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extends Beyond a keyboard and mouse we each have brought one of our personal
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lonus Tech tips and I have brought here today my wonderful Volkswagen Golf GTI
now there's two things that you can do when you get a golf you can either take
up vaping but that's not healthy for you so instead I slapped a great big
subwoofer in the back so that I can make my neighbors hate me whenever I drive by
to get power for everything we go from the battery to this asininely large fuse
I don't know why it's so big everything else uses like mini fuses this one right
here anything but mini but it's 100 amps and it delivers it our 4 gauge power
cable comes back to here we have three more fuses that are power distributed to
the different amps and we have three more fuses over on this side to make
sure that if anything in here explodes it only takes out itself and not
anything else around it the real star of the show is right here the mini DSP 8x12
DL which gives me rack live room correction the reason that is so great
is that in every single car that I've ever driven that sounds amazing like in
particular the Volvo S90 but from other manufacturers as well is that dir live
tuning so I wanted that in my car kind of built around it for amps we have
about 1,300 watts of amplifier power I
based that number off of other cars that I had driven that had apparently 13400
watts of power but I can tell you for sure that those were ILS value is
because this is so much louder than the
sound systems in any of those things it is
ridiculous one thing I definitely went a bit overboard with is the subwoofer this
is literally the largest subwoofer that you can fit in here without completely
reconfiguring the trunk and it is the JL W6 V3 it's able to do 600 watts and goes
down to something like I think it rolls off at 22 htz in this cabin my design
was to get it to about tiny DB at 20 HZ
but it turns out I'm getting like 40 DB
of cabin gain because of how small this is you can really compress the air in it
it's fraking wild actually I've never just like looked at this going should we
do that right now we're just going to take off this grill right quick so we
can have a nice look at it doing all of The Wubs but you can see that the grill
has been struck by the back structure here because uh I didn't quite measure
it out correctly as you can see there's about 3/4 an inch of spacers that are uh
very high quality I'll probably never get around to improving it but that said
it's only really ever problem if I'm doing what like 20 htz with a bunch of
stuff in the back of the trunk it's not a it's not an actual
problem all right let's have a look at this here I've got control on my laptop
let's set it's just minus5 DB oh my God that's
loud this should do some stuff
a there we
go it really
moves it has an inch x max
we're going for a quick drive here because the people that were filming inside started getting mad at us when
you have that much sound in a car you need to make sure that you control it I
stripped out literally every single part of the interior of this so the entire
thing is sound deadened and man the
final results of this are freaking crazy every single speaker is in phase at the
driver's seat which means you get something that's called Phantom Imaging
where it sounds like the voice is coming from from right here and all the
instruments are very neatly organized from that speaker to this speaker it
could be a little bit better things in the high range like symbols tend to skew
a little bit to the right hand side because the Factory locations kind of
suck but without just completely tearing this apart and redoing all of the
speaker locations I think this is literally as good as it can get I also
have two modes down here so driver and everyone in the car do we have a listen
the clarity of this is Way Beyond what C R will give us but let's have a little
looky look all right here we
go thanks for the segment let's go to the next
one my name is Jake bellavance otherwise known as Bell and I'm the ShortCircuit
producer here at liance Media Group and I'm showing off something real special today I'm showing off the wheel 2 by
mini min minu minoi I don't know how to pronounce it
they don't actually say it in any of their promotional videos but it is a record player it's actually the one
that's been sitting on the ShortCircuit set for the last two years or however
long we've had this new set designed for and people have been asking why we have
such an expensive record player on our set because this thing is over
$2100 us and honestly I don't I don't really
know why so the wheel 2 is actually an old Kickstarter from I think like seven
or eight years ago but it kind of stayed in limbo for quite a while and then they
finally released it and it's beautiful handcrafted from
Holland Sweden editor choose the right one
Norway Spain uh by just like a single
guy in his son which is really cool it's got a walnut or cherry finish and as you
can see it can be vertical or horizontal but that's not all there's no needle or
tone arm or cartridge that you can see but luckily this clear record shows off
it's actually underneath so you put on the record and it plays on the backside
and spins the wrong way to accomplish that which is very odd but looks amazing
taking off this clear record here so you can
see this is the record player itself and
it is a looker you're buying this because you're bougie you like a glass
of whiskey on the rocks and sitting
alone yeah
when we put this on we have this very minimal interface so we have a scroll
