 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,760 replacement so I can never take a Friday off. That's dangerous because again, 163 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:12,720 bus factor of one, if I get hit by a bus on the way to work, right? Then there's no, yeah. 164 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:21,120 Thanks Sammy, wishing for death. He's so mean. Right. And I think he did okay. There wasn't 165 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:26,080 too many merch messages during the day stream. This may be 20 to 30, maybe 50, something like that. 166 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 167 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:35,040 not start controversy. So he can pretty much say whatever he wants and we've worked together 168 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,960 a few times on dealing with the fallout from **** dead, I've said. FancyPingo asks, 169 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:45,760 what's the most frustrating thing about running the wanshoe? Right now it's been the computer. 170 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:50,480 There's been decades of bugs with that computer. A couple streams ago it just hard freezes right 171 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,640 before the show, right? I can't do anything. It takes a stream down. I can't trust my equipment 172 00:14:54,720 --> 00:15:00,960 and it makes wanshoe extremely stressful the whole time, every single time. Fridays are not a good 173 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:06,720 day for me. I don't, it's awful. Every stream is like the computer failed again and I built another 174 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:15,440 one and that failed in the same way. We put a $13,900K on a test bench and I ran some 175 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,600 Cinebench and benchmarks and things like that. It was failing after 15 seconds, after one second. 176 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:23,920 So I gave that to Labs because it didn't make any sense why this was happening and then we 177 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:34,400 built another system on AMD and I was running Cinebench, Furamark, MSI, Buster, Prime95, 178 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:40,800 eight Chrome tabs full of 8K video and live streaming simultaneously and playing back audio 179 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:46,000 in Reaper and it ran for two hours straight just humming along and I was also doing some 180 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:52,640 Photoshop work too. So the computer was 100% everything, 95C perfectly two hours. So that's 181 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:59,360 been in service now and it hasn't failed yet. The stream cart exploded on the last stream we did this 182 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,360 Wednesday or last Wednesday I think it was. Right before the stream the whole computer 183 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:08,000 exploded so I put the wanshoe to computer in there and then now we're building an identical 184 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,120 system out of AMD which is going to be like our streaming cart and probably combined within a way 185 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:18,080 kit because we need to figure out how that works a little bit better. It needs to be easier. 186 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:24,640 Dr. Raccoon asks, you use VMIX. How long did it take you to kind of grasp it? VMIX is very similar 187 00:16:24,640 --> 00:16:29,440 to any kind of streaming platform. It's very similar to OBS except it's a little bit more advanced. 188 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:34,880 It costs money. It's about $700 for the 4K one but VMIX has a lot of features that OBS doesn't 189 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:39,760 and it also doesn't require any plugins. It does everything in the box. It also has a bunch of 190 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,440 advanced things too like web scripting and integrated tally lights. We can turn any phone 191 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:50,720 that we want into a tally light for anything. It's great. One of the things about VMIX is it has 192 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:56,880 four sub mixes so it's like four OBS instances in one that can all talk to each other. That takes a 193 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:03,200 little while to grasp but the same thing can be applied to OBS in that the way that you lay out 194 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,600 your scenes and sources in a very particular way so that if you make one change in one place 195 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:14,960 it propagates everywhere. Also some techniques like sending in a married audio and video mix 196 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:20,160 or just sending in a single pre-mix like I do with Reaper. It can simplify workflows as well 197 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,800 and make it more stable and you just kind of find these things that make your life easier eventually. 198 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:32,640 So it's a long ongoing process but the whole kind of setup is I don't know took a year or so to kind 199 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:36,320 of get it down pat. Lucky Falcor asks what is the part of the streaming setup that you're most 200 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:40,560 proud of? I would definitely say the audio routing system. It simplifies everything. It means that I 201 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:45,200 can get set up in like five or ten minutes. I don't have to worry about Linus's mic level. 202 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:49,920 Luke and Linus can whisper and everything will kind of be fine and Linus can also 203 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:55,280 scream into his microphone and there's no clipping in it. It's all really stable. McCreed asks where 204 00:17:55,280 --> 00:18:01,280 do you get your sense of humor? Trauma. Just lots and lots and lots of trauma. Cheeky Pran asks 205 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,000 what was the biggest what the f*** that you've had at LMG? Why are we doing it this way? It 206 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,400 was almost immediately after I started. I looked at the ShortCircuit set and I think I asked 207 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:15,440 Andy like how often do you tear this down and he basically said oh no never. It was really 208 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:20,080 interesting coming from my kind of well-oiled production machine at the studio where we could 209 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,840 get a live band live stream setup. The whole thing tested. All the cables routed in about 210 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:32,080 two hours with two people. Nobody here is lazy and they all seem to like working. I'm lazy and I 211 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:38,640 don't like working so the less work that I have to do the better. Wyzen Daniel asks what is a typical 212 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:45,840 day for you at LMG? That is pretty difficult to pin down. I do a lot of random stuff. I mean even 213 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:51,120 before this Sammy I was crawling up around in the ceiling in the in the lab here pulling cables that 214 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:57,440 I ran when we first started moving in here. Yesterday I was playing with some of the Q-SYS system 215 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:03,120 and doing audio routing for the Dante system for Smash Champs that's coming. You know I'm doing 216 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:07,760 tech support and things like that. I'm fixing people's problems. It's just all over the place 217 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:14,480 and it's really weird. So following me around for one day would not be an accurate representation of 218 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:18,800 what I do and thankfully quarterly goals and things like that have been restructured so that 219 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:26,000 my role is now much more fungible and like malleable to kind of do what the business needs rather than 220 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:32,320 doing tasks which would actually be a huge detriment. KCBANews asks well please show us 221 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:39,360 your home audio setup. I am actually doing a LTT. We're doing an upgrade at the end of the month. 