The Couple's Table
The Couple’s Table is a weekly livestream podcast hosted by Heather Ramirez and Tom Buck. Join us, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall podcast and stuff!
The Couple's Table
Tech Talk and Tangents: Microphones, Memories, and Modern Streaming
Ever stumbled across a piece of tech you didn't need but couldn't resist? That's the spark that kicks off our latest chat, as we gush over the Fender Mark Hoppus signature Jaguar bass and dive into our audio adventures with new microphones, courtesy of Audio Hotline. Picture this: Tom, under the weather, trying to pass as Heather on camera, and our friendly banter about age perceptions. It's a whirlwind of laughs, tech talk, and heartfelt memories that we can't wait to share with you.
From sorting out our desk setups for maximum efficiency to reminiscing about our early years and teenage milestones, we weave through personal stories with creative insights on content creation. If you've ever felt the jitters of streaming or wondered how to enhance your audio game, we've got tales and tips. Our chat with a new friend who runs a screenwriting channel adds depth to our love for storytelling, and we muse on the evolution of content platforms and gear preferences, always stressing the importance of staying true to oneself despite public scrutiny.
No tech chat is complete without a nostalgic nod to the Blue Yeti microphone and the quirks of early streaming days. We share the hiccups and triumphs of those experiences, from mishaps involving electric skateboards to the unexpected abundance of Fritos in variety chip bags. Whether it's technical advice, amusing anecdotes, or thoughts on modern tech and the nuances of personal preference, our episode promises to keep you engaged and entertained, all while offering a mix of lighthearted banter and insightful reflections.
🟣 CONNECT WITH HEATHER —
My Vlog Channel: http://www.youtube.com/heatherjustcreate
My Tutorial Channel: http://www.youtube.com/heatherramirez
My Gaming Channel: http://www.youtube.com/heatherjustplay
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/heatherjustcreate
Website: http://www.heatherjustcreate.com
🟣 CONNECT WITH TOM —
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/tombuck
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/sodarntom
Hello and welcome. My name is Tom.
Speaker 2:And I'm Heather.
Speaker 1:And you're sitting at the Couple's Table, the.
Speaker 2:Couple's Table is a live stream podcast here on this channel. Join us for better or worse.
Speaker 1:For richer or poorer.
Speaker 2:In sickness and in health. On a roadcaster duo today and while he's doing that, I'm going to say hi to everybody. Gil happy, I was going to say happy everyone. Hey, friday, that's how you know my brain right now. Friday what's?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 2:Instead of saying Friday, I said Friday. I'm doing a lot of. Friday always slipping right now Humans only need one kidney.
Speaker 1:That's in reference to an Instagram story I posted because Fender, I don't, I mean there's no need, but they they announced a mark hoppus from blink 182 signature jaguar bass in sea. Yeah, seafoam green with a matching head. It's just a really beautiful bass and, uh, I have zero need for it, but, gosh, I want it hey, sammy, happy to see heather again.
Speaker 2:Hopefully you're feeling better I am. I had like just the most pounding headache when it was time for the youtube model up and tom decided well, offered to take over the show, which was so much fun. I was just in the book nook over there well, I said you, you were in no shape to stream I was just like and yeah, I knew you, it's just a headache, so it's hard to be on, you know and you didn't want to not do the show so I knew that was important.
Speaker 1:So I was like hey, you can do the admin stuff of like the scoreboard, just you don't have to be on camera to do that, and I don't know how to do it so I don't want to.
Speaker 2:It was way fun, so I fun, so I'll just host. I mean it was perfect, so thank you. Audio Hotline in the house.
Speaker 1:Hey, I'm using this Audio Hotline. Sent over a nice care package of three microphones yesterday, and this is microphone one. Yeah, this is one of them. This is one I've. They're all microphones I've never tried, this is one though, which there is a preset for in the roadcaster.
Speaker 2:Step in. Will we see the new RC duo?
Speaker 1:You're hearing it. I don't know if you can see it in the corner there. Heather can show yeah.
Speaker 2:It exists. I promise it's looking real cute over here.
Speaker 1:It's the white stuff, like the where we go. Oh is the scene locked? Scene is locked. There it is. Yeah, the white lineup of road gear is gorgeous. I had never seen it in person, I've only had the regular ones. Um, and so heather got her duo there, her duo in her office and you are happy.
Speaker 2:I have no idea how to use this thing. I know know how to turn it off and on.
Speaker 1:But that's the beauty of it there's nothing to even do, yeah.
Speaker 2:I just know. Yeah, the purple button is my mic. And the blue button is your mic.
Speaker 1:Yay, I know that much Isn't that nice. And if you?
Speaker 2:accidentally tap one of these, you go into robot voice. Yeah, it's true, let's see Josh. Josh is here, just popped in to say hi, listening on his walk, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:My fave duo with the duo, love the duo.
Speaker 2:Catherine Can't say long but want to say hi.
Speaker 1:Did you know? Catherine did a microphone review.
Speaker 2:Yes, I haven't watched it yet, but I'm excited to.
Speaker 1:Of the MV7 Plus, so if you want to go check it out, Just Blinks A road broadcaster. I love that microphone.
Speaker 1:I've seen it pop up on people's channels. I've never used it. It's always been on my like. Oh yeah, I want to try that and I just forget about it. And then Audio Hotline sent it over. So, pretty nifty, you seem to like it, I well, because there's a broadcaster preset in the Rodecaster, believe it or not? Yeah, he sent over a couple other mics. I was going to use a different one today, and then I was like let me see what that one sounds like. I was like nope, I'm using that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just need to show everyone how adorable you looked on Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Oh boy With the frigging.
Speaker 2:He tried to pretend to be me.
Speaker 1:Which is a very big shoes to fill, and it was like. So it was like so cuteather's got small feet but big shoes to fill okay, here we go.
Speaker 2:Are you ready for this boom?
Speaker 1:I'm sitting in the same yeah with the same look at this.
Speaker 2:Look at this. Are we ready for this? Oh my goodness, how yes.
Speaker 1:Look how cute, oh my god, and now I can join my pop punk band.
Speaker 2:Okay, Usually I don't. You know, usually I don't make a big deal about how cute Tom is.
Speaker 1:You can make a big deal about it. We don't need to talk about that. No, we do, we do.
Speaker 2:But, oh my God, on the YouTube follow up I was like you look so adorable, I can't.
Speaker 1:I was at a doctor's appointment this morning and there was a physical therapy appointment this morning yeah and the therapist kept saying, like, kept asking, I had to fill out some forms. And he was asking, like the assistant, like oh, could you get this young man some forms, or whatever. I was like oh, it's a nice young man.
Speaker 1:Then I realized like wait, that's also the thing they say to old people, like like when someone is like 80 years old, they'll be like can you show this young woman where the restroom is, or whatever. I was like wait, which is it? Which is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2:I know I posted a bio on my threads this week and somebody I don't know anything about this person but they responded with we have a lot in common. So I shot you a follow, young lady, and I was like, oh, you had it.
Speaker 1:So close.
Speaker 2:I know it's not offensive, but isn't it a weird thing to say I?
Speaker 1:mean it can be. I was happy to be called young man until. I was like wait, I'm in that weird gray zone of sarcastic genuine. Which is it?
Speaker 2:Just Flink says you sound so smooth on it. Tom, the proximity effect on it is pretty crazy I really, really like it there you go it has a.
Speaker 1:It has a high pass filter, so I could actually flip this little switch right here, which is a really nice little clicky switch, and then it will take out some of the lows.
Speaker 2:But I really like it with its normal thing uh, let's see, bailey, the broadcaster sounds really smooth on your voice.
Speaker 1:Smooth, smooth.
