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they run we're starting day three of our moving vlog now so this day involves a lot of boxes we're gonna start filling in some final stuff on the walls things like that and we're gonna do our first real unboxing the video make a genuine effort at it I don't I don't usually have any this is the deep cold frozen guess they didn't change the name after all so this doesn't go in the office this goes back to get tested it's it's in a MD cooler that we saw at CES and it's named frozen which is a really good name for a cooling device before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view 37 case the vo 37 focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its full panoramic window and tinted front acrylic and our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the airflow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 it doesn't really that's not really that substantial let's try this one that's pretty good you know what we decided to just do an unboxing tools benchmark there's not a whole lot of these a lot of unboxings but no one really goes in-depth on how good the tools are so they're just gonna finish up this unboxing is this how you use these Keegan oh yeah patrick neas for this app so for the first real work we're doing today we're gonna swap the cabinet in the fridge the fridge is making just enough noise that it's picking up in the testing room and it's not a lot but it's enough to raise the noise floor enough that I would rather just have the noise floor be lower that way we can do better noise testing so we're gonna swap them and then I bought some extra acoustic foam I'm just just around the fridge with it in that corner and hope that I hope that that doesn't off I mean it's probably only raising the noise floor by 2 decibels maybe 3 so we're probably at 30 instead of 26 or something and swapping them will fix a lot of it and saranya and film will get whatever's left over so I'm gonna swap those one of the first orders of business now that we have a place but food and liquid was to actually get some so let me go through these really quick you'll see a behind the scenes GN snacks and provisions for building a novel that would put anything real in here yet other than white fudge animal cookies so next thing we're gonna do is I bought some of this foam and this is it's fairly soundproofing I can't remember exactly how thick it is I want to say it's less than a quarter inch maybe it's it's something like that so this is gonna go maybe an eighth of an inch I think is what it is it's gonna go in here and it'll just be straight up and down that's because there is some noise from the hallway that just kinda like bounced around in here so this will help with dealing with some of the reverb issues but the bigger thing is gonna deal with is just like hallway noise from a door opening and closing right there so this should kill almost all of that because there's a gap between the window and the wall that's exactly the thickness of this foam which is really cool and I'm gonna put this on both sides and then that that should pretty much solve that problem so that's one of our next tasks for just dealing with the acoustics of the space so what are we what are we doing right now so we are soundproofing you've got one layer in between the wall and the window here and we're taking a second piece this square piece and we'll just do that make it nice form-fitting should be a good seal and it's gonna be way easier than trying to get some adhesive in between the window in the wall with this squeezed in there because I don't think we're ever gonna get the tape off and applied and then if we need to remove it later it'll be a massive pain in the ass yeah so this is easier and probably a better seal yeah you can discuss my method of doing this if you want in the comments but it's already done so it doesn't matter anyway so I got some silicon weather like draft cards and this is just gonna go at the bottom of the doors that go to the hallway and it'll go at the bottom of the door that goes to the testing room at assirram specifically is going to be sort of well pretty controlled for noise we'll just have to turn all the systems on from you test which we already do today so no change there we're gonna put these on both sides of the doors and test rooms behind me right there so it'll help just keep the noise floor low low for that room my target is 26 decibels we're pretty damn close so I think we can get there with with stuff like this there's a fairly thick silicon it's multi-piece and that'll deal with a lot of the noise especially if it's on two sides and we've got the acoustic foam as well that we can apply and we could do some sound damping blankets in the ceilings potentially I have to look into some legality of that but that's something we've considered I just I don't know what code is so I look it up worst case we get to hang it like suspend it below the ceiling with like a c-stand but I don't think we're gonna have to do that that's my goal is to avoid that because it's a huge pain and I don't know how many different rules I'm gonna have to look up to figure it out and I think we'll kill on the hallway walking noise and we'll just use acoustic foam for the rest just kind of scattered everywhere taking a and I guess educated approach to it but not like a scientific approach to the foam because I'm not a sound control expert not an acoustics expert but I think I can apply it well enough to damp everything to a point we're happy with so and we can always just peel it off and apply it again if we have to so I'm sure there are people out there in the audience who are like you're doing it wrong I know all about noise control in studios I appreciate your expertise I don't have those so if you actually know what you're talking about and you're not full of crap feel free to leave a constructive comment so that I actually pay attention to it and not a hostile one and let us know if you in seen like the space if you have specific recommendations of where stuff should go alright I'm gonna take my best guest today and then if we have to peel it off not a big deal so but let me know if you actually know what the hell you're talking about how