What The Tech? w/James Hicks

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:05.480 Now here's something we hope you really like. You're listening to creating daily. 2 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.759 Yeah, with the number one live streaming show that I'm the host of, 3 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:17.519 speaks to me. It's like he's saying what I'm thinking streaming. What is 4 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:21.000 going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of creating daily. I'm your 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:25.359 host, Billy Thorpe, and man am I sideways right now. Supposed to 6 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.760 be going live on Amazon in. Apparently there's some setting missing. I don't 7 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.039 know what it is. Whatever I'm going to I'M gonna mess with it. 8 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:35.119 In the background we're still going to be talking about what the tech I got 9 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:40.640 my friend James Hicks coming on here in just a minute. Yeah, so 10 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:44.359 whatever, it's live streaming, man. This is what happens when you try 11 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.399 to live stream to every platform on the planet. I'm going to figure this 12 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.119 shit is out. Well, you better bet your bottom dollar on that. 13 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:53.960 But Anyway, I hope you guys are doing great. This is my last 14 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.439 live stream from Puerto Rico, so I'm really excited about that. It's going 15 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.359 to be a good time. So right after this live stream I'm going to 16 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.520 read tear down all the stuff is you can see, I'm using an iphone 17 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.200 today and not my camera, which I wanted to talk about on the Amazon 18 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:10.879 live stream. But Anyway, I'll still tell you where you can go. 19 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.799 Chris. Chris Stone already in the chat said the number one show that Billy 20 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.439 Thorpe's the host of. Let's go. James Hicks is speaking. James Sakes, 21 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:21.879 I'm gonna Gonad and bring him on. No segments today. I want 22 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:26.040 to have fun with James and and obviously now get all flustered about Amazon live. 23 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:27.719 What's up, James? I'm going on, man. What? What's 24 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:32.319 good? Man, listen and I'm I didn't made it. I'm on creating 25 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.719 daily. Somebody tells, somebody go here. We got to pay a lot 26 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.599 of money to get this guy on here. By the way, Wy I 27 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:40.719 was, you know, been moow cash APP all that sence. Send it 28 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.319 my way, brothers, and then it's see you man's good bye the coffee, 29 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:47.000 all that stuff, all that. Yeah, I mean it's good, 30 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:52.840 good to see to James. Our big plan of doing Amazon live is not 31 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.480 working. Chris greatly can text of poor man. This is what this one. 32 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:57.840 You get a build a great community. Because Chris is already in the 33 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:01.200 chat. Make sure you're twenty P to go live on Amazon. I am 34 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.439 definitely on there. Actually tested this out last night. It is what it 35 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.599 is. I'm on twenty P. I got high quality video mode. I've 36 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.039 toggled it on and off. I've done all the stuff. We'll see what 37 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:15.120 happened with it. What are you gonna do again? Man, it's live 38 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:17.599 stream and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's why we're in this 39 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:23.120 business, right just for the things that happen when we don't expect it right 40 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:27.400 exactly. But we can still help people, you know, figure out their 41 00:02:27.400 --> 00:02:30.319 tech problems. If the tack is what's holding you back, we can still 42 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.240 figure that out and it's so James, I love it that you've joined me. 43 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:38.199 Man, I appreciate you jumping on. It's a real quick I had 44 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:40.479 all my notes but I've been scattered here. So give us a little bit 45 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:44.840 of give us a little bit of just, you know, quick background on 46 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:46.960 you. I hate asking this question, by the way. I'm sorry I 47 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.479 got to ask you to you, but I'm going to scramble and pick up 48 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:52.080 my notes here since that, since I was frazzled. But give me give 49 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.280 a little back story on how you got to being a create, a content 50 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:58.800 creator in particular. No worries but the listen. Before I get going with 51 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:00.560 that, and again I want to say thank you for the opportunity to be 52 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:05.280 on creating daily, being on your show. I'M A fan. I watched 53 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:09.240 it almost every day myself. Yeah, I'm James Hicks. I'm a engineering, 54 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.520 engineering, engineering technologist by a trade and by education. Focus mainly on 55 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:20.599 the enterprise technology space, but when it comes to content creation, my role, 56 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.719 my journey, my mission really is to allow others to tell their stories. 57 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.479 Right, so I press for cord, I turn these lights on and 58 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:31.319 I let individuals come on and tell what's most important and relevant to them. 59 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:37.000 I love doing that. For probably the last decade I've been doing it primarily 60 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:39.039 on the text base, on the on the blog side, right, using 61 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:44.719 wordpress, and you use lighting that platform. But the last two years really 62 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:49.319 been getting deep into the video aspect, getting deep into the audio aspect as 63 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:53.319 well and allowing folks to again have a platform to share their stories with the 64 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:57.400 world, because everyone has something interesting to say and listen. Let me be 65 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.560 the kind do it to allow you to share that that message. So that's 66 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.479 me, men and a nutshell, just just out here any streets causing trouble? 67 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:05.599 Right? Yeah, man, I loved well, you know I've been 68 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:09.520 on your shows on their week or Sogo, or maybe to us. I'm 69 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:14.719 losing track of time quickly as as I'm approaching this move. And Man, 70 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.480 you you have such a clean, crisp video. Your audio sounds great. 71 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:21.879 You got the looked at everything's great lights in the background. I mean, 72 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:24.600 I love it, and that's why I was like, Dude, James, 73 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:28.079 we gotta do we could do a show where we talked about, you know, 74 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.639 tech, because I know you help people bull get over this and I 75 00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:35.759 think there's a lot of fear around technology in and we can go software, 76 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.120 we can go hard, we'd go anyway we want to, now that we're 77 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.120 not on Amazon live, but that is a part of like. I feel 78 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.680 like what keeps people back the most is they have a message, they have 79 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.720 a you know, a mission, but they're like, oh, yeah, 80 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.959 I just can't, I just can't fige out the text stuff, and so 81 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:55.360 I love it that you're on a mission. They say, Hey, getting 82 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.000 that hartening that complicated? I mean, obviously, look at me, I 83 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:00.639 do it every day. I crushed it right and you see, right now 84 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:03.680 you're rocking with the with a mobile phone right now, right. So I 85 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:08.120 mean you're not doing it. You turn the buttons on and and your live. 86 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.040 And I say a lot of times, folks, get out of your 87 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:15.160 own way, right because that's a lot of times that limiting factor, that 88 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.120 limiting the belief that you can't do it. It it's not as difficult as 89 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:23.639 it was three, four, five, maybe years ago. Right now there 90 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:28.759 are platforms that make it again, just really click easy to get online from 91 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:33.040 your mobile device, from a much more elaborate studio, if you've got that, 92 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:39.040 multiple cameras, multiple lights, all of that. Just having that push, 93 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:43.519 having that conversation with someone who's three feet down the road further than you, 94 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:45.639 that can help you to get to where you need to be. Right 95 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:48.680 no one's necessarily an expert. We're all generalists and we all rely on other 96 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:53.000 folks. I listen Chris Stones or the world, the billy thorpes or the 97 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:56.600 world. I'm watching them as well and making sure that you know I'm leveling 98 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:01.120 up and doing similar types of at ativities. But we all learn from each 99 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.319 other. There's there's no eye here. It's all we and you know, 100 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:09.639 the team aspect kind of make sure that everyone reaches the finish line. Yeah, 101 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.120 man, a hundred percent agree with you on that, and I think 102 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.519 that's what I love about, you know, this live streaming community, you 103 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.240 and Chris and JEM and, you know, doc and all these all these 104 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:23.959 guys and gals who are helping each other. It's really like we're really passionate 105 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:29.079 about bringing the whole industry up, not just in there's people in the in 106 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:32.240 our community in particular, and in your community, that you probably stand alone 107 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:35.879 and just dominate and not help anybody else. But I love it that this 108 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:42.959 live stream community in particular is really and podcasting as well as really, you 109 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:46.680 know, elevating elevating each other. And I've learned a lot, man, 110 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.160 even, you know, even as low tech as I am today, I'm 111 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:53.079 still having a great time and having fun with it, man. So it's 112 