Speaker 2:Look at that.
Speaker 1:Maybe I could be a broadcaster with it.
Speaker 2:Middle age yes, Do you still get carded? I have not got carded in ages Well it's weird because here, in the place we live, the average age is super high.
Speaker 1:It's like 400.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like. So basically, I feel like we get carded more because everyone who doesn't have gray hair is just.
Speaker 1:I've been with you where you get carded and I don't get carded.
Speaker 2:That's cause you don't drink.
Speaker 1:That's true, but usually they have to card everybody. But I don't know. I've seen you get carded, which is nice well, it stopped for a while and I was like, oh, I figure it stopped me. When they know you, it stops yeah, uh.
Speaker 2:So what else is going on, tom? Well, it's been a week it has a week.
Speaker 1:I graduated from physical therapy today. I hurt my hip last Thanksgiving and it has been giving me trouble for 11 months and I tried to give it time on my own. I've done chiropractor stuff which has been hugely helpful. And then I also I started going to physical therapy like three months ago, maybe even more, maybe four months ago, and today was my last session, just to kind of check up and see how everything's doing. And they signed off that I don't need to go back unless something goes wrong.
Speaker 2:You good, yeah, bailey. Speaking of age, I happen to be turning 18. Finally, in one month and a day, november 6th, I now have graduated high school. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:Congrats, because Bailey, your academic year starts in January.
Speaker 2:Didn't we meet when you were like 14? Probably that's insane yeah, because pandemic.
Speaker 1:He's an adult now.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's so crazy, that's awesome. Wow, congrats, gil says. I went to the dentist this week and I got called young man.
Speaker 1:Then he looked at my card and said well, at least you look wow, he said the quiet part loud like you just don't need to let that out. You had it again I get carded. I'm 35, still young, ish, that's young yeah, that's like I mean whatever age you are. When you're older than that, you go back and, like I was so young yeah, that's true, I wish I were 50 again, like uh, just flanks says.
Speaker 2:What I found during my brief time with Rode Broadcaster, as well as almost all Rode mics, is that the plosives on it are pretty bad without a pop filter, but otherwise I love everything else.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to be aware I know it sounds good close, but I'm trying I don't know it well enough to not plosive city it.
Speaker 2:I'm not wearing headphones. Plosive city Cl headphones Closive City.
Speaker 1:Closive City.
Speaker 2:I don't know why we don't wear headphones.
Speaker 1:I mean, we don't really need to, I just don't want to. Well, we honestly, we never really had a good way to do it.
Speaker 2:But you know what? But now.
Speaker 1:There's two headphone dials One is purple and one is blue.
Speaker 2:We should start a YouTube channel where we talk about the Rodecaster. Yeah, bailey says we started talking in 2020.
Speaker 1:so when I was 14, oh my gosh, oh man that's crazy that is crazy so let us know what you're doing, if you want to. Now that you're out of high school, what do you? What are your big plans?
Speaker 2:ernesto. Hello and happy friday. I'm an old fogey but feel like 27.44 years young.
Speaker 1:I feel like 27 am 44 years oh 27 that4. That's what I've noticed and what people have told me is like your mental age, at least how you feel, stays the same, but then you're just like the outside stops to match, stops matching it, and you're just like wait, who is this? Like older person in the mirror? I feel like the same I've always felt.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Yeah, let's see I have stuff on a list here, so you did the huddle up. That was fun.
Speaker 1:oh, you redid your desk yes, I need to make a video about that. I haven't made a desk video in several years. We were doing a mobile mobile stream setup from in there I mean, we could, but I don't have my wireless thingy set up. Yeah, but we, yeah, we could, I figured like.
Speaker 2:So Tom took out like everything did the same thing that we've been doing in my in my room for four times my fifth desk setup of the summer.
Speaker 1:yeah.
Speaker 2:So you pulled everything out of your desk all the wires, all the cables, all the everything, like everything you just started with desk.
Speaker 1:I, yeah, cause I I moved. I, you know, I redid my office earlier this year and I moved my desk with just like kind of the computer set up over there. That was not really intended to be a place to film, but just to like get like a workstation over in the corner and for like video calls and stuff, but it it was still set up. I just it was set up in a way of being put together from many years ago. That isn't necessarily what's most effective now. So kind of the same thing we did here, where we like blew up your whole setup, evaluated how it needs to be, and then that that's what I want to do. So I was like I don't want to think like this has to be here because it's here, or oh you know I don't have the cable to make this go over.
Speaker 2:I want to just rip it all out, pretend I'm starting from scratch, so it's just a table, and then I just started putting things where I wanted them because I think, like what we, a lot of us do is like you get one new thing at a time and so you just add it to the thing, but then it's like well, if you, once you have all this stuff, let's blow this up and start over and put it, you know, instead of like there's differences too, because, like your setup is, once it's dialed in, the intention is that it doesn't change yeah, I don't want to change whereas mine, like I do switch stuff out a lot, like I have the roadcaster video over there, but sometimes I want to move it over here, I want to change out microphones, I want to do all that which I couldn't really do easily over there.
Speaker 1:Um, and then I did also discover that I like filming over there sometimes and it's kind of cool. So basically, yeah, I I had never done it this way before. I put everything where I wanted it or where I would like it, and then I was like, how do I make this work? So, like, I bought this it's like a dual arm, for it's like a dual monitor arm, so it mounts to one point on the desk but has two arms and so one holds my monitor and the other holds my roadcaster duo, so that way those are there and they're movable.
Speaker 1:That was kind of. My monitor was sort of stuck in the middle because even though it was on an arm, the arm it was on doesn't really work up against a wall like it doesn't. Some of them need to move back in order to move and others don't.
Speaker 1:I like this move, this weird moves um, and so I found some that were a little better up against a flat wall, and so that was a thing that I did. I integrated like a permanent overhead camera setup, and then I also found a nice way to use a mounting thing to mount my Sony a seven four with the Elgato prompter like to the desk itself, and then you've got my you know, my mic arm and the Rodecaster video, the streamer X, the stream deck, a speaker, like all that stuff ready to go and no cables on the floor no cables for the first time ever and which is hard a little was a little trickier for me because I also have a UPS like a power system, so a lot of the stuff has to go through that and that is a big heavy thing.
Speaker 1:It looks like a computer, like a. Pc tower. So I actually found this thing you can screw to the bottom of a desk, it's like a hanging PC computer holder and so I bought that for the UPS and that now holds it up off of everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not on the floor.
Speaker 1:And then I tried to do some stuff on the under the desk, which I actually think is pretty cool. So that's why I want to make a video about it, cause it's not either all on or off, like I can go in there without changing anything and all the essentials will work, like the roadcaster, the, the computer, all that.
Speaker 1:Um, if I want to turn on like the studio to film a video, there's little remotes for lights and stuff kind of like you have yeah but then there's also extra things, like the streamer x, the elgato prompter, stuff that I don't need on all the time but doesn't have power switches and that's on a separate hub that has its own power switch, so I can like turn though I actually turn those on or off when I want them, cause I just don't like. I just don't like stuff when I don't need it being on, like all the time.
Speaker 1:But I never had an easy way to do that. I still have open USB things because of the hub. And then I also made sure to mount my computer in a place where, even though currently everything is, there's no open ports on it. If I did need to change something. It's easy to just go into the desk and all the things that were not the case before.
Speaker 2:Yeah, excited for the video.
Speaker 1:If you go under and you like, see the bottom of the desk so much drilled it looks like a top-down shot of a city because there's like so many things everywhere same with mine.
Speaker 2:Yeah uh, let's see. Freddie always says do you guys find it easier to talk to the camera knowing there's actually an audience listening, opposed to when you first started and no one was watching?
