Unknown: Let's talk about the perfect headphones for your next
live stream interview.
Hey everyone, Nick Palkowski here and on this channel, we
talk all about videography and live streaming. And on today's
video, I want to jump in and talk to somebody to talk to you
about something that's often overlooked for people who just
are starting out live streaming. And that is to make sure that
when you're having an interviewee that you have
headphones on, because if you're not wearing headphones, then
you're going to be able to and you're just listening to your
interviewee through your computer speakers or a monitor
speakers or something like that. You're potentially going to have
echo and you've spent some time to find a good quality
microphone for your side of the conversation. And you don't want
any of that echo happening to kind of bounce back and
interfere with your live stream. Now several different options
out there for headphones. All you simply need is a pair of
headphones. But I want to help you in and talk about what I
believe are the best headphones for live streaming. And so let's
jump into that. So first I want to make sure that you have some
sort of headphones in this is going to be more important than
the look we will we're going to talk a little bit about the look
as well. So have some headphones in for that sound quality
because it's going to make sure that there's no echo coming
through from your end. So I want to encourage both you and your
guests to be wearing some type of headphones. Even if it's the
old Apple headphones that hang down with the wire. That's okay
that's better to do that then did not have headphones. Now
step up from that maybe look at getting some air pods, something
like this. It's gonna definitely be a little more discreet but
you're going to notice that is absolutely you can see that
white kind of stands out on video. I would say this is
probably a step up from say grabbing some Bose sound
canceling headphones are something that are really any
over the ear headphones. I have a few From pairs of these I love
to wear these or I have some Sony's and some audio technica
as well. These are great for making sure you get the best
quality sound. So like when I'm producing I'll often wear
something like this. However, when I am on an actual live
stream when I'm on video, I want to be as discreet as possible. I
don't want those big headphones sticking out and I don't
necessarily want even this white headphone kind of sticking out.
This is kind of the net next level option because it can be
fairly discreet, but you're going to notice if I turn my
head even a little bit, you're definitely going to see that
bright white kind of glare in there. That would be the next
option. The one issue with that is if you the way you're going
to connect to most live stream software, you're you're gonna
have issues connecting with a Bluetooth are just not going to
work as well. But that's where these guys come in. These are
the Mi audio m six headphones on so let's take a look at why like
these are the best. So they are in ear headphones. So there
you're going to get decent sound from. I won't say the audio is
like amazing. It's definitely not like a Bose or even really
the air pod. I think the air pods sound a little bit better
but these are going to be super discreet, which is what I love.
So what I will often do with these and we won't fully plug
them in now, but I will run them behind my back actually and I'll
even tuck the wire into my shirt a lot of times and then the
headphones just kind of go over the ear like so. But it leaves
super discreet, kind of pretty low profile so I get the white
ones so it kind of blends in as much as possible. And then you
can see kind of how that looks right here is that it's super
discreet. The wires I will often even hide a little bit more by
running the wire up.
burning the wire up over my shirt or underneath my shirt.
Let's hear we can kind of quickly quickly mimic that even
for you Just to kind of give you an idea, right now, I'm not
actually plugged into anything. I'll show you how I handle all
that in just a second. But let's just something like this where
it's super discreet, spend a little bit more time making sure
that wires not sticking out behind my neck or anything like
that. But as you can see, I have some movement and still no big
headphones kind of sticking out there. It's gonna be easy to
hear your guests this way. So these are the headphones that I
really love. I first learned about them. Thanks to Michael
Hyatt, when we were conducting you're talking about hearing him
talk about some video interviews that he was recording. This was
how he would do it. I heard about it. I purchased these and
I've used these for video podcasts for years and
livestreams as well. These are super old pair, I think that you
can even get but they're still selling and they're really
cheap. It's actually here let me bring it up on the computer. And
right now you can buy these for about $25 20 to $25 Amazon, so
very affordable, but great for live streaming with a guest on
the other end. Alright, so I wanted to take you behind the
scenes here at the studio a little bit and just show you how
I actually use these headphones with my recording setup. So
let's jump in and kind of see an idea give you an idea of what my
streaming setup looks like. Alright, so I wanted to give you
an idea of what my setup looks like when live streaming. So
that is the chair I normally sit in. You can see the backlight
back there, kind of bouncing up and when I'm sitting here, I'll
have comments pulled up on an iPad sitting in kind of right
there on the table. And then over there is my monitor, I will
have the entire production on that screen right now I don't
have anything up there but our V mix pulled up there in full
view. And then this, I have two cameras. This is where my iosr
which I'm using right now will actually be sitting on that and
that is PTC optics camera that I use sometimes gives me a little
more flexibility. But that's not what we're cared about talking
about today. Here you can see the live streaming computer,
it's shut closed right now. And that's x keys that I'll use to
actually do a lot of the switching so normally that will
be on the desk, but this is what we care about right now to talk
about when we're talking about headphones. So this is the
Focusrite Scarlett two I two. My boom mic is plugged in right
here. And then in the headphones spots. I have this nice little
extension cable plugged in. So all I do is when I am live
streaming. This is opened up to do one handed and then this
little, this little guy right here. It's good focus focus.
This little guy right here. If we are showing the table here if
we're not showing the table I'll just have it draped across the
table like so. Hey, just want to break in here and say thank you
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and now back to the video. And then I can just sit down right
here at the table have it plugged in directly you can see
right there it's plugged in, and I still have tons of movements
and no worries about length of cable because I have this huge
extension cable and it's just a three quarter three eighths inch
plug and then a quarter inch plug on the other end which
works perfect with the Focusrite and you can get extension cables
for any sort of headphone so even if you're just using your
computer Just need to get an extension cable you can go find
those on Amazon as well and it works perfect for this. Now if
for whatever reason I'm live streaming and showing the table
then all I'm going to do for that is I'm just going to take
this and I will run it underneath, over underneath and
I will tape it so it goes right here. I used to have it actually
permanently mounted right there but then with the reta redesign
of the studio here, I didn't want that just extra cable
always sitting there because now I have before I had the computer
and everything on the on the desk here but now I have since I
had that little walkway space there. I didn't want just that
cable line around.
There you have that is how I use the M six as by far my favorite
headphones for doing live stream interviews. I also recommend if
you do need to be more mobile, maybe look into getting into
your monitors similar what you see on like the newscast. or
anything like that. Those are something I have been exploring.
I will let you know when I find one that I really like and would
recommend to you right now. So in the research phase, that
phase of that, but again, be sure to grab some sort of
headphones and I definitely recommend you check out the
sexes, super cheap. I'll include links in the description for all
the stuff I mentioned here. Until next time, thank you for
tuning in, and I'll see you in the next video.