as Keegan has observed andrew has safety goggles on right now part of our safety policy one of the things we're thinking of doing for this is could use it as a boom which we're not gonna do is laugh it all season to haul the GoPro above a livestream table so if we want to top down top or just a teardown shot we can use it for if we orient the bar horizontally we can use it so that the bar just holds up a sound damping blanket in front of the set behind the camera or in front of it a bit and I think that's mostly use a hair light hair or rim light we could mouth up there as well I think that pretty much covers it maybe a bounce card or something like that to thinning out the air thinning out the air yeah how's that work make it thinner that's what hammers do yeah so now we're gonna replace some of the lights it's all florescent in here you're gonna start putting some LEDs in and for the set area we're putting in some some more true white LEDs and then we have a bit bluer ones for the rest of the or actually yellow or one so that's the office it'll be like 40 100 K for all the working areas and that's bit warmer here maybe 5,000 or something like that because it's the studio lights we have basic math here so for the whole office the all the lights right now as fluorescent lights not LEDs as fluorescent lights if we have all them on it's about 2.1 kilowatts and if we go to all LEDs the ones I'm buying at the brightness I'm buying them it'll drop that in half cut it down to about a thousand kill or one one kilowatt of thousand watts for all of them actor that wants which will result in based on how many hours we typically will have them on should result in anywhere from four hundred at the low end to seven hundred fifty at the high end of savings per year just by switching to LEDs from fluorescent because the it just it depends how many hours we have them on but four hundred at the low on for sure and it's also it'll drive down cost elsewhere that's less visible like we won't need to run the AC as hard because the LEDs consume half of the power as the fluorescent tubes so AC won't have to run as hard that drive down cost there but also keeps the temperature more controllable in here and I mean dropping a kilowatt of power active use is pretty significant so we're gonna replace those probably keep around the fluorescent ones just because there's really no point getting rid of them if they're perfectly good maybe I'll sell them secondhand to someone or something like that because kind of defeats the purpose from an environment standpoint if you're just throwing them away but also we can reclaim some of the cost I think and telly is gonna be way better for camera two so that'll be nice to have so these are five thousand camera to see how they look fifty six hundred is typically what we use for our studio lights so this it's a bit warmer than what we typically is also so these lights are ballast bypasses which means this is the ballast is up here for the fluorescent tubes so there's a ballast up there and you can wire it so you can manually rewire it cap one end and then bridge two of the other wires together and that would bypass the ballast these LEDs eliminate that requirement it is harder to find the really bright LEDs with a ballast bypass built-in it's easier to get them if you do the manual bypass but we're going with we're going with the built-in bypass just make it easier and these are actually pretty nice so these are twenty three hundred lumens there's some of the brightest ones I could find with a built-in bypass and with the color temperature I wanted I hit that switch to see that's very bright we still have fluorescence in that one that's the one I just replaced so I don't know how well the camera picks it up especially for color correcting the video maybe we can leave this clip for our or something but pretty substantial by eye if not by camera that step I don't know that might be brighter as well I'm not sure I think it's it's a bit brighter definitely whiter though this is kind of yellow and hasn't looked great for video so we'll replace the rest of these just immediately over the set and then I'm going to order some others for the rest of the office unfortunately the first round I ordered was pretty economical in terms of price but if if they did arrive destroyed destroy it to a point that even the UPS refuses the shipment before we ever got it off to reorder those try that around the wall so that's that's it for the first nine bulbs there are I think they're like 70 something it might be like 72 where you do something like that so I replaced all the rest later I need to order the 40 100 cables again hopefully not destroyed this time the most one pretty destroyed because I think they're actually plastic housing so I have no idea how they got broken but anyway these look way definitely way better in terms of like studio color it's very close to what we use on our LEDs to the light stands half the power consumption at like 15 for its 14 to 16 watts I can't remember which it's roughly 15 watts instead of 32 plus and 23 hundred lumens 5 5 K 5000 K so 5 yeah 5000 K for the color so pretty nice we'll just we'll do the rest I think probably the rest of this room might be this economy temp return brightness buy more of these and everything else we're gonna do a slightly warmer color not too warm but we 4100 K which in Andrews comparative shots you'll see most the like yellow weird color that's 3500 K to give you an idea so 4100 K is fairly white it's like a it's like a daylight color and these are more of a studio light color so it'll be everyone here agreed basically that 4100 was the nicest to work under so we're gonna put those and like the production and pastors at the end of day 2 that video I showed how this had some like torsional flex and it's been fixed so basically just one of the support beams on each side was longer than the other one and then around and out it's good so this all supported now it didn't need to do any fancy mods started labeling some of these like small parts just spare parts whatever batteries zip ties things like that so that started but getting filled in the whole place has been like vacuum then cleaned and mostly emptied out relatively clean it is now