Speaker 1:I don't think it changed for me.
Speaker 2:Uh, honestly, I don't know. Um, I want to say it didn't change, but now that I'm like getting back into my gaming channel, I am terrified of streaming. I haven't since I've come back. I just like I keep finding excuses of like I knew you weren't, but I didn't realize.
Speaker 1:You're finding excuses. Why are you terrified?
Speaker 2:it's the same reason I was terrified to do the huddle up again.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Like as soon as you do.
Speaker 1:The first one, then you know it's fine, but like I don't know, your gaming streams prior were, like some of the most fun streams ever.
Speaker 2:I know, but it's. It's the thing of like. I know there's going to be people watching. This time I don't know. I don't know, I, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think you should definitely rip that bandaid off.
Speaker 2:It needs to be that, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then it'll be no baby. I'm just hyping it up in my head. Yeah, once you do it, it's just like the huddle up.
Speaker 2:Now you've done it for like 10 months or something, I do think for like the couples table. It's not that it's easier to talk to the camera. I feel like our intention with this show has always been to be a discussion.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Versus, like we've done, a couple episodes where we turned on the stream but we just started talking to each other and didn't acknowledge the comments or anything, which some people watching actually thought that was cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a different vibe.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's different when you're involving an audience and when you're not. And something that's cool with a stream like this is when we know there's like kind of some regular people who will be there every time. Then you kind of do think of of them. Like you know, I don't think I would have gone on a big spiel about audio hotline sending a microphone if he wasn't in the chat and people in the chat didn't know who he was. You, you know like it'd be like oh yeah, friend sent a mic, but it makes more sense to, because of who's watching, kind of go a little more in depth on that. Yeah, you know. So I think knowing who the audience is can inform the stream better. But it's, I never. I also somehow this was not intentional. I've trained I never look at the numbers who are watching a stream on any streams I do anywhere ever.
Speaker 2:I honestly think it's a good thing.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love it. I don't know how that happened, but it doesn't even occur to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think because you don't know where the number is and I don't want to learn. Yeah, don't find it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I also learned it's similar to where I'm trying to do it more consciously is when we play hockey and it's during a game and the scoreboard is up.
Speaker 2:I don't want to look at the scoreboard. I don't look at the time.
Speaker 1:I don't want to look at the score, I don't look at anything, so I'm trying to like block out that part of like the wall, because I just want to focus on what's happening here. It's very similar to the streaming thing.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, Another character. Hello, I told you about another character.
Speaker 1:So I told you about another character, so you should encourage.
Speaker 2:Heather To do streams. So another character Is a new friend that I have recently met through Threads. She has a screenwriting channel.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I saw these videos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a channel teaching you all about screaming. She's gone to film school, I think you said screaming.
Speaker 1:I think you said screenwriting and streaming and you said screaming, a channel about screen. That's a different channel screen.
Speaker 2:oh, I did huh, screen writing, um, and I think that screenwriting is always something I've been interested in, because I do think that for what we do, it makes sense, because a lot of the people in the gaming space do a lot of streaming. That isn't necessarily storytelling, because it's more of like a reaction to a story that you're playing through a video game, youtube videos, though, even if it's a tutorial or vlog or whatever, you're telling a story, so I feel like it's always, you know, I try to brush up. You're telling a story, so I feel like it's always, you know, I tried to brush up. I think the last video I like looked into was um, who are the creators of south park?
Speaker 1:tree park.
Speaker 2:I'm at stone, yeah, so they have like one of it's a very popular video on youtube about how they do storytelling in south park and it was, it's like just so, um, it's just like a very practical technique that anybody can incorporate when you're outlining your videos and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, go check out another character, um, and it's very good to meet you, and that's all I gotta say but anyway, we were just talking about how I am nervous to stream on my gaming YouTube channel and I don't know why we're streaming right now I could do this all day.
Speaker 1:We could do huddle up you've done like a thousand streams.
Speaker 2:You know it's you know what it is. I'll tell you why. I think it's because on these streams um, I don't, I don't even know how to explain it I feel like there is a little bit of like how is she going to react to this? Versus here, where it's like it's I'm not separate from the group, I'm part of the group, right, I'm part of the discussion, whereas on the gaming channel, it is a performer and an audience, and that's why I think I'm nervous, but can you, couldn't you?
Speaker 1:it's your channel. Can't you change and create the different dynamic of course, which you didn't, I've seen you do it on that channel in the past, but I'm just you know yeah, it's been a while nervy, nerve, okay, uh, let's catch up here.
Speaker 2:Bailey big plans at the moment to keep working in the world of audio and broadcast, working on concerts, musicals, plays, conferences, which is what I've been doing for a couple of years now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bailey's been doing like a ton of really awesome work.
Speaker 2:That's so cool, mr Camera Junkie in the house. Hello, gil is here. Love that idea. Can't wait to see the video. Let's see, ernesto. Just use an Elgato product 4K 144 instead of the Streamer X for gaming.
Speaker 1:So I'm using the 4K X.
Speaker 2:I had the streamer x is back in my office now yeah, yeah so we tried to do, I think, the streamer x passed as a 4k x and the roadcaster which, like I, guess it wasn't working, so you took those out, and now we have two pieces instead of it was yeah, because the streamer x idea.
Speaker 1:It does audio and it does 4k video, but it only has one channel of audio. So for couples, for everything except the couples table, it was fine, but anytime I need to bring in a mic giant headache as a giant headache yeah, um, and then when we want to bring in your console, the streamer x has 4k pass-through, but it does have this weird thing.
Speaker 1:We discovered where the pass-through has to go to a 4k display which I don't have, which we don't, and so it's weird like if you, like this is a 1080 display, it goes there like 4k ps5 goes into the streamer x. If you don't have it connected to display, it shows it fine. As soon as you connect a 1080 display, it freaks out. It freaks out and says it can't capture it, and then if you plug in a 4K display, it would be fine, and that's just a weird thing about it. So it was significantly cheaper to just buy the Elgato than a 4K display. Yeah, because this is a really nice monitor. There's no need for a 4K display in here.
Speaker 2:I feel what I don't want to do is, like, as possible, buy like a new thing of a thing I already have, like my monitor is great. I don't want to get rid of it.
Speaker 1:Well, the Streamer X. I actually really like it because Catherine it's funny to me she discovered something really cool with the Rodecaster video, which is that you can run that 4K output from the streamer x into the roadcaster video and it works, and so what that means is I can plug my camera into streamer x and have it be a 4k capture card. So if I want to do a video call or a single camera stream or whatever in 4k, I got it. But if I want to use multicam, then it's just a source in the roadcaster video and it all gets downgraded to 1080. So it's it's kind of the best of of both worlds.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I'm very happy to have it in there yeah, uh, bailey says I always like having a usb hub on the desk. Similarly to you, I'm always plugging things in and out, moving things around etc.
Speaker 1:So having it accessible is really nice, yeah I think I have like five open usb ports different speeds, but it's. Yeah, the thing that really changed with my setup, which was making it harder, was adding things like the prompter and streamer X and roadcaster video that require power things that require really high speed. It's not just any USB, but you need, like high speed USB ports.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the why I was having that problem too. My prompter kept turning off.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that makes it. That's what suddenly made it tricky heather, please do more gaming streams. I just need to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you said, rip the band-aid off and yeah, do it. I'm just so. I didn't realize this was I, because every day you're like I think I should stream, I want to stream, do you want to stream with?
Speaker 2:and I'm like I'm like it just doesn't. I don't know, I swear this is interesting, I didn't understand. Like it just doesn't. I don't know, I swear I'm a professional. Well, this is interesting.
Speaker 1:I didn't understand.
