- I've never made a desk
setup tour video before but I really like watching these. I watch a lot of them. It's just super interesting
to see how people manage their different workspaces and what kind of stuff they
use to get their jobs done. But I've gotten quite a
few messages from people who were desperate to see my desk set up. So I thought that would
be a really fun thing to share right now. I also have done basically
no preparation here. So I walked in here this
morning, turned on all the lights and now I will share it with you. So it's pretty clean and organized overall but there's definitely
spots that are not perfect and that's okay. I wanted to share that with you on purpose so that way you don't
feel like you need to have this ultra minimal perfect desk set up with the little IKEA plant and that's the only way
you can be effective. There's a lot of really cool ways you can be effective in your workspace. So this is mine. So let's start with the desk itself which is not actually even a desk. This is a Husky brand work
bench from Home Depot. This is the six foot version. They make a whole bunch of different ones and it's great because
it's just wood and metal. So they're super, super strong. It's also rated to support
something like 2000 pounds. So even if your a little
husky it'll support you and I like this so much that
I have my main desk here and I also have another one
over here in an L shape. Heather also has one in her office and we have one in the garage
as an actual work bench but I stole an idea from
Heather and I took out the crossbars that go
across here and up here, so it gives me more room
to push the chair in, to have room for my feet,
have room for the dogs if they're under here. And it was really great about that is now on all sides of the desk you have room to clamp,
different mounts and supports and boom arms and all that cool stuff. My chair is incredibly fancy. It's from a very exclusive store
called IKEA and it was $60. I actually bought this for my classroom but then it looks so good on camera that I just kept it at home because the white shows
up great on camera. I do get a lot of questions
about this desk mat. This I just found on Amazon. I think the brand is GDBT and the way I remember that brand name is cause the BT reminds me of Bluetooth and sometimes you have
problems with Bluetooth and you think "GD Bluetooth." So GDBT I'll put links to all this stuff in the video description. Nothing too crazy here, I
use the Apple magic keyboard which I really liked because
it has the numeric keypad and then the Apple Magic Mouse which I really love for editing and stuff cause it just has all the sides scrolling and it's small and compact
and super easy to use. My monitor is an LG
curved ultra wide display. I forget exactly which model it is but it's the least
expensive curved ultra wide that LG makes and it's 34 inches. I've found 34 inches to
be really the perfect size cause it's plenty big to get stuff done but it's also not so big
that it's like overwhelming and blocking my view of everything. And of course, probably no surprise that the M1 Mac mini is
running into that display and then I've got my trusty
Hagibis port over here. This has a one terabyte
hard drive inside of it in addition to all these different ports. So it basically acts as a
storage for the Mac Mini, which is only 256 and
then this adds a terabyte. Talked about this clock a couple of times this is a nixie tube clock,
these are actual nixie tubes. This is from a company called Mill Clock. They're in Ukraine and I really
love having this thing here. It's super fun to look at all day. Got it cause it's Dion's gate. And then I recently got
the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO which is not so mini cause it's got all these
ISO many buttons over here. This thing is amazing, I'm
still learning a bit about it. So that's going here and I
said that one of the benefits of this desk is that it's
easy to mount things to. So let's talk about this
whole mess over here. First, I've got the Blue
Compass Boom Arm mounted to hold the Videomic NTG. You might've seen my
boom arm comparison video with the Compass. It's kind of a frustrating
boom arm to position where you need it, but
for an overhead mic, it works great just because this boom arm naturally wants to raise up higher. So when I'm recording a video,
I normally just bring it over and put it right out of
frame in front of me. Then I've got a super
clamp with a magic arm that's supporting this
small LCD monitor over here and this has the multi-view output from the ATEM Mini Extreme. This probably isn't a
permanent position for this but multiview is really helpful and being able to have the
monitor above my actual display just makes it easy to see
all of the different inputs. This monitor itself is
