what's going on my friends so i figured i would do another studio update uh i realized that i
hadn't actually done like a conclusive uh episode like this i showed you guys in the
last few months kind of what i've been doing studio but i think i'm done with it for the
space that i have there's a lot of things that i would probably have done differently now that i
have the space done but i just wanted to show you a few of the things that i have done so here we go
i have a setup now where the camera uh basically both of my cameras i've got two setups
you guys are going to see some of these videos coming but i have this
white board over here which this is really cool so i can take and
i draw all kinds of stuff right do a whole bunch of the whiteboard things that i used to do
and i've got a camera and i have a mic set up right in front of my face so a lot of you
probably don't see that when i'm sitting here talking about stuff there's a mic right above me
um really nice mic actually and then for this setup [ __ ] my books keep falling over
i need to screw something in to like make it so these books don't fall over because when i
take one out they just they all fall over uh but i've got another camera set up right here
and then i've got this screen so when i do live streams or whatever i can pull up stream labs
and streamlabs is something that i'm going to start using for uh all of my live streams so i've
already got it pulled up so i can actually see myself i can see all the comments and chat and
everything come through while i'm filming and talking to y'all i put this little shelf here
so i can have my wireless keyboard and wireless mouse in here and be doing stuff on that screen
um i had to like drape there's cords everywhere it's been such a nightmare
just trying to get cords figured out but i had to have like the little usb thing hooked up to a cord
that would reach all the way out because i have a computer on the other side of the wall over there
but i have another mic you know like right above my head so again you all don't see that
like in the videos there's a mic right above me and that's how it picks up better sound so
the sound quality i think has probably increased quite a bit since we've been doing all these but
i have these cameras set up on capture cards so oh and like we have all of the um sound proofing
and we come out here i've got this little setup this thing is a joke it doesn't work at all it was
a mistake it does not keep the room cool no matter how long i run it it's a joke so i'll probably
just get rid of that but zach built me a computer um you all know zach he's the he's the moderator
he's the everything guy but he built this huge ass tower like this is the biggest computer i've ever
seen in my life um so i've got you know like uh sd cards in i'm probably gonna actually move the sd
cards back into that room so i can literally like take one out of the camera stick it in and i don't
have to leave zach built this pc specifically with capture cards in it so my cameras basically record
right to the computer and then we built a server that is at a remote location and all of this
automatically syncs and uploads to our server so that my video editors that are in massachusetts
there's three editors over there now and an animator but they have all of the files locally
with them i don't need any files locally here because i'm not editing on this machine so really
it's basically just dumping video right into this computer uploading it and then deleting everything
off this computer so it saves space and then we've got everything backed up in the cloud so it's
actually like a really really economic system the one problem that we have though is i still do have
to use sd cards from time to time because the file sizes on this capture card are still like quite
large so for smaller videos the capture card's totally fine but for really really long videos i
usually just defer to these and then i'll record like multiple different segments from multiple
different locations and stuff but i got this thing on a rolling cart so i've got like all of my extra
um i don't know bits and pieces and stuff for my cameras and then when you turn around
i've got this whole recording area so this is where i've been filming a whole bunch of like
uh videos that are members only videos um so i did a bunch of different things on like switches
um you know single pull switches how to wire different various three ways and how to do
like switch loops and switch loop three ways and all kinds of stuff so this is kind of gonna be my
experiment wall i'm gonna do some videos coming up on uh how to wire and actually make contactors
work and relays and stuff it's a video i'd said that i was going to do a really long time ago and
i just haven't followed through with it because we move studios and all the things but i'm going
to keep doing those so a lot of the members content stuff is in this area um you can see
i put like a whole bunch of [ __ ] together uh like i have a girl that works for me that came and
hung all of my art i didn't even realize she was gonna do it but there's like tons of art over here
of mine that i just i've done and i haven't like hung or done anything with
um so i need to get all of that stuff home but it's kind of cool because
i have these tables that i can like do artwork i can actually have all my stuff set up
oh and so some people have asked like about the cameras that i use so i have this uh sony a72
and or a7r ii that i use it's got a dual battery mount on it which i don't even use
anymore i was using that in the field but now i just have these things plugged in all the time
so that i don't ever have to use batteries anymore um then i've got an a7 3 right here
just a little bit different lens on it same thing it's just powered it's got a cord that plugs into
it that's not plugged in right now i usually keep a lapel mic hooked up to this one so it actually
talks bluetooth to me and i'm wearing a lapel mic that i stuff inside of my pocket and it just
records all of my sound on that one camera so i'm usually running like three different cameras at a
time just to get different angles on stuff and one of them is is keeping all of my sound if i
have my gopro on my gopro actually picks up really good sound too so it's nice to have like two mics
picking up sound because if one of them like dies or i forgot to like plug the cord in which
actually happens quite a bit i screw that up all the time at least i've got backup sound somewhere