222 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:44,480 It's not an AMD upgrade but it's a magnetic cable management upgrade. I believe Sammy was first. 223 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:49,200 I'm up next which you'll see my full recording setup there which we have to rip out. I currently 224 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:54,560 use a studio console with a 24 track mixer and things like that and that's all gonna go because 225 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:59,920 it sucks. I have like this much room for a mouse and keyboard. My mouse pad is actually like taped 226 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:05,280 to a clipboard so that I can use my mouse. Yeah it sucks so I want the thing gone and I'm building 227 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:10,160 a custom desk with Sebastian right now so you'll get to see everything. It'll be pretty cool and 228 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:16,400 hopefully hopefully it doesn't look too bad. Dab Jam 1990 asks what's the most non-tech hobby you 229 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,520 have. I was doing cross stitch for a while. Yeah that's kind of fun. It's very cathartic and chill. 230 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:27,440 I'm doing one called crippling anxiety right now. Oh yeah I also like draw and doodle and things like 231 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:33,680 that. I do stippling. I've never really been able to transfer that to digital art so I guess 232 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:40,000 analog art. Yeah acoustic art. Phoney Tony asked what happened to the Fold 3. Do you still daily 233 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,240 drive it? Where is it? What's going on? I tried to daily drive it for a while and it just wasn't 234 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:52,480 working for me. It's a stupid phone and I don't like Samsung phones anyway. They're really locked 235 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,200 down and stupid and dumb and I hate them and they're bad so I gave it to my dad. He runs it now. 236 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:04,400 You can't say that to a Korean. I mean Long live Samsung. Sorry Sammy. I'm crying right now. 237 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:11,680 Bay Princess asks what is your ideal DAC? I actually really like the JDS Labs one. Jake got one 238 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:16,320 out for a video that we were doing. I think like the audiophile fake products or something like that 239 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:24,000 and that was amazing. So I like a DAC that is loud, transparent, cheap and simple. If you're 240 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:29,520 talking more about interfaces and stuff like that, like an ADDA, I don't know whatever's in 241 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:34,240 your budget. Literally none of it matters. Just use your laptop. It's totally fine. And lastly we 242 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,560 have a question from Tordek here. Christmas album remaster when? I don't know. Should I answer this 243 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:44,400 honestly or should I give a dumb answer? The honest answer is if I were to do that it would have to 244 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:50,960 be work sanctioned. I did do a track that was like a Christmas song that I wrote in the style 245 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:56,240 of the Christmas album. And the problem is that there's a little bit of overstep and overlap 246 00:21:56,240 --> 00:22:01,200 there between what the company does and what I would do in my free time. So it needs to be company 247 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:07,200 sanctioned otherwise it's a conflict of interest. So maybe never, maybe a new Christmas album, 248 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:13,280 maybe some sort of agreement there, but I think it probably doesn't need it too much. 249 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:20,720 So for 3000 likes you'll do it. For 3000 likes you'll make Luke allow me to do it. 250 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:27,600 For 3000 likes we'll ask Luke. We'll ask Luke, yeah. And he will say, gotta get the f*** off Dan. 251 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:33,600 Thanks for tuning in. Not yet Dan. We actually have a speed run. Oh speed run, okay. Yeah, 252 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:40,000 it's gonna be one minute of the million bread questions. Oh yeah, bread questions. Oh god. 253 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:46,240 Favorite type of bread? Favorite type of bread? Sourdough. If you had to pick a type of bread, 254 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:51,920 what would you pick and why is it sourdough? It's sourdough. Bread? Yes. Favorite bread phones? 255 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:58,960 Brioche. Everyone's asking your favorite type of bread. I want to know what you put in slash 256 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:05,120 on your bread. More bread or beef. How do you get me to buy a blood plushie? Plushie, oh my god. 257 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:09,600 I felt how soft they are. You can think of me. Pressed against your cheek. 258 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:16,160 Uh, Dan, what would you do a bread tasting as a full pain exclusive? Dressing the loafs 259 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:21,200 beforehand in wigs slash glasses slash hats and giving the names before tasting is my 260 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:25,280 recommendation. Sounds a little horny but that's up to you Sammy, absolutely. 261 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,440 What happened to the bread? Uh, it got eaten by rats. 262 00:23:31,360 --> 00:23:35,280 Should a wancho be more or less bread based? I think that meme is dead. 263 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:39,520 Bread than deep bread and if so, how often and what kind? 264 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:46,960 Bright bread every day. And that's all the time we have. I was enjoying that. That's fine. 265 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,320 You know what, just for you, we'll do the last two. All right, two more, two more, two more. 266 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,920 How hard is it to bring in all that bread Dan? Oh, there's so much cake. 267 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:01,360 I think they meant money but it might have been cake. Oh, I don't know, my wallet's fat, 268 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:06,960 just like my carb intake. What kind of bread have you experienced in life? 269 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,520 What kind of bread was your favorite? What kind of, what are your favorite bread toppings? 270 00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,880 Do you like to toast your bread toppings? What are your top five bread and topping combinations? 271 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,640 I'm not repeating that. A yeast infection, I don't know. 272 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,600 Thanks for tuning in. I guess the next one will be a desk rant or something like that. 273 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,760 I also did one about my car, which Linus makes fun of all the time. 274 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,400 Yeah, I don't know. Have a bread-y day. Bye.