At this point, this should be a named series. Linus’ Extreme New Home Upgrade is easily among my favorite LTT series of videos (tied with Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade).
Imagine going to your friends house to play some games and you end up entering an RGB basement with Linus sitting there playing the same DOOM level over and over again.
@@notlNSIGHT you are simply wrong here. there is a much higher demand in GPU's due to mining. RAM for example is being made on completely different process nodes than Gpu's and CPU's . same goes for chipsets and SSD's. CPU's are more available because there is less demand in them. also you need much less silicon and get much higher yields producing a CPU because they are a lot smaller than a high end GPU . for example a 6900xt is 520mm². a zen3 chiplet ( CCX) is only 80.7mm². both are TSMC 7nm . so you can eighter bulid one 6900xt ( if the die does not fail in production due to its sheer size) or 6 times a 5800x. if you are looking at retailprizes for these ( here in germany) you will have a 6900xt for 1500€ or 6 x 350€ for the 5800x wich adds up to 2100€ . if silicon is the limiting factor here, you simply get much more margin by producing cpu's here. with a GPU you also have to factor in VRAM wich is expensive and shortens your margin even further. For the 5800x the second chip wich is connected to the CCX is based on 12 nm wich is much more available.
@@notlNSIGHT at the Moment you can make 7-8$ of Profit per 3080. Half a year and the Hardware is paid off ... quite easy Also if gpu mining isnt a realy the problem then please explain why the ETH Network difficulty skyrocketed from 2.9p to 9.5p in the period from the 30-series launch until now 🤣
Fun fact: Wave Panels have clips that hold each other together, so when screwed into the wall you could 100% hold one up freestanding without needing to do what Jake did XD
I definitely understand it but i still don't like it. They've acknowledged Epos in the past and have also worked with even smaller creators. It is just an ad, many will look past it, but most won't. Linus' reach is extraordinary large, so this will lead to undeserved sales for low tier elgato products and impact the quality of the streaming community as a whole which is an already astonishingly low bar when it doesn't have to be.
and considering you probably want to be able to easily take it away if you move you probably only should screw in 2 at the top to hold the ones that come after that, or are they not strong enough for that?
This man really has his priorities set. The room has no walls, probably has exposed wiring, no inspections, but definitely has a beast pc in there lmao.
it was sorta fine before he launched csgo, but afterwards, the mic boosted up. my guest is that the mic was adjusted in the windows volume controller, and since csgo (little fun fact) boosts the audio to 100% on launch, the audio was boosted back to default.
@@DV7Dave ye lol. also some other pc games, like Uno by ubi for some reason. i just have script to run to see if my mic is at a certain volume, and if not, put it back automatically to the the level i want it.
6:07 Mounting the microphone behind just makes more sense to me in terms of space, especially for people who use their desk more than just for a single use (which is just for computers). You don't have to go over, it come come across the beside monitor and under your mouth (as Linus did)
Sometimes I think about how crazy it is that Linus built up this brand around high-end consumer tech without coming off as egotistical or snobby. This is probably one of the best channels on youtube, and I think sheer exposure to that LTT giant mousepad has made me want to buy it. Great job Linus & LTT!
"“All you have to do is spend a bunch of SOMEBODY ELSE'S money” See that is the key to things. The really genius bit comes when you then make videos to make money off of people giving you free stuff. Which then in turn drives your value as an "influencer" which in turn gets you even MORE free stuff.
As a former radio guy, who is still very much into pro audio and home recording (with decades of experience,) I feel that your choice of the SM48 was a failure. I’m not going to say that the SM7B is the be all end all, because everyone wants to look cool-but the SM58 and SM57 are bulletproof and have the classic look and sound you’ve heard on thousands of recordings and on millions of stages. If you literally don’t know anything about microphones, buy an SM58-and you’ll still sound fine using whatever horrible mic technique you’re attempting to copy. If you aren’t into eating the mic, and plan to sit further back, and would like a slightly brighter sound, or plan to record an instrument at some, then get an SM57. If you wanna look just like every other podcaster and streamer, and want to smell and taste the wind screen after it’s been in your face-get an SM7B, and get that shit as close as you can, because if you want that unnaturally deep, booming bass you’ve heard from other people using one, you gotta get close to get the proximity effect. If you want to sound like a radio professional, use a subtle noise gate and a little bit of compression on your mic input, and tweak the EQ until you sound as authoritative and professional as you’ve always imagined. If you want to have the best sounding broadcast mic in existence, get yourself an Electro Voice RE20, which started as a broadcast mic and found even more popularity in recording studios-or you can get the RE27N/D, which is the slightly more expensive version that’s been updated with even more features that make it even better for broadcasting, which is another mic I have in my collection, because it sounds amazing. The SM48 as heard on this very video sounds as bad as every mic I’ve ever heard under $50. The sound is muddy, it has lower volume output, which means to get the same volume as an SM58 you’ll be boosting the audible noise floor considerably higher (which is bad, and means more background noise). Again, while the SM58 is (and has been for decades) about $100-it sounds considerably cleaner, and brighter and has a midrange cuts through instead of being muddy. $100 for a professional quality microphone that will last you the rest of your life, and can be re-sold all day long for upwards of $50-even if it’s beat to shit, because they’re just so reliable, which makes it a much better value. The SM48 is for people who want a classic looking microphone, and don’t really care what they sound like, as long as they can amplify the sound of their voice with a PA system. If I was buying mics for a K-12 school that needed a bunch of mics for their assemblies, and are going to be handled by children and I didn’t want to worry about them stealing or trashing them-then I’d get the SM48, tweak the EQ knobs a ton, and hope for the best. For the more advanced folks who have an interest in music and singing, you can find condenser microphones for about $100, and that will give you even more dynamic range (assuming you actually sit back from the mic) but you need an interface that has 48v phantom power, but unlike all the dynamic mics I see people accessorizing with wind screens and pop filters-condenser mics actually need them. If you’ve ever heard someone pop their p’s or make other plosives, you can do that from 3 feet away with even an cheap condenser mic. I would only recommend someone get a condenser mic for streaming if you don’t type on a loud mechanical keyboard, know how to setup a noise gate, do not have any background noises (ie your PC is whisper quiet) and you’ve got a room that has been acoustically treated to minimize reflections. If you do, condenser mics sound amazing, but it’s much better suited for recording. Above all else, whatever