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.600 all how's it? How's that? How's that Wallet Doing, though, right 113 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.000 how? You know, every time you go with and you listen. So 114 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:02.879 what? How's that? I can count ballance doing, man, goodness gracious, 115 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.439 right now. One time, one time I was on club house and 116 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:10.279 Tom Buck was on there and I just got off my because it was like 117 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.759 people are chatting with them asking question. I said, Tom just want to 118 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:15.079 let you know, man, my wife will be reaching out to you for 119 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.959 all the stuff I bought from watching your videos, blaming him for it. 120 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.839 Right, yeah, right. Every time the Amazon truck shows up is it's 121 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:26.199 not a good thing. Yeah, every time that that smiling face shows up, 122 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:28.160 my wife gives me a frownie face. I'm like, honey, it's 123 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:31.839 a tax right off, I promise it's. We're going to be I haven't 124 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.920 tried that one. I'm trying to still get in the front door of my 125 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:40.439 house. I'm not going to try that one. Right. All these people 126 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.360 you got in in the comments. We got Ireland, we got Pakistan, 127 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.279 we got Ju let's smack down out doors. Lis Morasque, my goodness, 128 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:51.319 I have no idea where all these people getting from. Listen, they came 129 00:07:51.399 --> 00:07:55.959 to see you. I'm just here, you know, to instigate heck of 130 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.920 from the back of the room. That's my job. As long as I 131 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:01.720 can do that and my job is done so. So, man, let's 132 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:03.600 let's jump into some tech talk here. Man, let's jump in tech. 133 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:09.360 I think everybody shows name Tech Talkas what the tech? What the tech us? 134 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.639 The name of the show man. So when it comes to creating video 135 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:16.240 and audio lives, will say live streaming, because that's what we're doing right 136 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.639 now. We'll just kind of keep it this way. What do you feel 137 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:24.439 like is the most important thing when you're when you're bringing together, you're putting 138 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.240 together alive, you know show what do you feel like this most important? 139 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.879 Like so techno or and thutive? counterintuitive that, even though we're talking about 140 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:35.159 tech, it's not the gear, it's not the technology, it's not the 141 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.120 stuff, it's the message. Right, at the end of the day, 142 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.799 first of all, understanding that it's not about you either, rights, it's 143 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:48.039 about the community and it's about the folks are listing. Is about the folks 144 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:52.039 that are watching. It's all about them. Pull yourself out of the driver's 145 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:54.799 seat and understand it. Whatever you do, you're doing it for your community. 146 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.559 That's what's most important. What you got the content piece down, then 147 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.200 obviously sleep. You want to make sure that, even though we're live streaming 148 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:05.159 and we're going video videos, cool, but man, if you don't sound 149 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:09.440 right, I'm a leave right if your audio is not where it needs to 150 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.600 be, but I can get by with some with some week video. I 151 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.879 really I can get rid. I can get bought Amazon. Seven twenty pre 152 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.240 you right, seven hundred and twenty. We we can give buy with that. 153 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.360 But man, if you don't sound right, if I if you got 154 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:26.399 Cracklett, and if I hear dogs barking, I mean all that, just 155 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.960 if it's if it's a low quality audio piece, that's tough, right. 156 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.200 So that that really needs to be at the forefront of what you're going to 157 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.200 be providing as a service, after the content piece. Make sure that you 158 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:45.000 at least sound right and and then you can start adding all of the extra 159 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:46.960 and sillery. Who has a big word? I've never used that word other 160 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.399 other stuff to your environment with the tone down. I don't want to bring 161 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:52.759 up my dictionary to figure out what the heck. Come on, listen. 162 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.279 You know he's a big worried, you panic. Did you read the writer? 163 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:01.600 No, big words, like billy doesn't know big words. I mean 164 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:03.519 I can say him, I don't know how to spell them. So don't 165 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.120 know. They'll ask you this fell them. Well, dude, and I'll 166 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.559 tell you that. So you know when you're talking about audio. This kind 167 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.559 of a funny story that happened to me yesterday. So I got on this 168 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:16.279 kick where, you know, I kind of panic. A couple days ago 169 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.279 I'm like, I don't know if all the stuff can fit my suitcase. 170 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.600 I've added a couple you know, I added a teleprompter, I've added a 171 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.480 micro boom arm, a bigger boom arm than what I brought with me, 172 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.759 and I'm like, I don't know if he can fit my suitcase. So 173 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:30.519 I kind of have this panic mode. I tear all my gear down, 174 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:35.200 put it my suitcase to make sure it's going to work and then I'm like, 175 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.960 okay, cool, this is awesome. It works. I'm going to 176 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:41.960 go super low key. I'm going to use my my camera on my my 177 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.320 laptop, I'm going to use my bluetooth headphones or I'm just going to use 178 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.360 the the mic on my laptop. And I taught myself into doing this and 179 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:50.799 I thought, Oh, for James and I will be a good show. 180 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.639 I'll do my show yesterday like that and then today I'll do my show like 181 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.159 that so I can grab everything and show it for Amazon right, right and 182 00:10:58.279 --> 00:11:03.759 man, about twenty five minutes before the show starts yesterday I start freaking out 183 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:05.919 because I'm like I test the audio like to tie her sounds terrible. Like 184 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.440 you, I can't do this, like the heard the air. Could the 185 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.639 dogs barking down the neighborhood? There's no, you know, my road caster 186 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.519 has the gate and I'm like, I'm like, God, I can't do 187 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.360 I'd start freaking like cold sweat and I'm start ripping stuff out of my suitcase 188 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.159 and you know, and really just unpacked the audio. That was what I 189 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.519 was really after because even video, I didn't put my nice camera with the 190 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.679 Nice Lens and all that stuff back up. Yeah, I literally just put 191 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.919 my my audio up, because I'm with you, man. If the audio 192 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.240 is bad, that's really the only thing in content creation that I can find 193 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.759 that can physically hurt somebody, like if they get their earbuds in in your 194 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:48.399 audio is junk and squilty and squeaky and you know whatever it's like. That's 195 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:52.519 actually really uncomfortable and painful for your audience. So I love it said that, 196 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.720 man, I love that you also think about this as well. I 197 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.919 mean right, so when I go to the gym, I consume Youtube as 198 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:03.360 it and instead of listening to music, a lot of times I'm consuming youtube 199 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.679 by just listening to it as an audio podcast, right. So every time 200 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:11.960 there's something that is going off, I rarely turn on music. I'll listen 201 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:16.440 to an audio book or I'll I'll listen to somebody's youtube stream at again. 202 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.240 If I can't hear it, if it's not compelling, if it's not clear, 203 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.559 unfortunately, I'm going to leave, and that made cost that creator subscriber. 204 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.440 That may cost me, you know, someone coming back even later on 205 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:35.519 as well. So it's fundamentals and these foundational pieces in first worry about the 206 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.919 content piece. Make sure you have a compelling story, make sure your focus 207 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.039 on the community, then make sure you sound right, and then after that 208 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.399 again, like I say, start adding in all the extra bells and whistles, 209 00:12:45.399 --> 00:12:50.279 men, but but worry about the stuff that matters and resonates with the 210 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.679 messages that you're trying to push out, and then again build off of that 211 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:56.600 slowly. One try to do it all the one time, right. Yeah, 212 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:00.320 don't do it all in one time like. Well, and that's my 213 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:01.960 point too, man, I got when I started live streaming into three years 214 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.200 ago. I literally borrowed a camera from my neighbor, borrow microphone, I 215 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.879 borrowed every I just borrowed it because I'm like, I don't know, there, 216 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.240 they don't have it, they're just hanging out, so you know they're 217 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:15.200 not using it, and maybe I could use it every Tuesday night. And 218 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.559 so I did that man for like twenty five live streams in a row every 219 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.399 week. I just borrowed gear. But men's talking about, you know, 220 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.720 particular product. What do you recommend if somebody just walked in your world and 221 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.399 said, Hey, hey, James, I need a microphone to I'm going 222 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.759 to use my my Webcam or sometimes seen a microphone like what? Is there 223 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:39.480 a particular ones that you recommend? And listen, I was looking at pardon 224 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.240 me, I was looking at my arms, at a part of me for 225 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.799 the coffin. Folks. Again, I'm ninety percent clear of COVID and it's 226 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:50.240 getting no joke. So make sure you're taking care of yourself. I recommend 227 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:56.399 the best gear that you can afford. All right, so it's either USB, 228 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:58.600 okay, if you can only afford to go with it, but the 229 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.879 USB microphone. Okay, that's fine. There's some fantastic ones out there. 