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Techsploder (Jason Howell)
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Jason Howell is making videos about the human side of technology. AI, Mobile, AR/VR, the Metaverse, and more.
With a focus on personal experience over specs, Techsploder focuses on what it means to live with technology, how it impacts our daily lives, and whether it lives up to its promises through the form of in-depth reviews, hands-on demos, how-tos, and interviews with the people shaping the tech ecosystem. Jason draws on his decades of experience in tech podcasting producing content for CNET and TWiT.
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With a focus on personal experience over specs, Techsploder focuses on what it means to live with technology, how it impacts our daily lives, and whether it lives up to its promises through the form of in-depth reviews, hands-on demos, how-tos, and interviews with the people shaping the tech ecosystem. Jason draws on his decades of experience in tech podcasting producing content for CNET and TWiT.
Business inquiries and sponsorships: Please contact jason -at- yellowgoldstudios -dot- com
NOTE: We use affiliate links and may earn commissions on purchases made through those links. We also receive products for review purposes. However, our reviews and opinions remain uninfluenced by these arrangements. Any sponsorships will be clearly disclosed, maintaining your trust as our top priority while complying with legal requirements.
SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Headphones: UNBOXED
Whether for gaming or media consumption, the new update to the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless Headphones addresses a big complaint from the previous black version. Jason Howell unboxes the headphones and demonstrates why you should buy these instead.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Unboxing
5:38 - Hands-on with the headphones
6:10 - Design and build quality
6:55 - Earpads
8:31 - Aluminum plates
9:02 - Replaceable battery
9:53 - Controls
11:03 - Base station input swapping
11:30 - Comfort
12:40 - Audio performance
13:30 - Base station controls
17:30 - Game system and PC compatibility
18:25 - Audio quality testing
19:40 - Initial thoughts
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#steelseries #headphones #gaming #steelseriespartner #affiliate
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Unboxing
5:38 - Hands-on with the headphones
6:10 - Design and build quality
6:55 - Earpads
8:31 - Aluminum plates
9:02 - Replaceable battery
9:53 - Controls
11:03 - Base station input swapping
11:30 - Comfort
12:40 - Audio performance
13:30 - Base station controls
17:30 - Game system and PC compatibility
18:25 - Audio quality testing
19:40 - Initial thoughts
**SteelSeries supplied me with this device for the purposes of this review.**
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I’ve been using Udio uploading excerpts of my material and I have to concede to the fact that it baffles me as to how on earth, it comes up with amazing options! It replicated my guitar sound as well as, vocals! Well, 95%! It is disquieting, however.
Yeah it is quite something, eh? I haven't gotten any sort of useful replication of my voice however. How did you pull that off?
Is there a way to give a file to an AI to improve sound quality.. or maybe even master it?
You could upload something more interesting than a drum and bass pattern
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but I believe I uploaded three totally different things of different variety. Even with a relatively simple drum and bass pattern (assuming you are referring to the first track I uploaded), my point was to see what kind of accompaniment ideas Udio would give me. Dare I say, it did a great job doing exactly that.
I mean...we all need to keep some _janky_ scissors handy! Great, thorough review and I'll be curious to see what you thought after your trip! And of course, the background music was 'chef's kiss'. 🤓 Thanks for sharing.
Janky scissors are better than no scissors, as the old saying... never went!
Great show as always, guys! Not just journalists will benefit if verifiable trustworthy AI tools can go watch a lot of livestream meetings, transcribe summarize and alert to topics of interest. The PUBLIC, too. "Trustworthy" is key - you go back, random or bit by bit, and did it accurately transcribe - a challenge - and summarize - another huge challenge. It can learn from what we write about and ... there's just this post-pandemic legacy of all public meetings are online, pretty much - but how to cover them all? The potential is incredible, if we... don't turn the tools into weapons, as often happens. Then expand further - what biz won't pay to get an alert as soon as a legal action, motion in a pending suit, new legislation at state or local level is filed of crucial interest to themselves/their business? I see such amazing potential for these tools to keep us more informed, better and more quickly than any other existing service. It goes way beyond writing things up or cutting people already doing work. It EMPOWERS. If we do it right.