mic you buy should be a cardioid pattern, and you want it to be tilted slightly so you’re not bottoming out the diaphragm. (The angle you want is slightly off axis, which ideally is the same angle you would use when you’re blowing across the opening of a bottle to make that deep whistling sound). Then you want to make sure the opposite end, (usually where the cable is connected) is pointed at whatever the fuck you DO NOT want to get picked up on the mic, because that cardioid pattern has the highest level of noise rejection 180 degrees from the sweet spot. The further you get from the center of the sweet spot, the more potentially undesirable sound you’ll hear being picked up on the mic, which is why you wouldn’t use a directional mic, like a cardioid to record an entire room-for that you want an omnidirectional mic, which doesn’t have the proximity effect like a cardioid mic, and sounds the same at any angle. The final tip for mics I will give, is where you put your acoustic treatment. If you can’t afford to go nuts and treat the entire room, then load up the wall behind your mic, which is the one behind your desk in most streaming setups. The idea is that you want to stop as much sound from bouncing off that hard surface, and scattering around the room. The next most important wall is the one directly behind you, which will reduce any reflections from getting picked up. If you’re doing things right, the mic’s sweet spot should be blocked by your body, but you wanna reduce those reflections just the same. If you still have money to treat the walls on the sides of your setup, you don’t have to cover the entire wall, but you can make an alternating pattern. If you’re shooting for what’s ideal, you want to avoid having two parallel surfaces that are untreated on at least one of them. So, you can treat both, which will give you that anechoic, vocal booth sound like you see/hear in most on-air radio studios. Personally I like some reflections, but I want to avoid the buildup of any unpleasant frequencies, which is called flutter echo. So, you only need to treat half of the surfaces. If you have carpet, you can leave the ceiling alone everywhere that isn’t directly above the hard flat surface of your desk. You want bass traps for the corners, and then you can buy panels that would fully cover two out of four walls in an alternating pattern. So, if you’ve got panels that are 24”, then staring from the corner (at the edge of your bass trap) want to put the first panel to cover the first 24” of that wall. You will leave the parallel wall untreated for the first 24” and then install your second panel starting on that opposite wall, at that 24” mark. Do that until the room is covered. Geometrically it doesn’t matter what shape panels you use, because it’s just about reducing those reflections. If you happen to be in a large room, like a basement, and don’t want to (or aren’t allowed to build walls) then you can get a free standing baffle to block off the areas around the desk, and that will make the room feel smaller and you won’t have to treat such a large area. Offices that are selling off old cubicles are fucking amazing. Their new open floor plan can result in an amazing deal on high quality acoustic treatment on a movable and temporary partition. If your PC is loud, and you can’t afford to upgrade the cooling, make sure there is some thing between it and your mic, and make sure that you treat the walls and hard surfaces directly around it (even the underside of the desk, where some VHB tape can be your friend). That should reduce the most aggressive noise it kicks out, and once the rest of the room is treated it shouldn’t sound awful. Best of luck to folks who wanna capture their voice with a mic and record or stream it for the pleasure of others-there’s a lot that can go into a proper setup, and you can easily spend more than you would on a high end gaming rig. If you want cheap, then a bedroom or dorm room with an open closet door will help treat a large portion of the room, and I’ve even recorded drums in a bedroom by flipping my mattress up against another wall. The only thing you need for acoustic treatment is something soft that sound will be absorbed by, rather than bounce off of, and if you have couches, beds and other plush furniture as well as people in a room, it’s going to sound better than if you didn’t.
Imagine you told someone back in 2010 the amazing streaming gear we have today. Never before could millions of gamers stream straight out into the void to 0 viewers.
Should be fine with separate GPUs for each gamer, or if they want to share, he can just get an A100 (joke, that would cost too much and perform too poorly).
@@jarradtait5322 theres ways around it buddy. I've used VFIO for like 6+ years and never had any warning or issues. Well, the only issue was not being able to install valorant when it first released but someone figured a workaround and its worked ever since. I've forgot what it was now though, think it was enabling hyper-v so the anticheat couldn't differentiate it being a vm or not, as when your enable it.. The full windows OS gets ran in like a virtualised state itself. Not sure if there was any other changes but a quick google should suffice. I assume it could be an issue if anything gets changed but so far thats the only issue I've come across and it was nothing in reality. I also would like to mention- I game near enough daily for 4+ more hours. Just to give you an idea that its not been falsely detected as a cheat, all this time. I mainly play FPS games. Like rust, valorant, csgo, siege, etc and the odd mmo like new world, ffxiv which all of them have anti-cheats but work flawlessly with no detections.
At this point I doubt Linus will ever actually game in the way he intends while talking about things that are specific for him(like for ex- the moniter that suits him), he'll just go on changing setups and routers and nearly every other thing😂
I agree he did the same thing in his old house. He would also sometimes act like when he would be would update his TV that this might be the last time I need to upgrade. Your always going to be upgrading because there will always be new technology coming out and your make a video on it so your get content to help pay for in justify your new upgrade.
@@kanbak yeah and its every tech fans dream to constantly upgrade and perfect your system. Which means people enjoy watching it and he (probably) enjoys doing it
His kids and their friends will be sudying on the computers like Yvonne wants not gaming like Linus thinks. Nice room anyway even if its never going to be used.
11:52 Nitpick: The Stream Deck actually only has one display with a grid of transparent buttons on top of it. Yes, that's an implementation detail, and the end result is largely the same, which is why this is a nitpick.
One day Linus is going to have to explain to the people buying his home is that half the reason his home is the way it is is because it was all sponsored.
@@Bubbles-cd9qo I have no clue what are you talking about.. what hardware? the mic? the lighting? people are still running GTX 970 and GTX 1060.. he plans to do at least 5 vm's on 1 pc. that thing would be a beast even few years down the road.
Whenever Linus talk about cable management i chuckle. Cuz he has no clue what audio engineers etc have to deal with. And watching him with the XLR was clear proof of that.
6:00 "Some people mount the microphone behind their monitor and come over, idk why you'd ever want to do that" - this is actually exactly what i'm looking for for my desk setup, because I have an L-Shaped desk with an LG Ultrawide monitor, a second monitor to the left, a fan to the right, then a wall. I'd like to put the mic arm behind fan on the right and come over. Perfect!