230 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:03.480 We can talk about name brands if we want to, but again, there's 231 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.600 some good stuff out there. If you can afford to step up to where 232 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.200 you have an audio interface and where you can go xl, are you going 233 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.840 to get a much cleaner sound? You're going to get much more control over 234 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:18.879 the audio dynamics as well by being a control that. So listen. I've 235 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:26.039 gone from everything from the what is it, the El Gatto inntie one, 236 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:31.440 into USB. Have Gone from those. I've gone from QC. I'm rocking 237 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:35.639 the SMSEV B. This is the Michael Jackson Mike Commoma. I'm using it. 238 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:39.159 Let's get all the Michael Jackson use I can't go we can't go wrong 239 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.480 with that. If right, if you if you weren't coming off Covid I'd 240 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.559 say go ahead and give us a little bit of thriller right there. But 241 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:46.840 I don't want to punch on the spot. I don't want to get you 242 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:50.679 a copyright restricts it. If I start singing dully Jean on the on the 243 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.000 scream week, we can't had at. I don't I don't want you to 244 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:58.519 not deep be monetized. As you know, this on Youtube. Oh Man, 245 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:00.399 yeah, man, I love it. I love of that, you 246 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:01.519 know, and that's what I didn't do either. I got one out and 247 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:07.039 got I had an interface or whatever, and then I discovered like usb microphones. 248 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.440 So I actually kind of with the opposite way, like I was. 249 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:13.840 I had an interface, I had an x dollar microphone, and then I 250 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.759 got a I get a USB microphone because I was like Oh, that was 251 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:20.000 this is pretty dope. So it's real easy. I can hook it up. 252 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.679 And when I'm buying gear, man, I'm kind of that weird dude 253 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:26.080 where no one likes me because I'm always like I want to buy, I'm 254 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:28.480 cheap, so I like one to buy one piece of gear that will do 255 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:35.000 like everything, and it's so you know, my point in buying it a 256 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.639 or actually asking for Christmas for the Atr Twenty one hundred, now that I 257 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.320 think they get the antr twenty one hundred exs mmm, was because I wanted 258 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.919 something mobile to use with my laptop and then also I could plug it right 259 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.320 into my phone and do and you know, like ig lives or any of 260 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.519 that kind of stuff as well through the USB connection. So you know, 261 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.240 when we're thinking about these products, like think about how you can use it 262 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.000 multiple ways, like I you podcast with yours, you live, chef with 263 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.519 gears. You know, all kinds of different ways to utilize these pieces of 264 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:07.679 gear, for sure. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of gear that 265 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:12.799 that's mobile centric. Company called Ik multimedia makes some some gear that just just 266 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:18.240 works when you're out there doing mobile production, mobile content creation, things like 267 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.159 that old school zoom, right, Zoomi. I always think about being able 268 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:27.360 to plug in multiple devices and not zoom the the software. Yeah, eating, 269 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.720 yeah, not them, desume, the at the hard word and the 270 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.799 auto interface company. They make components where you can plug in multiple cameras, 271 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:41.000 xl our cameras, into a device, recorded locally to that device and and 272 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:45.639 then be able to scream that out from the SD card. So there's a 273 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:51.240 lot of manufacturers that are making devices and equipment for again, in Studio, 274 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:53.679 remote studio, on location and things of that nature. Yees, I'm some 275 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:57.320 really good stuff out there. Yeah, man, and I like the speaking 276 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:00.039 of like inner so, so we talked about little bit about microphones. So 277 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:06.680 you have a USB microphone and then we have like Xcel our connection. So 278 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.000 we are both using the SMSEVEN B which in my mind, this is like 279 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:12.519 what would you call us a pro level mic, or would you call it 280 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.720 like midlevel? I mean I know there's some mics are like okay, but 281 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:18.599 I don't know. That's yeah, right, I see that. That's an 282 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.119 instantion question. Right, and again I always preface when I talk about this. 283 00:17:22.119 --> 00:17:25.960 Mike. I talked about Yes to Mike that Michael Jackson used. So 284 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.160 from that perspective, guys, professional microphone, highand great quality, built, 285 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.519 build from the long legacy of the essence seven family from sure. So this 286 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.400 does it. It's only four hundred and yeah, what I'm yeah, it's 287 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:42.880 only four hundred dollars as compared to like a warm audio or a a newman 288 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:47.319 noyman. I got to say it right, that the annoyman microphones, which 289 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:49.880 are three fourzero dollars. I'm how do I know that? Because I'm looking 290 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:56.039 at them, but through what are you? My wife watching this right now 291 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:59.079 and I'm talking about buying the three thousand. Not going buy that one baby. 292 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:02.799 I'm looking at the warm audio, which is one Thousan five hundred off. 293 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:07.160 But this is right in between in terms of price. Floyd, there 294 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:11.960 are some other phenomenal microphones, condenser microphones, that dynamic microphones, things of 295 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:15.559 that nature. This long story, short and long answer. Short. This 296 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:21.319 is a professional grade high grade microphone. It's near the higher end of I 297 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:26.039 think the prosumer Mark Line being four hundred, because you can get something else 298 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:30.119 like the lewitt lct for forty pure. That I love as well and I've 299 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.920 got it on my stand back here. That's too. Hundred and forty nine 300 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.680 or something like that. I think the MVSEEVEN and the Mbseven B from sure 301 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.880 are around the two hundred and fifty dollar market as well. So I tell 302 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.079 folks about his time as well. You get what you pay for now, 303 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.680 but it's relative as well. So hundred dollars to four hundred, you can 304 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:53.400 be really well taken care of in the podcasting life, streaming space from an 305 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:56.119 audio perspective. Yeah, man, and I think too, when it comes 306 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:02.519 to microphones, I am always in the mindset, especially for people who don't 307 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:07.599 have like the greatest recording space, because microphone is great, but you also 308 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.240 got to have your space set up pretty good. I'm always pushing them to 309 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:14.359 dynamic microphones. That where you're done as well, or can that. It's 310 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:18.720 good, exactly that, because many again you got sirens, you got you 311 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:21.880 got air condition you got dolls, got kids. If you got a condenser 312 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:25.720 microphone is going to pick up all of that. It is and by default, 313 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:27.880 and you know that that's what the microphone is built for. But from 314 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:33.039 a dynamic microspect active it it's really toned in, cone and and locked into 315 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:37.240 what's coming either from the front of the side, you know, depending on 316 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:41.400 the on the polar pattern. So dynamic microphone is just a way to go 317 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.400 to make sure to from my perspective again, just and my humble opinion, 318 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:49.240 to make sure you're dialing in that that sound spectrum on your on your audiating 319 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.279 face. Yeah, man, I hundred percent agree, and I think I 320 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.680 found that out the hard way was a couple projects I did early, early 321 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:02.200 on. There's some really good companies out there that were a big marketing budgets 322 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:03.880 and it was like, Oh, this is the podcasts Mike. You know, 323 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:07.119 everybody right out and bought and I'm like, Whoa, Whoa, wait 324 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:11.880 a second, I don't think it's gonna work out. Chris Stone over here 325 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.720 in the chace is great stuff. James always patients is key. It's a 326 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:18.160 long game. What's up, John, how's it going? Man? Good 327 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.599 to see we're supposed to be on Amazon live, but Mr Bill messed it 328 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:25.640 up over here. Somehow. I got to figure that one out, but 329 00:20:25.680 --> 00:20:27.319 anyway it'll be. I will do it again. James, will do another 330 00:20:27.359 --> 00:20:30.160 one where we co host the Amazon live showed. I would be fine. 331 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.799 I'm here anytime and you get the number to the bad phone, call me 332 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.480 any time. But yeah, they don't hit me with a good time and 333 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:38.880 I go live very day at two PM. So I'm like, James, 334 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:44.759 what are you doing? Push the button. So may we talk a little 335 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:48.240 bit about microphones? Let's talk about a little bit about interfaces, because I 336 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:51.640 think this is, you know, for people who really want to level up. 337 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:55.440 Like what are and you kind of talked about some of those. So 338 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:00.200 what are some of the you know, the the easier interfaces to use? 339 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:02.559 I'll say, I know there's a bunch of me and I get a couple 340 00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:06.119 here I could show. Well, I got one. I guess probably I'll 341 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:08.839 get in that. But I wanted to talk to this comment that came in. 342 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:11.319 I'm not sure you can sit on nice eye to from smackdown outdoors. 