What's up guys, it's Pete from the Gaming
Careers YouTube channel. Today is Friday
the 29th, which means it's my last day at
my job and obviously this weekend I'm
going to be moving across to my new studio,
which is really exciting. So the first
thing that I need to do is to tear down
my current studio, which is just in my
bedroom, this one you should be familiar
with, I've had this kind of setup over a
year now, so let's cut to a time lapse.
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Okay finally finished packing up my
desk and all my peripherals and monitors
and things like that. It actually took a little
bit longer than I thought it was going to
take just because some of the cable
management I had done was quite
tricky to pull back out, but I got a bit
of a sweat on and now I've completely packed up and
ready for the move tomorrow. So I will
see you tomorrow when I hire my van!
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Obviously wearing my England shirt first
things first. Playing against Colombia
tonight so hopefully we got the win in
the World Cup. Today I'm going to start
building stuff, and the first thing that
I want to build is the desk that I have
got. Now because I'm going to be spending a
lot of time in the studio, I wanted to go
for a sit stand desk so like a motorized
desk that allows you to either stand
at it or sit, and it sort of has
different settings to move between
them. The kind folks over at Flexispot
sent me one of their
motorized sit-stand desks, and for
the desktop, what I'm going to be putting
actually wood on the top, I'm going to
be using the IKEA KARLBY which is
actually a countertop for a kitchen,
but a lot of people on YouTube have been
using it as a desktop. I haven't seen
many that have been used on a motorized
sit-stand desk and so it might be a
little bit tricky because I'm going to have to
screw into the wood, but let's
see what my DIY skills are like!
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I'm seriously impressed with this, look
at it, it's so nice! Very, very happy with
the choice of wood from Ikea, again
this is the KARLBY in walnut and I'm
just so impressed with the standing desk
motors, how quiet they are, how smooth
they are, how high it goes.
I am 6 foot 3, 193 centimeters
tall and it goes easily to the height
that I would use for standing desk if
not even higher. Again these legs are the
Flexispot standing desk motorised legs
that can be bought on Amazon, I'll link
to them in the description of this video,
and the top is the KARLBY walnut from
Ikea. Very, very happy about
this and I'm going to make great use of
both sitting and standing at this
massive desk. So,
we're now at the point where we want to
start putting things on the desk and the
first thing I'm going to do is mount
my monitors. I have two 1440p
monitors from Asus, the main one being
144Hz because that's
the one that I like to play games on
when I can, the second one I didn't want
to spend as much money and get another
144Hz since I'd never
game on it, so I just got the 75Hz
model but they look exactly the same
so they should look good next to each
other. I've decided to mount them
using some VESA mounting arms,
just cheap ones off of Amazon but
they look quite good. I decided to go
with two separate arms rather than just
one double arm because I didn't want
all of the weight to be going through a
single point on the desk, so we'll
see whether or not that was a good
decision, but let's do another time-lapse
of me putting together these
mounts!
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So really happy with how these
VESA mounts have turned out and they
look really clean, I'm glad that I went
for the two separate ones as it allows
me a bit more freedom in terms of
movement and I can rotate one of them
portrait if I want to enable Twitch
chat or things like that while I'm
livestreaming. One of the things that
I've noticed is that the Displayport
cable that came with the second monitor,
which I hadn't used before, I just
ordered it for this new studio,
it's only 1.8 meters long which isn't
going to be long enough to reach around to
the right-hand side of my desk where my
computer's going to be sat so I've had to
order a 3 meter
cable from Amazon which will arrive
tomorrow, so unfortunately we won't be
able to have a full setup done today but
pretty close. Next I think I'm going to open
a box that I've been sent from RODE!
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Let's actually check out what we get
inside the complete studio kit, so
obviously we have the NT1 microphone,
XLR mic, very highly regarded in the
music industry and a lot of podcasters
and singers use them. We also get a full
shock mount, it's really wedged in, this helps
to completely keep the microphone free
from any vibrations on the desk or as
you move the boom arm, it's completely
separate. As you can see it's just
attached by these rubber rings that
take all the
shocks and bangs out of it. We also get a
pretty nice-looking pop filter, double
layered, very strong and finally the new
RODE audio interface which actually has
got a bit of weight to it, I presumed it
was going to be a bit smaller and
lighter than that. That really does fill me
with confidence that it's going to be a
good quality noiseless audio interface.
So let's get this set up!
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I've mounted it all the way over on the
right hand side just purely because I'm
going to have my computer sitting behind it
and I needed the audio interface to be
within a USB cables length of my
computer. So I didn't want to mount it
all the way across on the left-hand side
and then potentially be blocking two
screens, whereas I can have it all the
way across from the right just blocking
the front of my computer. Obviously it
stores away super easily as well out the
way. My computer which is quite small
will just sit on the back there and the
audio interface, it's just next to my
computer. What YouTube
studio isn't equipped with some
sort of acoustic foam, that was the
question I was asking myself a couple
of weeks ago when I was building out the
products that I wanted to use in my new
studio. And about at the right time a
company called ArrowZoom from America
reached out to me and asked if I would
like to try their acoustic wall foam,
so of course I said yes, and they have
now sent it over and it's sort of the
last bit of my studio or last bit of
version one of my studio that I need
to complete. So they sent me over two
bags here, I'm expecting twelve pieces of
50 centimeter by 50 centimeter
pyramid style foam in alternating black
and gray. There's only two fairly
small packages really, so they are very
very tightly packed and I guess they've
been vacuum sealed so I'm expecting that
to be 12 pieces inside, hope so, but
very well packaged. I'm going to get these
opened up and the reason that they're
packaged so tightly, they need 24 hours
to expand into that pyramid shape before
you can mount them to your walls.
So I'm going to get these unpacked now and
install them tomorrow!
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As you can see I've laid out all of the
pads all the way down my hallway, just a
nice cool space for them to expand
properly over the next 24 hours. I'm very
happy with them so far, they also sent me
some sort of
double-sided sticky tape to secure them
to the wall. I also forgot to
mention that these things are fire
resistant which is great especially if
you're living in rented accommodation
like I am, where you don't want to have
any issues with your landlord, you can tell
them that these are fire resistant so
they're not going to catch on fire and
cause problems. So yeah very happy, we'll
see these in 24 hours when we install
them into the studio!
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It's finally time, finally time to show
off my new studio!
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I hope you're as excited about this new
setup as I am. I just can't believe how
well it's turned out, it's exactly as I'd
imagined, if not even better. I do want to
give a quick shout out to some of the
brands that have helped make this
possible;
ArrowZoom for the foam, elgato for some
of the products that you've seen, RODE
for all the audio stuff and Flexispot
for the desk. I will be doing the
tutorial style videos for some of the
elgato products and the RODE products so
don't worry, I'm not going to skip over
those and now that I've got the products
in my hands, I can really push them to
their limits and show you how to set them up
ideally. Thank you so much for watching
and I will see you in the next video!
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