Nah. It is better that they did that. I am only like playing too much game now as I m just stuck at home. I would love to relive memories of playing outside with friends. Outdoor childhood > computer any day in those times when we could actually get our friends to join us outside
Honestly Linus.... I look forward to watching your content for the next 20+ years. Been a fan for years and you are one of only a handful of people I consistently follow. Well... All of LTT's channels. Cheers to the decades to come.
At this point I don't even have really a PC any more. And if I still had one I would never stream anything. But still I love this stuff and I am always amazed and interested to see what possibilities are out there.
I love the fact that his house is made out of plywood and cardboard but he can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware. It's like filling a cubicle made of dirt with diamond blocks pavements in Minecraft lol
Thats just the north american way. Its hsrd to get a house built any other way. And besides, a poured cement house is terrible udea for anyone running cables through walls.
@@jemiebridges3197 Both poured cement and cardboard&plywood are not the good way to build a proper stable and durable house imo. Solid bricks flattened with wall concrete is the proper way. But even if you had a house completely made out of cement a proper architect's work would meet the right electrics needs of the client by planning proper ducts system through the walls, cement is not the problem there either. US average time to build a house is 7 to 8 months, Italy's is 8 to 12 months but you guys build on flatter and often more stable foundations than us, you use cheap materials and you got a ton less architectural, cultural and historical protection policies/beaurocracy than we do. It amazes me that you need so much time even though the process is so much simpler for you.
Elgato makes literally everything for streaming. If anyone is looking for a place to get started, then there's honestly not a better place to look to get started. Sound-treating foam panels, desk arms to mount everything from lighting to cameras, desk arms for microphones, microphones, webcams, capture cards for systems and cameras, green screens, Stream Decks and even an XLR mixer.
No, it doesn't. They just didn't change it from the beginning in windows itself. Even in OBS the mic was already at 100%. Because it shouldn't reach the red zone so easily. E.g. In my case, I put all the mics at 75% volume in windows 10 and CsGo doesn't put it back to 100%. Also, you can make your mic in OBS a bit quieter too.
that elgato green screen is the main selling point to me for elgato products, i wish I knew that existed!! I'm here with my idea on getting a folding privacy screen kinda like the ones you can get in offices, rare to find a good enough one, then stick on some matte green material, or just dye a blackout curtain green and cut it and stable it on. That seems waaay less scuffed and even more suitable to store away in my bedroom! That's amazing!
After months of trying to use cloth back drops and the lighting power to get those settings in, I'm jealous at how fast linus was able to get better results with 2 pieces of equipment. I might make the switch myself now.
instead of the sm48 i really like the berhinger xm8500 its still a dynamic mic, has a slightly warmer sound which is nicer out of the box, and the build quality is almost exactly the same as the 48. the best part is its literally 1/5th of the price. of course ideally it would have a flat pickup frequency but when spending 120 dollars on 6 mics rather than 600 i can live with it being slightly warmer.
There's a reason for the markup. Everything works together seamlessly, which to my knowledge doesn't exist outside their ecosystem. Their lights, mixing panels, mics, and cameras all interface through their software, which means you can do things like change your lighting by dragging a slider in your task bar. People are paying for the integration.
@@AriTheElk it's the epic pc gamer take on the industry trend of nearly all proprietary smart hardware industries. Unethical OEM china product + 1 hour of paid development time = Infinite margin.
That $3000 Corsair One just teetering on the edge with half of it leaning towards the floor thanks to being halfway on a mat. Than Linus freaking slaps it a few times and it wobbles 😧
11:28 I really don't see why you didn't move the small plug on the end over to where u were placing the big switch, and place the big switch next to it so u only compromise with a small angle
Those Corsair headphones are literally the most uncomfortable headphones ive ever worn. I returned them after having them for less than 24 hours. They're heavy, the headband padding is super thin, and the ear cups are super shallow so they just crush your ears on the plasitc over the drivers
With unfinished and echo-y environment, this would be a great setting to revisit NVIDIA Broadcast and see how useful it could be and how it’s performance has come since it’s original release.
I watch a lot of your content and generally enjoy what you do. I like how you all mix things up. This was just a fun video. I don’t know why I enjoyed it as much as I did! And it made me jealous. 😆
11:18 You could just unplug the cable which is plugged in on the very right of the power strip, plug it into the socket you attempted to plug in the huge brick, then plug in the huge brick into the socket next to it and you're fine. You might not be able to turn the whole power strip on / off using the switch though. There are also power strips which have the plugs sideways so you can plug in more bricks which are as huge as the one on the elgato, however I do agree that generally I prefer if the plug isn't as huge.
Idk if I'm alone but I had never heard of Elgato's Green Screens before and the idea that you can have a green screen that's just collapsible is so damn convenient.
Linus: "Alright what are we shooting today?" Writing Team: "How about a commercial?" Linus: "Sweet I like getting paid!" Writing Team: "Well your really going to like this Sir, the whole thing is a commercial!" Linus: "You sure viewers are gunna like this?" Writing Team: "Viewers?"
My husband is a professional streamer and uses the elgato pop-up green screens and the stream deck, he loves them both. The green screens are especially nice, he uses two because his monitor is set at an angle and it allows him to get wide coverage to give space to back his chair up for breaks and such. He also uses a DSLR for his camera and I know he has a really nice mic with a fancy arm... was neat to finally watch a video where I went "oh hey, I know what some of that is!" (I'm a tech idiot, but your videos are so fun to watch even though half the words go over my head lol)
Jake, you put the mic arm behind the monitor, come up over it, and still bring it in close to your mouth. The advantage is it doesn't block the lower part of your screen depending on how you're sitting and also doesn't block the side.
"my preference is to have everything in the server" Of course, if your kids invite their friends, it would certainly be better, not only for security against theft, but for damage prevention, to have as few expensive machine within range of kids/teens who will likely be bringing their drinks and food in there and drop them everywhere. Expect a few dead keyboards.
I don’t know what kind of kids you guys were or what way you’re raising your kids, but you can just make a hard house rule to not have food or drinks in that room. It’s not difficult to catch if kids are smearing keyboards with cheetos. They’d be too distracted gaming to hide the food anyway.