343 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:17.440 Ducks starts spend more on the sound treatment, not sound proofing, of your 344 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:19.440 room, then you do on your microphone. And that, man, that's 345 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:22.200 that's critical and that's key right there. Week we can go for for an 346 00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:26.759 hour just talking about that. But again, take take care of you of 347 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:32.680 your room, your dynamics. Make sure you get carpet versus hardwood floors and 348 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:34.440 all of that, the echoing, the balancing, make you know, put 349 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:37.119 some panels, things of that, and just make sure again that you got 350 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:42.079 higher highron gear within your studio environment. But yet that's a whole conversation right 351 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:45.079 there, but I'm glad you brought that up. Yeah, it once do 352 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.880 that well, man, and I agree. So I'll jump in real quick 353 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.200 because we can get some tips around this and a couple things which I had 354 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:56.920 in my Amazon carosell that no longer half is is one of those weather weather 355 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:02.079 stripping things for under your door. You wouldn't believe how much stuff comes in 356 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:06.319 underneath your door, and so it's got two big tubes essentially just foam and 357 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:07.960 just basically slide it under there and it's just, you know, kind of 358 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.599 goes with your door when you open and close it. I've done that. 359 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.960 I've put the weather stripping around the door. In those two things, man 360 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.759 crushed out a lot of sound outside yours coming in. There's and there's all 361 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.119 kinds of stuff, man, like I got a blanket hanging on the wall. 362 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:26.160 I got here in Puerto Rico. It's all concrete and tile, man. 363 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:29.519 So I took the we got air being be sound, the Oak Ah 364 00:22:29.559 --> 00:22:32.759 you got, you know, for the boring sound. You come on rather 365 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:36.200 so. So I get a couple mattresses, like twin mattresses. We took 366 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:37.799 its AIRBNB, so we didn't need all these beds. So we took them 367 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:41.079 out, put them in. The landlords like I'll take him out. I'm 368 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:42.160 like no, no, there's sound proofing. So I just put them up 369 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:48.119 in the corners. I use whatever I can. Man It with you and 370 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:51.240 with what's it? GOIN and listen. Look at stone coming in here with 371 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:53.000 with some with some knowledge. You're drop us some gym's. Put that up 372 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:56.359 there, Gadley, you got some geniuses on home in the live and in 373 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.000 comment section. Come on, yeah, man, this is good. Yeah, 374 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.759 yeah, all better than a four hundred microphone. That's good. Yeah, 375 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:06.720 and you can. You can buy a hundred dollar mic treat a room 376 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:08.920 and make it sound good. And it always cracks me out because I see 377 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.039 people, you know, they're like, I don't want my audio doesn't sound 378 00:23:12.079 --> 00:23:15.480 good. I'm like where you recording? In the kitchen, and the kitchen 379 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:18.720 in the bathroom, and now that's not the right place to be. All 380 00:23:18.799 --> 00:23:22.279 the granite. Go in your closet. You know at the best place. 381 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:23.960 Go in your closet and record. Figure that out. Are you go, 382 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:27.319 and I mean it is a lot of folks to record their audio books and 383 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:32.880 do their voiceovers literally in closet. That's that's that's where to go. See 384 00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:36.319 you get me on and I start deviating and Squirrel. You told me to 385 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:38.920 go forward your interface world, not still. I'm still sound proofing rooms. 386 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:41.599 Come on, we're sorry, we're having from then. We're just nerding now 387 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.039 and hopefully people are picking up some stuff and going, oh, okay, 388 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:47.319 I can do that, I can, I can do that. So it 389 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:48.839 males, talk about interfaces. What you got over there? What are you 390 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:53.599 like? Come on now, you know you's Rowe's row caster program and listen. 391 00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:57.480 Huh. You get what you get and and and don't don't throw a 392 00:23:57.599 --> 00:24:03.519 fit. Road caster pro and saw some leaks coming out. I cannot, 393 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.319 we cannot confirm nor deny. Oh, I can confirm. Maybe there may 394 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:12.400 be another one coming down the road of the yet road caster pro pream audio 395 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:17.039 interface. This is this is is the way to go right, from being 396 00:24:17.079 --> 00:24:19.640 able to and I know you use it every single day, multi casting, 397 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:23.519 multi stream into both audio platforms, in the video platforms, but just being 398 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:29.359 able to plug in your mobile device and pull an audio from that perspective, 399 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.279 being able to have sound files that you can play right, all of the 400 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:38.160 audio inserts and things like that. Made Configurations Multiple Mics are as you know, 401 00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:41.079 the road caster pro one, I'm going to call it. You can 402 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:45.920 have four mark xlr microphones plugged in. You can record directly to an SD 403 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.920 card on the interface, which is incredibly great because you have no issues with 404 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:55.680 the audio. If the Internet was to go down right now from California to 405 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:59.359 Puerto Rico, God forbid. We don't want that to happen. But again, 406 00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:03.279 I'm recording locally the audio for this stream, so I've got crystal clear 407 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:08.119 output that that I can pull right from my SD card. It's just the 408 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.559 way to go right. Again, you get what you pay for and if 409 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.119 you can, you get get the best geared it you can you can afford, 410 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.680 and road caster pros is where I'm at. There's others out there. 411 00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:22.720 Yeah, focus right makes a decent one as well. That's the only other 412 00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:23.839 one I've used. I used the focus right too. I too, but 413 00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:26.720 road is where I'm at right now. Yeah, yeah, man, I've 414 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.640 used the focus right. I've used the lot of track late by zoom. 415 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:34.400 Actually that one was pretty dope because it was more analog and that's kind of 416 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:38.000 my style. So yeah, somebody even posted smack down outdoors live track late, 417 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.160 very similar. So I've done that one. I get the pod track 418 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:47.160 PFOUR. My cohost uses that. Things Pretty Dope. For the two hundred 419 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:49.000 two and twenty Perre's my three year old. He's got to be a part 420 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.480 of the stream every day him of dogs. And then also, man, 421 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.920 I picked up because my road caster, speaking of road, had a little 422 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:02.640 problem with the with the headphone outputs on the back. So channel to three 423 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:06.640 and four on the back, the right or left side, I can't remember, 424 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:10.079 doesn't work. Okay, and so I got to send it back and 425 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:11.799 I was going to send it back from Puerto Rico but it cost too much. 426 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:17.279 But I picked up this little task can mini studio. Can is dope. 427 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:21.000 Okay, there you go, ling do this thing's preamps man for a 428 00:26:21.119 --> 00:26:23.920 hundred and fifty bucks. I think this thing is pretty dope, man, 429 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.519 like I was pretty impressed. Now doesn't have all the sound isolation and you 430 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:30.200 know, like all the gate noise gating all that kind of stuff, but 431 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:33.599 but t ask Cam and I think the mix cast for is a pretty good 432 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:37.279 device as well. That's coming out. That came as cams been around for 433 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.920 a long look back in the radio shack days. That's camera is been around 434 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:45.079 for minute so. So they know they're doing. I just dated myself right. 435 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:47.319 I'm radio shack. Yeah, I work at Radio Shack, man. 436 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:49.920 I'm okay, I prayer work there like the last like five years. They 437 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:55.200 are open somewhere around there. We're old, we're seasoned. I'm not say 438 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.480 old, we're season about that. Every one talking about the little drawers. 439 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:02.000 Man, I missed those drawers, those little tools and gidgets and gadgets, 440 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:04.359 oh my gosh, man, I got those of my garage rather than listen. 441 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:07.920 I'm old school. We got, I guess, of that action going 442 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:11.960 on here to yet radio shack. Someone needs to bring them back. Them 443 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.440 and toys are right. Those two stores need to come back. That's that's 444 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:18.079 my that's my pledge. Right there. Someone help was out with that in 445 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.599 blockbuster, man, I'll put up put them in the mix, which I 446 00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:23.920 know there's still one left somewhere else, somewhere out west there. So Oh, 447 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:26.920 he says. Radio Shack is back, by the way, online only. 448 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.279 We need to walk in there and, you know, be able to 449 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:34.920 pick up radio components and and build a CB radio and all that stuff. 