Gadgetory

hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d so this week at work I've had a very busy work week I can't do a regular video I just don't have time to film and edit a regular video so I thought I would do kind of like a filler video but a lot of people have been asking for this so here it is the office slash set up tour yeah so I'm going to use the camera on the LG g4 just so I can kind of move around and show what goes on and yeah let's do it so the first thing I want to show you is the lighting people often ask me what kind of lights I use for my videos and it's three very large windows that I'm able to use to get just very natural-looking lighting as well I get it for free now the thing that sucks about this kind of lighting is that I'm very dependent on good weather if I don't have good weather I can't shoot and if it's like slightly cloudy or if like clouds go by in the middle of a video I get weird like white balance and just exposure changes throughout a shot so I have to kind of deal with that the camera that I use is a Panasonic gh4 so this is a very common camera in the tech youtuber world the lens I'm using is also very common it's the Sigma 1835 with a meta bone so this lens I recently picked up used most of my videos have been shot with a different lens which I'll show you later the camera is that you know what I should stop the recording here okay the camera is sitting in a ho new v2 cage so most cages are for like accessories just kind of put like monitors or external mics or whatever I don't have any accessories I just use it for the top handle because I find a lot more comfortable to kind of hold and control a camera with a top handle so this just used to be a piece of metal like a rod and I wrapped it up with bike grip tape just lets a little more comfortable the camera sitting on a s4 like a Benro video head it's pretty standard video head there's nothing I dislike or really liked about it sitting on a edelkrone slider so this is a slider that slides a lot further than its footprint would have you believe it's a very good slider but I haven't had a chance to use it much I try not to use too many slider shots I think one of my earlier videos I used way too many slider shots and people kind of ripped me for it so I've been hesitant to use too many it's sitting on a Ben row tripod I don't know the model number now as for why I went with Ben row instead of another company like Manfrotto it's only because of the color that's it okay this is a Fat Boy beanbag it's been in the office forever I used to remove it for shoots but I've noticed that the audio quality is better when I leave it in because it kind of helps like so if you notice this is all hardwood floor and the sound echoes a lot in this room if I leave this in here it kind of helps dampen the sound and just kind of gives a better audio quality for recordings this is a video editing PC that I set up so this is an X 99 system EVGA x9 micro GTX 980 32 gigs of ram the chip that's in there right now is a 10 core server chip from until I think it's a 5 to 6 8 7 version 3 it used to have a 6 core the 5820 but I put in a 10 core chip recently just to kind of see how it would compare against a 10 core Mac for just premiere and how do you find After Effects and yeah in case you're curious the Mac is a little bit faster even just listening at the higher clock speed there's nothing in here of importance really well this is the 6 quart trip that used to be in there 2:58 20 and I really should have opened these before I started filming ok this is the 14 millimeter 2.5 prime lens so this is what I've shot like most of my videos with until recently when I picked up the Sigma lens this is a very good lense it's inexpensive I think it's like 250 $300 good lens these drawers are filled with files it's just like office files pretty boring stuff like boxes and why not this ps4 Batman ps4 so this is an LG if it can focus an LG 31 mu 97 which is their 4k like a true 4k screen so this is like 4 0 9 6 by 2160 I prefer this monitor more than the one I'm using right now but this one doesn't play well with the Mac Pro so right now I'm leaving it here with ps4 and the PC the headphones here are I don't even thinking get these anymore they're older MDR v700 they're really bass heavy but they sound good ok so this is the notebook that I use for like most of my work if I'm not video editing I'm using this thing I prefer using a notebook over most things just for the portability to be able to like just work wherever whatever keys wallet oh this is a wallet company from Canada called cards staff at IKEA so they just put like pieces of aluminum and a silicon band that kind of keeps your wallet small it's kind of cool this is a charging station that I just kind of put all the battery chargers and put them in there why am I even showing you this looks pretty boring stuff ok this is a mic so the way I record my audio is I'll put it here and I will record I just kind of like you guys see the camera so just the mic will be just out of the frame and I'll kind of talk like that in front of it so this mic is I think it's like a knockoff of some audio technica mic I don't know it's unbranded it's just like some cheap Asian knockoff I'm sure but yeah I mean