Speaker 2:Well, that's how it was with the Huddle Up too, though. So I mean, come on, I've done the Huddle Up.
Speaker 1:You've done gaming streams. I know Many of them Long ones.
Speaker 2:Here see, you are 100% overthinking this. Yes, I just need to do it. I just need to go and do it. The Road to Health says screenwriting is a great tool for YouTube creators. Yes, JFK, hello pun guy and jump rope lady Sup.
Speaker 1:I got a comment on one of my videos from like a month or two ago today that someone said I love this video. It's colorful and entertaining. Your puns are good, but there could be more. I think you'll get better with practice. It's like thank you. It's a very opposite type of comment from what I normally get, but it was just funny. It was like oh, have you thought about adding more jokes?
Speaker 2:I know usually people tell you to scale it back. Just Swing says Tom, how do you approach modern tech reviews? It feels like back in the day there were only a few solid options at a given price point, but now it feels like whatever you buy, you can't really go wrong. Actually, that's kind of an interesting it's super true.
Speaker 1:Uh, it's very interesting because camera youtube, which used to be kind of pretty thriving, has sort of, like the past couple years, had a huge downturn in a lot of ways, because not that cameras aren't interesting, but like they're all good they're all good and there's no huge breakthroughs.
Speaker 1:When it was like it was, it was sort of that thing of like. You know, if you look at like the first four generations of iPhone, right, like you had, like the original iPhone, and then when you went to the 3g and then like 3gs, like every time there were huge updates where it's like, wow, this is like a new device and a new thing. Cameras, mirrorless cameras are doing that same thing for a while. But you tell me the difference between iphone 13, 14, 15, 16, like? Yes, there are key, key things that are different, but, like your day to day, once you slap a case on it, just use it for a month, it all kind of feels the same.
Speaker 1:Um, and cameras unless you're like super into well, if there's that one specific thing, you want crazy telephoto, you want whatever right, um, and cameras are the same way. You know, if you want one specific thing, I need 4k, 120, I need 8k so then it limits your options down. But if you're kind of the average person, the average creator, looking for something, you can't go wrong, like any of the main brands. They're good and so it's like in a in a way, it almost becomes less interesting because of that.
Speaker 2:Well, because then you get into like overheating tests, which sometimes I feel like we're nitpicky, we're trying to manufacture yeah drama, basically yeah, find problems um yeah, for the very niche. One person out of a thousand that has this very specific use case.
Speaker 1:so I just do stuff I'm interested in. That's what I've always done, um, and sometimes I do have the thought like, if there's a microphone or a mic arm or something, it's like, oh, if I'm reviewing this, I should have you know all of the main ones, I should go get more to compare it to. And I have to go like, wait, do I actually even want those? Do I actually care? I don't, maybe. And that's where, like, I actually was revising my ethics statement this morning a little bit and one of the things I added in because there was a line that says reviews are objective as possible and my opinions are my own. I expanded on that to say like, but I do have personal biases and I approach my videos from the point of view of an enthusiast, not a journalist or an expert.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:Because that is kind of it, like I don't like, yes, there might be better options out there. Probably I've thought about like probably the thing I chose to like buy or get a review or whatever there's a reason I chose that one right and so 90 of time, I don't know that. I care about the other options and I know maybe people would want to see every, everything, but it's just like it's not practical and at the at the end of the day too, it's also just like not fun yeah, that's not what you want to do yeah, to go like okay.
Speaker 2:Every time we're talking about something, I have to talk about everything yeah, I just want to talk about this thing, yeah, yeah, but there's other channels that do that and that's fine and that's what's great about youtube is, yeah, if that's what somebody needs, there's someone who's like psyched to do it uh. Another character says thanks, nice to meet you all. Nice to meet you all the way from sweden we have three friends from sweden.
Speaker 2:Now that's great. Uh bailey says, I'm going to my first trade show next week, which admittedly is much smaller than neb, or something like that that's awesome, though, but that's so cool. I hope you have a ton of fun, yeah I mean, I think, even the smaller ones are almost more yeah, um, I would almost like yeah, like it's not as overwhelming, and then you can really, you know, spend a lot of time deep dive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly, uh, jfk. After watching y'all miss luria, doc and others I finally, after years of pc, going to wow that is huge.
Speaker 1:Are you gonna keep a pc just to like? Are you gonna be in both worlds? Are you fully switching?
Speaker 2:yeah, uh, another character. What's your favorite equipment in your office if you can only pick one thing, the one thing you can't live without?
Speaker 1:oh my gosh that's hard. Oh, oh, my goodness might be stumped there's like there's like interesting and exciting answers, but there's practical answers. Practically, I think I would actually say my macbook, speaking of computers, because, like I can't do my job without it. I can't do anything without it, and as much as I love audio and video stuff, so i'm'm like, oh well, it'd be my FX three, it'd be the roadcaster. It's like, well, it has a built in microphone, a built in webcam, so like you're.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, you should totally make a video with your MacBook.
Speaker 1:You want to talk about. Okay, the MacBook pro is 10, 80. Your old not look the same, um, but at least like in a worst case scenario situation, it's possible, yeah, whereas like if I just have my roadcaster but nothing else. I can't do anything else I can't make a video, it's just the audio interface kind of thing.
Speaker 2:So I think I would say my macbook um, yeah, I was gonna say this microphone because it's custom and it sounds great. It was like one of the things in my office that I was like really excited about.
Speaker 1:But my ps5 is in here, so it might have to be that although I love my freaking keyboard yeah, also I gotta say I'm noticing on the camera. Before the stream with the Rodecaster I was listening to mics and the cable on.
Speaker 1:Heather's microphone was starting to get some weird interference. It was just an Amazon purple cable and I was like oof, I don't like that, I don't want to deal with that. So I put this Rode cable. I had a purple one put the Rode cable in there. It got rid of that. But I realized it's. It's a more vibrant purple and it's like the exact same purple as your microphone so it actually looks great it actually.
Speaker 1:I think it was an improvement. Well, it sounds better, but it did the job it's supposed to do better uh bailey says actually I'm doing more video editing for clients.
Speaker 2:As tom knows, I offered to start editing for him, but later that day I actually edited a video for aaron parecki oh, yes, yeah, oh, how exciting bailey was like hey, if you need help, like let me know.
Speaker 1:And I was like it's not that like I would trust bailey to edit. Yes, I just like the editing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know oh, my god, I can't even tell you how much I've had an appreciation for editing this week because, again, I'm spending a lot of time in the gaming threads and no one edits because they all stream and I just, I love, I love being able to take a 30 minute ramble and turn it into something that has story beats right and all these layers of sound and overlays and such.
Speaker 1:It's so fun I love, I love editing. Some people hate it, and aaron is a good example of someone who probably enjoys it but is also ridiculously busy and produces a ton of content out a lot of content but also has. You know, he has a system and a structure and a style, so I feel like the editor would really help him yeah uh, gil says.
Speaker 2:I vividly remember reading about global shutter and I I I was like I likely have no need for that yeah, that was a thing with the sony fx3.
Speaker 1:Like cinema, cameras have a thing called global. Oh no, global shutter I'm thinking of shutter angle. Global shutter is pretty sweet, but it's like you're getting into the weeds of split. Global shutter is where you use a camera's whole sensor and so it makes it easier to do that thing where you can film one one file and then use it for vertical and horizontal um, which is very cool and very helpful. Uh, and it's nice. Probably not like it becomes that thing where, because there's so little to complain about, that's where people are like getting out their pitchforks and screaming over something like that.
Speaker 1:Or like yeah the fx3, not having shutter angle, which is like, yeah, it's cool, doesn't really change my day-to-day life all that much, but it's nice, but like it doesn't make the camera a dud or like it's dead the fx3 killer like no melanie's here.
