- One of the coolest parts of the new house,
is going to be the
five person, land gaming room.
Here in the basement.
So that my kids and their friends,
and me and my friends.
That I'll make someday.
Can all game together.
But when Elgato reached out
asking if they could sponsor a
sixth streaming setup,
I thought, I mean, heck!
Why not make all of the stations streaming ready?
So that, is exactly what we're going to do.
This is the Linus Home LAN Centre Streaming Setup,
V1 concept edition.
which means,
could be subject to change,
but it should be an excellent start.
(upbeat music)
Now, obviously my house is still a construction zone.
So this video won't be fully representative
of the final setup,
but it should be pretty darn close.
Other than, you know,
the lifetime brand folding tables here.
Now, before we even think about setting up
a microphone, or a webcam, or any of the fun stuff.
We need a computer to run it all.
In the longterm.
The plan is going to be to virtualize all of these stations,
off of a single server in my mechanical room.
So the conduit is going to be accessible here.
So it'll run under all of these desks.
We probably won't be able to do sit-stand desks
for that reason, but that's kind of TBD.
Now, just in case we decide
to do standalone machines in here,
we do still have the room wired up for ethernet,
but my preference is to have everything in the server.
For now.
Of course, everyone.
Hey, there you go.
I mean, the video is sponsored by Elgato,
of course, Sarah.
So it be that much of a surprise.
So this one right here is the a200,
featuring a liquid cooled Ryzen 9 5900 X,
an RTX 3080,
and a boatload of storage!
And high-speed RAM.
It's small, sleek,
and well-equipped for even the most demanding games
or streaming setups.
Which is why I won't be using one.
In fact,
I think the final config for each of these stations
is going to be more along the lines of
eight virtualized AMD epic cores.
And then maybe more like a 3060,
something like that.
Monitor wise,
things are a bit more up in the air.
I think 27 inches is the perfect size to have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
And then actually we're probably going to have
a six station right here.
That's just a network port.
So you can pull up a laptop or something like that.
Make it a nice, even six.
But in terms of resolution,
I'm leaning towards 1440 P.
Just because I think it's a great balance
between the high refresh rate gaming you get
at 1080 and obviously the better image quality
that you get at 4k.
This particular model,
the LG 27GP850 has been a lightning rod for controversy,
but the panel in it this nice,
fast response time,
IPS is definitely something that I would want in here.
Just like I would want this beautiful desk pad
from ittstore.com.
Now this isn't the best case scenario
for Elgatos, poor wave panels here.
This is an enormous room that is basically nothing
but flat concrete surfaces,
and we've only got six of them.
But we wanted to show them to you guys
because they will almost certainly be part
of the final deployment.
Once.
You know, there are walls.
We'll probably put some on the ceilings as well
because stopping those reflections between
the floor and the ceiling is one of the key ways
to cut down on audio reverb.
Are these,
are these sufficiently mounted? I can,
I can put wave panels on them now?
- [Jake] Uh, Sure.
(Jake chuckling)
- If you want to see a more practical
and scientific demonstration of how well these work,
check out our video,
where we treated our workshop with them.
It's really impressive.
While Jake mounts, the rest of the wave panels.
Let's talk about the rest of the audio setup.
So,
I could have opted for the much less expensive Wave:3,
but some of my experiences with USB,
all-in-one microphones have not been the best
and they don't give you the greatest
amount of control over your setup.
So instead we've gone for the Wave XLR,
which has all the same integrated mixing controls,
headphone output, and all that good stuff.
Except you can plug literally
any XLR microphone you want into it.
So let's get this set up.
I've never used this thing.
- [Jake] I think it looks pretty cool.
- Yeah.
- [Jake] It's sleek.
- I mean, one of the things that Elgato does really well
is that everything they do is designed for streaming.
So a lot of the XLR interfaces out there,
for example,
they're designed to lie flat, right?
- [Jake] Yeah.