from a brand called Elvid and honestly, I wouldn't recommend it. I got it years ago and it's funky and it has a bunch of issues
and it never works quite right but it's the one I have. And next to that, on this
little small rig clamp, I have the receiver for the
Hollyland Mars Pro 400S. So this lets you transmit wireless video. I just clip that there so it
can run into the ATEM Mini and then this is the transmitter for that so I can put this on a camera
or any other video source that I want to transmit wirelessly. I'm doing a whole video about this. It's really fun, I like it a lot. Now I used to have my desk pushed all the way against the wall in an L shape but this was again Heather's
idea to kind of pull it out. So now I have this little cart back here which just has like some
equipments, my power supplies and then also most importantly, my synthesizers which I need to use more but by not lining the desks that perfectly it gives me a lot more workspace over here and it also gives me more
space of a desk on camera. And then I've got another PSA1 with a PodMic mounted on
this corner of the desk. This is basically Heather's mic. That's why it's got the purple cable. So anytime we do streams and podcasts she can just use that one right there. There's a little rail ridge
thing that runs under the desk so that's where I ran the
mic cable all the way over so it can go into the RØDECaster . And speaking of the RØDECaster,
it lives over on this desk which is basically just
a huge mess right now. So I've got the RØDECaster
here for easy access under this little Monoprice Monitor stand. That's why I've got the Focusrite Scarlett and then I've also got Cloudlifter under there and all the
cables just run under there. On this little stand, I've
got one of my speakers. These are Edifier speakers. They sound really good, I
don't know if they're intended for like media editing,
but they're great speakers. I originally got them for my record player and now they just sort of do everything. So you have the other one
on this side over here, I've got this little stand, this is where all charged my old MacBook. I sold my 16 inch for my 13 inch 2013 MacBook Pro is still going strong so that usually is there. My main boom arm is mounted over here so that way I can easily just move it in front of me when I'm
recording or talking and everything is positioned nicely. I've been using the Shure
Super 55 a lot lately and I did a video all about it. It's, it's such a fun mic. I've got this little Ky
sampler for sound effects. I've had this for years. It's kind of like the sound
pads on the RØDECaster but its own separate thing. It's pretty fun, but there's zero latency so you can be really
fast, (sound pad playing) with your samples. Got some of my lights here. My control box here for
the Falcon Eyes RX-818 which is my backlight. I've still got my ATEM Mini
the base model version and it's in the 3D printed stand that's designed by Aaron Parecki. My plan is to still use
this and actually connect it to the Extreme over here and
then I can have 11 inputs. Now that's truly extreme. And then I've got this little Intellytech Pocket Cannon Mini over here. I love these lights, I have two of these. Super bright, sometimes I'll
use it as an accent light or rim light so it's just sort
of here anytime I need it. And both this one and the
Dracast light over here are just on onstage tabletop mic stands and then I, actually here
I'll show you what I did. It's kind of neat. This is a five eights
to quarter 20 adapter so it goes from the regular
mic stand to a quarter 20, and then this is a pin that just has a light stand connector and I screwed this into here and then use some Loctite
to glue them together so they don't come apart. And now this is mic stand
can be a light stand. Under here, just an absolute mess. I have an old shelf thingy
that just fits perfectly under this desk and
needs to get organized. It's got some 3D printing stuff, my Yamaha mixer, stuff for
making videos, pens and pencils. It's, it's sad and not amazing. This might not be totally desk related but it's just kind of an update. I replaced some of my sound panels. So I ordered this big sound pad from a company called Acoustimac where you can get any size
you want and any color. This is a four foot by
two foot sound panel and then I also got one that
I mounted above me over here to kind of help with some of that reverb that was happening in the room. So it's not perfect, but it works for me and it's really fun to make
all those little refinements that improve your workflow one little bit at a time, it
can make a huge difference. If you wanna know a little
bit more about my setup I do have my lighting tour set up video in addition to a studio tour video. So check those out and you can
just hang out in here with me all day, basically. (sick beats play)