Speaker 2:Hey everyone, happy friday. Uh, just flink says the microphone market is wild. Now you can grab a bernger and a budget interface for 80 bucks and get audio quality so solid that no casual viewer would notice or complain.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it just goes into, especially that, yeah, that world's crazy. That's why, like the yeti was so popular because there were no other options like you, this is it. If you want a usb mic, and especially at that time, like, what are you going to do? Go into the weird world of 2011 xlr interfaces.
Speaker 2:I don't know how I found out about the yeti, because I I don't remember watching reviews you're the perfect example because you probably did like pod.
Speaker 1:You probably google podcast microphone or something streaming microphone, and that's literally the one.
Speaker 2:It's the one yeah no other options pretty much I, I don't know, I really don't I think it's affordable I must have seen it on somebody's channel, though, because I would, because I was using the freaking air airpods earpods. I was using that and I thought it was great. But something implanted into my head like get a mic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I remember you have a video of you getting your mic.
Speaker 2:My unboxing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so cute. I love it, Cause it's the thing where it's like when people want to trash the blue Yeti, it's like I get it in 2024, probably not going to be the first choice, but when you watch you in 2016, unboxing it and suddenly being able to level up things in a way like the joy, the confidence, the like, the improvement that it brought and made accessible to you, like who could watch that and hate on that?
Speaker 2:I mean, that's kind of how I feel in 4k. Do you know who I just did? Just did not. Well, that and the roadcaster, both these things I was like I don't need, I will never. I will never need it, oh my god, it was a joke for you.
Speaker 1:I mean for years since, since, definitely since the 2020, like I mean, I'm still trying.
Speaker 2:I don't quite understand the roadcaster, still I just know that you don't have a headache and that makes me happy. 4k, though, like I, I find myself watching 1080 videos and going to the wheel to change it to 4k and I'm like, oh yeah, not everyone lives that 4k we discovered that twitch is limited to 1080 I had no idea yeah I don't know why that surprises me.
Speaker 1:I just I mean it is for the amount of time people put there.
Speaker 2:Well, when I think of the, gaming community.
Speaker 1:Maybe it's for the games, not so much the video quality, but I think of a community that's like they are all about, like maximum frame rates, maximum quality right, that's why they custom built pc. Yes, and so I assume like twitch is going to be. Yeah, okay, people are gonna be doing 4k 60 all over the place a lot more, because it's not just videos, it's streaming it's streaming so much bandwidth?
Speaker 1:yeah, and even though it is amazon based, I guess they probably don't have the infrastructure that youtube does or it's probably not financially I mean, if they don't, it's probably a conscious choice. Why not, yeah, why they don't?
Speaker 2:but yeah uh, a journalist, not an expert. I love that, the silent skill macbook for me, but my cal digit is a godsend. What's a cal digit? It's a really nice hub ah, macbook is the right answer, bailey. Yeah, aaron has an editor at the moment, hired through a third-party company who just swapped editors on him, so he's gonna stay with that until the end of november, but then switch to having me oh my gosh, how cool.
Speaker 1:I can't wait to see your videos that's so awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you'll have to let us know what the first video is that you edit. That'd be fun. Uh, mr cameron, jake. Global shutter removes rolling shutter it captures all the data from the sensor at the same time. Open gate is the ability to record both vertical and horizontal at the same time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's. What is it? Yeah, because there's shutter angle, open gate, global shutter. They're all different.
Speaker 2:Thank you for the clarification, uh people are just born with the knowledge of the yeti. It can't be explained. Uh, this video or this just popped into my mind, but I was reading a comment on a video that was like tom's's plastic-looking ring looks so unprofessional and I had to stop myself from replying in a fit of rage.
Speaker 1:Heather replied to that. I hella replied. I didn't see it for like a couple of days because it was on the Roadcaster video.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, you are not, you are just. I will let everything else roll off the soldier.
Speaker 1:A squishy ring.
Speaker 2:You are not allowed to talk about my husband that way.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you tell him. Ah, no Not okay, I like that See.
Speaker 2:Just not okay.
Speaker 1:That guy would have lost his mind if he knew too. You could flip it out, and now it's pink. The inside is pink and the outside is blue.
Speaker 2:Someone responded.
Speaker 1:Someone else responded.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't see that I can't believe.
Speaker 2:The guy left his comment up, so here let's. Well, that's one of those ones where I was like let's pull this up.
Speaker 1:I didn't see it and I was like oh, should I delete this? You told me about it a couple days later and you were like I think you had replied. And I was like oh, that's one of those.
Speaker 2:I'm going is actually a good one. I like wait, oh, he replied to this. No, he hasn't replied. This person like chimed in. Well it's, you have to read it a few times, but it's a good thing yeah, I remember this comment.
Speaker 1:This was a good comment. Oh, the main comment was a good one yeah, but this response was not oh, okay, that's why I didn't see it, because it was a reply to a reply, okay, okay. So let's, let's fill everyone in here because I saw the main one, which does have a dirty word in it. So avert your eyes um, oh, wait, hold on, there we go this I saw this one because it got cut caught in the spam folder and I read it and I was like, oh, I love this. Okay, original comment.
Speaker 2:How the f does this guy always have on point matching colors for his accessories and cables? I need a skills for interior design and keyboard key cap matching um. And then this person responded with the microphone, headphones and 3d printed plastic ring. Do do look kind of cheap, though I wouldn't turn up to a date with a classy woman with a bright blue plastic ring and a pink shirt like some 12 year old.
Speaker 1:It's just the weirdest why you date women with a wedding ring buddy exactly. Obviously it's a wedding ring, obviously if not, though, what if you just wanted to wear a blue ring? Some people like wearing rings but it's like whatever.
Speaker 2:So when I saw that, oh, I couldn't help myself, I responded immediately and I was like I was so like I was torn.
Speaker 2:I almost deleted this Because I was like I feel like this is not something you should have a gut response to, but I wanted everyone else to see it, so I said Tom 3D printed both of our wedding rings since we got married during peak pandemic. The one he's wearing isn't the one he wore at the actual ceremony, but still it's super meaningful for us. I love my husband with his bright blue plastic ring and pink shirt. Maybe that means I'm not classy, but I'm okay with that. I try to take the guilt trip road right now I get I don't think that's what I would would say now.
Speaker 1:Right now, it should be like f you it depends on what day of the week you yeah, you catch there it's funny, though, like when somebody else I saw I was like oh, some of us classy women's prioritized differently than you think you be, you, tom um. Reading that back that guy strikes me as like I won't show up to date with a classy like you. Are definitely someone who describes yourself as an alpha male, and maybe we just don't need to be friends see, it brings this, it brings a part out of me.
Speaker 2:It's like what date you going to buddy? Like for real? I'm sorry. I'm sorry she came out there if it was harry styles or something we don't know there. What if it was harry styles or something? We don't know? Probably wasn't, but yeah and then. So I checked the guy's channel out. Of course does not show face, you know is not on camera. It's like I. I don't like it when creators bash other creators. Because it's like I. I would feel like we have this understood.
Speaker 1:I know what I went through to, just make a yes, like we know what it's like, I would feel like we have this understood. I know what I went through to just make a thing.
Speaker 2:Yes, like we know what it's like to put to be on camera and we know that it's possible, everyone can criticize every single thing that you're wearing, how you look and all this. So I feel like, aren't we past this? You know, I mean obviously not a long-time subscriber, but or I don't know, maybe I don't know, that's one of those ones where it's like, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 2:go monotone on like, just be a black and white channel, I got see, this is why you have to do you, because everyone will have an opinion about what you should wear. I mean, I got so much crap for my purple hair and my backwards cap and blah, blah, blah. It's like you just have to do. You want to come over here and make my videos? Come over here. Yeah, come over here and you do it. You know, make my life easier. Um, I'm always checking the setting for 4k talk. Horror is a blue Yeti pre logitech, better than any current popular microphone.