1:28 can do conduit AND Sit/Stand desks, with a bit of planning. From the conduit into receptacles or J-Boxes can run a sleeved group of cables to each machine or flex conduit with cables and have slack w/ a real or cable “pulley” to compensate for when desks go up/down. The only downside (but more involved with install, and have to plan very accurately) is might, most likely you are, going to see “some” of the cables or conduit behind/underneath desks b/c of this BUT it still looks great and if done great, probably won’t even notice. But, it’s possible Linus😁 Thx for house vids, as really enjoy! Cheers👍🏻👍🏻
6:05 But you can put the mic right above your head (in front of your face still) and the mic is out of YOUR vision AND camera vision. :/ I have mine mounted to a shelf above my monitors and have it hovering just out side of vision and it works fine. (And it is the type you have to have near your face in order for it to pick up your voice - I can never remember if that is dynamic or condenser)
Props to Linus for not being a complete scrub when it comes to audio. He understands the importance of room dampening, and knows a USB microphone is not a microphone.. its a toy.
At this point, this should be a named series. Linus’ Extreme New Home Upgrade is easily among my favorite LTT series of videos (tied with Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade).
the playlist is already there
@@hudibaba Sweet, I can delete my playlist for this & use the official one.
Scrapyard wars
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@@neonic3858 sus
Imagine going to your friends house to play some games and you end up entering an RGB basement with Linus sitting there playing the same DOOM level over and over again.
I think thats called hell lol But others may say it's purgatory lol no way it's heaven though lol
"It could be subject to change" = he'll upgrade everything in an year and make 4 videos from it.
We know you Linus, you can't fool us.
we're going to watch it either way
At least he's transparent about it hahaha.
@@zfamvs cause it's still entertaining
Well duh, it's only V1(TM) After all.
Update: He's still upgrading things around Christmas 2023
LTT: "There's still a chip shortage."
Linus: "Because they're all in my basement."
"just like our sponsor"
@@bedro_0 This reply is so underrated
@Tajl3r r/woooosh bro
@@notlNSIGHT you are simply wrong here. there is a much higher demand in GPU's due to mining. RAM for example is being made on completely different process nodes than Gpu's and CPU's . same goes for chipsets and SSD's.
CPU's are more available because there is less demand in them. also you need much less silicon and get much higher yields producing a CPU because they are a lot smaller than a high end GPU .
for example a 6900xt is 520mm². a zen3 chiplet ( CCX) is only 80.7mm². both are TSMC 7nm . so you can eighter bulid one 6900xt ( if the die does not fail in production due to its sheer size) or 6 times a 5800x. if you are looking at retailprizes for these ( here in germany) you will have a 6900xt for 1500€ or 6 x 350€ for the 5800x wich adds up to 2100€ . if silicon is the limiting factor here, you simply get much more margin by producing cpu's here. with a GPU you also have to factor in VRAM wich is expensive and shortens your margin even further.
For the 5800x the second chip wich is connected to the CCX is based on 12 nm wich is much more available.
@@notlNSIGHT at the Moment you can make 7-8$ of Profit per 3080. Half a year and the Hardware is paid off ... quite easy
Also if gpu mining isnt a realy the problem then please explain why the ETH Network difficulty skyrocketed from 2.9p to 9.5p in the period from the 30-series launch until now 🤣
Fun fact: Wave Panels have clips that hold each other together, so when screwed into the wall you could 100% hold one up freestanding without needing to do what Jake did XD
I'm impressed you're not publicly salty. Good composure.
It's upsetting that they still haven't worked with you, and the end result shows.
YESS! THE STREAM PROFESSOR HAS SPOKEN and SEEN THIS VIDEO! Praise the streaming gods! :D
I definitely understand it but i still don't like it.
They've acknowledged Epos in the past and have also worked with even smaller creators.
It is just an ad, many will look past it, but most won't.
Linus' reach is extraordinary large, so this will lead to undeserved sales for low tier elgato products and impact the quality of the streaming community as a whole which is an already astonishingly low bar when it doesn't have to be.
and considering you probably want to be able to easily take it away if you move you probably only should screw in 2 at the top to hold the ones that come after that, or are they not strong enough for that?
@Noah Alexander except that LTT has known Epos for a long time
Linus: has a room with incompleted walls
also Linus: I'm going to build a gaming LAN station
@@gabbyptt1274 ok.
Priorities. :D
this video ordering is really weird..
You mean Linus home streaming setup v1 concept edition
To be fair, he got paid to do it. It wasn't just for funsies... I want that green screen, though. And I don't even have a use for it.
No walls, but a sick streaming station. The priority is clear :p
the missing walls must make the sound so much clearer, no flat surfaces and just the insulation
He’s waiting for a wall company to sponsor him
yes; getting the sponsorship out so he can have money to finish the actual house
ElGato really has made making a streaming setup seamless at this point. Props to them
I just wish their stream deck had knobs so I could control source volumes in Streamlabs
The gear I'm looking to get from them for multiple studios is out of stock in my country.
I just wish you would stop being so negative
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This man really has his priorities set. The room has no walls, probably has exposed wiring, no inspections, but definitely has a beast pc in there lmao.
Exposed wiring just means routing it for later is just going to be easier than when the walls are already on.
Linus: Gets sponsored by Elgato
Also Linus: I'm switching to linux
Elgato: No linux support
That's funny. Why didn't Linux check that?
He did say he was going to use their mobile app
He said he's switching to Linux?
@@mhamzahkhan several times on the wan show.
Both he and Luke are doing it
@@AltonV Ah! Cool I will check it out. I haven't been watching the WAN show for a while.
when youre "done" with the home it would be awesome if you did a wrap up on you're installations, recommendations, and what you would/ wouldn't change
I uploaded my Face Reveal.....
Gotta love these replies
@@spect80r ikr. there are 5-6 bots on all the comments
Tf is this comment thread
I love that while actively monitoring his levels he doesn't noice he's peaking super hard
Yes, it basically never left the red range on the scale.
it was sorta fine before he launched csgo, but afterwards, the mic boosted up.
my guest is that the mic was adjusted in the windows volume controller, and since csgo (little fun fact) boosts the audio to 100% on launch, the audio was boosted back to default.
@@_Abehere That is the most ridiculous thing ever. Good to know!
@@DV7Dave ye lol. also some other pc games, like Uno by ubi for some reason. i just have script to run to see if my mic is at a certain volume, and if not, put it back automatically to the the level i want it.
