Gadgetory

what's up guys Jays two cents here and I've been working on building myself a new set up ever since moving into this studio and unfortunately my workspace is usually like the most neglected space but I finally got what I think is pretty close to my final setup here for 2017 and then we'll do it all over again probably 2018 whatever now I know I'm not the first tech youtuber to use a dining room table as a desk but I don't think it's unnatural for us to want more than the desk has to offer especially as Tech and PC enthusiasts as when most of us are I wanted something more and honestly that's because the desk just didn't go big enough to fit the two ultra wide 34 inch panels I'm using but we'll talk about those in a second what you're looking at right here it's actually the malcolm extension table from living spaces it's 95 inches by 45 inches that is huge it's got a dark oak finish which I thought had a really nice rustic look with the rest of my studio loft here which I think you'd have to admit especially with the way the table looks underneath and it's got these kind of like brackets under there which just really fit the aesthetics of this very rustic loft that we're using as a studio so I when I saw this I basically was like that's it that's the one that's the one we're going to go with now when you're dealing with a 95 inch by 45 inch table it can get kind of big so what I did was I put a card reader underneath the table on the right that's within reach of the sitting position and that's how I transfer all of my data from the cameras to the computer when I'm doing my editing it's also a USB 3.0 hub which allows me to be able to connect things to the computer without having to reach behind it because again 45 inches deep and then 95 inches wide it's a it's not easy to reach back there on the left side because I also had my laptop so I do testing with and use on my day-to-day basis I have a power strip mounted underneath the desk on the left side which allows me to easily plug in things like cell phone chargers laptop chargers and whatever else we just might need which allows me not have to drape cords all over the floor and it just keeps things nice and tidy also bright behind the keyboard I drilled a pass-through hole yeah it was painful guys to drill through this oak but it had to be done so that way I could pass my cables through the table and not have them draped again across which really takes away from the look I'm not a fan of wireless peripherals still to this day so that's why I use my wire set up and so the pass-through was necessary now speaking the peripherals I'm running a k95 from Corsair which is of course an RGB keyboard it's the Platinum keyboard and I'm using my Reaper mouse old CM storm Reaper mouse which is technically Coolermaster they don't make them anymore it's my favorite Mouse when we devastated when it breaks because I can't get another one but speaking of capable management underneath the desk we actually stole from one of the beckett desks that we have in the studio here the net that comes with the desks allows you to be able to keep all the cables tidy and managed so we just use the shallow wood screws and screwed those to the bottom of the table sort allowed me to just kind of throw all the cables and stuff that would normally just be hanging behind the desk and this net end looks tidy because on the other side of the desk it's just a wood grate and then you can see down to the first floor of our studio so whatever is on the back side of that table which would normally just be obscured by a wall it's actually visible from the other side of the studio so we wanted to look nice and I think it turned out pretty well and then we're just using velcro straps on cables to keep things as tidy as possible now let's talk about the panels because that's one of the reasons why I went with such a big table 95 inches by 45 inches I know I mentioned that again that is a huge huge table I've got two aces PG 3 4 8 Q's which is 100 Hertz IPS 34 over 40 by 1440 ultra wide a 21 by nine aspect ratio and that amount of real estate is absolutely priceless to me when it comes to doing my video editing so having that much space to be able to put folders and things that I'm using and have a huge timeline in preview windows and effects windows and transitions and all that stuff just it's nice to have to go digging around through different panels or tabs to try and find them it's all just right there at my fingertips and absolutely love these for gaming as well the hundred Hertz refresh rate and gsync make them extremely smooth so yeah they these panels right here have been literally an amazing experience for both editing and gaming now I didn't want them sitting on the table so what I did was I went over to Amazon and you can find links to everything I'm talking about in this video by the way in the description of this video but I went over to Amazon and I just found whatever hydraulic arms I could find that had a high enough weight capacity to be able to hold these monitors when they're out stretched the farther those those hydraulic arms go the more leverage the panel has to pull those arms down so I had to get one that had like 25 pounds of lift capacity and it gets the job done it's pretty neat because you can articulate the panel in any position you want so if you want portrait mode or landscape mode they're pretty easy to just rotate around they stay wherever you put them takes a little bit of adjusting to get it just right but they weren't very expensive and I was able to get two of them but I just mounted straight to the desk themselves and it keeps the monitors up gives me a place to put things underneath the monitors if I want push the keyboard out of the way if I need to and it just it just looks better it's almost like the panels are floating which I thought are really cool speaking of underneath the monitors I had a bit of an internal