Totally agree. They are tools at the end of the day and all tools require knowledge and understanding in or to use them effectively without harm. So why not harness what they are capable of.
Thanks for having me on, Jason! Such a fun convo :)
Thank you so much for sharing your depth of insight on the topic of design, Liam! It's been a blast watching your career unfold.
Good stuff jason!
Thank you!
Huawei Watch 4 or Oneplus watch 2?
I only have direct experience with the OP W2, so I suppose it's the only one I can recommend!
You uploaded your own music? Then, I guess it's not YOUR music anymore. Now you can't register it - read the terms of service.
Please define "register it." My analysis of the TOS is: I retain my original rights and ownership of my original audio doesn't transfer to them, I do grant them usage rights though. Udio can use my audio for its own promotional purposes as well as training data for its system. Now, I say this while fully admitting that this stuff is developing currently. I certainly don't recommend others do this without their own research and analysis.
Idk why but the 8a looks better than the 8
The smaller profile of the camera bump?
What a great show ❤
Thank you!
0’s and 1’s
How long did the generation of the first attempt take? Missed it because of the "magic of pausing and flashing forward into the future" :) 05:36
Not long at all. All generations took around 60-90 seconds or so.
Interesting. I think that currently it's only good for ideas. As I could clearly hear the quality diminish drastically in the sections it added. The snare for example went from sounding sharp and snappy, to losing it's attack completely.
Totally agree. I'm certain the actual sound quality will improve to an acceptable point, and we won't have to wait too long for that too happen. But as an idea and brainstorming machine, this is excellent!
Great review. Long time AAA and now Android Faithful follower. Great work, please keep the awesome content coming 👍🏻
Thank you for watching, Peter!!
Like you, I definitely do see Udio and AI in general as a tool and a collaborative partner. What I'd like to see from Udio, Suno, or other, as soon as possible, is to enable us as users to have more control; to be able to act more as a producer. Ideally, have the music transcribed so we can go in and change notes and chords as we need to. It may seem like a lot to ask, but if Finale and Sibileus have it, I'm sure these AI companies can implement a MuseScore-type tool. As a musician, I am not at all intimidated by this technology. I've found it to be very helpful. My only desire at this time is for it to enable the users to have more control and act as producers.
Agree with all of this! I do wonder if someone is going to create an AI-forward DAW that really leans into this stuff. If I had the technical capability, I'd do it myself!
Try your own lyrics. Using Country as a tag is great for songwriters. Don’t select too many different styles.
Using country as a tag is great for songwriters even if they aren't trying to create country?
AI triggers people. Those it does have eliminated themselves from the future. They are so emotional about it
If I want it just to sample my voice, I am presuming that I would only have up upload a short vox file, which is fine, but how can I ask it to use my voice to create a sample so that their AI voice sounds like mine? What you did was a continuation of your actual music, but is there a specific way to sample something? That way, it's not exactly going to copy an entire song of mine, and therefore I'm not too worried about anything being used except for a few vocal lines because it will be unrecognisable. I just want to know how it samples my voice. Thanks :)
11 labs has the feature to clone your voice. This is infancy stage and it keep improving…
I've used Eleven Labs to clone my voice (not for music, for spoken word) and its pretty impressive. And improving. But still it wasn't TOTALLY there. Will be in due time, no question.
Lalala ai if you want the stems
Yeah, might have to do a video that takes all of this further with LALAL.
hurray!!! eye am kidding of coarse. we cannot eccept this .sometimes you need to stay in the corner...its a happy place.
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as per the "it's useful when i am stuck in a corner" reference.
Yes, stems would be useful!
Lot's of people point out the many AI sites that do stem removal. Personally, I'd love everything to be in one integrated tool. Kind of like a Perplexity for musicians.