450 00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:38.359 I need to walk in and come on, that's okay online that. That's 451 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.400 good, though. Toys, our els is coming back. What were you 452 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:45.319 getting your new smack down? You got me all over and up over here. 453 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:48.359 What's happening? But yeah, me. So, anyway, the road 454 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:52.279 caster pro to. It was leaked by a company in New Zealand. I 455 00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:55.319 think they'd like put it on their their website. So my friend Michael Sterling 456 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:59.960 at Sterling, I think it's sterling clear audio or certling clear dot online, 457 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.759 picked up that story, ran with it on his blog and we were actually 458 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.000 talking about it in a in a clubhouse room on Tuesday night. There's a 459 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:11.720 road caster pro room where bunch people get together have it. We kind of 460 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:14.880 help each other if we need or they help other people or whatever, and 461 00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.400 it's so anyway, man, we're talking, we're we're, you know, 462 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:21.759 doing whatever. This dude jumps on the stage and was like, yeah, 463 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:26.519 I worked for road. How did you guys find out about this? So 464 00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:30.559 and look, unless he was really convincing liar, it's definitely confirmed and they 465 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.799 should be announcing it in the next week or so and if so, we'll 466 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:37.039 see. But you know, I mean, I know Tom Buck has want 467 00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:38.720 to saw it. I know what that listen when I when I saw the 468 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.960 story, I said I sent him a message on facebook and just said it 469 00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:45.640 just sais Sir Right, and that now is that. He responded back with 470 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:52.799 a little happy face. So yet he hasn't confirmed or denied. But okay, 471 00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:55.400 let me ask you this just let's talk a little bit about gas. 472 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:59.160 Let's talk a little bit about gear acquisitions and and we we both have I've 473 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:03.279 got the RCP, the number one. You get number two. Do you 474 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:07.039 need number two? But are you getting number two? I don't. You 475 00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:10.400 just will be any ass. Can you got all this other stuff to just 476 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.160 just because it's signing a new you can't get the new one, you know? 477 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:17.799 Yes, I am. That that's my I'm gonna I'm gonna sell some 478 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.400 stuff. I'm committed to selling stuff to buy it, but I'm definitely going 479 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:23.039 to buy me. I mean I just have to. You know, it's 480 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.720 like I love this one, even though has a little issues. I want 481 00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:29.920 to get it fixed, maybe even keep it, maybe even whatever. But 482 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:32.319 I got a camera you, I get a couple camera lens. I've used 483 00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:33.799 this camera lens three times. I'M gonna sell it, you know. Yeah, 484 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:37.400 well, and let me put that in perspective and I kind of set 485 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.480 you up with that. Be Honest with you. It's okay for a gas 486 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.000 gear acquisitions him, as we call it here in these content creation streets. 487 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.720 And again, those of us that are early adopters, those of us that 488 00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:53.039 are coaches, shows of us that are consultants and help others all along their 489 00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:59.079 way of building out their studios and their environments, we are obligated to know 490 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.400 about this equipment as it comes out, either just from aspects perspective, from 491 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.079 a technology utilization perspective and again, if we can continue to level up our 492 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.920 gear and our environments as well. I'm going to bless somebody with this roadcaster 493 00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:15.400 when I get the new one. But yeah, I'm also going to get 494 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:19.480 it, but it's almost a it's our duty right to be aware of what's 495 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:23.119 going on, know the stories, know what's coming out, acquire it when 496 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:26.960 we can and then pass it on to individuals that we work with. It's 497 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:30.640 just like all these cameras, right, we got all these lenses, all 498 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.480 these bodies, as Sony comes out with the next one, the next one, 499 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.359 the next one. We're going to continue to level up lights, we're 500 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.880 going to continue to level up and move forward. But again, I I 501 00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:44.359 say it, said it jokingly, but it again. It's our duty as 502 00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.240 two consultants, as the coaches, as the creators, as the ones at 503 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:49.759 the forefront, three feet ahead of someone else, to go ahead and get 504 00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:53.200 this gear, learn about this gear so we can talk about this gear exactly. 505 00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:56.839 So I need everybody watching or listening to head over to buy me a 506 00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.960 Coffeecom Find James and I buy us both of call. We need lots of 507 00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.759 coffee so we can buy this thing when it comes out so we can be 508 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.160 ready for you or doing this for your guys thereon over. So yeah, 509 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.200 man, I agree with you, and that's kind of how I just you 510 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.440 know, I guess, if I have to justify it like that's how I 511 00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:15.359 would justify. Like, man, I need to be in the know. 512 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.599 I I'm helping people with this stuff all, you know, consulting everything. 513 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.319 So and they're going to want to buy it to you know, people want 514 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:23.319 to upgrade and and and all kinds of stuff. But but yeah, man, 515 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:26.680 from that room, do that we did the other night. It's going 516 00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:30.839 to I think it's like sixteen times faster than in the road cast pro. 517 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.960 It's going to have three USBC ports you can hook up like to compute. 518 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.559 I mean this guy was talking stuff. I'm like what I ever do that, 519 00:31:37.720 --> 00:31:40.759 like two computers at a time to bring in two different sources. I 520 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:44.240 mean it's going to be it's going to be fire. It's got enough game 521 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:47.200 boost on it where you don't have to have a fedhead or a or a 522 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:49.559 cloudlift. Really, okay, that is all that. So I'm loving that 523 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:53.279 piece. Okay, that not you can get. You got both eyebrows just 524 00:31:53.400 --> 00:31:56.200 raised up. It's now just when you said so. So for guys were 525 00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:59.519 like Hey, I want a studio, I want to seven bees, but 526 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:01.920 I don't want to buy four of them. And for cloud lifters, I 527 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:06.839 mean you just saved nine hundred dollars. You know, whatever, in cloud. 528 00:32:07.079 --> 00:32:09.119 That's okay. So yeah, man, and anyway, man. And 529 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.240 then it's got a little APP and stuff where you can trigger sound effects from 530 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.119 a distance, you know, from a you know whatever, if you want 531 00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:20.119 to on your phone. So yeah, it's got it's got some network pored 532 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.920 on there. He didn't say, he wouldn't say what it was or how 533 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:27.880 you use it, but duel Jacks for instruments and Xlr. I mean it's 534 00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.640 fired. It is. It's pretty crazy. I can't even. Yeah, 535 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:36.799 anyway, it got me. We cannnday morning quarterback. This and pontificate, 536 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:42.400 another big word. I that one means. I don't doubt wonder what it's 537 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:45.720 going to what else is it going to replace? Right, does this start, 538 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:51.279 maybe even getting into stream deck world? It's just start getting into a 539 00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.759 tim mini world right again, just by replacing other gear within your studio, 540 00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:59.599 by allowing you to have just one big mixing board that does so much more, 541 00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.519 and just in putting output up microphone. So again, I'm just, 542 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.400 yeah, going stuff out there. I'm gonna do a little more research right 543 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:08.400 now. That's cool. Well, and I'm going to. I'm gonna, 544 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:12.039 I'm gonna, if I can bring it up here you know, we had 545 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:15.920 all this fancy screens set up for other stuff. I'm going to see if 546 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.000 I can find this most if I can find it while where I we're chatting. 547 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.799 But Yeah, man, it is, it is. Probably they said 548 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:25.519 it's going to be this guy, you know, of course he works there, 549 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:29.279 so it's like whatever, but he's like there's nothing like it on the 550 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:31.960 on the in the market. There's nothing like it. Can even miss thin 551 00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.279 going close get into it, you know. So they're gonna they're gonna knock 552 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.160 it out and I think it's going to come with a lot of software opportunities 553 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:43.559 as well, which is really interesting. But I think what they did was 554 00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:45.519 they said, hey, we you know, our first one was kind of 555 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:49.400 like podcast, podcast, podcasts, and we realized a lot of streamers, 556 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.400 a lot of musicians want to use it, use our products, and so 557 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.359 they kind of listen to all three of these communities and their list of desires 558 00:33:59.200 --> 00:34:02.599 and kind of made a machine for everyone. So we think about it. 559 00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:06.720 So the first one was about seven hundred bucks right. What how much is 560 00:34:06.839 --> 00:34:10.719 too much or how much is to where it gets uncomfortable and to where again 561 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:15.679 you start questioning is this right for me? Can you'll kind of answer question 562 00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:16.920 of smackdown outdoors. Right, how much you think just going to come? 563 00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:22.559 I'm nine hundred and ninety five. It's a weird number, but it's when 564 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.239 you start, when you started getting over. Yeah, it's we're did it. 565 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:30.920 So so we asked this question in this club out for him. I 566 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:36.239 were like so, what's surprised and he's like you guys are speculating. I 567 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:39.320 mean somebody speculate one fourteen hundred and he's like it's south of eight hundred. 