conflict of what to do for sound I ended up going with a sound bar and what the right thing to do would have been put reference studio monitors under there but I didn't want to raise the panels up any higher because if I did then I'd be looking more upward of the panels and right above my desk is this massive both blessing and curse skylights in this studio and it can get very bright especially here in Southern California we don't have many cloudy days so I didn't want to force myself to be looking at this skylight I've not actually been able to block out the light yet or put up shutters because of it's very strange that's a whole nother topic for another day but I didn't want to praise the monitors any higher so I went ahead took a chance we're going with a pretty inexpensive sound bar it was only 150 bucks I'm actually going to be buying more of these it's the Samsung hwk 450 it's a 2.1 stereo sound it's got a subwoofer which actually does a really good job of giving you full and punchy bass it really fills out the sound and when we heard this in the invest buy we kind of Nick and I both kind of listened to it we went wow this actually sounds really good then we got it here in the space and we were just going this is really amazing not to mention we like to listen to music when we're doing things like b-roll and whatnot so you can just Bluetooth connect your phone to it you got music in you're up and running things I couldn't really do with the studio reference monitors and not to mention I didn't have an amp to run those and then you buy ones that have internal AM so it just gets really expensive and I just didn't have the budget for that so we're happy with the choice that we made now for my editing rig this is actually a system you guys have already seen when I did the Cougar panzer video it's an X 960 900 k overclock to 4.5 gigahertz 32 gigs of g.skill 32 hundred megahertz try to zr gb ram it's got to EVGA for the win 3 GTX 1080p is which gives you both amazing gaming and transcoding performance and then in terms of cooling I just got to crack an ex 62 on there instead of a big custom water-cooled loop because of the fact that when this is my work editing rig I need it to be easy to work on if something needs to be swapped and big rigid tubing systems like skunkworks are nice but they're labor-intensive when it comes to maintenance and swapping out parts now we will be doing a very high-end custom rig for the studio I just haven't finalized exactly how I want to do that yet right a weird time with hardware I'm sure you guys know but skunkworks is safe and sound at home it's my gaming rig ax man playing on that a lot lately and yeah don't worry we'll come up with some more really custom stuff for the studio I promise just give me a little time now something else that's sitting here on my desk that probably won't be here much longer is my alesis multi mix mixer and preamp for my microphone now I don't actually do any podcasting anymore really that often and when we do we have a more professional setup that we're actually going to be working on so I won't be doing it here at my desk using a webcam so this will probably get relocated to whatever set that is and I will be on my desk before I just left to here for a couple of reasons one it looks nice on the desk this is kind of a neat little touch and two just to show that even this cheap mixer I got for 60 bucks years ago is still running strong so yeah you don't have to spend a ton of money to get amazing stuff now for chair you guys have been asking a lot about this this is the autonomous ergo chair we've actually been testing a couple years out here in the studio ever since we moved in so it's been a few months now and it's a pretty good chair now the price is about 300 bucks it's fully adjustable you can adjust the butt cushion either inward or outward it's got lumbar support neck support it's fully adjustable there are some things though that we're not perfectly happy with on this chair for instance the headrest will kind of fall down on its own sometimes rather than staying where you set it in terms of height I don't like the fact that the armrests don't lock into position when it comes to either forward backwards or Internet in and out motion pipe is obviously lockable but I wish that the arms just kind of move around now obviously being a tech youtuber means we have to have some IKEA representation no self-respecting tech youtuber is without supporting IKEA in some way we've got my IKEA lamp here I don't even know the name of it I just thought it looked cool and it matched the rustic look of the desk and gray as kind of our accent color that we've been using around here so I thought this lamp was perfect it's an LED and is dimmable so it's kind of nice that we can dim the lights although we don't really work here at night very often the days are long during summer right now but that'll be nice on the days that are they get dark early I don't know and then of course you can't be a tech youtuber without having the planting you know a fake IKEA plant thing goes John De Morrison that said you can't be a tech youtuber without one so there it is so anyway that's my setup here for 2017 guys a lot of the inspiration comes from suggestions from the audience other tech youtubers or other youtubers in general because I'm not good at this whole design thing but I think this turned out all right so you guys can tell me what you think down in the comments below or once you head on over to social media you can find me on Instagram Twitter Facebook and tell me what you think about this setup what would you change and if you've got a setup that's worth taking a look at why don't you guys send me a link to those and yeah I find a lot of inspiration from crowdsourcing you guys are so much better at this than I am so with that said guys I look forward to seeing your setups I'm going to go and as always I'll see you in the next video