Gadgetory

so it's no secret we have some stability problems around here hey I'm talking about the land show streaming computer what are you implying anyway it's Friday which means of course that today is the perfect day to follow through on my commitment to course there they called me up they were like we love the land show we think it's the greatest show the best except that it has a few small problems the audio sucks the video cuts out and the system is unstable what are you going to do about it they said look we will sponsor you to fix the land show so today we are rebuilding the land show pc we are redoing the streaming setup and it is all courtesy of our friends at corsair the wind show now with 300% more RGB so the first step in any disassembly project and my parents would do well to remember this is to take pictures of everything involved so you have something to refer back to when it's time to put it all back together though with all the cables that straight up weren't even connected to anything from troubleshooting stream issues over the last couple of years I'm not even sure how helpful they'll be some of the old when pcs hardware will be reused the x99 deluxe motherboard and six core 59 30 K CPU got a dust off because they were already added a couple of months back to address stability performance and resource allocation issues but pretty much everything else is going to go we've got 64 gigs of Corsair Vengeance LED Ram in white and nvme SP 500 SSD a tempered glass case with RGB lighting I mean come at this 2017 what else was I going to use an RM 1000 X power supply even more RGB now with the fans Corsair sent us extra for the a i/o water cooler and the rear slot and some orange leads cables to manage along with all the other cables man cable management is tough in an all-glass case and I don't make matters easier for myself when I put stuff in in the wrong order the good news is that the finished product IMO is totally worth the effort this thing's looks badass next up it's time to tear the rest of the stuff on the desk apart for some good old fashioned cable management there is a lot of wasted space here and holy crap is this table ever dirty I don't think it's been cleaned since we moved and neither have the multiple bins under the desk that make up what I call the streaming gear graveyard in here you'll find everything that stops working for us at some point or another reassembly time now I'm going to put all the wicked stuff that Focusrite hook us up with into the retro server cabinet I made a video about here these guys are awesome they flew all the way out here to not just set us up with gear but to actually set it up with us it starts with a solid new microphone and SC 4400 a on a road arm it's got a handful of pick up patterns including cardioid and super cardioid it sounds awesome but could be improved by some acoustic baffles in front of the table stay tuned our sound craft mixer mainly serves as well a mixing board so the main feature is just lots of places to plug stuff in this allows us to use hardware rather than software to adjust audio levels EQ controls and to send auxilary outputs with a different mix our dbx 166 excess compressor is back we actually bought this in ages ago because theoretically it would make it so link doesn't sound so quiet all the time and I'm not clipping when I'm ranting unfortunately we derp and didn't have a preamp for that's why it never worked which is exactly where focus right zone 18 i-20 comes in we could use it to accept up to 20 inputs with an optical expander we could do our headphone monitoring off of it instead of the dedicated headphone amp that Focusrite set us up with as well but we're just concerned with the quality of the audio capture in this case and focus writes claim to fame is there awesome preamps easy to overkill yes and so is the 6i6 that we're using purely as a digital input for an additional laptop on the table but hey come on this is line is tech tip we're also going to use it to monitor audio levels to ensure that no other parts of the audio chain need to be adjusted in the event that we change our microphone pickup pattern placement or even our microphones all together so next stop is moving the computer into place and upgrading the peripherals ok arguably the peripherals are a bit of a side grade but going from a full-size to a 10 keyless keyboard gives me a lot of extra space for laptops and stuff loving it so far time then for some table management this doodad from the Manley guide to cable management is awesome and so are the 3d printed velcro tie anchors that Jake whipped up on our ultime kerttu another big improvement is that now both of our hosts get hdmi cables for their laptops we're running these and our camera into new capture cards from Epis and i can't say enough good things about these we've actually been using them for a couple months for the lens show as well and for screen capture around the office and they're responsible for some very significant improvements in our production values they just make it so easy to capture at any resolution without tinkering and did I mention they're Canadian flippin awesome the capture cards are USB so we needed to add another USB card to the system to avoid resource conflicts with three of them attached but once we figured that out it was smooth sailing and I really have nothing else to say about them time to power things up then I asked cable mod for five power cables some combination of orange black and carbon they sent five each of multiple styles of sleeving of each color holy crap you guys anyway at least they look great once they're in place and I will put the giant box of power cables that I have leftover in a corner somewhere so time to hook back up and power up the audio gear and take you guys now on a grand tour of the finished setup hallelujah silento computer is on we are ready to tour the finished when show set so improvement number one make it till the land show is more likely to be on time these tp-link Wi-Fi smart plug things basically we just use an app when the phone is dead but don't worry about it there's an app we use an app press a button and Boop when show lighting turns on improvement number two we won't trip over this while we're running around getting ready for an show improvement number three dramatically better cable management now instead of having the entire desk full of the gear that we need to run way and show it'll just be full of the gear that we need to host when shows so we'll have our streaming computer our laptop we've got HDMI cables for our laptops we've got oh yes all of the audio gear off the table replaced by a power distribution hub same here which is awesome all our audio gear is in this badass retro server cabinet thing and our when PC is of course heavily upgraded to be much more reliable and much sexier all at the same time so I guess I better get this show on the road then shall I so thanks 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