- But that's not what you want,
when you're, when you're gaming.
You want something that you can,
you can reach for more easily.
So this is now it feels good.
Got USB-C. There's your headphone Jack.
And there's your XLR input.
Right around there is where I want that.
No, I want it on the left side,
left side and then I can have the stream deck on this side.
Actually.
No. Okay.
No. So no,
I do want it the other way around because the stream deck,
I'm going to mess with more often
and I'm more likely to want to take
my hands off of my mouse then.
Oh, right.
Yes.
Yeah, I want it to be able to keep my hands on WASD.
So yeah, let's go XLR on this side.
(both chuckle)
- Wait, how the hell are you going to put this one on here?
- [Jake] Screw on the side.
(both chuckle)
- Oh really?
- [Jake] As long as it holds itself up, right?
- Okay. Where's the mic arm.
It seems pretty standard. As far as mic arms go.
Caution, spring loaded.
Don't get, don't get bashed in the face.
You know, little things like that, but there you go.
That guy just goes in there.
We're just going to try it. This is terrible.
(drill running)
- [Jake] I mean, tell me how horrendous this is.
- You kind of nailed it.
- [Jake] You're damned straight. I did.
(Jake laughing)
I'll never call you a screw up again.
- [Jake] Oh good.
- What?
Come on. That's funny.
- [Jake] You've never told me screw it before.
- Look at it, it's a screw.
Cause you're putting a screw in.
- [Jake] I probably called you a Screw.
- Uh.
I figured out what all these pieces do.
This is a riser.
So it can be, like up higher if you want.
There's a little hex lock.
I don't think we're going to need,
Oh man.
- [Jake] Do you wanna know that it's for?
Apparently people install these behind their monitor
and come over.
- Oh really?
- [Jake] Yeah. I don't know why you would ever do that,
but-
- Uh.
- [Jake] If you had a very, like wide ranging microphone
that could pick up really far then maybe yes.
- Yeah. That's not going to be what we're doing today.
And I'm probably going to need the counterweight
because for our microphone,
we've settled on an SM48 from sure.
(Jake testing microphone)
- It does actually sound a tiny bit, less bad.
(Jake laughing)
- Yeah.
It's just that most of the echo in here
is off this concrete floor,
and those flat walls back there.
That shouldn't be too much of a problem for us though.
The SM48 for sure, is a dynamic microphone
with a cardioid pickup pattern.
That means it should reject most off-axis noise
and pick up your voice. Nice and clear.
Let's get this cable, man.
It's and then we'll give you guys a quick demo.
This is not a perfect solution.
Oh Lord.
- [Jake] Oh God. Don't do that.
No! I don't want to have to take this down like that later.
- See!
But look, look, it'll stay out,
it'll stay out of the way.
- [Jake] Oh, did you?
Oh yeah. Well you're doing it now.
(Jake laughing)
- There we go.
Normally on an XLR interface,
you would want to plug your headphones
for monitoring yourself, directly into the interface.
So you have zero latency.
Let's see how well Elgato software ecosystem handles that.
All right. We're firing up our game stream here
Ladies and gentlemen, going to play some Doom,
Actually, we should just move on to
the next part of the video we're going to host
and we can just do it on here.
What's the next thing we're going to do lighting?
Man, that sounds great.
Also they have come a long way on their software.
Elgato. This is handy.
The Wave link software has a quick link
to your advanced audio preferences.
So as soon as you launch your game,
you're going to want to set its output to Elgato's game.
A wave link game.
Here we go.
And then that way OBS will be able to pick it up.
You can access this through windows
just by right-clicking,
open sound settings,
add volume.
Whatever.
But it's a lot more clicks,
whereas it's just right here.
They just have a shortcut to it.
That's kind of handy.
- [Jake] Do you want to see what's really cool?
If you set your game to Wave link game.
- Yeah.
- You can then have it come up as a tracking here
and then you can create separate mixes
for your monitor mix and your streaming.
