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everyone I am joined by Linus Sebastian and we were in a brand new space for you so a little bit of back go in this room it'll go down as we go through the rest of this tour but sorry this is this is brand new I don't think other than an exclusive flow playing video I don't think you've shown it anywhere yet no we haven't so the reason for that is that it's not really in a state where we can show it so in the future there's gonna be about a thousand square foot workshop that's gonna have our CNC router our upcoming CNC mill we've got a lathe coming our laser cutter over there it's gonna move in there we're gonna have venting and kind of like do everything more properly a real workshop like a real negative space so we're really excited about that we're moving a lot of our storage over here for events like LTX and the roast actually hey check this out speaking of exclusive first looks before that this video is brought to you by a thermal grizzly and their high-end thermal compounds thermal grizzly makes cryo not paste for high thermal performance and conductivity without being electrically conductive so you don't have to worry about shorting components cryo knot is particularly good for replacing stock GPU pastes as cryo knot is a non curing compound learn more at the link in the description below Wow is this for the road is your chair nice so you get to sit in one of these so that's gonna be pretty cool this is also our like our lighting things so you saw Brandon working on the colored yeah like color-changing thing so these are just air filters okay from like Home Depot and then what you do is you kind of stack them isn't meant to be a diffuser or yeah so you kind of stack them on top of each other and then you light them from the inside and you get kind of this cool glowing box thing but it's just duct tape and air filters very cool movie magic yeah so there's still a lot of progress for us to make over here obvious so the goal is you already have three units I guess technically for not counting this one is it though is it for okay so several other units that way first five units then the world yeah so several units that has been shown in the past in other videos we'll look at those too but this one what is the objective I mean you guys I know you guys do some CNC work we just did it for videos so the is twofold one is to give us enough space for storage because right now you know those fun little puzzles where there's nine squares yeah and one of them is empty and you reshuffle already make the picture we don't have an empty square right all right this is the empty square when we need to move something around to your swap space exactly so that's the front here at long-term storage for things like LTX cereals okay the other thing is the workshop was previously over in the first unit but we had a bit of a noise problem hmm so when the CNC is running the entire studio space is unusable however concrete well yeah so the way these buildings are constructed is it's eight units with drywall between the first four and the other four and then one concrete one that's structural down the middle so because this is unit five now we can have a noisy workshop over here do whatever it is we need to do over here and we won't disturb the actual filming space at all so then I guess the the question is with all the equipment coming in are you gonna wrap up content that uses the stuff like the CNC is because I see I see Alex working on custom blocks and things like that every now but it doesn't seem like an everyday thing so how do you how do you utilize the space we've moved that router probably six times since we got it on him because it hasn't had a proper space right so once we've got all the tools we need they're all within reach what we'd like is to do far more maker content we're actually doing around hiring right now for writers and I do have my eye open for someone with some maker fabrication experience so we're always looking for ways to differentiate and you differentiate in your ways with your in-depth analysis with your overclocking with your attention to detail that quite frankly a lot of the time I'm just like really thanks video you know we want to differentiate with well the workforce that we confer things how we can tackle projects that would take your team you know three weeks to do right well we want to do those in three days which is still a long time and still cost us a lot but it's manageable this is the worst SmartWatch of all time by the way there'll be a review on your channel but I reached my step target they goodness you wouldn't even walk it what'd I tell you what is it called it's called the new Nubia alpha okay well I guess there'll be a review on - Texas you gotta check it out don't miss it okay so this is the workshop space yeah anything else we should cover here or move on to the rest honestly not really it's it's very incomplete so yeah I think we can move on pretty safely cool so this is by far the coolest thing that's happening in our space right now so a couple couple key components to this we finally have the arcade machine working it's just a matter of repairing some of the panels and closing it up and it's like ready to rock this was an old build right yeah yeah yep knows that that was a video we were creating that because we wanted one not because we needed this is our board games table okay so we went and got basically every four plus star board game on Amazon and we're turning this into kind of like a lounge so that the ping-pong tables folded up right now because they actually just took out all the junk that was in the front here you just saw that okay and then these are new racks where we're gonna learn yeah most of our component storage over from over there so is it you think you think this will get a decent out of use by the team I actually do think so because this is pretty much the bang inist movie-watching setup you ever get see surround sound I see oh nice so you can decide 120 Hertz B FG d 4k or 4k 120 inch projector I mean why settle for just one best of both worlds the couches are a nice yeah like super comfy