568 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:45.119 Like it's under he's like don't. He's like it's it should be a thousand. 569 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:46.880 For sure, it could be a thousand, but it's less than what 570 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:50.719 you guys are saying. So we so we were like somewhere between eight hundred 571 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.039 and and in one thousandour hundred and and he wouldn't say the exact price, 572 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:59.199 but he was just like is less. And so anyway, I don't know, 573 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:00.679 man, we'll see. You know, if they kept it at that 574 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:02.440 five ninety nine price point, I don't know how they would, but if 575 00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:07.079 they did, oh dude, and it's kind of man, I can't forgot 576 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:08.880 some may stuff about this, but it's got the screen that it doesn't till 577 00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:12.920 it's not. It's a lock screen, but it is. It is angled 578 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:16.039 now so you can actually see it. So yeah, one thing here said 579 00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:21.280 just popped into my head about this and we would. We've been talking about 580 00:35:21.280 --> 00:35:25.239 Amazon live and this just is hit my head. Road does not have any 581 00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:31.760 official Amazon presence. So you may see road gear on Amazon, but again, 582 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:38.079 it's not officially license authorized reseller by your road gear from being H at 583 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:43.639 a Rama Best, by Guitar Center, things of that nature. If you 584 00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:47.239 taking chances, just just won't let you guys know. Road explicitly lists on 585 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.880 their website as well that they don't have an authorized location and presence on Amazon. 586 00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:55.760 So I didn't keep that in mind as well. Folk, that's a 587 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:59.360 good tip, man. That's because everybody goes to Amazon it but it goes, 588 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:00.840 yeah, right over. But yeah, I did not know that. 589 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:05.159 That's good, even for Amazon live cell. You know, Amazon live creators 590 00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:07.840 to like. Don't be promoting on there because you get your people in a 591 00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:13.719 sideways. We'll see. Yes, Victor says. So how much is too 592 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.920 much? How much will hurt you? I decline to answer that, sir. 593 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.000 I decline to answer that. Watch Tom box video and then I'll make 594 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:25.320 a decision. How much you too much right now, because because he's a 595 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:30.519 gray salesman, right Tom I have you buying sand from the beach. Boy, 596 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.320 he'll put a com nail on it and he'll start with the dad jokes. 597 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.599 Next thing you know, you dropping the credit card down and come on, 598 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:40.119 man, I got he's dangerous, Dude, he is that love you, 599 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:44.119 brother, but he's dangerous. He's a yeah, yeah, he gets 600 00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:45.760 me in trouble. Man. I'm like, cone, I just watch this 601 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:47.880 video by Tom and I gotta go buy this thing. She's like stop watching 602 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.719 that dude. Video was this? WHO's Tom? You know? I know, 603 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.320 man, it's so crazy, so so man. We can't jumped into 604 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:58.559 mics. We kind of jumped to the interfaces a little bit. Let's stalk 605 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:01.239 about cameras, because you said it's Sony. I'm a I'm a cannon guy. 606 00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:04.800 I got a reason why I'm a cannon guy, but I want to 607 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.519 hear more about your Sony set up because I think the auto focus on those 608 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:12.239 things. I don't know what you're using versus everyone else in the Ekam community. 609 00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.360 Yeah, but that auto focus is fast. I mean, is it 610 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:19.719 again? Fast? They will mold that motto. Focus is fast. Listen 611 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:23.039 that, come on now, shocks out to all y'all out there running, 612 00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:27.840 running, cannon, running Nikon. You know, I started with pain tax 613 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.199 back in the old and old days and I was actually take and photos. 614 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:35.599 But listen, if you can't be making video content out here in East Straits, 615 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:40.639 Sony done, no, no questions. If and are but unlimited video 616 00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:46.119 recording. We're not stuck at that twenty nine minute mark. That bred. 617 00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:50.719 Yeah, you can't record. I'm on that. See. So cannon is 618 00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:53.960 fantastic for photos. They they really are. It's the one of the leading 619 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:59.719 out there, the Nikons, the pentaxes, the Panasonics, to so all 620 00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:02.599 of them. Cannon's number number two, right. But when he comes to 621 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:07.480 video, who started everything? Who is the leader? Who? Who knows 622 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:12.119 what? Who was the originator of this? You know, it really was 623 00:38:12.239 --> 00:38:15.039 Sony. And again, unlimited video. When you're out there remotely and you've 624 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:19.079 got your device, you can record as long as you got space on your 625 00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:22.719 SD card. You're not stuck at that twenty nine mind mark on the cannons. 626 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:24.639 You can't look thirty minutes. Yeah, but that sounds like weird, 627 00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:29.880 like taxolf from like the UK from right. It's like that's why something something 628 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:31.199 way. I don't know. I'm not. I'm not in that I'm not 629 00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:37.400 in that situation. I can most be the category they put it in as 630 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:38.639 a did they put it? Is it? Is it technically call a DSL 631 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:45.519 RS? It called it Cam quorder, mirror mirrorless. So even the least 632 00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.880 some of their new mirrorlesss mirrorlest cameras allow you to go above that twenty nine 633 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.840 minute mark. But you know, legacy and up to this point the the 634 00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:58.480 in S, I think the mark, the mark too, and fifty allows 635 00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.239 you to go past that fifty thirty admitted market. But again that that's just 636 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:05.119 something to be cognizant of. That there are good limitations on some of these 637 00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:10.519 dslr slice new mirroralists providers that have a limit in terms of how much, 638 00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:15.719 how much time you can actually record video. You don't have that limitation on 639 00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.679 some and I'm looking, I see at the side of my ice commis just 640 00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:22.039 coming in. People are probably just people are hot. Now I don't even 641 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:24.440 to look at it because I didn't pull the ballet. All good. They're 642 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:28.880 also good. I don't pull the band. I'm not even going to look 643 00:39:28.920 --> 00:39:36.000 at him. But yeah, I'm all Sony. I've got to Zvten's running 644 00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:40.480 here, so to APSC cameras running as my alternate views. I've got a 645 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:45.400 ZV ONE APSC as my top down shot as well. So I've got three 646 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:50.679 right there. And my main camera is the ZV, I'm sorry, the 647 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:54.320 a seven four. So I've got the full frame a seven four with that 648 00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:59.960 yet at that dynamic I speed auto focus, just taking it right, right 649 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.760 with the twenty millimeter. I shoot Sony Glass to okay, I switched from 650 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:10.920 Sigma Lenses to Sony Lenses when I got the a seven for because the a 651 00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:17.840 seven four has a compensation for the breathing focus, breathing right the other cameras, 652 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.400 meaning that it's not moving back and forth as as I move. It's 653 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.079 locked in. It's locked in right now on this. I do your right 654 00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:27.960 now. Yeah, it's still it's still locked in right, it's right. 655 00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:30.480 It doesn't move. So there's a up been station for the focus breathing on 656 00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:35.840 the a seventy four as opposed to seven the other cameras out there. Chris 657 00:40:35.920 --> 00:40:37.559 Stone, he's with you, man. He's saying I just need to supply 658 00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:40.519 chain to come back so I can get another Sony. Well then, and 659 00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:44.119 that was you know, I got the I got the which I have it 660 00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:46.400 here because I'm tearing out my stuff and packing it up. I got the 661 00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:53.119 CANNON USURP IN. This thing actually has a like a retin of Focus, 662 00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:57.400 I guess what they call her or something like that, but it is nowhere 663 00:40:57.519 --> 00:40:59.880 near as fast. Man, I'm watching all these Sony guys. I'm like 664 00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:02.719 wow, look at it. I mean I'm over here like look my eyes, 665 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:07.679 man, look my it's so anyway, I'm pretty impressed. But the 666 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:12.920 reason why I went with cannon is I have a photographer friend who shoots with 667 00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:15.559 cannon and it would came down a glass. Dude, he had so much 668 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:20.519 of like everybody's like a dude, if you buy a cannon body, you 669 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:23.119 can use my lenses until you build up your own, you know, and 670 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:25.800 that's like yeah, that's really cool. So that's why I did it. 671 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:30.559 However, I've been I've been thinking about a Sony, man, I be 672 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:31.880 I maybe have to talk to some of you guys and say, Hey, 673 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:36.719 which one do I sell all this stuff and and get a get it, 674 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.599 because I'll like cannon but doing this, man, I'm literally this is a 675 00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:44.519 Webcam. It's like a fancy, yeah, really expensive, fancy Webcam, 676 00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:47.719 and I'm pulling into the wall power. So I'm not really worried about the 677 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.000 thirty minute recording. However, maybe I would go do stuff if I knew 678 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:55.039 I didn't have a limitation, you know. So that's thirty minute recording is 679 00:41:55.159 --> 00:42:00.480 not based on if you're just plugged into AC power, but it's a imitation 680 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.960 of the hardware in and of itself. Right, a lot of the DFL 681 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:08.400 are new mirrors cameras only have that limit of being a record to twenty nine 682 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:13.039 minutes. Oh my whole record all day, like I'll leave it on Okaday. 