So if you want to listen to copyrighted music
in your headphones while you're streaming,
but want your stream to hear a monster cat or whatever,
you can give them two different audio tracks
and it's all done in Wave link.
You don't need like virtual audio cable
or any stupid crap like that.
- That's pretty cool.
Most streamers like to have a face count of some sort.
So that is where the aptly named Elgato face cam comes in.
Now at home, I actually use a different setup.
I've got an Elgato cam link 4k USB stick,
and I've used that to connect to a Cannon DSLR camera.
It works great, but it is large.
It's more complex to set up
and troubleshoot if it has issues.
And that is even before you consider
how expensive it would be
to kit out a DSLR or a mirror less camera
for every station in the room.
So,
that's where a more reasonable setup like
a webcam comes into play.
On the outside, this thing is
pretty minimalistic looking, it's,
you got your lens, your detachable long USB-C to A cable,
a small status led over on the left of the lens
and an included monitor mount.
On the inside is where things get a little bit more fun.
Elgato designed their own eight element,
all glass lens, which is paired with
a Sony Star Vis Simo sensor.
That's designed to provide excellent clarity
with minimal noise up to 1080 P 60 FPS.
They also included a bit of storage on the camera itself.
So that any settings changes that you make,
follow the camera, not the computer.
One cool feature, or rather lack thereof,
is that the face cam doesn't have a microphone.
And it prevents you from getting popups and notifications.
Anytime, say, for example,
you unplug or plug something in
and Discords like,
"Hey, do you want to switch to a new audience devices?"
So freaking annoying.
How does it not have a never asked me again?
- [Jake] I think there is a never ask me again.
- I think there is.
I don't think it works
(Jake chuckles)
- Anyway.
We're not going to be using the built-in monitor mount
because we are going with the Elgato ring light.
Now at home, I actually prefer my pair of key light airs.
These are basically the same product.
They're just little square panels,
instead of a big ring shaped one.
So you've got the same adjustable color temperature
at the same adjustable brightness
and everything can be done through software.
The big difference is that
with my giant 48-inch display,
I can put them out on the sides
and then I can decide,
do I want like kind of a more dramatic look?
So I have a little bit less lighting on the side,
a little bit more on that side.
Whereas with the ring light,
what you're getting is what ring lights are good for.
Which is nice, even illumination.
Clock's ticking, got to shoot the video.
(both chuckle)
- No, I, I really liked their mounts.
Super easy to use.
- [Jake] Yeah.
- I think Luke had trouble with it, but you know,
whatever, just lead things.
I know this video is sponsored by Elgato,
but I really do need to complain about one small thing.
Like this is, this is the longest power bring up.
What are you compensating for?
I cannot, how am I supposed to plug this in
Take something entire out?
Hold on.
I think I, I think I managed to jam it in there.
Uh, hello?
Hey, there we go.
I can't believe we made it this far
without setting up a stream deck.
If you're not familiar with these.
Come on guys.
This one specifically is Elgato Stream Deck MK.2.
Which features type C, interchangeable face plates,
as well as the detachable 45 degree fixed angle stand.
But each of 15 keys,
is an individual display.
So you can have whatever icon you want,
their full color,
and you can configure them to do anything.
From button presses to macros,
to starting and stopping your stream.
Now that the latest connected to wifi,
we can adjust our color temperature to be warmer, cooler.
We can adjust our brightness.
Whoa.
That's that's pretty. Bright boys.
- [Jake] 5,600.
- Sorry about that. Okay.
What do you want? You want 5,600.
- [Jake] Yeah.
- All right, there we go.
And then it's probably a little bit
on the bright side right now.
Let's at least get a couple of things configured
on our stream deck here.
Alright, let's go ahead.
And I mean, I don't know.
This one can be record.
Boop.
Basically instantaneous, uh, you know, seen.
- [Jake] I have a gift.
Oh, you have such a terrible, ugly background.
- That's true. I did fix that.