Speaker 1:I don't think so Um Any current popular microphone.
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think better options have definitely come out of the Synths.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's better than the newer NW-800. But yeah, there's better options. Looking at the USB world, the Yeti's about $100, $120. If you look at the Sennheiser Profile or some Fafine microphones or you bump up to the Shure MV7, mv7 plus or the pod mic usb like there are just better microphones now in the comparable price range in the comparable price, and none of none of those existed, though, when the yeti came out.
Speaker 1:Is the thing, and the yeti, like it has the benefit, like it can teach you pickup patterns, because it has different pickup patterns yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2:I didn't know.
Speaker 1:Sometimes people leave it on the wrong one. That's why it sounds bad a lot of the time. But if you use the correct pickup pattern and you speak into the correct part of the microphone, it doesn't sound too bad you got to put it on the butt um and it and it comes with a stand.
Speaker 1:That's a big deal, because a lot of people get a mic and they realize, oh, I don't have, I don't have a mic arm, I don't have a. What do I put this on? Do I hold it? The yeti comes with a nice metal stand. I remember getting my yeti. I was really excited because I bought it specifically to start live streaming, pre-roadcaster and all that.
Speaker 2:So I didn't have a way going with you to best buy, to buy yeah and I was.
Speaker 1:I was so excited, I loved I because I for a while wow, this is early on I was doing sunday night live streams because I would get so nervous, like the sunday scaries before going to work on monday and I was like, oh, if I stream, it kind of like makes the fun of the weekend last longer and not the dread of the week, um, and so I was doing sunday night streams, but a lot of them I'd actually do in the garage. I would like pull the workbench out and I would do like 3d printing stuff.
Speaker 2:Um, and like, oh my god, that's old school, that's pretty old school and I have the yeti on the desk with me and I had.
Speaker 1:That's right. That's when I like learned I must have been using obs, because yeah I mean, it was pre-ecam yeah, it was obs and I learned how to make different scenes, one with my camera. I'm trying to figure out what capture card we would have used yeah, it was pre-ecam yeah, I might have how did you, when we find find out about you?
Speaker 2:I might have had the cam link it's been so long since we've been using I either had the cam link or I was just using logitech c920.
Speaker 1:But I think at one point I did have two cameras. I had the logitech to the to show the 3d printer and then my other camera um are those still on your channel? Yeah, yeah, they should be um ecam. I found out from peter greg oh, he was the one I saw use it because he would always go into demo mode. He would switch his angles and do all his stuff and put labels and I was like how are you doing all this?
Speaker 1:and then he would show it and I was like that looks so cool. And then he talked about ecam wow, kombucha.
Speaker 2:Happy friday friends. Anytime bailey. The first video I edited passed on. The first render was posted a few days ago and was a roadcaster video okay, that's a big that's awesome.
Speaker 1:Last time I did a client video that I thought was going to be perfect on the first pass they asked to reshoot the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Oh, I oof, uh, mr camera jokey blue is tom's mood, uh, just flanks. I never understand people that see other people being happy and just can't let them live. It's so sad. I mean, it is such a cell phone and I can't believe they can't see that yeah, I don't in those cases.
Speaker 1:That's why it's like it doesn't even register to me at all. There there are sometimes people can be critical or say negative things and it kind of gets to me like I don't know, it hit it, it really does, and that one I like didn't even notice I swear, if the tables were flipped and someone talked about me, I it brings out this thing like don't talk about my husband like that oh yeah, no it'd be if somebody said if it was about me, I'd be like I'm whatever cool yeah, but but same thing, though, if I saw that on your channel or if someone were
Speaker 1:like get up in there yeah no guy would want to marry a woman that has like blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:I'd be like it's like, buddy, I have purple hair.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know if you know that let me crack out the, the kludge keyboard here uh, what the heck does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 2:I'm sure the guy gets a lot of dates, see, exactly I feel bad, I don't want to okay.
Speaker 1:Number one rule, heather's number one rule no bonding over bullying so I definitely I don't know, and we're I know, but I don't want to, like you know look, if barack obama showed up in my comment section and was like hey tom, your personal style maybe needs a reevaluation, I might go like wait, hang on. Let me think about this. I do consider the source that things come from. I consider the source. Pretty sure this wasn't Harry Styles or Obama.
Speaker 2:Jake Thompson has arrived, simply Ops. Hey, hey, y'all Kambucha. Uh, jake thompson has arrived, uh, simply obs. Hey, hey, y'all kombucha. I don't like it when people just have a problem with other people just existing and minding their own business, being happy.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's why it's a cell phone, because you, you were clearly projecting some kind of like there's a meme that goes around a lot, um, and it changes, but it's it's like a badly drawn stick figure thing of like a party, and there's there's like people at a party, like you know, holding drinks and laughing, and there's this guy in the corner by himself like with a cup, and the thought bubble is always like they don't know, blank, and it's like he looks really impressed with himself and it's and people always change it like you know, they don't know that, like they could be streaming in 4k instead of 1080 or whatever, and everyone you know it's something, some opinion, some niche opinion yeah that like, but it is like I'm alone at the party.
Speaker 1:No one's talking to me, everyone's having a good time, but I'm over here like you think you're better than everyone but, everyone else is having a good time and also, why are you even at this party that you don't want to be at? That's the thing is like, just yeah just go go start your own party.
Speaker 2:Um what was the video about? That was on the roadcaster video video.
Speaker 1:Yeah so that that video did very well and got very popular.
Speaker 2:So I have a feeling that was probably someone that, like, wanted to learn about the roadcaster video and they're not into, pushed out to non-subscribers the color palette so true, you are never going to please everyone well, that, but it's like I think it's just been rare or it doesn't happen as often, I feel like because of how um internet culture has evolved. I feel like. I feel like these kinds of comments were a lot more common a few years ago, but I feel like there's just this like global etiquette that everyone knows, that you know, let's be kind and there's always gonna be haters and stuff, but the thing that threw me off about this is I haven't seen that type of comment in a while.
Speaker 2:Like it's one thing to be, like your puns are annoying.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, you watch the video at least you know like, but I get, I also, I get it, like I'm not gonna change it, but I get it but to.
Speaker 2:But to, like you know bully, to put out like call names and say you're a 12 year old and stuff like this, like I would show like a 12 year old to date with him.
Speaker 1:Sir, this is a video video about a video switcher. Just put the fries in the bag.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I can't yeah. So it wasn't even like pleasing everyone, it's just like I didn't realize me existing was offensive.
Speaker 1:I guess we're going to talk about this now, yeah exactly, it's that, anyway, okay, that's what I was going to say.
Speaker 2:Here's going to hate, hate, hate. You just got to shake, shake, shake it out. I've shake about that someone should make a song about it. Uh, clip it. Let's see just flanks. I feel like the yeti got a bit of bad reputation because people just put it in omni and put it off camera in an untreated room with the pc fans yeah, the wrong thing.
Speaker 1:They're talking into the top of it and they boom it out of frame five feet away and it's like the yeti sounds bad. It's. You know, use it properly, it's.
Speaker 2:I have a whole video about this oh, just found a few of those live. We should find one I want to.
Speaker 1:I kind of see what it looks like, yeah, let's do it um, obviously they're still up.
Speaker 2:I I don't usually private live streams, but all right, tom buck, let's see what we got going on here you have to do oldest bam, wow, oh, my goodness there okay, do like this this one 3d printer showdown.
