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[Music] all right you guys already know what you're here for intros are lame let's just answer some questions if you were able to go back and change anything about your life or youtube what would it be i'm always hesitant to answer the types of questions that are like oh if you could go back with all the knowledge you have and redo everything would you do it because three years ago my answer would have absolutely been a yes but recently i've come to the realization that i'm actually happy for like the first time in a long time so i would be kind of scared to go back and redo stuff for fear of accidentally butterfly affecting something and having something that i'm happy with not happen so i guess for now my answer is just kind of nothing i i wouldn't change anything oh there's another part of the question here and why is it the stereotype series actually that's fair how long have you had toby i get to talk about toby okay so uh toby was a childhood dog that i had growing up she was like a family dog she passed away in 2016 but she lived a really long time for like a dog her size and breed and she was honestly the best dog a kid could have ever asked for so yeah she was a rescue some kind of mixed breed we think she had a little bit of lab in there but she was also mostly vishla i don't know if i'm pronouncing that right but it's like a hungarian hunting dog that people usually call velcro dogs because they stick very close all the time she's kind of just a people pleaser just wanted everybody to be happy and was the best dog if you disagree i'm sorry but you are objectively wrong what's it been like being able to switch around content and post more than just tf2 it's been really nice i think with my regular videos i've always wanted them to have the vibe of friends goofing off and having a good time and i've been able to do that to a certain extent with tf2 but i think just because of the nature of the game also being that it wasn't really clear so now that i've been able to branch out and do kind of the same thing with other games i have that through line now and it's more clear that that's what i'm trying to do so over the past year i've just kind of been able to carve out that niche more and it's been really nice do you plan on making more sound editing tutorials on your channel maybe not tutorials but process videos i've been thinking about i've had this idea that i want to do with critical role it's the the dnd live show with the voice actors and the dm matt mercer often gives like really detailed descriptions of actions or monsters or weapons or just things that are happening and those descriptions include visuals and sounds and sometimes he'll even like make the sound effects with his voice i cast gravity sinkhole a genomantic spell above him to pull him up to the roof there is sound as his metal hits the stone above and cranks up the actual metal is crushed inward you watch as blood begins to kind of flop out of the armor so i thought it would be fun if i took some of those clips across you know the hundreds of hours of content and tried to recreate the sound that he's describing being faithful to both his description and the mechanics of dnd fifth edition i've already done this once on my own time with a monster that they use called a deep scion it's like a deep sea monster type thing that has an ability called psychic screech and this is what that sounded like so i thought it would be cool if i just took some more of those clips made some more of those and just like documented my process you know like how i recorded this you know why i chose this sample how i layered them together what effects i used you know what decisions i made with regard to the mechanics and just kind of the creative process in general so the reason i'm going into this much detail is because i kind of want to gauge interest like i know it's not going to be as successful as my gaming stuff or the tf2 stuff especially but i you know if if that sounds like something you'd be interested in make sure to let me know in the comment section below i'm so sorry now that you started doing variety content do you think your transition could have gone better was it too soon too late it was definitely too late i i like i've said one of my biggest regrets when it comes to the channel is branding myself as a tf tuber that was a big mistake and my advice to all the people who were like i'm an up-and-coming tf tuber how do i grow my platform is always don't be a tf tuber it's not [ __ ] worth it at all like seriously but you know i'm here now it is what it is and i'm very thankful for where i'm at so you know can't complain too much what's your personal game of the year oh my god dude hades holy [ __ ] this game kicks so much ass given how many awards it's won you've probably heard of it already but if you don't know what it is basically it's a roguelike you're the son of hades and you're trying to fight your way out of hell with the help of all the olympian gods the gameplay is satisfying and addictive the art is incredible the story's incredible the voice acting's incredible the music's just on another level it's absolutely [ __ ] insane failure doesn't even feel like failure in this game because dying is such an integral part of the story that when you die you're like ah [ __ ] i died but also hell yeah new dialogue it's like i i understand that a lot of you might be skeptical because you're like oh it can't be that good or oh i bet it's overrated or you know oh i'm just not a roguelike person and i understand because neither was i until i played this game it's seriously just that good i'm not a game journalist or anything so i can't like put this eloquently um okay let me just put it like this right i'm not gonna spoil anything but there's a point pretty late in the game where you are doing challenges like new game plus type stuff and there's this one challenge that's just really really really difficult and you spend all this time like learning the mechanics learning to execute them perfecting and optimizing your build and you finally just get this one run where everything falls into place perfectly you get the right boons perfect everything you know the mechanics you execute them