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what's up guys welcome back to the channel hope you're all doing well hopefully you had a fun and safe New Year's with your friends and family or whoever else you decide to spend it with and hope hopefully you're all alive and well here in 2016 but today is the day before I leave for CES it's Monday as I'm filming this at Sunday but when you're watching this if you're watching it on day of upload it's probably Monday I leave for Vegas tomorrow on Tuesday and I'm gonna be bringing a lot of stuff with me this year probably more than I ever had before I am bringing on an editor a good buddy of mine his name's Joe he will be editing all of the footage for CES 2016 this year so I have a lot more stuff because he's coming with me and I need to support enough hardware for myself and him as well so that's pretty much what this video is all about it's about what I'm bringing with me to see us all the tech stuff anyway I'm not gonna tell you what you know what color underwear I'm bringing but you know maybe maybe in the future so on that note I'm just gonna dive right into it because there's a lot of stuff here guys I wish I could break it down for you and in a table of contents or something so you could just see which parts you're interested in but it's really just chaos so I can't really organize that well so starting off with this part of the table I'm just gonna go from left to right order none of it is particularly more important than the other it's all equally important when trying to cover a behemoth of a convention like CES so starting with the computer so this is our stream box this is what Paul and I use to stream episodes of awesome Hardware each week and we will be streaming again on Tuesday in Las Vegas at my place I'm not gonna be staying at a hotel this year I actually booked an Airbnb for those of you who don't know what that is you can Wikipedia tour look it up but basically I'm gonna be staying in a two or three-bedroom condo and we are gonna be streaming Paul and I are gonna be streaming awesome hardware from that place so obviously we need a good streaming box we're gonna use the trusty streamer pc that we've been using at my place every other week and it's gonna work out fantastically it's got the Blackmagic capture card in there we are gonna have this monitor hooked up to it it's a Ben Q what's the model number it's the XL to 730 Z from Ben Q and it is a 2560 by 14 forty panel it is a TN monitor so it's super fast but the color reproduction isn't all that great sorry if my camera is out of focus right now it always does that but luckily we won't really be using it for color correction like I said it's just gonna be for streaming so we're gonna have like web browsers up and stuff and exploit things like that but this is gonna be a secondary monitor as well for my editor the other monitor I'm bringing which is gonna be his primary one is that Kunik Stu 710 right over there beautiful panel that is IPS also 2560 by 1440 so he'll have those two monitors side by side at his disposal when editing which I'm pretty sure he'll be happy about apart from that we've got some peripherals here so starting with the mice we've got my wireless g6o - this is pretty much my laptop mouse of choice I did a brief kind of mini review on this in one of my peripheral roundup videos recently excellent mice excellent mouse I should say that I'm gonna be using the rocket tie on also a great go to a little pointer it's it's it's really handy it's super comfortable my editor might be using this I'm also gonna be bringing my g500 over there I haven't put all the things I'm taking with me onto these tables here because I'm still using some of them so I'm gonna be bringing that guy along as well I'm probably gonna let Joe decide which one he thinks is more comfortable we've also got a couple keyboards here so we've got the 10 keyless Nova touch from coolermaster with the Nova Nova touch switches they're they're really really kind of an acquired taste but I've grown accustomed to them at this point also the Vermeil oh the Vermeil oh god what's the model number of this thing leave our mil ova 87m mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX brown switches this thing's just super cool pretty much the same form factor as the the Nova touch here so as you can see we're really kind of going with portability in mind excellent keyboard both keyboards are great all-around choices I think for events like this obviously you don't get that number pad but I am trying to keep things on the slimmer side so hopefully that'll do us do us proud we've also got some mouse pads here apart from these USB cables for the keyboards we've got the tech syndicate one excellent keyboard I like it because it's super thin it's got stitched edges a nice rubber bottom and it's got that badass raise the world logo on the front there we've also got my classic Crysis 3 mouse pads that have been here for quite some time I've been using these throughout the years they are really small and portable as well and then we've got a mixing board I can't tell you the exact model number but this is also for the stream on Tuesday this is from mana price it's a great little board it's a budget board it's probably like sixty to ninety bucks something like that mana price was kind enough to sponsor this for us for me and Paul so I can't tell you the exact specifics but excellent little mixing board we've also got some sound monitoring materials here so we've got my dt 880 pros my trusty cans they're open back semi open back design super comfortable or ear pads bucho I'm probably know that my editor use and then I might be hopping onto these k7x X's just did a recent review of these probably about a month ago from AKG these are the