You told it to write lyrics about a terrible topic and then said the lyrics are terrible. Wouldn't you have terrible lyrics in a song that has a bad theme? FADR does good stem separation for cheap. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before they add that in as an option to music generators, but for now FADR is probably the best subscription for unlimited stem separation, and you could just take the remix/extensions you like and break them down into their stems through FADR for the times that you like 'this part' but not 'that part'.
I suppose that's fair, I didn't give it much to work on with the lyrical approach. With practice I'm sure I can get a better understanding of how do get lyrics and vocals that match a particular esthetic that I want. As a vocalist myself, though, not sure if that's a need I really have to fill. Might as well just do my own and leave the AI as an instrumental element collaborator.
I have uploaded excerpts from some (my own) finished pop rock productions (1990 - 1995) (mixed and mastered). The songs were chopped up, the orders were reversed and the melodies were sung improvised by a different voice. But in the end it got very worse. If you have the talent to write the music yourself and record it yourself, you can't even get inspiration from it. The AI currently only reaches a very limited level. I would be interested to know if Udio plans to build a platform for all productions. So also for your own uploaded selfmade-productions “without AI".
Huh thats an interesting question. So are you saying the platform would display a person's AI generated as well as NON-AI generated music catalogue?
@@Techsploder Clear yes. A musician can now mix AI-generated parts with real recordings on his DAW. For example, I would record all instruments with real singer myself - but add the choir to my singer with AI voices. That sounds better than having the same singer sing with herself 10 times.
an AI to collab with , a tool like that could work for me. But i would like to have more control over it, it should respond to give me inspiration but then i want to takr it apart again, further than only stem separation. So it is nice to experiment with, learn to work with a premature tool like this and it wil become better working within your DAW.
I'm super curious to see how this idea develops. I totally see a time when someday, likely not too far into the future, our modern DAWs will have this functionality baked in, running locally (hopefully), to act as a music collaborator on demand. AND give me stem control to while yer at it!
i expect that they are using all the input from the many people trying this out to add to their machine learning algorithm. so you may find that your song ideas will show up later in someone else's song..what do the terms of service say?
It does appear that uploading material can then be used to train their AI. I wish I had read that before the video was released. Not because I care so much about sharing my own music with the Udio system. But because I would like others to know that explicitly. I will add that to the description. thanks.
While this is interesting, a serious concern I have is that by feeding your songs into this AI, you and your music are in the AI's machine learning copy pool because you've trained it to sound like you. Yes, true that it's a miniscule drop in the AI's learned bucket, but it could start spitting out results for other people that erode your own originality because it's learned how to replicate you. That is not cool.
I realize that not everyone will feel the way I do about this... But I really do not care if I'm completely honest. I see no reason to feel like anything about my musical creativity is harmed by an AI that's influenced in a miniscule way by my own music. It's such a drop in the bucket. But I fully realize that my not making a living from my music puts me in a position of privilege in that perspective. I might feel differently if my livelihood was driven by my musical uniqueness and creativity.
@Techsploder All excellent points. And thanks for making this great and very informative video. The AI remix process is super interesting. It would be cool if you could use this AI in a closed environment where it didn't share back into the main pool. I wonder if that will become a feature in future models based on subscription choice? Some companies are doing that for AI systems for companies that don't want or cannot allow their proprietary information out in the public via AI, so maybe this will come to music to at some point?
Logic has a stem splitter that's great.
Great idea! Future video!
Great job on this video! UDIO's new Upload Feature is crazy good. I did a step by step tutorial video on my channel showing how you can take an 8 year old demo of an actual song written by Nashville songwriters and create a newer modern day version of the same song using Udio's upload feature. Technology is just getting better and better quicker than expected which is scary.
Oh cool! I will have to check that out!