so there's already a game of Thrones watch party that is scheduled for people to come in just you know start those new season of Game of Thrones here so ya know I think once it's done it will actually get a fair bit of use and not even this so much I'm actually expecting the most used part to be what's gonna be over so these boxes are all the parts for a dozen gaming rigs is this for the Lance Center yes okay so you're standing in the middle of these are our D branded tables aha so we're gonna have six of em Vickie's custom for you they don't make the size right no no no yeah there's no way they just sent us this shoot I forget what I call unit yeah they sent us a sheet of this honeycomb black one that I think looks amazing and we did ups we had a local guy come and do the six tables for it okay so we've got six of these twelve seeds total this is actually the first kind of semi-finished version of what it's going to look like so it's going to be two players on each table like this we're gonna have blue I think they're getting minis yes yeah so no no that's all right Yeti nanos and then we actually did something that's gonna surprise a lot of our viewers we went AMD okay cool our five or what actually are seven 2700 X so what was the what's the rest of the build what do you have for video cards we're good we've got our TX 20 70s okay 16 gigs of I think it's only 26 66 best fine it's fine see sonic 1,000 watt power supplies you say 16 of these how many high 12 12 12 these rigs so everyone's gonna have Logitech's whatever this nine one yappin the renamed c920 without housing but it's the 4k one actually so I think it's technically actually new so everyone's gonna have a webcam Yeti Nano and I've already got people like hey when's it gonna be done I want it I want to stream from the office because we've got our new 10 gig internet connection so basically you like you can't drop a frame yeah Yeah right right let's I guess let's talk about this area so this has got to go teklynx that what's going this this is going why is that so the reason is that we're having more editors okay so our camera den which contains all of our gear and is where David and Brandon and our new grip are all gonna sit this is going to become more editing bass okay so they are gonna move out of here and they're gonna go to where we have all of our storage for cables wires adapters IO shields and then as that storage going like in there so this is this is the old workshop but all of the like more hardcore tools I don't know what to point sure it doesn't need a mallet anymore this goes in the new workshop okay so this is only gonna make sense PC building progress this will be the PC building workshop so this has been here forever though right like isn't this one of the first thing yes yeah this was the first set that we when we got a pegboard people said we were copying yeah I was copying stuff I found online okay so this area is pretty cool everyone sees the sets I guess basically every day in the videos with this one twice a week I think three times a week and then the lighting though is not what's shown so what's going on here first of all you configured it on your phone which is pretty neat yeah so you can hear a perfect one for me to use as a don't know I don't want to reach your app perfect that's funny use as a demo as the sky panel here so we use these Casa modules which honestly aren't that amazing I don't know that I would give them a strong recommendation okay but they're like mostly good enough so the idea is that with the lighting grid with the C stands that are all sandbagged and kind of fixed in placed all it's just a matter of coming through being like okay tech link floor lights and then you'll see that second floor light over there is gonna go ahead and turn on so we can walk on to a set put a camera in front of it and we're ready to rock nice how long did this take to really figure out like to get it dialed it took us probably three weeks really to really get a clicker perfected to the point where we don't change it anymore at all yeah that's cool and you have a similar thing going on over here I guess and this is just a different group of lights you know that's the greatest thing about the green screen is lighting is so important for a green screen but the quality of the light doesn't necessarily matter as much it's more about the positioning so these are actually the cheapest lights in the entire building an entire set of like two of these lights including a stands like that's 150 bucks or something like that so we just have this this top-down lighting on the back of the green screen and then just a few soft boxes around the host and then okay all we've done the only thing we've done in the last little while is added this guy so you get kind of that that shine I'm lack of the host cool off their head so it's like and let me add a little bit better separation with the background right and then these so well maybe talk about this in our other video sure but can you I guess let's let's explain why this happens because to me when I first saw you guys using these in your own videos I was just like white why don't you just clap yeah but there is actually a reason for yeah yeah what is the reason so for one thing this does actually give you a sharper waveform if you are trying to synchronize versus a clap okay so yeah it's it's like a vertical line right a sickly which is nice also it contains a whole bunch of useful information so when you have a different person editing the video versus the one who shot it this stuff is so important so we need to know what camera was it shot on that can help us diagnose things like a piece of dust or lint on a sensor hmm okay we should probably include our lens as well to be perfectly honest with you this tells us what video it is so if we're going through and looking so it's really important to have your slate as the first frame in the video so that it will show up as your thumbnail in the software that we use which is called Chi know that allows us to see thumbnails for support of file formats that aren't natively supported by windows like our 3d so this tells us much faster for