Speaker 1:I think this one would have it. Oh, this definitely has two cameras, and I see the yeti oh my god, I can't believe.
Speaker 2:You used to stream in the freaking garage, I thought it was cool, this was I bet you.
Speaker 1:This was in like november, this was not. Oh, I put the chat up on. I found a way to put the chat on screen, oh, my god, this is so cute the humble beginnings.
Speaker 2:What camera were you using?
Speaker 1:probably my original 6d look at that beard this was late 2017, for sure. Um, let's hear what it sounds like though. Yeah, so, to get started off, last time I did a live stream. I unboxed this printer here, the monoprice mp delta mini and since I've been playing, around with it and I don't have a full review for it, but I'm gonna make one um this is a very I like you sound very, very nervous Cute.
Speaker 2:You sound so adorable so far I kind of.
Speaker 1:I kind of like it a lot and I'm really impressed with it so far, and so I've been comparing it with a lot of my other printers, these are the two minis. This is my very first 3D printer right here, and as soon as I got it I loved it so much I bought a second one so that I could print more.
Speaker 2:Oh, my God, you look. How Do you guys see this? Okay, he could have so easily been a 3D printing channel and we would not be having this conversation.
Speaker 1:I mean, you never know, it would be a gold play button status baby.
Speaker 2:It's cool to see this, though, yeah but.
Speaker 1:But my point is well, the whole reason we brought this up was I want to see how the one I forgot that, like I used them out, I forgot I used obs to like. This was pre-ec, like you couldn't put street uh comments on screen really easy. And then I had the logitech c920 down here oh.
Speaker 2:Oh, the webcam. Oh look, I did a picture in picture. I did a picture Right under there Wow. Now I have the stream deck to just switch scenes, all easy.
Speaker 1:This was when wait, I gotta put the mouse up here. What was the date of this?
Speaker 2:You gotta click the yeah February 2018. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So this is six and a half, almost seven years ago. That's a while. But the whole reason we went there was because of the Yeti. I was so excited. I know it's echoing I'm in a garage and stuff.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that what you were using?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I had no way of getting any sound prior to that and the camera's built-in microphone, which would have sounded 10 times worse. So, it was like I bought this Yeti and now I could actually live stream.
Speaker 2:I had no other way to get audio in my live streams at the time. Let's see Dawn. My Blue Yeti was great until I hit it with my elbow and knocked it on the floor. Well, you know what I did with mine.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I was working out of a WeWork. No-transcript help my channel.
Speaker 2:Take a video about this yes, so, um, I would commute from my apartment to we work on a boosted board which is an electric skateboard board, right here yes, and so I put my blue yeti in the backpack and one of the things that you pass by on the way home because it's it's in long beach, so it's a beach path is the dog beach, the off-the-leash dog beach. And there was this, the cutest bulldog, just running full friggin' force, and I looked at the owner as I was going like super fast and he was like and I just had to dip to not run over this dog and I completely I hurt myself so bad and I landed on the Yeti on my backpack.
Speaker 1:With your computer in there too, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Wow, like your whole business was in this bag my business was in my backpack, yeah, but the Yeti was like on top, so that's what I landed on.
Speaker 1:You had to get it replaced right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I reached out to Yet Eddie, and they sent me a new one, isn't?
Speaker 1:that nice, that's really nice.
Speaker 2:So anyway, hello, hello, hello, Just flanks. I feel like the Eddie gets a. Did we say this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what we. We saw that before we went to the.
Speaker 2:Oh, put the fries in the bag, tom, you're clowning people. Put the fries in the bag, killed me.
Speaker 1:You have a lot of 3D printing videos popping up in your recommended.
Speaker 2:No see, I have to take this search history off because I don't want them. No offense, I didn't even know YouTube had live stream functionality back then.
Speaker 1:That was when it was. I think it was limited to 720. At least I was and you had to like.
Speaker 2:That was where your channel had to be a certain age and you had to like have a certain number of well, I remember when I first started live streaming in 2016, you had to use like youtube's live streaming thing called wirecast oh my gosh like you couldn't even like use a thing for a while could you only use a phone.
Speaker 1:No, I remember we streamed on your phone, but maybe that was just because they brought it to the phone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't remember. It is true, we never know where life will take us. None of the B&H stuff would have happened.
Speaker 1:Tom is where he's supposed to be. It'd be like Fry's Electronics or something. It'd be different.
Speaker 2:My friend just got into audio recording, and he's managing to make my Rode NT1 5th Gen sound bad. So the microphone definitely isn't everything.
Speaker 1:Right, because that is an amazing microphone.
Speaker 2:If your friend wants some tips for audio recording, the only thing the NT1 needs on 90% of voices a high-pass filter about 150 hertz and a low-pass at about 20 kilohertz.
Speaker 1:Bailey dropping knowledge there. That's cool and to make sure he's speaking, I actually there's a podcast.
Speaker 1:I listen to a lot and I'm semi friends with one of the hosts and because he we met because I was a fan of the podcast yeah, and he actually emailed me because he was like, okay, suddenly my co-host microphone, the rode nt1, is sounding terrible and I don't know why it sounds like he's in a bathroom, but it's always sounding great. What can we do? And I was like, well, it could be this, that and the other thing. And I was like I know this sounds dumb, have him double check. He's talking into the right part of the microphone because it's it's a microphone where you talk into one side, but it looks kind of the same. I was like make sure the gold dot is facing towards him and he's talking to that side, he had it backwards.
Speaker 1:Like 30 minutes later he was like yep, he changed his setup a while ago and actually put the microphone in backwards and he's been talking to the back of it for the past three episodes. Everything's fine now. Love it when it's a simple solution, but like I hate when you have to tell someone like did you, is it plugged in? Like it's you have to very tactfully yeah because a lot of times I'm sure anyone who works in it support knows a lot of times that is the answer is like it's yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 2:let's see a dip in the mids at about 600,000, that takes out some of the nasal sound in a voice. Wow, did you know all this?
Speaker 1:I never remember the exact numbers, I just remember what it looks like on the equalizer.
Speaker 2:Oh, Just Flink says fun fact way back in the day you could link your Twitch channel to your YouTube channel because they didn't have a live streaming feature Twitch.
Speaker 1:Oh, if you wanted to be live, you'd be on twitch. Oh, if you want to be on youtube, so you could like wow, the world has definitely changed.
Speaker 2:That was probably before twitch was acquired by amazon, I'm guessing probably yeah, joe, it was cool to see tom in the chat on dave chase summit live stream.
Speaker 1:I was just talking to you about this stream. Um, I was telling heather, I was like, oh yeah, like one of my like other internet friends was doing a stream and I knew he had gotten the roadcaster video, his actually had a problem, he had to get it replaced, so I wanted to make.
Speaker 2:I saw him streaming and I was like yeah.
Speaker 1:And I was like, oh, let me make sure it's working right. But I was telling Heather that a big gripe that I've had for many years is if you buy a variety bag of chips like that has Doritos and Cheetos and stuff in it, there's always so many Fritos in there and like it'll come with two bags of barbecue chips and eight bags of Fritos. And I'm always like, and every combo that has all these good chips has Fritos. And every time I buy those I just end up with an abundance of Fritos. I'm fine with Fritos.
Speaker 2:Once in a while I like a corn chip but like I never get the variety pack because it feels like a waste, cause I never eat the Fritos Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and someone asked like hey, chase, are you a Fritos or Doritos guy? And I was like, are there Fritos?
Speaker 2:Why is this even a question?
Speaker 1:And then the fact he's asking the question. The fact that they put 14 different bags in the variety pack means there must be but I have never known anyone to like the fritos yeah, like if there's nothing else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's always like oh, you got to the bottom of the pack or there's other things.