- [Jake] This is Elgatos green screen
and they actually have two models.
This is the floor standing one.
They also have one you can hang from the ceiling.
That's a bit bigger.
But for our purposes, this is just fine.
All you gotta do is open the locks,
grab this bad boy
and you have a green screen.
I think the manual probably says adjust the feet first
(Jake chuckles)
- [Jake] before you open it. But.
- There it is.
- [Jake] Can I do that again?
- What's up, Jake?
You can play around with these settings in here,
you can see how similar the color needs to be,
There you go.
So here we filter out,
basically anything that has any color other than red.
Uh, here, we're basically not filtering out anything.
So you just want to find that,
right about there gives us a nice uniform,
a gray on our green screen.
That's what we're looking for.
Is that it?
I noticed we had some other stuff over there.
Yeah. They've got the pop filter,
which we don't need because of our mic choice.
Capture card, in case you've got like a,
you know, next gen console.
You want to stream your 4k gameplay or whatever else.
Shock Mount.
We didn't end up using the wave three.
So we don't need that.
Light strips.
We got the green screen, so we don't really need that.
Okay. We're gonna play.
We're gonna play some competitive CS Go here,
ladies and gentlemen, we're getting competitive today.
Now that we have CS Go configured
to use our wave link game output.
We don't actually have to have our desktop audio
play a role in OBS at all.
Everything just goes out into the stream mix,
which we control through the wave link app.
So you're going to see when I highlight this window,
our in game music shows up here.
That's a little loud,
both in my headphones and in the stream.
So we're going to turn that down a little bit.
Have a look at our levels.
That's about where I like to have my background music going,
like somewhere in the minus 30, minus 25 range.
So that's pretty good.
Now, if I was actually playing competitively,
I would restart it because Counter-Strike does
not like being changed from Window
to exclusive full screen.
But I suck anyway.
So all right. Official matchmaking.
- [Jake] Oh really?
- Oh God. I'm going to die.
I'm going to die, Jake.
I'm going to die.
(Jake chuckling)
- Um. Oh God. They're going to come through.
They're going to come through here.
They're going to kill me.
I'm too casual, Jake.
This guy's telling me to go back. I disagree.
- [Jake] This is the worst live stream I've ever watched.
- Officially pro gamer Jake.
Where are you at?
(gunshots fire)
- Ah! Come on.
Well, I helped, I helped I did 21 damage to him.
All right.
Let's make sure this recording is actually good, hey.
This is awesome.
- [Jake] You look great. Look at your,
- I know it's clean.
- [Jake] You should get,
you should get a green screen, it looks so pro.
- I probably, I probably should.
- It does look so pro like,
look at that and then look at the room we're in right now.
- I know. Right?
You would have no way of knowing. It looks legit.
Okay. Let's try and get one more kill.
I want one more kill.
Oh, oh, the buy period has expired.
Okay.
That's a problem. It's slightly, mildly problematic.
(gunshots fire)
- Come on. Ah, no.
Well, all right.
Didn't even manage to hit them.
Man. It's amazing how much this stuff has improved.
Back when we set up our original green screen
for tech quickie in the old house,
we spent a hundred dollars on just the material.
And then we had to like jury rig our own
like hanger for it that took a lot of time
and probably ended up costing more than this.
Obviously this is a little bit smaller.
This is really designed for a game streaming setup,
as opposed to a full host with,
you know, full arms reaching out and stuff like that.
But we have a bigger one. That's super reasonable,
actually all things considered. Yes,
You too, can look and sound that pro
even in a horrible environment that is
not conducive to streaming.
And it's that simple.
All you have to do is spend a bunch of money.
Obviously we're going to have everything linked down below.
Thanks per se for sponsoring this video.
Or Elgato.
I guess thanks to you for watching.
Pro streamer Jake in
3, 2, 1.
Did I get it?
- Oh yeah.
(both chuckles)
- Wow. I sound like a streamer,
streamer.