the editors to find within at a glance if someone accidentally ingested a clip into the wrong folder for example you can see oh no this was tackling 1:43 instead of 142 the integration this tells us who the sponsor is honestly this doesn't matter as much but it would give the editor pause if the wrong read was done and they could be like hey did we change this for a reason mmm the writer is important for I think we don't really track that anymore but whatever microphone so this tells us do we have a problem with the microphone was it a positioning issue which SD card and which mag it was shot on this is incredibly important because our policy is to take picture of the slate and put it in our Trello card so that if that project goes missing we know which cards we have to then go find on our investigate that's right on our media sign out board to find out what happened to it camera op this is important because if any of this gets lost we know who to ask for it right and then the date is well the date I don't know seems important also these helpful notes written by Max who used to work here I swear it's or whatever God you believe in if you don't take a thumbnail there will be consequences so when I hold it up I have that nice little reminder for my sauce 'im all right so then we've looked at these sets a little bit we can talk about this one briefly here we shot that whole laptop overclocking thing in here how fun and this this room is genuinely really impressive because when I first walked in here if you know if you kind of don't look up above the walls yeah it does look like an actual house so my wife and we also had a third party interior designer and then also an architect designed the whole thing for us so we provided our architect with some sort of condo layouts and we went well we don't actually need a fridge or bathroom right or running water in water or anything so can you design it around like we don't actually need some of that stuff and give us kind of a kind of typical condo layout because what I observed was that the problem with our sets compared to like a sitcom set is what I really borrowed from a lot because they're designed to look like a place people actually live but they obviously aren't in fact most of them are quite open so they have all these corners like three walls normally but none of them are 90 degrees okay actually usually it's more than three so they'll have these segments and they have this shape and this depth to them and I was like we need to achieve that people kind of walk down hallways but obviously there's a room there right right so so we so we borrowed from that a lot so that's why you'll see corners like that that are not 90 degrees it still makes the space feel like a room but it's the weird shape that you would never see in an actual build so let me let me ask then obviously Linus tech tips sort of really got its rise in that house yeah he's it a lot of the videos in the kitchen I know everyone saw the comments about like I missed the kitchen right was this a response absolutely okay yeah absolutely did you have did you personally feel like you had an attachment to that style not an emotional one but I did miss shooting in the kitchen because it is just a really convenient place to shoot you got your I mean in a real one you've got your sink right you know for cleaning stuff or whatever you've got your island which this is this is a super boss this island is not a real island it's attached to an up desk so we can actually raise it if we want to do content that standing level like this and we want to be comfortable or we can lower it if we want to sit down or we want to be able to shoot down at something more easily so the camera operator doesn't have to like get up on something right so this is that is very cool so it's even better than a real kitchen except the sink doesn't work yes and people I see as you showed me you've added bins for collection yeah just in case people dump things down so now no emotional attachment to the old kitchen but no it just it didn't feel it does feel more like an a like a startup right because we moved out of our house too and you lose some of that charm I guess I have this curve or this this graph of sort of your your investment versus your production values as you invest zero your production values are actually quite high because your house inherently has set deck right let's lived in it looks natural right yeah and then as you spend you know a lack of money on an empty box with no you know foam sound deadening on the walls and you've actually spent a lot of money your production values actually go to zero and then you have to spend far more again in order to break up the way you had in the first place yeah but then at least you get that that work home separation really helped a mental state I think legitimacy too so you're not dealing with constantly looking because we were in that situation to where you're constantly looking over your shoulder for the town to evict you in your case you actually did get a notice that's all documented but not just a notice they showed up yeah they talk to us yeah conversation it's it's difficult it's because the financially a house makes a lot of sense it does it did right you're just not supposed to do it yeah but you can't really blame him I see you there yeah so this is a really cool set through isn't there there's that other one right through here I'd be a bedroom set okay so is that accessible you just have to go out this way and then around yeah and then there's this weird rolling we can go look at it yeah sure so how much freedom do the the guys like Brandon have to just be like you know what I need another light here I can they do they just buy it or they go to eat it then for approval but we never really denied them I see so making that what you will all right so our original plan was to actually have a hallway that connected these two and have a door into the bedroom but then we realized it was more space efficient to not do it that way I'm sorry that I can't get any of these lights turned on for you oh it's fine yeah I I don't actually oh well sure sure there's your problem