wheel up here that also presses down in three buttons as you can see it starts
spinning it but what's really cool and is actually what first grabb my
attention is that you can grab the record and spin it to make it start
playing which is so extra so on the way
while it's going across to line up for your first song it actually scans the
record to see how many songs are on it and where they are so you can skip
tracks if if you want to go to the next song without having to seek or kind of
like move the needle yourself like on other record players the lights up here will actually show you where the tracks
are so you can jog through songs or just see on the LED where each track is and
how long it is another cool thing is the number of adjustments this thing makes
on the fly so use a series of Motors to keep the needle aligned with the song
you're listening to even if there's warps or bumps in the record so that
you're getting the best listen no matter the quality of the record a standard
record player will always play at 33 or 4 45 RPM but this one will make
adjustments so that if you know it's kind of moving side to side it'll change
a speed so you're getting a consistent sound uh not just the same Speed and
Sound one thing you might not notice is how impressive it is that it can see
where the tracks are even on a transparent record I actually have a Rec
play at home that can sense where songs are and you can play the album in different orders and things like that
but it doesn't work on transparent albums because it just can't see them so
the fact that it works with a clear record is super cool what if you don't
want a fancy stand for your record player well they have an included key
and you can just take these legs off uh oh and then these pop out and Bam
it's your traditional horizontal record
player so fancy it's got a little uh it's got little Feats on the back blur
those BL blur those a lot of people ask why would do you want to listen to
records you know I have a big collection as you could have seen in my MD upgrade go watch it
now I don't really have a great answer you know I like like having the large
album artwork I also like being forced to listen to a whole album like what was
your Spotify rap top song of the year Have you listened to that whole album
probably not it's so nice to actually sit down and listen to what the artist
made from start to finish but overall the wheel 2 by Min is pretty darn cool
if I had an extra you know $2,100 Us in my pocket would I buy
this what did you guys think did this convince you to spend way too much money
on starting an expensive Hobby I hope so
my name is Nicholas ploof and I'm a writer here at LMG and I brought my
airbrush it is a squidmar Ultra from
harder and steenbeck I bought it because I play Warhammer 40K and I in Warhammer
40K play TOA which is a robot faction
well it's a it's a whole thing uh it's a
faction with a lot of mechs and robots and flat panels and if you want to paint
them really nicely an airbrush is great for that because you get these really
even flat coats of paint for instance I brought two models and we'll see if you
can tell which one I painted by hand with a brush and which one I painted
with the airbrush five 4 3 two one ding ding ding
ding ding it's this one uh if it wasn't obvious there's just a lot fewer brush
Strokes um the color is a lot more flat and consistent as well this one looks
all swirly and whatnot admittedly I'm using contrast paints or speed paints
because I really just love the exact shade of blue green that cagor scales
gets me um from the contrast line it just doesn't go on very evenly because
contrast wants to like seep into the small spots and pool and make these dark
spots and so because of that I've got an airbrush it makes it nice and flat I am
not an artist um as much as I've got
like a half decent airbrush I splurged after I had like a cheap $60 Amazon
airbrush kit for quite a while once I got used to that I was just priming with
it for the most part and putting on base coats I just wanted something nicer and
squidmar was doing this really cool promo for this guy he's also got the Evo
and a couple other very similar looking ones to this and yes I figured you know
what I've been doing this hobby for a couple years now I'm going to treat myself and so I did I've also got a
compressor you need one of these guys to actually run your
airbrush give it a second it's got to fill the tank there it goes
I bought this one in particular because of how many different little features
it's got and it's great for a starting artist uh squidmar pitched it pretty
well basically after you press down you
hold back to release all the paint and
the problem with that in most air brushes is as soon as you pull all the
way back and you don't have any control uh you're going to just let loose
everything and while you're learning it's really hard to actually maintain
the exact spot you want it to be at um once you've been doing it for a long
time I'm sure it's easy but I really haven't and so this comes with a bunch
of different toggleable options on the main setting it's fully open and you can
just pull back as much as you want and let loose as much as you want but then
if you can see on these this ring it's got these little indentations so that
when you pull back it's only going to go a little bit back it'll stop there we go
this is really great for when I want to do like a big priming job and I just set
it to Prime and I know it's going to do the exact consistency I want it to do
every single time and then say I want to move to my base code or even one of the
layers I just set it to 3 2 1 depending on how fine I want it to be so do you