master op editions super clean sounding great for music but also great for editing they're very very clean sounding headphones all around next up we've got the main editing system for Joe so this is the sleeper PC many of you guys might have recognized it right off the bat it's compacted into this small but crappy an unsuspecting HP Pavillion case that is literally like ten years old now eleven years old now that it's 2016 but that's why it's a sleeper PC because it's designed to look like crap so nobody wants to steal it or ever thinks about touching it but the internals are just absolutely beastly so we've got a core i7 6600 K which is overclocked as well as as otech amp Edition gtx 980ti for all of our editing purposes 16 gigs of ram you can go ahead and check out my video on that if you want more specifics but I'm really excited to be using this this is the first time I'll be using it out in the field so I'm kind of curious to see how it performs but it's already loaded up with the full Adobe Creative Suite for editing Premiere Pro Photoshop After Effects things like that we've also got a really long this is probably a 50 foot Ethernet cable that we'll be using in the Nutter Hotel but our Airbnb pad it's always nice to have a direct connection there especially when you're uploading videos on the fly we've also got a few flash devices here well we've got my SSD this is an SP 900 from a data 512 gigabyte actually and this has got all my assets on it important files and documents that I need for for editing on the go but it sits in this really nice Kingston enclosure it's kind of sacrilegious to put an a data SSD and a HyperX enclosure but there you have it it is USB 3 is well so get some nice transfer speeds there also this little data traveler from Kingston USB 3 flash drive it's 32 gigs got this a while back at another convention can't tell you if it was CES or Computex but one of those complimentary gifts that had the the press kit on it so this is really come in handy for a lot of events I've also got my trusty Nexus 7 my Asus tablet this thing rocks I love taking it everywhere I go whether I'm on a plane or just gonna be driving somewhere far away it's nice to have this if I'm just you know chillin at the at the pad I want to check some Twitter's reply to you guys on Instagram or whatever it's also a really great asset to bring along we've also got a few more wired things just a basic extension cord we've got a power strip here which is really handy we're gonna have a lot of stuff being plugged in so really it's I would highly suggest bringing a power strip pretty much any time you go to an event where you're bringing a lot of gear we've also got this Manfrotto monopod now we're gonna kind of get into the film equipment now and I just did a recent gear 2.0 updates on the channel so you can check that out for for more details but this is a really great monopod yep black shaft then we've got my new Lumix gh4 from panasonic excellent camera with a sigma 18 to 35 millimeter lens with a small rig handle right here attached to a 515 cage from defocused systems excellent little piece of piece of equipment they're also my sennheiser in cage 416 microphone the shotgun microphone is absolutely fantastic it's got a little foam on here so you can't really see it all too well and I've got my three trusty lenses beyond the Sigma for various shooting purposes so I got my two Rokinon lenses 35 and 24 millimetres respectively and then a 60 millimeter macro lens from Canon this is probably not going to get used too much I won't be taking too many super close-up macro shots but it is there in case I do need it moving on to the batteries for the gh4 we've got two of them here and there's already one inside of the camera so we've got a total of three batteries to take with us on the go the battery life on the gh4 is pretty awesome from what I can tell from reviews and personal use it's done it's done it's doing really well of leaps and bounds better than the 70d that I used to have and I've got an AC adapter right there as well because we are going to be using this Paul and I are going to be using the gh4 for the live show so it's nice to have that adapter continuous power SD cards very important we've got to 256 gig PNY elite performance cards right there they are rated for 4k and ninety-five megabytes per second should be more than enough but just in case I've also got to 64 gigs another 32 and then second 32 gig which is actually in the the point-and-shoot camera that I have right now my RX 103 from Sony which I will be bringing but obviously I can't really show you that we've got a simple camera brush right here for your lens in case it gets dusty during the event which is always nice to have a little Bose speaker this kind of came with my phone as like a freebie they just threw it in it's actually a pretty decent sounding speaker Bose I know it's you know that gets a lot of hate gets a bad rap for being overpriced and stuff which it is but this guy is super portable and it sounds decent enough to fill a room so this will be nice listening to music while we're at the pad very cool we've also got two msi battery backups battery banks ten thousand four hundred milliamps apiece they're just simple you know USB type a and mini USB or micro USB I should say do they need to be charged yes they do these are these are very low a lot to charge things before we go but these are excellent to have on the show floor always bring backup batteries guys if you're gonna be using your phone a lot at conventions which most of the time you are tweeting out things and and posting on social media also moving back to two over here so you might realize that I have my microphone but I don't have my dr-40 taz cam recorder which it's usually hooked up to