flawlessly and you get to the end and the dialogue starts going and you're just like oh my god hell yeah i finally did it i finally [ __ ] beat it that was awesome and then the music just starts going and you're just like oh [ __ ] we're just getting started [Music] i seriously cannot stress this enough it is just that good all right like play hades you will not be disappointed do you have any regrets about the stereotype series on the one hand they became extremely popular and entertained countless people but also it's no secret that you became greatly fatigued with the series by the end of it i mean yeah it kind of just hit the nail on the head i think the thing i regret most about stereotypes is what it became because the goal of stereotypes was always kind of like it was never meant to be serious it was always meant to make fun of stereotypes and like assuming things about people based on their hats but what 20 year old soundsmith did not understand is that satire requires clarity of purpose and a clear target to be effective and making fun of just like the ambiguous idea of stereotypes is not a clear purpose nor is it a clear target so it kind of just became the thing that it was trying to make fun of the whole time and like you said the thing that it was trying to make fun of ended up entertaining a bunch of people and it's a big chunk of my passive income now so cool i don't know i can't complain too much it'd be stupid of me not to acknowledge that it is the reason i am where i am today and i'm very thankful for where i'm at so yeah it is what it is have you thought about doing vlogs probably not like there's a couple reasons one is that i don't think my daily life is interesting enough to support that kind of format like if i were to make a vlog it would probably just be me editing for 90 of the video so yeah and then the second reason is that i have a face for radio so yeah it's probably not gonna happen how do you personally deal with burnout this is something that i've found a solution for pretty recently and it's a solution that works for me i don't know if it's gonna work for everybody and i'm not a [ __ ] psychologist so like i just i don't know if this helped me so i'm gonna talk about it right so anybody who's ever dealt with burnout knows that it's a cycle right you start off doing the thing and enjoying it and then you get fatigued of the thing and you burn out and that's the part that sucks and you have to take a really long break because you end up hating the thing and then eventually you start getting the itch to do the thing again and then you start doing the thing again and you enjoy it right so the advice that most people give when it comes to dealing with burnout is just take a break but the problem with that is that that's already a part of the cycle and by that point you've already burned out and it already sucks but what a lot of people don't realize is that there's a hidden step between step one and two where you're starting to get fatigued but you still enjoy it and you're like i'm kind of getting tired of this but i can keep going and if you can learn to recognize when you're at that step and tell yourself no you can't keep going you have to take a break now then you end up taking more frequent breaks but they're shorter and you get to skip step two which is the part that sucks so that's helped me a lot i can't say if it's gonna work for everybody but try it out i think i don't know which of your friends have you known the longest this is something that i've already answered but i talked about it a long time ago so i'll talk about it again i've known kj for like six or seven years at this point and how we met is a tale as old as time we literally just met in a tf2 pub i was playing medic he was the only competent person on my team we stuck with each other i pocketed him for the night and then he we just added each other afterwards and that's it it's it's like the most boring story ever but we're still here like seven years later have you ever considered streaming and if so what reason kept you on the edited video path i actually had a brief stint with streaming in 2018 and it went pretty well the style of my content just being like friends goofing off and having a good time that's something that translated really well to streaming and i think if i kept at it i could be successful in growing a platform there but i kind of just stopped for a couple of reasons one is that my skill set is best suited to post production you know video editing and audio editing and stuff like that and then the second reason is that streaming just kind of scares me i don't really know how to explain it uh so i'll just make an analogy is anybody else scared of making phone calls like with strangers it's something about the fact that you're talking live with a stranger and that you don't have a face on the other end to go off of and it just kind of scares me for some reason i like i end up dreading making phone calls to like customer support because i just it's scary dude i don't know i would much rather just write an email to somebody than call them and making a video is like writing an important email and streaming is like making an important phone call it's just yeah i don't know if youtube ends up dying out of nowhere which given their track record is a definite possibility and twitch or some other streaming platform ends up being the only viable way to continue with my platform then yeah i'll probably start streaming and you know who knows i might just kick the fear at some point so it could happen but as of right now it's probably unlikely how's the lockdown going for you it's okay i like don't get me wrong it sucks i i miss getting to see cat i miss getting to see all my friends but like at the same time i'm a reasonably healthy financially stable mid-20s dude who works from home lockdown didn't really change all that much for me and so you know i'm not trying to say that like my [ __ ] for your [ __ ] doesn't matter because other people have it worse because you know that's just not how any of this works but at the same time i can't help but recognize how lucky and how privileged i am to be in this situation in the first place so i've kind of just not really thought about it and tried