Yep! Fuck games adjusting windows mic volume settings. Black ops 3 is my latest headache of doing it
6:07
Mounting the microphone behind just makes more sense to me in terms of space, especially for people who use their desk more than just for a single use (which is just for computers). You don't have to go over, it come come across the beside monitor and under your mouth (as Linus did)
Also, what is the point in having a flex arm like that only to be placed so inconveniently?
Sometimes I think about how crazy it is that Linus built up this brand around high-end consumer tech without coming off as egotistical or snobby. This is probably one of the best channels on youtube, and I think sheer exposure to that LTT giant mousepad has made me want to buy it. Great job Linus & LTT!
He didn't, he came off as egotistical and snobby
Does Linus have his staff do up his house for “Content”?
Genius.
Also tax deductible
linus: builds an all-elgato setup
also linus: switches to linux
Eyy free stuff is free str
actually quite compatible, assuming you can run some terminal commands.
Don't worry, he'll need to find friends to use it. He'll probably have already retired from youtube by then.
“All you have to do is spend a bunch of money” - moral of almost every LTT video
ALMOST every?
"“All you have to do is spend a bunch of SOMEBODY ELSE'S money” See that is the key to things.
The really genius bit comes when you then make videos to make money off of people giving you free stuff. Which then in turn drives your value as an "influencer" which in turn gets you even MORE free stuff.
also all this gear Linus will never use
I mean, that's what hobbies usually require. Is there a problem here?
gotta pay to play baybeee
Linus has to put banners in front of his house saying it’s sponsored at this point.
Sponsors co-signed the lease 😂
Lol before u can enter the house it plays a glasswire sponsor 😅
As a former radio guy, who is still very much into pro audio and home recording (with decades of experience,) I feel that your choice of the SM48 was a failure. I’m not going to say that the SM7B is the be all end all, because everyone wants to look cool-but the SM58 and SM57 are bulletproof and have the classic look and sound you’ve heard on thousands of recordings and on millions of stages. If you literally don’t know anything about microphones, buy an SM58-and you’ll still sound fine using whatever horrible mic technique you’re attempting to copy. If you aren’t into eating the mic, and plan to sit further back, and would like a slightly brighter sound, or plan to record an instrument at some, then get an SM57.
If you wanna look just like every other podcaster and streamer, and want to smell and taste the wind screen after it’s been in your face-get an SM7B, and get that shit as close as you can, because if you want that unnaturally deep, booming bass you’ve heard from other people using one, you gotta get close to get the proximity effect. If you want to sound like a radio professional, use a subtle noise gate and a little bit of compression on your mic input, and tweak the EQ until you sound as authoritative and professional as you’ve always imagined.
If you want to have the best sounding broadcast mic in existence, get yourself an Electro Voice RE20, which started as a broadcast mic and found even more popularity in recording studios-or you can get the RE27N/D, which is the slightly more expensive version that’s been updated with even more features that make it even better for broadcasting, which is another mic I have in my collection, because it sounds amazing.
The SM48 as heard on this very video sounds as bad as every mic I’ve ever heard under $50. The sound is muddy, it has lower volume output, which means to get the same volume as an SM58 you’ll be boosting the audible noise floor considerably higher (which is bad, and means more background noise). Again, while the SM58 is (and has been for decades) about $100-it sounds considerably cleaner, and brighter and has a midrange cuts through instead of being muddy. $100 for a professional quality microphone that will last you the rest of your life, and can be re-sold all day long for upwards of $50-even if it’s beat to shit, because they’re just so reliable, which makes it a much better value. The SM48 is for people who want a classic looking microphone, and don’t really care what they sound like, as long as they can amplify the sound of their voice with a PA system. If I was buying mics for a K-12 school that needed a bunch of mics for their assemblies, and are going to be handled by children and I didn’t want to worry about them stealing or trashing them-then I’d get the SM48, tweak the EQ knobs a ton, and hope for the best.
For the more advanced folks who have an interest in music and singing, you can find condenser microphones for about $100, and that will give you even more dynamic range (assuming you actually sit back from the mic) but you need an interface that has 48v phantom power, but unlike all the dynamic mics I see people accessorizing with wind screens and pop filters-condenser mics actually need them. If you’ve ever heard someone pop their p’s or make other plosives, you can do that from 3 feet away with even an cheap condenser mic. I would only recommend someone get a condenser mic for streaming if you don’t type on a loud mechanical keyboard, know how to setup a noise gate, do not have any background noises (ie your PC is whisper quiet) and you’ve got a room that has been acoustically treated to minimize reflections. If you do, condenser mics sound amazing, but it’s much better suited for recording.
Above all else, whatever mic you buy should be a cardioid pattern, and you want it to be tilted slightly so you’re not bottoming out the diaphragm. (The angle you want is slightly off axis, which ideally is the same angle you would use when you’re blowing across the opening of a bottle to make that deep whistling sound). Then you want to make sure the opposite end, (usually where the cable is connected) is pointed at whatever the fuck you DO NOT want to get picked up on the mic, because that cardioid pattern has the highest level of noise rejection 180 degrees from the sweet spot. The further you get from the center of the sweet spot, the more potentially undesirable sound you’ll hear being picked up on the mic, which is why you wouldn’t use a directional mic, like a cardioid to record an entire room-for that you want an omnidirectional mic, which doesn’t have the proximity effect like a cardioid mic, and sounds the same at any angle. The final tip for mics I will give, is where you put your acoustic treatment. If you can’t afford to go nuts and treat the entire room, then load up the wall behind your mic, which is the one behind your desk in most streaming setups. The idea is that you want to stop as much sound from bouncing off that hard surface, and scattering around the room. The next most important wall is the one directly behind you, which will reduce any reflections from getting picked up. If you’re doing things right, the mic’s sweet spot should be blocked by your body, but you wanna reduce those reflections just the same. If you still have money to treat the walls on the sides of your setup, you don’t have to cover the entire wall, but you can make an alternating pattern. If you’re shooting for what’s ideal, you want to avoid having two parallel surfaces that are untreated on at least one of them. So, you can treat both, which will give you that anechoic, vocal booth sound like you see/hear in most on-air radio studios. Personally I like some reflections, but I want to avoid the buildup of any unpleasant frequencies, which is called flutter echo. So, you only need to treat half of the surfaces. If you have carpet, you can leave the ceiling alone everywhere that isn’t directly above the hard flat surface of your desk. You want bass traps for the corners, and then you can buy panels that would fully cover two out of four walls in an alternating pattern. So, if you’ve got panels that are 24”, then staring from the corner (at the edge of your bass trap) want to put the first panel to cover the first 24” of that wall. You will leave the parallel wall untreated for the first 24” and then install your second panel starting on that opposite wall, at that 24” mark. Do that until the room is covered. Geometrically it doesn’t matter what shape panels you use, because it’s just about reducing those reflections. If you happen to be in a large room, like a basement, and don’t want to (or aren’t allowed to build walls) then you can get a free standing baffle to block off the areas around the desk, and that will make the room feel smaller and you won’t have to treat such a large area. Offices that are selling off old cubicles are fucking amazing. Their new open floor plan can result in an amazing deal on high quality acoustic treatment on a movable and temporary partition. If your PC is loud, and you can’t afford to upgrade the cooling, make sure there is some thing between it and your mic, and make sure that you treat the walls and hard surfaces directly around it (even the underside of the desk, where some VHB tape can be your friend). That should reduce the most aggressive noise it kicks out, and once the rest of the room is treated it shouldn’t sound awful.