the coolest thing though is this sliding bookcase hmm so normally you would have the entry into the room left open but this gives us more options we can shoot in every single direction in this room and if people don't watch the vlogs or the behind-the-scenes videos or whatever they'll be none the wiser it'll seem like we just have more sets right so this whole thing just slides I'm also impressed how little that is gone and now there's no escape I'm impressed with that little echo there is in here because if you had a room like this with an axe with a ceiling you would have echo issues so that cellulose foam that we had over in the other unit is also in here and because we have so much more clutter and stuff in here you hear it a little bit yeah but for action for just conversations we couldn't from this distance you and I could not hold a conversation in these three units I mean I took possession is from all that oh yeah and reverb I guess yep big changes so when show set what is uh I don't know what happened here what did we do the Len show set it alright cuz the roast tonight sponsored by madrina so we put a bunch of we put a mini boot they sent us a mini fridge for this ok cool we were talking yesterday about how you have editorial separation now from the ad side of things which is really important right and so the I guess your personal visibility to what who the advertiser is even are a lot of the time I don't know I will I will be surprised to find out I'll be doing a sponsor II it'll be like up okay sure and in most cases I don't even know how much they're paying for spots occasionally I'll check what the guys will be like hey like is revenue okay like what are we charging for spots right right but a lot of time I actually don't know and truthfully the biggest difference for me is I really don't care we're at the point now and we're actually we've reached it a long time ago we're literally any single tech company any any five if they hated us and didn't engage with us at all we'd be like okay what's the advantage of sponsors like madrina sore like exactly the jerky guys I get a lot of people commenting on our sponsors saying what does dole shave club have to do with tech that's the point nothing yeah that's the fine and despite it's not a spite ragging on everyone for the vacuum thing which is really just because there's also coordinated right vacuums as a sponsor actually not that bad don't review them right we have nothing to do with those long yeah as long as it's not a review then who cares yeah yep so we we communicate very clearly to because a lot of the time on the brand side essentially the same point of contact for money and for creative okay but from our side we communicate very clearly that if you want have a creative conversation that's with me or an editorial conversation that's still me or someone from my writing team and if you want to have a money conversation you talk to someone from the sales team right and this is actually a new policy so I do have obviously some visibility into our sponsors are and how much they yes but the writing team no longer does it all oh and so all they know is we have a sponsor for this project here's who it is okay yeah good policy so we're moving our way towards that's like traditional magazine format the way they used to do it yeah which is which is pretty good yeah and you know the reality of it is there's honestly no pressure on us from the outside to make any of these kinds of changes the I think and it's it's not something that I like but I think the landscape is changing and has changed to the point where the average consumer not only doesn't know but even when they do know they just don't care yeah one of the terms that makes me the most frustrated is paid review because there's not a thing it's not a review yeah and so we're always really really careful with the word review yeah use spotlight we use and things like that we use showcase showcase that's it yeah if it's sponsored it's a showcase I feel like we've communicated very clearly to our audience that while you cannot put an opinion in my mouth if you sponsor the video there are talking points they won't be my opinion if I give an opinion that's mine if it's a review there are no sponsored talking points there's no message from the sponsor and we draw a very clear line there the problem for us is that throughout the rest of the industry yeah there is no line and by and large as far as I can tell the general consumer doesn't care we actually we have the same concern where I've had people post comments about yeah we worked with kingpin the overclocker I'm looking at his new video crew obviously is employed by EVG act yeah and there was a comment I was like this is the best ad I've ever watched it wasn't an ad like it was just reporting we it's got a trade show there's news topics there's new products we talk about them and that's the news but the landscape as you say has changed so that now even that's perceived as paid for which when it isn't is very frustrating so yeah because I mean if you're gonna be accused of being a paid shill you might as well get actually do it yeah like just commit to it yeah it's difficult yep oh yeah Mike is there actually counterweights for the gym make sense yeah so they go on these part I like this too of a c-stand stand yeah you our contractor actually made that up customs are very good it was gonna cost us like a thousand dollars in shipping to get like the good one that's only available in the States are at that time so you just build water bills yeah so my office is a disaster I moved a couple weeks ago but I've actually hardly been here so I haven't had time to really set it up properly the desk we've seen into the build video on that we're gonna do a new desk oh really actually I'm really excited about desk a CV to target is to you okay to your space yeah it'll be flat nice that's cool is this thumbnail getting made yep I like this thumbnail already Reilly's new area I guess this is all reshuffled right yes yeah yeah so Anthony Alex Jake James although they're not all gonna have two desks for long certain people need two desks like Anthony and Alex