Just pay me, I can make better crap than this for you
I said the stems thing myself - there is LALALai which does it, so it could easily be incorporated....a basic sequencer might be cool '')
LALAL.ai is great though I haven't used it in quite a while. Curious to know how it would do with this task. I do fear that every "interpretation" might result in diminished fidelity. I would guess this all gets refined over time.
If you want to get more prompt coherence, switch to manual mode. In its current mode the AI will change your prompt description, often changing the genres completely. Hit the "x" button to clear the suggested genres, you will then see a "manual mode" button underneath the "create" button. Click just to the left of "manual mode" and you will see a toggle switch, turn it on. Now the exact genre prompts you entered will be used.
I started my experimentation with that feature on. But after some playing around, I understand it's purpose better. Thanks for sharing!
You can use software to split the stems. There are so many choices out there.
I know there are. I haven't used them enough to know the kind of quality I can get out of them. But I will!
Suno has also added this feature this week.
I gotta get on that then!
Fun stuff for sure!
Happy you enjoyed it!
Those lyrics, tho! 😂 Straight outta some really bad 80s movie! 🤭
Oh yeah, TOTALLY awful!
Oh yeah, TOTALLY awful!
Suno has a new feature to upload audio as well and soon separate stems for what it generates. Great video ❤ Magenta Studio is another great tool from Google
Oh man, seperating stems is top on my list. Might have to make a video on that when I return from Italy!
Also curious about Magenta Studio plugins from Google!?
OpenVINO Music Separation in Audacity is great too on Windows
“AI Scene! Bringing beats to the team!” Your cringe was beautiful! You should cold open with that and your reaction before your video. That’s a great hook!
Yeah that's a great idea... Too late now! Still learning the ropes of this stuff. Dang!
I’d love to make music that sounds like a popular song but not actually the song for content rights. Is that possible? Like the intro to the Who’s “Baba O’Riley?”
Jason, Jason, Jason..... A clickbait title? You're better than this.
I'm testing different approaches out. Believe me, I get it. But I don't know what works and what doesn't work if I don't try and fail and try again. Thanks for the feedback.
Alright, tweaked the title. Better? (And look. Click bait titles are NOT my instinct. But I've found that UA-cam has a whole set of things that "work". And when I'm trying to build a business, I need to try all avenues. That's how I know what works best for ME. Thanks for caring enough to reply.)
Where can we find your music? (I got hooked).
Right on! My guitar-oriented music is on Spotify (search "Yellowgold"). Also have an electronic/Industrial project (search "WALL - This Here Life"). Both links are in the description of this video. Thanks for listening!
The GIZ WIZ!
You know it
Great stuff❤
Thank you!
What a fun (and informative) show! Dick DeBartolo is a treasure! 👓
Indeed he is!
It makes me happy to live in a world that has Dick DeBartolo.
He makes the world happy!
I like this guy's style. He's zigging where everyone else is sagging
Definitely marches to the beat of his own drum, and has made a career out of it!
Great guest, well done
Thank you!
Christina is literally the perfect "podcast" guest...Great episode!
She's amazing, always has been!
Thumbnail game on target
I have to get over myself and just do the thing that "works"
@@Techsploder yeah you got to embrace that inner cringe !
I will say, though... I'm really trying to find the balance between "overt UA-cam thumbnail face" and "my actual, organic emotion". Trying to not go TOO overboard.
I agree, and given that Mr Beast spends $US10,000 for each thumbnail, putting work into them can really pay dividends. Having said that I think the whole production is getting more an more polished each episode, thanks for all your hard work Jason.
Thank you so much!!@@webgenius937
I love your explanation of my phrase I use on my radio show when I play 'music that does it for me'. 😉 I have tried out using Udio for 'sandboxing' station imaging for a new community radio station I will probably be launching in the near future. It did a good job and I just had to tidy it up and remix it myself to perfect it.
That's great. Actually it reminds me of using Ideograms AI to brainstorm logo ideas for my company. Ended up sharing some of those drafts with my human designer. A great starting point!