it sounds good so I'll just continue to use it and it's sitting on a Ben row carbon mono pod the model number is right there see 48 TD okay these are this is the bag i normally use like for 95% of my stuff this is a bag i use when i have to carry like multiple notebooks around just because they fit better in there than in here i only started using this though like if I have to bring notebooks to my home to kind of fill them and stuff like that and that's some stuff I have to review this is a poster that I designed when I was younger I thought it was super cool brought it to work like I got a printed got it to work I brought it to work and no one thought it was cool so well but I like it so it stays there okay so this is a Herman Miller mira mira - I think it's called a super comfortable chair I like it it looks weird I would say it borders on looking ugly but it's very comfortable so I like it - logitech TK 820 keyboard Logitech performance MX mouse so I used to have the Logitech master MX up until like a week ago it was having issues I sent it back to Logitech they are they're doing a refurb or they're repairing it we'll see but it was having weird glitchy issues which this thing still has but whatever that's just the nature of where I list mice audio engine a2 plus speakers pop in hardcover blue books I think the color is called pool blue it's a USB hub that I cut the rubber stand from the speakers just kind of like hide the wire because nobody likes wires right this is a Mac Pro the inside has been color weird there's more I'll probably do a video on that and some other color order stuff shortly specs of this thing it's 10 core three gigahertz 64 gigs of RAM and a pair of d700 okay over here some phones so a a C's 7.2 Nexus 6 in a cool orange Moto X 2014 and iPhone 6 these are all deep burn skins this is the phone that you guys are most familiar with I use this a lot in my notebook audio tests and stuff like that reason for that is this I'm not sure if it to the mic or the position of the mic or like what it is but this thing has a very accurate sound meter very accurate in terms of like comparing it to an actual professional decibel meter this thing is almost identical in numbers so I continue to use this for those videos so this is the action module for the edo crone this thing plugs up to the slider and you get just automated slides so you can kind of control your speed and your acceleration and just get better control and just meant much smoother slider shots if you do it electronically this is the Fleur one so this is like the thermal camera I use first notebook he had put this is some pretty boring stuff in here it was the spider I used for like monitor calibration or just color accuracy this is an AC 8 or a PowerBar that I use I don't looks like very unassuming and not very special but these 5 ports out here they push out more amperage than any other port so I think these things go up to 3 amps I'm not even sure if it's legal because if you look at the literature on it just as it goes up to 2.4 but these definitely go above 2.4 so you can quick charge like multiple devices very quickly off of this thing it's a pretty good Mouse and use for games uh either LED lights I try not to use lights but if I have to like for product shots it's like a rainy day and I just can't get enough lighting for product shots I use those they're just LED lights but in general I just try to use natural lighting for everything this is a focusrite scarlett 2i2 it normally comes in red but they were awesome and made me one in blue this is well audio technica m50x these are very ubiquitous everyone knows what those are so I don't like editing with these things they honestly sound too good they kind of give you a false perception of what your audio sounds like for people that don't have awesome headphones or speakers so I try to use something like crappier than these for editing the table so this is I get asked this a lot this is a drafting tape from Japan it's really old from like the 1980s or something it's I mean a drafting table it's just a regular table but you can kind of tilt it so right now it's flat and you can manually tilt it so that it comes up on an angle it's not for like architecture or just like doing design work and stuff like that so we have a bunch of these in the office I chose this one because it's gray and yeah I think the gray works well with my stuff but for someone who loves tech I try to keep as few things as possible I mean I try to have as little equipment and as little gear as possible because I'm not into that I don't want to have like a whole bunch of gadgets and gizmos and stuff like that it's just not me I like to keep myself simple I like to keep myself light if you have any questions or comments you can always use the comment section below but I'm also going to be doing a Twitter post so if you guys have any questions about my channel in general or about me or about this video go to Twitter and just look for the hashtag ask Dave 2d and just follow me on Twitter and just if you have any questions asking there because next week I will probably be doing a video where I answer a bunch of questions that you guys have so I hope you guys enjoyed this video it's been nice I'll see you guys next time