probably Jake as well James won't end up with two desks once we add writing two more writers very soon though so we're gonna have desks out here and there just knock good luck guys a madman then finally I guess this can be the the end of the tour this is what pays for it all is this sales now yeah so sales and floatplane actually so Nick's in charge of sales Lloyd does merch who vivillon I think we've only shown him on camera a handful of times Colton and Johnno are out of here right now preparing for the roast it's a John's old office too before he moved that's right so he's back actually in your neck of the woods Ness right yeah right and this is where floatplane media sits this is the divider this is their excellent sign we moved over from the other side actually won't plain media right so this is this where Luke is now yep oh you back there got so Luke's right there and then we go that looks like we set up we're actually gonna have have one more other guys will joining us very soon so we're gonna have two of them here honestly they're gonna need their own office at some point like people go like oh - why do you have so many sponsors like and I sit there and I go I have so many expenses yeah yeah but floatplane I think floatplane is doing something really really important what YouTube is terrified to work under right so yeah that makes sense I mean since day zero - Media Group has existed to try to figure out how to not make itself entirely reliant on YouTube that was honestly the reason we created the form because in the event that went down the idea was okay well we're gonna have half a million email addresses right you can still communicate with dubiously legal whether or not we could actually send an unsolicited email hey guys YouTube kicked us off we're over here now honestly if it was down to our survival we'd probably just do it yeah of course cuz who cares of that point yeah well then what are they gonna do shut you down can they do to us yeah so that was honestly that was it that was the reason we created it that's the entire value of the forum I don't know if we ever make money on it in fact we don't we it's run mostly by volunteers we have some contributors who cover the the server costs and the occasional paid license for things that we do actually need to buy but as far as I'm concerned if it breaks even and it's there as a as an oh no emergency button hey that's better than nothing but in the meantime what Luke Jaden will they Jay the rest of the team are out Yuki what those guys are working on is like a back-up plan not just for us mm-hmm so will it succeed I don't know it's worth it that safety net often are and then of course the real boss she's not here today either but up locked okay so that's that's your old office that's my old office so my wife's in there now and then the reason she got the big one is actually because our part-time bookkeeper works with her housing as well and it was the biggest one so right there's actually two people in it very cool like why didn't Luke get Linus's old office because honestly Luke's probably gonna get kicked out of here sooner rather than later because lions media group is adding so many people he's bringing more people over here we're just gonna have to get them a separate office right right they're gonna have to go legit get kicked out of mom's basement for the second time yeah so I guess that's it for for the office tour Thank You Linus for showing us around much appreciate my pleasure I'm glad to be I'm glad to be helpful yeah honestly you're doing far more for me this guy is just an absolute Saint not only is it coming up for LTX which is incredible like having that's a good show other members of the tech community though be there makes it not Linus directing it makes it actually about the broader community and without the participation of people like you and J bar nucleus was there last year loose broth was there elastomer like you guys changed our vision for the show to be perfectly honest with you because all of a sudden instead of it being about Linus tech tips fans coming and meeting up it was like no hold on a second these guys were there they were getting absolutely mobbed this is bigger than that it's a good event like I think it's you're starting to get some exhibitors in there too which is really we could rupal down this year they're spending about a quarter million so it's so like yeah there's value for everyone so that's it's it's I'm looking forward to it if we it is possible actually with how well pre-sales are going that we could actually more than break even I'm not gonna say be profitable because there's plenty of costs that were not accounting for that don't follow in the actual books like there's no way but we could more than break even on the actual checks that we write nice so I'm really excited so he's coming up here not only for this he's coming up to be part of the roast tonight I came and helped host a video with me that extreme overclocking laptop a lot of fun you should check it out so yeah no thank you so if you want to contribute to Linus breaking even on LTX what is the what is the website shirt honestly by the time this video goes up I'd be surprised if there's no be gone okay well no I lied so we previously had a 500-seat BYOC I'm going to open up 100 more seats okay so stay tuned do you remember the LTX twitter LTX expo at LTX expo stay tuned there because Steve's gonna be are we allowed to announce who's gonna be there yet there's like a huge list so I think Paul and Kyle are both confirmed you're confirmed of Jay's confirmed the point is there's over a dozen people confirmed a lot of them smaller naturally so I'm really excited it's gonna be awesome more grassroots than ever and yet quadruple the size so like I don't know I I think that's just such a cool thing I will be there covering it just like a real yeah a big show just like a real awesome you know what I mean I don't even I mean like Computex race that's pretty cool they're running something that you're getting coverage on so check it out - tech tips on youtube if you want to subscribe 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