to focus my energy on helping you know friends and family in the area who need the help more than me i i don't know i'll just see a therapist when this is over or something hang in there guys we're almost there be safe wear your masks all that [ __ ] oh i said the m word can't wait for all the comments about how dare i get so political on my funny gaming channel for encouraging people to keep other people safe radical left communist am i right fellas anyway let's move on for someone who's unfortunately stuck with a blue snowball and can't afford a better mic what processes in audacity or other audio editors should i use to make my recording sound better so a lot of people ask what effects they should put on their recordings to make it sound better but i'm going to let you in on a little audio secret no amount of effects is ever going to beat a better recording and the cheapest way to improve your recording is to improve the room around you essentially you want to be deadening your room as much as possible with regard to echo those early reflections so for people making a home studio this usually involves putting up acoustic foam on the walls but if you're on a budget you can use things like moving blankets or mattress pads which both work pretty well or you can use this one simple trick that will deaden your recording almost instantly if you have a blanket or one of those big comforter things literally just put it over your head and the mic and record underneath that i'm not kidding this actually works it's kind of crazy i didn't believe it either until i tried it it's great and obviously it's not gonna work if you're you know playing a game or something but if you're doing vo work or you're reading off of a script it's a really great trick to improve the sound of your room and i know that didn't exactly answer your question so here are three effects in audacity that you can look at to clean up your voice a little bit focus on noise reduction eq and compression use those three things sparingly because having no effects on your voice is always better than having bad effects on your voice but my advice is still focus on the room around you i think that's going to help your recording a lot more than any effects will if you could create a weapon for troller what would it be i would create an original jumper or maybe a style for the rocket jumper that makes it come out of the center of your screen i know you can do that with like configs and stuff but i think it would be cool if valve added a more accessible option for new players so that they can learn to rocket jump with the new rocket spawn placement thing uh yeah why did you want to start youtube was there anyone specific that inspired you and how did you find out about tf2 so i answered the second one last time it's lazy purple and i talked about the first one briefly but i'll go over it again uh this channel was originally just supposed to be editing practice college age me was like i bet video editing would be a great skill to have in the future so i'm gonna teach myself to do that what can i edit well i've got shadow play so let's try that so i slowly got like 100 subscribers and then i decided oh let's try something a little bit more complicated and then oops and then as far as the third one i found out about tf2 the same way as a lot of other people i bet i downloaded steam to play portal i saw that tf2 was free and i was like oh cool i'll try that and then oops what is the strangest thing you've ever done for foley maybe not the strangest but the first one that comes to mind is something i did for ice cream man which is that daxflame documentary that idubbbz uploaded a while ago so uncle dane did all of the editing for that and he hired me to do pretty much everything with regard to post-production audio i wasn't there on set like recording dialogue and i didn't write all of the music but i wrote some of it i did all the dialogue editing i did all the mixing i did the foley for certain scenes et cetera et cetera et cetera so there was this one scene where dax is talking about how he hates his job at the ice cream parlor and he says something like oh sorry if you work with me and you're watching this uh and dane thought it would be funny if he dressed up as an ice cream guy chroma keyed himself into like an ice cream parlor background and then did like a spit take while watching that scene uh and so he's like hey can you do foley for this scene and i was like yeah sure i can do that so i did like all the normal stuff you know i i put in all of the various foley sounds i got his vocal reaction to the line i got the spit taken there i got the bite sound in there i put some ambience in there i placed it all in the scene with reverb et cetera et cetera like all the normal stuff but it didn't quite sound right and i realized that it was the bite sound that was off dane in the scene is eating a chocolate covered ice cream cone and that has a very distinct single crunch snap sound it sounds different than like normal ice cream and it sounds different than something crunchy or like a chip and i didn't actually have anything for this specifically in my library so i got one of those twix ice cream bars brought it back put it in front of the mic and then slowly deliberately and awkwardly ate this ice cream as slow as i possibly could taking as small bites as i could so that i could get as many takes as possible and i gotta say it was the most uncomfortable least enjoyable ice cream experience i have ever had but on the bright side i now have a file somewhere in my foley library called hyperdetailed ice cream bite.wav so if you're going through my hard drive for whatever reason you find that that's what that's about what got you into video games as a whole when you were a kid this is gonna sound unrelated at first but just bear with me for a second so my sister took ballet lessons when she was a kid and my mom was the type to always show up like an hour early to pick her up and since my dad was at work and i couldn't be left home alone as a kid i would get dragged along with her most of the time so i'd just be sitting in this ballet studio lobby just bored out of my skull but there was another kid who was always there and i guess his parents also showed up