i had to get these lights so these are really really nice lights
um that just kind of you know cast extra light everywhere and they're the same lights that i
put up in the studio so i had this problem with cords everywhere all over the floor for all of
these different lights and all the different cameras oh yeah i have a camera up there too i
know this looks like absolute utter dog [ __ ] but there's just no other way that i could have done
it so i have that on switched power so basically when i come in i flip one of those switches it
turns all of the lights and all the cameras and everything all the power on in this entire area
and then i have another switch set up that just turns the lights on and everything for that area
turns the camera on turns the tv and everything on so it's literally i flip a switch come in record
and then leave and i can do the same thing i can jump over to this spot
flip the switch hit record hit stop and boom i'm done so it's like creatively i have nothing but
time now so i can sit and actually do as much as i need to and actually be you know i could create
as much as i can without having to deal with all the technological issues that i used to deal with
um what else i got this area all set up so um all of my extra camera equipment's right there
any extra audio stuff um all my lenses and i've got different travel backpacks so like when i go
on the road i have that backpack that's just for my drone this one is for when i'm out in the field
so i just put like my small cameras and just a little bit of things in there so i just have to
carry those two i got my drone and a camera set up just for the field this is more uh different
bags that i've tried so if i'm like outdoors somewhere or something like that um i've got
zipper um i've got like a really nice bag that opens up and i can put all my lenses and cameras
and stuff this is a very similar type of thing it's just a little bit smaller version of it so
i just have a place to like put all of my camera stuff all the eu hats some of my old green bay
packers memorabilia this is actually a super bowl ball from 96 from when the
brett favre was uh playing and they won against the patriots that's a autographed thing by brett
it doesn't matter i don't care about football anyways so a whole bunch of electrician use shirts
and um that's pretty much it oh so let's walk through the uh the actual like studio side
josh is making a youtube video right now so we're gonna go uh in and watch him
oh got the drum set set up got the mini fridge that we keep all the red bulls in
got josh making his youtube videos what's up
so that's pretty much it for the electrician you side um the other side that we i was gearing up
to do um videos oh damn it jackie locked it jackie's always locking these doors man
i'm grateful our shit's not gonna get robbed um okay so we go in here
this is the office so jackie works here full-time this is her desk and deals with
all of the business side of everything that we do we have another girl named tiffany that
works here with her and they both kind of just do like whatever they need to do this was going
to be the electrical contracting side it just electrician used kind of going so nuts right now
that i don't think it's a good move to try to start an entire electrical contracting company up
right now it is something that i'm gonna do it's just i think that one or the other would suffer
if i didn't just focus on one of them for the time being so that's what we're doing so this uh whole
area in here um we had you know starting to set up with all the different materials and everything
so i still use all of this when i go out in the field and i'm actually doing jobs this is
kind of all of the different materials plugs switches boxes fittings wire you know enclosures
all kinds of stuff like that still got a whole bunch of ladders and these are all like different
screws and things that i use but what this whole space is going to turn into very quickly
is a merch area so this is all the merch that we have left over from that giveaway so this is the
stuff that we're selling on the website we just got a whole bunch more hats so we ran out of this
style of hat it seems like everybody loves this hat for some reason not for some reason this hat's
dope it's a really cool hat but we didn't get enough of them so we just did a whole big order
of them but we're running out of beanies we got one more beanie left over we've got some mugs left
and more hats but we're going to build multiple more tables because
as you guys know i have the whole tool belt thing that i'm working on right now
we've got some pants some like actual work pants and then we've got um hoodies so there's a whole
bunch of people that have requested like hey we should will you put some electrician you
hoodies together um if somebody said they wanted a bobble head doll of me so we're looking into that
i think it's a really expensive thing to get though and i don't think it's practical at all
to like get them mass produced like nobody wants dusted bobble heads everywhere um i guess comment
below if you want a dustin bobblehead maybe i'll get some made uh but then there was like
uh girls that want like leggings you know they they want some kind of like sweats or something
so there's a whole bunch of other things that we're working on some people have said that they
want some uh like high visibility safety stuff that says like you crew or electrician you on it
then there's just the you crew side so if certain membership levels that we're gonna be launching
you're gonna get a free shirt every year kind of like i'm a tool fan so like the tool army if you
sign up to be a tool army member every you know year that you sign up you get a shirt sent to you
um i've actually not gotten shirts sometimes but i've signed up anyways but i love the band
so much that's like i don't give a [ __ ] i just want to support what you guys are doing
anyway so we're going to do kind of like a similar thing so some of these levels are going to have
a you crew shirt and we're going to do an annual ucru shirt that uh only the people that year are
going to have access to and then they're just limited we won't have them anymore so that's
pretty much everything that's been going on with the studio i feel like we finally kind of landed
um still messy just because there's there's just so much going on there's so many things going on
but i wanted to give you guys an update so leave your comments below let me know what you think
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