683 00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.719 So I don't know, I don't know. I thought I thought it 684 00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:19.880 was only for a memory card, but I also did not know that Sony 685 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.400 had unlimited recording. So I'm learning a body manistry. Man, I learned 686 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.719 so much about Sony Trub. I'll give you the unbiased conversation about it, 687 00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.480 you know, even though I'll lean you towards Sony just because because you're a 688 00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:35.039 video man as well. But there are just more prosed than cons of moving 689 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:38.480 over to the Sony Platform. When you're creating content out there, especially video 690 00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:45.480 content, that fast auto focus in body image stabilization, you can't beat it. 691 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:47.960 It's so lightning fast and has to dude that. You have to have 692 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.599 that right and you've got to have you notice I'm using the right kind of 693 00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:58.199 lights behind me as well. I'm using video lights as opposed to regular two 694 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.880 ditter lights that did you get from the dollar store or whatever it's on, 695 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.719 using lightn to build for videos that you're not seeing the the the shutter and 696 00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.519 the flicker from from the video, from lights as well. All that kind 697 00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:13.960 of stuff matters, and Sony just really accommodates for that beautifully as composed some 698 00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:16.519 the other manufacturers. Other manufacturers are doing it, doing, doing well, 699 00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:20.760 but Sony, in my opinion, just as a better all right, man, 700 00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:22.480 you know, I got a you know, come on and get it. 701 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.719 Get it, all right, get it, Gosh, let's lock. 702 00:43:24.760 --> 00:43:28.639 Let's just log on in the Amazon right now and spend some of that some 703 00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:32.599 of that Fort Mount your do I need some of ms off. So Chris 704 00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:37.719 has a question. He says which Sony Lens is comparable to sigma? I 705 00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:40.519 want to take Dana glad news advice and think ahead to get what I can 706 00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:50.320 graduate into. I am a I am a I used to have a lot 707 00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:52.199 of g master lenses, so the vic the top, top of the leg 708 00:43:52.320 --> 00:43:55.679 on the line in terms of build quality and glass and things of that nature. 709 00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:01.079 Right now I'm shooting off of the Sony Twenty millimeter g Lens Right So, 710 00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:05.440 so that's what I'm using as my primary go to. And with again, 711 00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:07.760 the Sony Camera System, you can use what's called clear image zoom, 712 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:14.159 so you can actually allow the camera to zoom in without losing, without degradating 713 00:44:14.199 --> 00:44:17.639 the image quality. HMM. So you eat. We typically talk about optical 714 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:22.960 versus digital type of zoom when we're using these these cameras, but with clear 715 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:27.119 image zoom it allows you to actually sense, to crop into the image without 716 00:44:27.320 --> 00:44:31.599 losing image quality. So that's what I'm using again, the twenty millimeter Sony 717 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:37.039 Lens. Right there on this ZV ten I've got just two Kit Lens. 718 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:38.840 And what is that? That's just a sixteen to fifty right there at three 719 00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:42.880 point five to five point six. So it's I've got it. Why open 720 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.960 at its three point five? I don't need that to really have the blurry, 721 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:51.800 blurry background yeah, this Lens. I just got my Sony Lens, 722 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:54.239 but I'm still using the Sigma Sixteen on this one in particular. But yeah, 723 00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:58.119 I am sw like I said, I of switching all to all Sony 724 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.880 Glass and this twenty millimeter is the one to go to in terms of what 725 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:07.320 I see the best, best bet minute. Thanks for its good it's crispy. 726 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:09.719 Look it looks good. Look at all this salt in the Beer Kah. 727 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.119 Yeah, I got to do something about that. I should have came 728 00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:15.639 in looking mills and I don't know how much credit we give to the Lens, 729 00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:20.239 or maybe just a good looking dude. I don't know whichever one. 730 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.480 I mean, it's the lends, it's the limit, brother. So how 731 00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:24.679 far? How close do you have that twenty meal because you know, I 732 00:45:24.840 --> 00:45:29.840 use a thirty five. Thirty five is not I mean it's a arms reach 733 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:31.920 away, like I can't like mess with my camera settings with it when I 734 00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:37.280 got it on. But how close are you there to that thing? To 735 00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:39.719 feet two and a half? I know exactly. Look, I'm like, 736 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.800 I'm like Seawan Boyd Y'all call them dot. I have a you know, 737 00:45:45.199 --> 00:45:50.159 ruler as well. I know exactly how far everything is all right to the 738 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:54.079 inch. So it's two and a half feet to that. That lends from 739 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:58.280 from my to my face. And is that? Is that full on right 740 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:00.400 now? Is that like the full with right now? Are you get that 741 00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:04.320 zoomed in a little bit with Ekam? I've got it zoomed in just for 742 00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:08.960 the honestly, the way that you have your scene set up. So I'm 743 00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:16.559 zoomed in via via e Cam to ten on the zoom. Okay, Gotcha. 744 00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:20.239 So just a little bit there, all right. Yeah, but I'm 745 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:22.480 wide open on the camera and in and of itself, right, because by 746 00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:28.320 my having the camera wide open, it allows for the eye tracking to work 747 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:30.639 flawlessly. Right. So instead of using in the CLU, I don't need 748 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:32.400 to use clear of its zoom in the studio. So I have the camera 749 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:37.360 and the Lens all the way open and then within my software, that's where 750 00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:39.559 I can zoom and and move me within the frame. So the way that 751 00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:44.480 you have this particular web frame, I've zoomed it into where I just have 752 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:47.079 a very small lot of head room. Yeah, only one. I don't. 753 00:46:47.079 --> 00:46:50.880 Have you seen all of the garbage that's in my studio right? Yeah, 754 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:52.880 okay, well, even with his zoom in, with the digital zoom, 755 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:58.000 which digital zoom typically doesn't look that great, this lends still looks great, 756 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.079 man, looks awesome. I love it. This is listen, it's 757 00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:02.920 to about to go many. It's the it's the body, it's two Lens, 758 00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:05.960 is the glass? That those kind of things. You give it to 759 00:47:06.039 --> 00:47:07.920 pay for it again. So I'm going to talk about my thirty five leader, 760 00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:13.679 but out there, forget it. No, don't throw it. Sell 761 00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.920 it right, you don't facebook, marker place. Cauri will start a idee. 762 00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:21.079 How's your engineer skills, James? We'll goot auction this off. In 763 00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:24.559 the chat, Chris Stone says, here comes the gas. Yeah, man, 764 00:47:24.679 --> 00:47:29.039 I mean Ye, there it is right now, tea master. Oh 765 00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:30.920 my gosh, these guys. Man. Yeah, I'm like over here on 766 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:36.079 my great roadcast or prosny. Okay, I got a long honey, please 767 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:37.880 don't come in here. You know, my God, I didn't. Just 768 00:47:38.079 --> 00:47:42.159 dropped too grand just messing with man, I can't come on this show you. 769 00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.079 I've just spent two thous hanging out with this guy. Yeah, I 770 00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:46.800 know, right, yeah, I can't hang out with you. All Right, 771 00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:50.000 man, I get a couple more subjects here. We can burn through 772 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:52.679 the next four five minutes and wrap this thing up. But let's talk about 773 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:58.159 lights. You touched on a little bit about video lights. So I think, 774 00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:00.639 I think, in my opinion, audio and video, or audio and 775 00:48:00.800 --> 00:48:04.920 lighting, is like the most important things, even over camera like you can 776 00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:07.920 have a mean of a decent camera and really hone in on your lighting and 777 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:13.159 get some really good video, well, I'll say better video. So what 778 00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:15.440 kind all you get great lighting? What kind of lights are you using? 779 00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:22.960 I have standardized for no real reason, on go docs, go to godocks 780 00:48:22.119 --> 00:48:29.199 makes video lighting gear. I've had knee were I've had that was the only 781 00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:31.679 other one that I really had. I looked at Nan light and lights as 782 00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:37.400 phenomenal as well. APERTURES phenomenal as well, but I standard I had some 783 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:43.519 El Gaidos as well. I left the Ol Gattos for I had an issue 784 00:48:43.559 --> 00:48:46.119 with them because the Ol gotta ring lights that connect to your Wi fi network, 785 00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:50.400 I had some early ones that were falling off on my network and just 786 00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:54.480 were becoming just unusable. So again, Long Story Short, I've got to 787 00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:59.800 go doocs es forty five kind of the gaming lights as my key lights. 