WAN Show Repair Vlog - It finally works!!!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,444 words · ~7 min read
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so it's no secret we have some uh
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stability problems around here hey I'm
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talking about the W Show streaming computer what are you implying anyway
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it's Friday which means of course that today is the perfect day to follow
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through on my commitment to Corsair they called me up they were like we love the
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W show we think it's the greatest show the best except that it has a few small
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problems the audio sucks the video cuts out and the system is unstable what are
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you going to do about it they said look we will sponsor you to fix the W show so
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today we are rebuilding the W show PC we are redoing the streaming setup and it
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is all courtesy of our friends at
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Corsair the W show now with 300% more
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RGB
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so the first step in any disassembly project and my parents would do well to
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remember this is to take pictures of everything involved so you have
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something to refer back to when it's time to put it all back together though
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with all the cables that straight up weren't even connected to anything from
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troubleshooting stream issues over the last couple of years I'm not even sure
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how helpful they'll be some of the old n
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PC's Hardware will be reused the x99
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deluxe motherboard and 6 core 5930k CPU
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got a dust off because they were already added a couple of months back to address
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stability performance and resource allocation issues but pretty much
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everything else is going to go we've got 64 gigs of Corsair Vengeance LED RAM in
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white an NVMe sp500 SSD a tempered glass
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case with RGB lighting I mean come at this 2017 what else was I going to use
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an RM 1000x power supply even more RGB
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now with the fans Corsair sent us extra
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for the aiio water cooler and the rear slot and some orange sleeved cables to
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manage along with all the other cables
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man cable management is tough in an all glass case and I don't make matters
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easier for myself when I put in in the wrong order the good news is that the
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finished product IMO is totally worth
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the effort this thing looks badass next up it's time to tear the
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rest of the stuff on the desk apart for some good oldfashioned Cable Management
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there is a lot of wasted space here and
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holy crap is this table ever dirty I
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don't think it's been clean since we moved and neither have the multiple bins
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under the desk that make up what I call the streaming gear graveyard in here
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you'll find everything that stopped working for us at some point or
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another reassembly time now I'm going to
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put all the wicked stuff that Focus right hooked us up with into the Retro
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server cabinet I made a video about here
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these guys are awesome they flew all the
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way out here to not just set us up with gear but to actually set it up with us
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it starts with a solid new microphone an se4400a on a road ARM it's got a handful
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of pickup patterns including cardioid and super cardioid it sounds awesome but
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could be improved by some acoustic baffles in front of the table stay tuned
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our Soundcraft mixer mainly serves as
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well a mixing board so the main feature is just Lots of places to plug stuff in
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this allows us to use Hardware rather than software to adjust audio levels EQ
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controls and to send auxiliary outputs with a different mix our dbx 166 XS
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compressor is back we actually bought
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this ages ago because theoretically it
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would make it so Luke doesn't sound so quiet all the time and I'm not clipping
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when I'm ranting unfortunately we and
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didn't have a preamp for it that's why it never worked which is exactly where
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Focus right Z 18i 20 comes in we could
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use it to accept up to 20 inputs with an
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optical expander we could do our headphone monitoring off of it instead
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of the dedicated headphone app that Focus R set us up with as well but we're
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just concerned with the quality of the audio capture in this case and focus
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rights claim to fame is their awesome preamps
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is it Overkill yes and so is the 6 I6 that
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we're using purely as a digital input for an additional laptop on the table
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but hey come on this is lineus Tech tips we're also going to use it to monitor
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audio levels to ensure that no other parts of the audio chain need to be
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adjusted in the event that we change our microphone pickup pattern placement or
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even our microphone all together so next
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up is moving the computer into place and upgrading the
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peripherals okay arguably the peripherals are a bit of a side grade
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but going from a full size to a 10 keyless keyboard gives me a lot of extra
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space for laptops and stuff loving it so
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far time then for some cable management
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this dudad from the manly guide to cable management is awesome and so are the 3D
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printed velcro tie anchors that Jake whipped up on our ultimaker 2 another
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big improve Improvement is that now both of our hosts get HDMI cables for their
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laptops we're running these and our
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camera into new capture cards from epan
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I can't say enough good things about these we've actually been using them for
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a couple months for the W show as well and for screen capture around the office
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and they're responsible for some very significant improvements in our
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production values they just make it so
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easy to capture at any resolution
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without tinkering and did I mention they're Canadian flipping awesome the
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capture cards are USB so we needed to add another USB card to the system to
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avoid resource conflicts with three of them attached but once we figured that
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out it was smooth sailing and I really
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have nothing else to say about them time to power things up then I asked cable
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mod for five power cables some
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combination of orange black and carbon
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they sent five each of multiple styles
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of sleeving of each color holy crap you
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guys anyway at least they look great
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once they're in place and I will put the giant box of power cables that I have
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left over in a corner somewhere so time to hook back up and
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power up the audio gear and take you guys now on a grand tour of the finished
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setup Hallelujah the wo computer is on we are
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ready to tour the finished wo set so
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Improvement number one to make it so the wow is more likely to be on time these
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TPL link um Wi-Fi smart plug things
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basically we just use an app when this
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phone is dead but don't worry about it there's an app we use an app press a
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button and boom when show lighting turns on Improvement number two
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we won't trip over this while we're running around getting ready for w show
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Improvement number three dramatically
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better Cable Management now instead of
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having the entire desk full of the gear that we need to run W show it'll just be
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full of the gear that we need to host when show so we'll have our streaming
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computer our laptops we've got HDMI
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cables for our laptops we've got uh oh
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yes all of the audio gear off the table replaced by a power Distribution Hub
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thing here which is awesome all our audio gear is in this badass retro
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server cabinet thing and our when PC is
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of course heavily upgraded to be much
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more reliable and much sexier all at the same
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time so I guess I better get this show on the
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road then shall I
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