need an airbrush if you want to get into painting Warhammer or other Minifigures
cuz you can get a 3D printer and print whatever you want paint whatever you want uh no but it's really convenient I
would highly recommend if you are going to get into airbrushing don't just buy a
cheap air compressor buy one that has a tank because right now it's pretty sick
how this thing is just on and it's got a bunch of air ready to go and and it's
not going at us the whole time bigger tank
means it's going to have to load up the air less frequently but it's also going
to cost more money there are many airbrushes like this one but this one is
mine I don't know I don't know how else to outro but thanks for coming to my
show wow yeah that's a good one my name is Sean I am the business
development lead here at lus Media Group uh which means I work very closely with
Colton and the sales team and our procurement team and everyone else in
the business department and I love
drones I like them a lot I got my first
drone kind of uh on a whim and so I got
this guy right here my little Arya is a mavic Air 2 um I bought that on my
birthday I in 2020 so at the height of a
bunch of things that were going on in the world back in 2020 if you can
remember and I needed something to get me out but in a way where I could be by
myself and so I went out to Best Buy got
this thing and it's the best 14 $100 I've ever spent in my life Canadian and
I could not fly it because turns out I need a license so I got my basic license
which was a multiple choice question the night I bought this cuz I realized I
don't want to get charge like 30,000 Canadian for getting a fine for flying a
drone it's a lot and then I could fly it some places in Vancouver but we have a
ton of airports here so I realized I need my Advanced license so I got that
in like 2 months I can kind of fly this almost anywhere just don't fly at
airports once you have your advaned license even if you do that that's that's a bad that's a no no the
following year I got this the Avatar so
this is a fpv drone so first person video drone so these things are really
good if you're trying to do let's say car chases for channel super fun Colton
and Dennis they went to like a police School kind of car School kind of thing
and they were racing and so I shot that with this and this and it was really fun
because it was like the first two days I've had this drone and got to break it
in on a CSF video which was super great
and it's really cool because you get to wear one of these goggles on this is
what it looks like on me but yeah it's it's kind of dinky but uh when you're
flying by yourself you kind of can't see anything so I usually have my fiance uh
Mia she joins me as my uh my flight controller when I'm out there on the
field so obviously I was happy with these two right wrong the mavic 3 I love
this thing okay so but I have a little peeve to pick with DJI DJI is essenti
the apple of of drones but they're actually the only ones you could really
get a decent consumer drone for that has
you know decent imagery and stuff like that but uh I bought this and then a I
think almost a month later uh they announced the DJI mavic 3 Pro which was
essentially this drone uh but better for the same price and because I'd already
binded this to my Transport Canada account and flown it a little too much I
couldn't return it yeah each of these drones excel in a
different thing this thing's great for portability if you want to just take it
out for some beautiful landscape shots or uh take it through the forest or
whatever have you right this thing's more so a burlier camera but this also
has a ton of obstacle avoidance too so if I'm out there in a forest and I want
to do let's say like a circular shot or something else or a kind of move that
makes me sweep my drone back and forth this thing is going to survive a lot
more and protect itself over something like this which I've crashed at least
three times into trees um doing that same shot uh got to risk it for the
biscuit this thing on the other hand is really durable um I've rolled this I've
tumbled this I've taken this into some really gnarly uh races so I've done like
bike races before too I follow different Riders and stuff like that and I've
crashed this and it keeps on going you
can't do that with these you break one of their arms they're done and that's
the cool thing about having different types of drones for different purposes
is it gives me a new way to engage with the world around me uh I got hooked with
the micare 2 and as you can see it's not
spiraling but it's scaling accordingly for those of you who want to be a
beginner in the Drone space you know probably don't want to get any of this
you probably want to get something that's a sub 250 drone and so remember
that whole story about me needing to get my license well this thing weighs more
than 250 g actually all of these do um
in Canada if your drone is less than 250
g though you don't need a license uh to
fly it you do need common sense so please equip that and and make sure
you're not flying anywhere you shouldn't be but you can essentially buy one of
those sub 250 drones DJI has a few of them still like the DJI Neo or whatever
have you and you can just pick up and play and go from there and those are
fantastic drones to build off of and if I could do it again I probably would
have done that instead of waiting a little bit uh to fly this thing that's
drones for me and I hope hope you enjoyed listening to me talking about my
different drones here for my show and tell I decided to bring in the segue to
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