Best of luck to folks who wanna capture their voice with a mic and record or stream it for the pleasure of others-there’s a lot that can go into a proper setup, and you can easily spend more than you would on a high end gaming rig. If you want cheap, then a bedroom or dorm room with an open closet door will help treat a large portion of the room, and I’ve even recorded drums in a bedroom by flipping my mattress up against another wall. The only thing you need for acoustic treatment is something soft that sound will be absorbed by, rather than bounce off of, and if you have couches, beds and other plush furniture as well as people in a room, it’s going to sound better than if you didn’t.
I was going to make a snarky comment about SM48 but I'll just give this a thumbs up instead.
bro..
TLDR: SM58 - Use it.
@@Wurmfist Yup, if only I was that concise.
Imagine you told someone back in 2010 the amazing streaming gear we have today. Never before could millions of gamers stream straight out into the void to 0 viewers.
Y-you mean we can't all be Twitch Rich?!
more like 2 because every twitch stream always has at least 2 bots "watching" it
Oh so an actual deployment of the 6 gamers 1 cpu concept
I'm sure that'll go perfectly
Should be fine with separate GPUs for each gamer, or if they want to share, he can just get an A100 (joke, that would cost too much and perform too poorly).
@@edwardallenthree he would just get it for free lel
@@edwardallenthree anti cheat will be a problem I assume. I don't do matchmaking on my vfio setup but I've been warned
@@jarradtait5322 definitely, no Rainbow for Linus and co
@@jarradtait5322 theres ways around it buddy. I've used VFIO for like 6+ years and never had any warning or issues. Well, the only issue was not being able to install valorant when it first released but someone figured a workaround and its worked ever since. I've forgot what it was now though, think it was enabling hyper-v so the anticheat couldn't differentiate it being a vm or not, as when your enable it.. The full windows OS gets ran in like a virtualised state itself. Not sure if there was any other changes but a quick google should suffice.
I assume it could be an issue if anything gets changed but so far thats the only issue I've come across and it was nothing in reality. I also would like to mention- I game near enough daily for 4+ more hours. Just to give you an idea that its not been falsely detected as a cheat, all this time.
I mainly play FPS games. Like rust, valorant, csgo, siege, etc and the odd mmo like new world, ffxiv which all of them have anti-cheats but work flawlessly with no detections.
Jake looking and acting like he's got a shift at Fry's Electronics coming up and he knows he's going to be late for it.
RIP Fry's :'(
Not really the most dire of circumstances considering they went under 😂
At this point I doubt Linus will ever actually game in the way he intends while talking about things that are specific for him(like for ex- the moniter that suits him), he'll just go on changing setups and routers and nearly every other thing😂
I agree he did the same thing in his old house. He would also sometimes act like when he would be would update his TV that this might be the last time I need to upgrade. Your always going to be upgrading because there will always be new technology coming out and your make a video on it so your get content to help pay for in justify your new upgrade.
@@kanbak yeah and its every tech fans dream to constantly upgrade and perfect your system. Which means people enjoy watching it and he (probably) enjoys doing it
@@lordmage 😂😂
He's gonna play the first level of Doom Eternal again and again
His kids and their friends will be sudying on the computers like Yvonne wants not gaming like Linus thinks. Nice room anyway even if its never going to be used.
Linus is such a cool dad. He even prepares a streaming setup for his kids and their friends. Now that is a big flex.
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Always good to see Jake - he’s funny but you can tell he knows his stuff
He used to be annoying but now I kinda think he's an OK guy
Elgato: "Hey can we sponsor a streaming setup?"
LTT: "No. But you can sponsor 5 of them."
Linus: After 10+ years I finally have enough money to build my dream house.
All Sponsors: New house? Let us sponsor your new home.
He gonna be getting special lighting and a security system next just watch
@@ShadowRubberDuck Security is probably gonna be the same Ubiquiti stuff he had in the previous house.
@@notlNSIGHT true but he gonna find a sponsor to fix his pool problem
When are we going to see the electrician again? He's Linus' only real friend besides Luke.
He's not just 'the electrician' it's *'Brian The Electrician'*
Very soon I guees: 11:31
@@litoyo1260 Yay, bots!
I bet ElGato Will love it when Linus’s house catches on fire from their product being half stuck into a power strip
11:52 Nitpick: The Stream Deck actually only has one display with a grid of transparent buttons on top of it. Yes, that's an implementation detail, and the end result is largely the same, which is why this is a nitpick.
One day Linus is going to have to explain to the people buying his home is that half the reason his home is the way it is is because it was all sponsored.
The RGB toilet is still going to be hard to explain...
Pff Linus is dying in that house
@@MetralletaLuis truee...
and if he ever wanted to sell, zero explanation were needed.
people would kill for that house.
@@golan7821 plus all the hardware would become obsolete in a few years
@@Bubbles-cd9qo I have no clue what are you talking about.. what hardware? the mic? the lighting?
people are still running GTX 970 and GTX 1060..
he plans to do at least 5 vm's on 1 pc.
that thing would be a beast even few years down the road.
Gaming on a picnic table is the only way to game.