happens on the foam yet so I'm waiting on another 36 foam blocks to come in in a couple days and well like I said if you actually know what you're talking about and aren't talking out of your ass let me know why I should believe you and if you have suggestions on specifically where in this room we should consider placing foam let me know we'll consider it right now I frankly I don't care if it eliminates a ton of echo and reverb or not but I'm considering this wall because like it'll definitely help a little bit I mean I'm standing over there and projecting across the whole room it's gonna hit the ceiling or off the ceiling and the floor and all that stuff - something will get to the wall though and also it's not gonna it's not gonna hurt anything it'll look cool anyway because blue and black so whether or not it does a ton I'll probably put some there just cuz it looks cool and then as for the rest we have some base traps I haven't really thought too much about where to put those yet we have phase traps we've got foam panels started putting some foam up around the fridge just to deal with refrigerator noise we swap the sides of bridges on so that helps with the testing room over there so that will basically kill the noise from the fridge so we don't have to worry about it during testing and I'm waiting on a couple more of the black foam tiles come in just doing every other one patterning it diagonally and it should should help quite a bit Plus moving the fridge to the other side of the kitchen so yeah now through the wall in the testing room it really shouldn't be that much noise so we'll have a low noise floor maybe lower than where we've been testing and that means better noise testing accuracy in the future then I did the same thing here I did on the other door to put a door guard or a draft guard down this one drags intentionally so I mean it's making full contact I'd put one on the other side as well help with the noise levels this room has hasn't changed a whole lot so it's still just to test benches for other benches another table back there in the corner so yeah we don't run any equipment in yet but that we got this room is pretty much good to go so for this room we filled in these over here that named Isis basically and we'll figure out more specifically were they going later but this seems pretty good right now production and test benches over here and we also have it and had an Adobe crash report pop up just while we were working here just they just happen that frequently at this point so also replaced a lot of these on two three four of the fixtures with 12 LED lights so they're a 5000 K now we use 5600 K and we're studio lights they look way better than the yellowish 3,500 K and 4100 K were using before so I mean yeah definitely way better for color we'll get our studio lights in later and then probably all this all the lights and the vicinity of video will be that color and then all the other lights probably 4100 cages because they're nicer to work under as opposed to fill them under so different needs will be addressed by different lights we got the C stand built and we have this dolly which is not so this goes on our big tripod that we have that will bring it eventually technically they say it's not a donnelly it's just for like relocating the camera moving it which is why I bought it but it is also labeled dolly it's literally on the label even though they say it's not as a Holly so we're gonna we're pretty much looking forward to that a lot just don't make it'll make repositioning the camera way easier nice to have that probably get this on wheels if we can got a bunch of wheels for the other light tripods and this C stands just really nice like it's I know you've seen probably Paul or the other guys using these what this is the first time we've had the space for one they're about a hundred bucks sorry twenty maybe and it's definitely it's not that expensive considering the other crappier tripods are like 50 bucks so it'll be good for like mounting a light here for example as a rim light or flattening it so we're talking about sound earlier and sound treatment well part of our potential solution options would be to flatten this then and just get some clips and clip on like a sound damn who's like it raise it up put it flanking the camera on either side and that would absorb a whole lot of the echo and reverb issues before it ever is picked up so that's a potential solution as you can see stands for sound damping blankets basically don't really want to put them on the ceiling for a number of reasons so not a great solution but yeah so we've got a whole room we can put sound treatment on if we wanted to if you have specific ideas and you know what you're talking about let me know and we'll consider them absolutely just you know give me a reason to believe that you know you're talking about because everyone on the Internet is an expert when it comes to audio specifically otherwise I think this will deal with a lot of it just put it down there a damping blanket on it if we want to not really worried about noise overall we'll be using a lab and we have options to damp it and it's gonna have a whole bunch more stuff in it soon so that will absorb or diffuse noise accordingly and I think is that all of it I think that's pretty much all of it so yeah just waiting on more foam and a couple of other things to come in but most of the furniture is done at this point if not all of it and our just waiting on a few more housekeeping things before we can properly move in and start using the space we also finally got the window pretty much danced with foam so stuck some foam in between the window and the wall and doubled it up cool it hit it together it's easy to remove but it's it's creating a complete seal so we'll have no more hallway noise coming in and it also helped with some of the like bounce back we were getting from my own voice off the window behind us and coming back in so that actually resolves a lot of the outside noise and we have a pretty low noise floor here honestly it's about the same as the house from the ACS off and AC on is not that different either so no downgrade in terms of noise and we're just working on improving 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