that's because I'm recording with it right now I've got a lavalier mic attached to it as well I will be bringing both of those and this this really handy thing I think I stole it from Steve Steve oMG but basically attaches to your belt and then you can screw on the the recorder to - to this thing and it's a quick release latch so you kind of just press it in and then the whole recorder comes out for ease of handling or you can just slap it back on your belt so you can take it around really nice to have also we've got a handheld condenser mic I couldn't tell you what model this is but I use this for last year CES and I thought the audio quality sounded actually really good considering you know the 50 to 100 bucks I paid for it so I will be busting that that out again you might be wondering why do I have a handheld mic and the Sennheiser shotgun this is just for ease of use if let's say I'm at a hotel suite I'm not necessarily on the show floor the Suites and the little Suites of the hotels they're a lot quieter generally there's not as much chatter and ambient noise so usually you can get away with something like this just directly mounted to your to your camera there but if you're on the show floor and it's super noisy as hell you might want to have a handheld mic to give yourself a bit more control and better positioning for that microphone so I brought both it's always good to have both options in case you need it moving on to the end of the line here pretty close we've got my msi gs70 review of this msi has really done themselves out with with this model it's just absolutely beautiful runs like a champ I think it's got a core i7 it's it's definitely skylake and it's got a 970 gtx 970m in there as well with three gigs of the ram but also we've got let's see we've got some more batteries here these are just double a's that they're gonna be powering my dr-40 with recharges you got there they are rechargeable so I've got Amazon brand which are a little bit cheaper and the eneloop which are a bit more expensive but I think they do last a bit longer than the Amazon once I just kind of have both here I've accumulated them over time this is simply a bag for my rx100 m3 which again I'm shooting with right now extra batteries and charger inside for here and then we've got my delicious tripod I'll put all the links all this stuff in the description can tell you the model number off the top of my head but it is the O 5 v series from Manfrotto excellent excellent tripod I actually just got this recently this could have easily gone in my gear gear 2.0 update but somehow I overlooked it excellent piece of equipment there plus my also Manfrotto 502 fluid head this thing I've been using since I don't know 2013 and I don't see myself changing anytime soon because it's just a super smooth head that that works beautifully and then we've got this boompole microphone for the live show to mic both me and Paul so that we sound excellent in the best way possible you can hear our sexy voices by just getting optimal positioning with that boom mic it's a very nice budget boom mic there and then finally wrapping up we've got my bags to carry all of this after all this is a what's in my bag video right so you got to have some bags so I've got my canon bag this is a great bag it's it basically holds all my lenses and the body it's kind of funny though that now I've switched over to pants I'm still rocking a cannon bag that's that's also kind of blasphemy but this is an excellent bag super high quality and it fits everything I need without being overwhelmingly large which a lot of a lot of other bags tend to do that's kind of one of the compromises and then I've got this amazonbasics bag super cheap it's like 30 bucks the quality isn't nearly what you'd find with the cannon bag it is much cheaper I will say everything on it works works good enough except for the zippers the zippers can get snagged rather easily but apart from that the pocketing is really good really good pocket options and sizes all around it's got a keyring a place for a 15.6 inch laptop just like the ghost pro right over there so it fits everything in a nice package and it was 30 bucks so I'm really not gonna complain much but there you guys have it that is pretty much all the stuff here's one more overarching look one more glance at all the things I'm bringing with me to CES so yeah it's um it's gonna be fun it's kind of exciting getting all this stuff prepared because it's just it's just an indication of the kind of scale of the content I'll be creating for you guys and just how much fun it's gonna be making all these videos I will be pumping out significantly more videos this year than I did last year last year I only did one video a day and I don't know I think I just wasn't as prepared for CES then as I am this year and this year I'm probably be pumping out anywhere from 10 to 15 videos over the course of the entire week so I know that's not as much as some other YouTube channels are doing but at the same time it's a lot more than what I was doing last year so I just wanted to give you guys a head up heads up and let you know that I will be pumping out some some pretty heavy-duty content but hopefully it's good I'm still gonna try to take a very mild and unprofessional approach to it because that's just how I roll I just don't have a professional bone in my body it's probably why I work independently in my room but nonetheless I've rambled on long enough as always thank you guys so much for watching this video let me know what you think of all this gear in the comments below what your expectations are for CES and I will be seeing you guys in the next video which is going to be at say yes in Las Vegas so thanks guys love you all Happy New Year once again and I'll see you all later