Speaker 1:There's certain like I don't know meals like uh, chilies, or whatever you want to like, put the fritos in. All the good chips got taken yeah, so I'm stuck with the fritos yeah anyway, I was literally telling heather about that like an hour before we streamed today, so I'm glad that yeah where are we here?
Speaker 2:okay, that gold dot trick is great it's almost like wrote that about it. I've had to remember the numbers because I mix on some of the older analog consoles. No visual equalizer oh wow, that's crazy. It's hardcore. Um, kim, I cannot figure out how to equalize my mic for my voice. It's not as easy as I thought it would. Be thanks for that tip there you go.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's different for every voice too, and that's what bailey said. It's just a start. Um, every mic is different, every voice is different, every environment different, and the combination of all those is also very different.
Speaker 2:So but it's also like I don't even. I get to the point where I don't even know what's what like is right anymore, because I have like tinkering too much, you know audio hotline says my wife likes fritos.
Speaker 1:I know I'm working on fixing her. It's not that I again, it's not that I don't like fritos. And, to be fair, trader joe's has something called corn chip dippers which are the trader joe's fritos which are vastly superior to fritos. They're like, they're not insanely salty and they're a little bit bigger you should start a youtube channel about chips I don't know about that.
Speaker 1:Uh, chip tips, that's what I'll call it. It'll be a shorts channel, but here's. My only thing is you get the variety pack like the 18 little. I really love chips and I have no self-control, so if I have, literally I've gotten the big party size, suitcase size bag of doritos from costco and I will just eat the whole thing in a couple days like I cannot control myself. So I have to get the little pre-packaged ones portion portion control.
Speaker 1:I can't. I can't be trusted and I love a lot of different chips and it's cool because sometimes like, oh look, it's got nacho doritos, it's got cool ranch. We got some barbecue chips over here, we got ruffles, we even got some sour cream and onion and for some and we also got fritos. Fine, but it will literally be like you know the really popular ones, you're gonna get eight bags of doritos, you're gonna get six bags of cheetos and then you get two bags of barbecue and like eight bags of fritos. Why is so much realist? Like did they just manufacture?
Speaker 2:it must be like a midwest thing, like everyone's making a frito pie. Yeah, it's all bit huge in texas or something look up frito pie the side dish I had in atlanta. You'll never have an abundance of fritos, ever again. That, and that's the thing, is that that's when you put, like chili, in the frito bag base. No, that's like a dish you can make oh yeah, I've seen the put a scoop of chili in the frito bag.
Speaker 1:There's that up well, even when you make curry, I actually do like to mix fritos into the curry.
Speaker 2:Weird because it's japanese curry.
Speaker 1:Here's frito, oh yeah, fully understand that it's great, but that's not like I'm having lunch with a sandwich and I just want a giant bag of fritos. That's the saltiest thing I've ever had. It's not even that they're bad it's just like opinionated tell sorry go ahead. They're in every variety pack, they infest every variety pack, and it's not just that they're there, it's that there's so many of them compared to objectively superior.
Speaker 2:Okay, here Someone who works in education. No one likes the Fritos. We tolerate them. At the end of the variety pack, exactly.
Speaker 1:Anyway, that's why I was just blown away that somebody had that question on Chase's stream.
Speaker 2:You okay. That question on chase's stream. Yeah, you okay. Yeah, I went to a place. You went there. Get the variety bag for yourself, give away all the fritos to the trick-or-treaters well, fortunately, what frito-lay did start doing.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's why because it's in their name, right, frito-lay they're gonna like we gotta keep the fritos going. Um, they do a variety pack that is uh puffy cheetos, crunchy cheetos, uh cool ranch doritos and cheese nacho cheese doritos. And it's just those four flavors. So I just get that one. They're all winners. I just reach in the bag.
Speaker 2:Whatever I pull out I'm happy with bailey says it is really hard to get the eq on your voice perfect, as you do say. It can seem like any chance is making something better, even if it isn't. Sometimes taking a step is the best choice yep 100 I would rather have an abundance of funyuns than fritos.
Speaker 1:It's like the plain m&ms it's so funny, you know, smells like toast to me because a lot of people say dog paws like fritos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just saw this on instagram that's funny.
Speaker 1:Um frito pie though I'm like. I'm down for dishes that include Fritos because a nice crunchy chip in an otherwise smushy dish, much appreciated.
Speaker 2:The one I had was a brisket chili with cheese and onions and barbie sauce in a Frito bag. Wow, that sounds good yo.
Speaker 1:This is reminding me about the whole shebang. Maybe this is a note we can go out on, but there's a thing I found out about several years ago. We talked about it on here. Maybe we even had them on here, I don't remember but apparently there's a type of chip in prisons that are served and they're called the whole shebang.
Speaker 2:And it's like potato chip.
Speaker 1:It's potato chips, so they have every flavor. If you live in Canada, I think Lay's or Ruffles make some that are called all dressed up or dressed up chips or whatever. It's like that. But for some reason they're like only like the prison system just bought them all and so apparently it's. It's a common thing. I don't ever want to find this out, but if people get out of prison it's like is there anything you miss? Like the one thing I miss is just the chips, but you can buy them on eBay and so I would buy a bunch.
Speaker 1:I bought a pack I bought several boxes for cases for a while and I would bring them even to school and like let students try them and have them and stuff and they're really good. They're really good. Uh, those are great. And my other thing sorry, a bucket list item that I have is to eat a dorito fresh off the conveyor conveyor belt. Yeah, because I've heard from people who work at the factory that when you have them fresh and they're still warm and they're super fresh.
Speaker 2:it's a different experience. No see, I feel like they. I don't feel like that's a true Dorito. I feel like a Dorito is meant to be eaten at room temp, so you have to like wait for it to cool, otherwise that's it.
Speaker 1:I'm happy to try both.
Speaker 2:I will try the fresh one. That's still warm and I'll let it cool and try that one too fine, if I must today's show is not sponsored by frito-lay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's about the lay part, but not the frito part. Yeah, well, we're gonna we're gonna go get ice cream right now because the couple stable is always, should be sponsored by handle that was like one of my first thoughts. Waking up this morning was like 2 pm, baby wow yeah, I know we are, we got the bug.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, all right. Oh, did he?
Speaker 1:yeah, anyway, thanks all for being here. This was a really fun show this was a fun show appreciate all the on and off topic conversations. I guess there's no way to be off topic when there is no specific topic, but it's fun. Yeah, maybe before next week we'll see a stream from you and we can talk about it maybe yeah, and next week I'll be in another mic that was sent over from audio hotline uh, christopher says honey, barbecue twist fritos are great.
Speaker 2:That actually sounds pretty good. Sounds pretty good. I'm watching this as a non-american, wondering what fritos are. Oh my gosh. Um, you don't need to try them. Actually I'm curious. Do you guys think I should start doing some shorts reels on these little tips?
Speaker 2:I've been thinking about it oh yeah, 100 totally that's the kind of thing, the only thing, though, is just to make sure to add some text on the um the grid photo, just so like when someone's scrolling through your feed, they can. It's like putting the youtube title you know onto the thing.
Speaker 1:That's a good. Heather has a whole tutorial on her tutorial channel about just just shorts covers.
Speaker 2:Put the, put the text, so that when someone's like trying to find the very specific little tip, they can find it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that Cause. It's also a thing that maybe doesn't need to be an eight minute video, or if someone just wants to make their mic feel better. They don't want to sift through a long video, they just want the one minute thing.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:All right. Well, thanks for watching, thanks for hanging out. Hope you all have a safe, happy, healthy, fun rest of your week and weekend.
Speaker 2:And we'll catch you next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:See ya.