Elgato: we'd like to sponsor a streaming setup
Linus: you mean, setupS
Elegato: yes
Whenever Linus talk about cable management i chuckle. Cuz he has no clue what audio engineers etc have to deal with. And watching him with the XLR was clear proof of that.
6:00 "Some people mount the microphone behind their monitor and come over, idk why you'd ever want to do that" - this is actually exactly what i'm looking for for my desk setup, because I have an L-Shaped desk with an LG Ultrawide monitor, a second monitor to the left, a fan to the right, then a wall. I'd like to put the mic arm behind fan on the right and come over. Perfect!
I’m seething with jealousy for the childhood Linus’ kids will have. My parents thought the pc was evil and always made me go outside.
Tf
It was probably better for you in the long run.
Honestly, that's a way better way to experience childhood
Such is the way of life. Rich pricks will always find new ways to throw their money in your face.
Nah. It is better that they did that. I am only like playing too much game now as I m just stuck at home. I would love to relive memories of playing outside with friends.
Outdoor childhood > computer any day in those times when we could actually get our friends to join us outside
The green screen is just a rebranded, all green pop up sign which is pretty brilliant if I'm honest.
The brilliant part is that a regular pop up sign seems to cost about one fifth of what the green screen costs.
Didn't Linus just mention that he doesn't even use his Elgato streamdeck last WAN show?
Thought that as well… i guess the video was shot before
I would assume you don't really need one if you do post-production on your videos and don't do many transitions or format changes.
14:13 now he's sounding like a true streamer
Honestly Linus.... I look forward to watching your content for the next 20+ years. Been a fan for years and you are one of only a handful of people I consistently follow. Well... All of LTT's channels.
Cheers to the decades to come.
Linus: Im gonna play competetive
Jake: Oh really?
Also Linus: Playing casual
Elago: How many streaming setups would you like in your house?
Linus: Yes
Ahh, another episode of things I'll never have.
At this point I don't even have really a PC any more. And if I still had one I would never stream anything. But still I love this stuff and I am always amazed and interested to see what possibilities are out there.
trust me you don't miss out on anything, the only thing that is good from elgato is the stream deck, the capture card is for example complete shit.
I see Jake is rocking the FSM t-shirt, cool to see he's into dragracing aswell😊
He's worn them a few times - good to see Mike's shirts showing up around the place.
"You, too, can sound this pro. All you have to do is spend a bunch of money"
_"All you have to do is spend a load of money."_
Yeah, I thought so. (Watches moth fly from wallet.)
0:10 Linus realizing all his friends are on his payroll...
Yeah, making videos and managing a company is probably so time consuming... Even when not counting that he has a family
If i see a 10 year old randomly go live on ltt one day. I have seen it all
I love the fact that his house is made out of plywood and cardboard but he can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of hardware.
It's like filling a cubicle made of dirt with diamond blocks pavements in Minecraft lol
Thats just the north american way. Its hsrd to get a house built any other way. And besides, a poured cement house is terrible udea for anyone running cables through walls.
@@jemiebridges3197 Both poured cement and cardboard&plywood are not the good way to build a proper stable and durable house imo.
Solid bricks flattened with wall concrete is the proper way.
But even if you had a house completely made out of cement a proper architect's work would meet the right electrics needs of the client by planning proper ducts system through the walls, cement is not the problem there either.
US average time to build a house is 7 to 8 months, Italy's is 8 to 12 months but you guys build on flatter and often more stable foundations than us, you use cheap materials and you got a ton less architectural, cultural and historical protection policies/beaurocracy than we do. It amazes me that you need so much time even though the process is so much simpler for you.
Elgato makes literally everything for streaming. If anyone is looking for a place to get started, then there's honestly not a better place to look to get started. Sound-treating foam panels, desk arms to mount everything from lighting to cameras, desk arms for microphones, microphones, webcams, capture cards for systems and cameras, green screens, Stream Decks and even an XLR mixer.
Linus says "THIS...."
THE EXACT SAME WAY DOUG DEMURO DOES
I love how CSGO still puts the mic volume to 100% in 2021 😂
No, it doesn't. They just didn't change it from the beginning in windows itself. Even in OBS the mic was already at 100%. Because it shouldn't reach the red zone so easily.
E.g. In my case, I put all the mics at 75% volume in windows 10 and CsGo doesn't put it back to 100%. Also, you can make your mic in OBS a bit quieter too.
Jakes got that finnegan speed and marine shirt he knows what’s good for sureeeee
A LAN room should like the good old LAN houses: dark, smelly and with a lot of people screaming. Big no-no to a RGB LAN room.
that elgato green screen is the main selling point to me for elgato products, i wish I knew that existed!!
I'm here with my idea on getting a folding privacy screen kinda like the ones you can get in offices, rare to find a good enough one, then stick on some matte green material, or just dye a blackout curtain green and cut it and stable it on.
That seems waaay less scuffed and even more suitable to store away in my bedroom! That's amazing!
I love how Linus was the one which was told how to setup the microphone
Best quote, "it's easy all you have to do is spend a bunch of money."
"All you have to do is spend a bunch of money."
That applies to so many things in life.
@@DemeDemetre
You could be, too! And it's not even a bunch of money, just a little bit. Haha
@@DemeDemetre $4.99/mo
Jake in his Finnegan Speed and Marine t-shirt is one of those weird UA-cam shared universe moments that make me chuckle. Jake, jet boat when?
I saw that too! Absolutely love to see it.
After months of trying to use cloth back drops and the lighting power to get those settings in, I'm jealous at how fast linus was able to get better results with 2 pieces of equipment. I might make the switch myself now.
You guys really did smash the compressor settings on the mic.
"This video is sponsored by Elgato ... but we don't need this, this and this. Also we choose another microphone"
Honestly, it was a good decision to use a better mic and even that wasn't really good enough for that echo chamber they had.
shure sure has decent mics for the price
Linus talking about audio levels whilst watching his microphone clipping into red nonstop..........
Ctrl+F'd just to find someone else who knows how he screwed that up lol
Tony stark mode enabled 👌
instead of the sm48 i really like the berhinger xm8500 its still a dynamic mic, has a slightly warmer sound which is nicer out of the box, and the build quality is almost exactly the same as the 48. the best part is its literally 1/5th of the price. of course ideally it would have a flat pickup frequency but when spending 120 dollars on 6 mics rather than 600 i can live with it being slightly warmer.
