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yeah that thing's broke oh really but I can show you around the rest of the studio if you want go behind the scenes let's do it what's up guys MTB HD here welcome to the long-awaited episode 2 of this series it started with the Casey Neistat studio tour well over a year ago then I was a bit of a pause and now it's back under a new name so welcome to the BTS and this time we're joined by a none other than Luis Hilson Tiger the mind behind unbox therapy to take a look through his iconic studio space used to make his videos the gear the team and the philosophy behind it all so we're in the studio the unbox therapy HQ I guess I could say you could call it that this is it we're looking for a little behind the scenes I don't figured we'd start with the iconic desk tell us a little bit about what we're looking at right now honestly this thing this just happened over time the main objective was always to get like a push-button one power bar and have lights camera and then I could bring the action you know very important part of it so these are these are just giant they're LED lights you can adjust the brightness but they're usually blasting and you sat there earlier you probably recognize this blinding he's not a comfortable place to be in fact and so that took a while to get used to the idea of just ignoring the fact that you had all this light but in the beginning I mean you could probably attest to the same thing we start out on YouTube you're like experimenting a lot you're just like maybe this will work maybe that way and I was always in this situation of trying to light myself and an object all at once all the time and so I figured out that by bouncing all this light off of a light surface and with a relatively light backdrop you could kind of achieve that with a fairly simple setup so I mean I sit right there and there's these giant TVs on either side that are gonna showcase what's happening in the angles other than the one where I'm sitting other than the front shot having a bigger version of it was helpful for focus and stuff because oftentimes you know jack will be standing over there and I'll know if he got focused on the thing I'm talking about or not and since everything is happening live like we rarely redo anything it's important that like that we link up on that so I can look in this giant TV and be like okay did you catch that shot yet and once I see it then on to the next so the video setup itself to achieve that right now is a trio of Canon c500 s recording into atomists 4k recorders the main angle is with a Tokina 11 to 16 so super wide the one operated from the side by Jack is rockin a sigma 72 200 and the one rigged pointed straight down from above has a canon 70 to 200 focus right on that table the lighting is super simple it's just this trio of led softbox lights full brightness filling in any possible shadows and reflecting off the table to create light around the object on Lou and even this nice you know recognizable gradient on the background as you've seen and you can't forget audio there is a shotgun microphone right in the middle over the center camera being recorded separately and synced all right so this is upstairs from the other side like behind the set where you're used to seeing me over there and this is kind of I mean it's a weird space now up here this is where everything used to take place all the desks were up here the editing was up here there was like a little lounge area I guess there still is one over there but I don't know it's kind of just makeshift products accumulating over here on this side most of the editing and sort of post-production moved downstairs now along with the new set that was recently built so I can take it down there and show you that all right so we're down stairs now this is the bigger part of the space but surprisingly we didn't start using it up until recently everything used to be upstairs now a lot of it is down here including that gigantic mess over there all those products packed up I don't actually have a desk right now that's kind of weird these guys do there's a little kitchen in this region over here of course we've got the Papa Schadt as well if anyone wants to test their skills and what else I mean there's some old camera gear monitors a couple of go-karts which is kind of a story that goes with both of those but I can't tell you that story right now because it might hurt Jack's feelings this is the editing area I would say was the desk area is where everybody sits we have Kirk's spot over here Jack right there and we'll behind that and it's where the magic happens really it's where all the ranting and raving turns into something that you can watch so let's talk to these guys let's see what their setups are about hey I'm Kirk this is my desk I'm rocking an old school dining room table splashing it up with a little bit of newness with the RGB lighting I got the MacBook Pro that I edit from and always some fresh fruit on the table here I'll be editing stuff for the YouTube channel or the social media stuff photos videos all the things hello my name is Jack and this is my workspace I have my laptop here my monitor my marshmallows my hot sauce I added here yeah I don't have a keyboard or a mouse I find I have gotten pretty good at just editing right off the laptop so that just I take that wherever I go these guys are great they come right out of my laptop if we want to rock out in here and they're also plugged into this record player over here for when I listen to Queen what's up guys I'm will and this is my setup pretty standard except for this crazy wide gaming monitor I do mostly Photoshop I do thumbnails and stuff working on the MacBook Pro and this is where Otis sleeps all right so you saw most of the main floor you saw the editing spots for well Kirk and Jack you saw all the various piles of gadgets over in the corner over there course the little kitchen and whatnot by the stairs but the most exciting thing down here is also the newest and it's right over here and of course it's the new set so this set is again a trio of C 500s the two side cameras with 72 200s and the middle with a canon 11 224 one of my favorite wide-angle lenses and the set itself is kind of amazing there are 10 4k OLED TVs stitched together next to each other in the back and then also a 77 inch wallpaper TV on each side and the TVs are held up by this sort of plywood frame that's about 15 feet tall to fill up the whole background complete with LEDs it's a pretty unique look pretty modular as well and all centered around this pair of seats and a table in the middle so this is a look at the set you know it kind of it goes all around it's a it's like almost 360 in fact you can shoot in a number of different directions originally we thought about doing a full 360 one but then it's like you get weird stuff with cameras looking at each other and whatnot it's a whole different story but we did kind of go overboard with the lighting the all these LED lights in here that you see behind the the kind of cover on the front they can go how many different gradients it's like a thousand different gradients of RGB so you can set up these incredible kind of color schemes and then the actual important lights that are lighting me are up above that on a grid so the whole thing was actually built or at least most of it was built off-site and then brought into this unit here and then and then basically just assembled and set up inside of here in fact originally there was a giant desk in this region here a circular desk and then I sat there and I was just like I don't know something just felt off it wasn't comfy enough didn't feel like a place that I wanted to sit and talk so we had that thing removed brought in the couch chair situation but much like upstairs it's often about experimentation in this space so even this might not be permanent it's cool for now and it's fun to shoot somewhere other than where I've always been which is at that desk and that really confined face this is big this is this is exciting it's like I can breathe I can chat I can talk I can be comfortable while doing so in fact this this particular scene this lighting setup here reminds me of those those popsicles you know the ones like the rocket popsicles firecrackers yeah it actually kind of reminds budget just sprung on me right this moment but of course we can change it up maybe we should change it up right now Kirk can you throw another scene on real quick just just Chuck a different scene something real quick there you go okay blue Oh actually there was a bit of a blue there was a fade there it kind of went to a bit more white teal at the bottom but you can configure everything through an app every single light is controllable independently of the others so you set up these scenes for whatever you might want it to look like and it gives you a little bit of flexibility so that the set doesn't doesn't stay static or identical all the time you can switch it up so okay number one thing I've learned from loose studio is I definitely now want to build a set for myself where I can just walk in sit down hit one button everything turns on and I can just record like this this is the ultimate frictionless studio just removes any barrier of setup between having an idea and recording it and that's what Luz built here and multiple versions of it anyway that's been it thank you for watching this episode 2 hope you enjoyed and let me know what other types of setups and BTS you want to see in the future until the next one catch you later peace