early and he always brought his game boy color with him so i essentially just did the late 90s early 2000s equivalent of hey you got games on your phone and this kid was a couple of years older than me and was nice enough to let me watch him play his i think it was some kind of skateboarding game and of course me being an impressionable kid i wanted one for myself and so i asked my mom hey can i have a game boy and she said yeah sure if you save up your money and buy it yourself so i did all my chores i saved up my quarters and eventually got enough money to buy a purple game boy advance monsters inc and mario kart super circuit so thank you random child from the ballet studio 20 years ago you are the reason i am into video games today what are you mainly playing in tf2 right now and what are you playing outside of tf2 i'm not actually playing tf2 right now i'm taking a break i'm still uploading tf2 videos but don't tell anyone it's old footage outside of tf2 i've really been enjoying a game called valheim recently it's the funny viking game that everybody's going nuts over it's like some combination of rust runescape and terraria with like fallout base building i can't really compare it to other games uh because it's just a mix of so much stuff and somehow it all works together perfectly so i'm having a lot of fun with it i'll probably make a video on it if i can get enough footage so yeah be on the lookout for that what were the jobs you had growing up so i talked about this a long time ago but it's been a while uh so i'll talk about it again i used to work at the science museum for families and children it was like uh i did birthday parties and shows and experiments for the kids and stuff and it's funny because i always told people growing up that i wanted to be a mythbuster when i grew up because i just thought it was cool as hell that they got to blow [ __ ] up for their job and that job was probably the closest i'll ever get because i got to do stuff like diet coke and mentos i got to set [ __ ] on fire it was just it was a lot of fun interestingly enough i also attribute a lot of my success on youtube to that job at the science museum because it taught me a hell of a lot about how to entertain children so yeah what games are you really excited for uh well the obvious answer is hollow knight silk song but another one i'm really excited for is everwild it's a game made by rare that looks like some kind of like co-op exploration open world thing with like a nature theme it doesn't even look combat focused which really interests me like don't get me wrong combat and fast-paced gameplay is cool but so many games these days are just like go here do this shoot this fight this go kill this now now go go go ramirez take down that ac 130 right now and it's like oh it's too much that's something i enjoyed about life is strange which was a very flawed game but it did this thing where it would just encourage you to go sit down under a tree listen to the soundtrack and enjoy life and i thought that was cool as hell so you tell me that rare the company that made sea of thieves is making a co-op open world exploration game with a druidic flare and i'm just like [ __ ] yeah dude sign me up that sounds awesome okay let's go ahead and do the lighting round now it's it's less of a lightning round and more just like the quicker questions and the joke questions so yeah favorite racing game mario kart 64. rock and stone by the beard how high can you count on your fingers what kind of question is that 11. what what's your favorite game that you haven't made any sort of content on i hate hades play hades do you think tf2 is currently going in the right direction in terms of updates you're gonna have to be a little bit more specific face reveal when i've actually done this a couple of times already and it's been a horrible disappointment every single time so in keeping with tradition here's where i'm at right now i know it's a rough 25 but it is what it is what the [ __ ] are your sound i feel like i'm going crazy my kill sound in tf2 is from jojo's all-star battle and it says no it doesn't say the other thing that some people think it says apparently it says retired eggs scrambled please thank you what is your address i just i can't just tell you that man come on oh he said please okay my address is for what does the video creation process look like all right i'll draw out a timeline for you so it starts here when i open up premiere and then i just kind of yeah that's pretty much it what's your favorite color blue or green i can't really decide how tall are you six three if you had to take one class out of tf2 what would it be without hesitation sniper and it's not even [ __ ] close did you ever have something planned for after the cute versus cool arg you did fun fact i already did it went up the same day as spy mystic stereotypes but only a few people have actually found it so you know have fun with that cat's big if true dog also big if true do you know any spanish hablo and poco soy fluid i took it in high school but it's been a while would you rather have lobster claws for hands or feet for hands it depends on whether or not it's permanent if it's not permanent lobster claws sound pretty cool to have for a while but if it is permanent i'd rather have feet so that i can just kind of have thumbs favorite music instrument herdy gerties are cool as [ __ ] in our close second but i gotta give it to the double bass yeah i'm biased shut up who is your least favorite youtube subscriber probably that guy who asked what my address was he seems like an [ __ ] will there ever be an mvm stereotype trust me not doing one would be leaving money on the table bro no and you could replace mvm with anything and the answer would still be no and if it really is leaving money on the table then i think you should just do it yourself you seem to be implying that it'd be really easy so i'm sure you won't have any trouble with it smoundmyth have you ever shutterstock.com [Music] yeah dude big mood why are you buying clothes at the soup store [ __ ] you are you sniffing glue like get off my back mom i can quit whenever i want [Music] look out kind of question oh

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Published: Thu Mar 11 2021