I can't even begin to imagine how expensive a setup like this would be. There's some serious markup going on for this boutique streamer junk.
There's a reason for the markup. Everything works together seamlessly, which to my knowledge doesn't exist outside their ecosystem. Their lights, mixing panels, mics, and cameras all interface through their software, which means you can do things like change your lighting by dragging a slider in your task bar. People are paying for the integration.
@@AriTheElk it's the epic pc gamer take on the industry trend of nearly all proprietary smart hardware industries.
Unethical OEM china product + 1 hour of paid development time = Infinite margin.
Just wait for his house to become sentient
That $3000 Corsair One just teetering on the edge with half of it leaning towards the floor thanks to being halfway on a mat. Than Linus freaking slaps it a few times and it wobbles 😧
This house is gonna have more tech than a Best Buy
11:28 I really don't see why you didn't move the small plug on the end over to where u were placing the big switch, and place the big switch next to it so u only compromise with a small angle
When your house has 6 computers in the basement that are much better than the average PC-
Maybe Linus should finish his basement first before installing things on the... 'walls'
He already said everything was temporary and for demonstration though. Man's gotta make content
Those Corsair headphones are literally the most uncomfortable headphones ive ever worn. I returned them after having them for less than 24 hours. They're heavy, the headband padding is super thin, and the ear cups are super shallow so they just crush your ears on the plasitc over the drivers
Good to know
"My friends, that I'll make someday." Never before have words truly encompassed what it is like making friends as an adult. 😆
That sound quality of the microphone is so clear.
Sine I have a decent amount of Corsair stock (they own Elgato) I click on all of your Elgato videos lmao.
Linus: Friends i'll make someday
Anthony, Riley, Alex and James: "Are we a joke to you?"
Friends you pay vs. friends…🧐
More like employees for him tbh. On camera and off camera relationships are not the same at all
Thumbs down for typing a meme.
With unfinished and echo-y environment, this would be a great setting to revisit NVIDIA Broadcast and see how useful it could be and how it’s performance has come since it’s original release.
I watch a lot of your content and generally enjoy what you do. I like how you all mix things up. This was just a fun video. I don’t know why I enjoyed it as much as I did!
And it made me jealous. 😆
11:18
You could just unplug the cable which is plugged in on the very right of the power strip, plug it into the socket you attempted to plug in the huge brick, then plug in the huge brick into the socket next to it and you're fine. You might not be able to turn the whole power strip on / off using the switch though. There are also power strips which have the plugs sideways so you can plug in more bricks which are as huge as the one on the elgato, however I do agree that generally I prefer if the plug isn't as huge.
Idk if I'm alone but I had never heard of Elgato's Green Screens before and the idea that you can have a green screen that's just collapsible is so damn convenient.
Imagine being Linus Construction Worker that just want to get his house finish in peace
Linus: "Alright what are we shooting today?" Writing Team: "How about a commercial?" Linus: "Sweet I like getting paid!" Writing Team: "Well your really going to like this Sir, the whole thing is a commercial!" Linus: "You sure viewers are gunna like this?" Writing Team: "Viewers?"
I feel called out for having my mic arm at the back corner of my desk and I use the riser I got
My husband is a professional streamer and uses the elgato pop-up green screens and the stream deck, he loves them both. The green screens are especially nice, he uses two because his monitor is set at an angle and it allows him to get wide coverage to give space to back his chair up for breaks and such. He also uses a DSLR for his camera and I know he has a really nice mic with a fancy arm... was neat to finally watch a video where I went "oh hey, I know what some of that is!" (I'm a tech idiot, but your videos are so fun to watch even though half the words go over my head lol)
ngl, he pushed that compressor quite a bit past reasonable on his mic at the end there. it sounded painful
how am i watching this unlisted wat
Yeah, how did you do it?
huhh
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Boss: We have a field job today
Employee: Interesting, where?
Boss: My home 😎
Jake, you put the mic arm behind the monitor, come up over it, and still bring it in close to your mouth. The advantage is it doesn't block the lower part of your screen depending on how you're sitting and also doesn't block the side.
That power strip segment is the most #relatable thing. Ever.
"my preference is to have everything in the server"
Of course, if your kids invite their friends, it would certainly be better, not only for security against theft, but for damage prevention, to have as few expensive machine within range of kids/teens who will likely be bringing their drinks and food in there and drop them everywhere. Expect a few dead keyboards.
It would be a good idea, to use waterproof mechanical keyboards
I don’t know what kind of kids you guys were or what way you’re raising your kids, but you can just make a hard house rule to not have food or drinks in that room. It’s not difficult to catch if kids are smearing keyboards with cheetos. They’d be too distracted gaming to hide the food anyway.
It's fine Linus, you can just pay your employees to be your friends like you always do
Only 5? RIP Overwatch
Overwatch 2 is only 5 players, they chillin
@@manofthexds Thats the joke
1:28 can do conduit AND Sit/Stand desks, with a bit of planning. From the conduit into receptacles or J-Boxes can run a sleeved group of cables to each machine or flex conduit with cables and have slack w/ a real or cable “pulley” to compensate for when desks go up/down. The only downside (but more involved with install, and have to plan very accurately) is might, most likely you are, going to see “some” of the cables or conduit behind/underneath desks b/c of this BUT it still looks great and if done great, probably won’t even notice.
But, it’s possible Linus😁
Thx for house vids, as really enjoy!
Cheers👍🏻👍🏻
The new house arc is a good one, important linus lore
Linus using sponsored videos to upgrade his house is so genius and I'm here for it
6:05
But you can put the mic right above your head (in front of your face still) and the mic is out of YOUR vision AND camera vision. :/
I have mine mounted to a shelf above my monitors and have it hovering just out side of vision and it works fine.
(And it is the type you have to have near your face in order for it to pick up your voice - I can never remember if that is dynamic or condenser)
6:45
oh, Dynamic seems is the answer
The StreamDeck buttons ARE NOT individual LCDs. It's just one touch LCD that the software then sections into blocks where the keys sit.
"all you have to do is spend a load of money" well I appreciate the honesty in that statement 🤣
Props to Linus for not being a complete scrub when it comes to audio. He understands the importance of room dampening, and knows a USB microphone is not a microphone.. its a toy.