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so does the cheapest thermal insulation you can buy absorb sound and reduce echo and here we are here with the end result we have reduced the echos so much I'm just shocked at the difference it's night and day we went from the worst case scenario with just audio bouncing off the walls and sounding horrid to having it just really sound like a studio now like it just sounds so dead like the reflections are just all gone so that answers that question guys thermal insulation just this is the cheapest stuff we've got this whole room as big as it is it costs like three hundred and something AUD to shoot the whole thing welcome back to tech yesterday and I hope you guys enjoyed that little intro today as part two of the three part series where I'm going to be completing my new studio and once it's done we'll be able to make a lot of good content but in the meantime until then it's a lot of work of course it's actually a really big room but also this is my office here at the moment it's a stopgap until I actually move in there and as you guys know with coffee lake being released and a lot of other videos coming through the pipeline I've just been so busy I've had to keep up this rhythm as well as do the studio and you know what I actually love it it's a lot of fun you guys are here enjoying every step of the way but let's detail what is going on downstairs and what I intend to do with this new studio and of course if you guys have ideas what you want to see drop a comment in the comment section below as well I love reading all these new ideas you guys constantly in every single video I do give me awesome ideas which I will be doing and I have done in the past with a lot of videos so now what we're doing with the studio here is we're putting a steel frame in front of the concrete walls and the reason for doing this is that the walls are actually bowed out a little bit so if we're doing stick-ons it would be very hard to even out the gyprock I think in the u.s. you guys call gyprock sheetrock so it's a company that makes it over here they just call it jib rock you can see here the powerpoints I'm gonna have to remove them and I also want to bring them down around about 300 mil that'd be great for the desk level now also we've got pipes running through here as well so I want to wrap some sound deadening around those pipes just you know when someone goes to the bathroom and if I'm recording I won't have this water sound running through but you can see behind those frames we're actually going to be installing the thermal insulation now this is our one point five seventy five mil thick thermal insulation from Bradford we picked this up in Brisbane I got a foot under three Australian dollars a square meter it was actually the cheapest thermal insulation I could find by ahead longshot I think the company in themselves that sell it direct to the public were charging like 50 Australian dollars a bag I went through some third party on the internet and got it for like $30 a bag so this is a strain dolls too so it's very cheap and also in Australia we have the are 1.5 rating and if you guys in the US I think you use like an r8 or an R 9 or something like that that'd be a similar rating but anyway guys we're gonna get on put this thermal insulation in and try and change a few things up in the studio and get progress started so hopefully that answers the question for you guys of regular thermal insulation being used for acoustic purposes it does an extremely good job so what we've got left now I'll show you guys here is the cabling in the house this is another thing that we're working on over the last few days as you can see you have got rj45 this is actually cat6a I'm running this inside the walls and so this is going to be like a little server I'm gonna run down in this media room so we're gonna run a little server down here and we've also got our some speaker wire because I love a good 5.1 surround system so I'm gonna try and stall that in all the corners and also we've got a intercom going down here as well that'll be over there so there's some coax and an rj45 again there's a security camera going down here too so there's a lot of stuff that I'm just really putting all my savings into this media room it's really gonna be awesome once it's finished today actually this morning the sheets will be going up too and so we've actually got the chippies doing that because they've put the frame up as well and they're gonna put the sheets up too because that's sort of one thing that I don't want to do myself because I don't want like they're being bows in the walls and stuff like that but the rest of all that stuff we even do the painting and stuff like that but yeah we left it to the chippies to do the jib rock and the frame and now we're really good as well so that was really quick and they're doing a really good job so here's the rack here at the moment this is on the second floor so you see here this is the main hub there's a switch there with also power over ethernet and there is our adsl2 plus broadband modem so hopefully that will get upgraded to better internet in a couple of months they said their provisioning out the NBN in like January 2018 so I can't wait for that that'll mean better uploads that'll mean streams coming back for you guys now also another cool thing Decco sent over this paint your home and Wi-Fi so these are wireless access points the AC 1300s so apparently you can get these and put them anywhere in your home and then plug them up to each other and install an app and then have like this little home network within itself which is operated Virant app however one thing that I found a little bit disappointing about this unit was that it wasn't a p OE power over ethernet so I was actually gonna install one of these in the roof in the middle of the in the room and then just run it over p OE and that way i could run the wires inside the wall but since it does need a USB cable like actually power via charger it's going to be a little bit hard to run these in the walls because of this charger so i would have liked to have seen there's been our p OE that would have made a real big difference I could see myself installing these the wiring for these in the walls and sort of having them look really clean because they do look really good like there's a simple circular model and they are pretty cool in small access points and they do have five gigahertz Wireless support but also 2.4 as well you know guys let me know in the comment section below if you've used the AC 1300 if you have any tips or tricks and what you'd like them what you don't like about it also if there's a better alternative let me know as well because yeah that USB sort of charging port sort of just yeah it's a little bit a little bit annoying I would have loved to us in that POA but we're in this room here for a reason because we've got a other youtuber his name is rocketjump ninja and he does a really good peripheral reviews so I'm gonna be building him a new gaming / streaming PC probably in the next month I don't know exactly when it's gonna happen but we've got all or a lot of his parts of rocked up here and we're gonna build him one insane PC so without giving too much away he's going to be using an x3 70 motherboard he will have a rising CPU and eight core 16 threaded beast but the rest of the specs like the GPU and how we're gonna tune this thing in the games that'll be in the video also if you have some questions for rocketjump ninja and you want me to ask them let me know in the comment section below so know guys I hope you enjoyed today's vlog a lot of you guys were asking me like where's part 2 when's it coming and so I was gonna do it once the sheets were on and the plastering was all finished so we still have to do of course the shading and then paint the room and put the carpet in so that'll all remain for part three but I might even turn this into a four part series because even if we finish the media room we still will have to decorate it and put in the DES and get the computers set up and do all that stuff and that's gonna be still a massive mission to complete so that is really a lot of work to do but I'm just looking forward to it as always and thank you guys so much not just in the comment sections and every time you guys hit that like button and watch the videos but also as well big thanks to the patron supporters to helping out every bit of money that I'm earning from the channel at the moment is going back into this studio it's really exciting absolutely loving it super excited but as you guys will know like things like this foam and stuff like that the acoustic foam it does work a good analogy that I read on the internet was from this one person who posted an excellent article I'll put the link in the description below but it just made sense he put it into all logic and it was like if you want to reduce echo in a room think of it as like a little bouncy ball and you've got a sort of put in soft stuff and that will drop the sort of echoes but if you want to say for instance proofer room and that's where you don't have any sound leaking from that room then think of it as water filling up in the room and like when you think of it it's like yeah that makes sense so kind of like put that to the test and it just worked extremely well so big thanks to that person who made that article absolutely loved it can't thank you enough because it just yeah play that logic I was like yep thermal insulation really cheap and it got the job done anyway guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon both the used parts and the new parts they will be hitting the channel and peace out for now bye so now what about some other things going on with this studio you probably see behind me up here there's a pipe and there's actually yet clothes wrapped around that pipe this is just because when someone would go to the take a dump this is because when someone would go to the toilet upstairs for example all that water rushing through the pipes you could actually hear it it was pretty bad so we wrapped clothes around all the Bend points and that really did a good job as well of completely sealing out the sound so we've kind of done everything on the cheap here in terms of sound and audio work and it's just worked out better than I could have imagined