788 00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:02.920 I've got one pointing to my wall and I get another one pointing actually bouncing 789 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:07.079 off the wall to soften the like coming off their large panels. So I've 790 00:49:07.079 --> 00:49:13.079 gotten them softening the like coming off and I can adjust the temperature and not 791 00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:16.800 going to adjust how bright at they are as well, just from this this 792 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:21.519 remote here. So it comes with the remote control and it comes within an 793 00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:25.840 APP as well, which I love. In the back you see the the 794 00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:30.840 lightsabers right, I've so I've actually I got four the these godocs tl s 795 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:36.519 spread out across the studio and those are the ones, again, high quality 796 00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.440 video lights that I can change. Are All urge. Those are all ARGB 797 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:43.599 as well, so I can have those change different color depending on branding, 798 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.199 depending on the show, whatever the case may be. So at for those, 799 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:51.199 those are my main lights. So just those for tl sixty tubes and 800 00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:55.679 the to es forty five. From A practicals perspective, I've got, I 801 00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:00.039 still got he lights around right Phillips he was and and they still do do 802 00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:02.639 a decent job, especially from a practical lighting perspective. So those are kind 803 00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.320 of just the ambient lights and those are what's are providing the the soft white 804 00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:12.519 and the white highlights that you're seeing throughout the throughout the room. All Right, 805 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:15.559 yeah, I love it. I love go docks as well. I 806 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:20.280 got one of their big, actually like big video soft box lights so that 807 00:50:20.400 --> 00:50:22.280 you know, you kind of like, kind of like monty weaver. I 808 00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:24.840 don't know if that's the same brand, but that same style, just ginormous 809 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:29.280 soft box. Once again, I you know, I can salt it with 810 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:34.480 a photographer about getting some really good, goodness good lighting in. Man, 811 00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:36.840 that thing. I can't wait to get back to it because right now, 812 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:39.159 this is funny. I have a ring and get to use and I love 813 00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:44.559 what you said about bouncing light, because oftentimes you get on these these live 814 00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:47.199 streams and you see this snake. Guys like you can see the ring light 815 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:52.079 reflection and like man, a person looks weird. It can't be healthy for 816 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:54.880 you to look into a light like that with the fuck yes, can't and 817 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.760 do it. It can't do it all day. Right that there's some sets 818 00:50:58.760 --> 00:51:01.679 of bounds and off and basting in you yet causing you to yeah, it's 819 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:04.760 don't do it. Right, not to do it. And so when I 820 00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:07.599 got here Puerto Rico, man, I didn't didn't bring that big, big 821 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:08.519 light with me and so I was like I had to get something. So 822 00:51:08.519 --> 00:51:13.039 I went to Walmart. I got a little cheap ring light. It's too 823 00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:15.440 harsh light, no matter what I did. This room is really small and 824 00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.599 it's pretty light painted and it man, I took a pillow case, so 825 00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.280 maybe the fire has her. took a pillowcase white when put it over top 826 00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:25.320 of it and just now I bounced it. Of course. Now I've had 827 00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:30.679 to change around for this, for this iphone I'm using today because I'm packing 828 00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:34.280 up. But yeah, man, like play around with your light. And 829 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:37.360 one of the tips I heard long time ago, a friend told me it 830 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:40.719 was like go outside and see where the light comes from. It comes from 831 00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:45.920 top down, it comes from an angle down. It doesn't never blast into 832 00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.840 your face, like the sun isn't sitting on the horizon all day just smashing 833 00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.760 your face. And so I think that's a pretty good tip. Is like 834 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.159 and I try to go super high and as high as the light will go, 835 00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:00.559 or so as I can get it at like a forty five one where 836 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:04.159 or the other, just to get that you know, softer dramatic shut and 837 00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:07.559 there's all kinds of lighting techniques out there. I watched twenty hours of youtube 838 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:13.079 videos and figure out which one I wanted. Yeah, I mean the most 839 00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:15.280 control, if you could have over your lighting within your studio, within your 840 00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:19.400 environment, the better. Right. You could do a lot of tricks as 841 00:52:19.480 --> 00:52:22.760 well, like, like you say, we just placement, positioning, bouncing 842 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:28.960 off of the wall. The color of your walls is hugely important as well, 843 00:52:29.800 --> 00:52:34.760 you know, as opposed to a white room and white walls being eighteen 844 00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.559 percent Grad is what we got rocking right here. So I can make this 845 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:42.519 back wall look any color that I want to. Another thing is again, 846 00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.119 think about your camera settings. Think of the exposure triangle on on your camera, 847 00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:51.440 right, the wider you open that aperture, the frame rate that you're 848 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:54.519 utilizing, all that also not only just helps the picture and the view quality, 849 00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.960 but also it controls how much light is coming into the camera, so 850 00:52:59.079 --> 00:53:02.079 that that affects the visuals as well. So all of those things play into 851 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:06.320 into concert terms of how you're going to set up your environment. So, 852 00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:09.519 yeah, the Laddie and the camera all work together, and you gotta and 853 00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:13.280 an airflow home. My goodness then, hold on before we go. I 854 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:15.559 know you want to. I know you you're busy man. But listen, 855 00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:19.960 you got to have some proper air flowing here, because if you're sitting here 856 00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:22.320 and you're sweat and you don't look comfortable, all things are bad. So 857 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:25.239 ment, I got my dison running over here. That's pumping off fresh air. 858 00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.639 I got I got many fans that are that are hit in my cameras 859 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:32.719 to make sure that they don't overheat. There's so many cameras so they don't 860 00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:36.719 overheat anyway, but just in case, you know, I got fans running 861 00:53:36.760 --> 00:53:38.760 on them keep the keep the room cools and things of that nature. But 862 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:45.360 there's so many of these these little intricate pieces of dead folks don't see behind 863 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.280 the scenes that really matter to make sure that one your internet doesn't go down, 864 00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.199 your stream doesn't go down and that you're here is properly taken care of. 865 00:53:53.400 --> 00:53:57.519 So that's right, man. It's one thing to buy it, it's 866 00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.760 another thing to take care of it. And so all man, we've talked 867 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.719 about a ton of different things and I really appreciate you coming on a sorry 868 00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.719 Amazon live didn't work out for us, but maybe next time I'll I'll figure 869 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:10.559 it out. I don't know, man. I test it yesterday same settings, 870 00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:15.119 different day sor right. I give basils the call. I'll I'll see 871 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.920 what's going on. Maybe he's doing some man him. I know he's probably 872 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:22.119 I know a guy. I know a guy, call him. I know 873 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:23.400 you guys with the college together and all I just call it is. But 874 00:54:23.599 --> 00:54:28.679 listen, I know a guy. Well, man, you've been a ton 875 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:31.039 of fun. So how does people get in touch with you? Man, 876 00:54:31.079 --> 00:54:35.199 what's the best way? I know I put your your instagram handle on here, 877 00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.519 but there at the way. Somebody can come find you and hang out 878 00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:40.159 with you. Online Hicks, new media, that coome. That's the as 879 00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:45.440 the hub for everything. Go to me, thatcom. You will see links 880 00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:49.880 to all of my social profiles, you'll see links to my youtube channel, 881 00:54:50.239 --> 00:54:54.719 to all of my content that I'm creating for other social networks and things of 882 00:54:54.760 --> 00:55:00.000 that nature. So you can also reach out via my newsletter at but A. 883 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.199 Again, everything right there, expedia, thatcom love him. Man. 884 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.199 Well, James, thanks for being on the show. We're going to do 885 00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:08.559 it again already. I'm already brainstorm and like so much stuff that we could 886 00:55:08.920 --> 00:55:14.079 collaborate on, and that's the beauty of what we're doing. Man, creating 887 00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:16.480 this creator community to, you know, level up and help each other and 888 00:55:16.760 --> 00:55:21.679 you guys are inspiration for sure. So I really appreciate you. Appreciate you, 889 00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:23.119 man. Thank you. Better. Have a safe travels coming back to 890 00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:27.239 the to the mainland to yeah, I will. I'm excited, man, 891 00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:29.519 I get I got to make that trip. I got to make that Miami 892 00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:32.280 to to North Carolina drive. So yeah, yeah, it's fun, but 893 00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:36.960 appreciate your man. Thanks so much, James. All right, everybody, 894 00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:40.239 that is all for creating daily man, this video camera like went whack, 895 00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:45.000 this Sun iphone camera. Anyway, I'M gonna stop. I'm going to get 896 00:55:45.000 --> 00:55:45.679 off of I'm going to be back in a week. I'm going to be 897 00:55:45.800 --> 00:55:52.039 back June first and going live again. I'm taking just a week off to 898 00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:57.280 get all the stuff back here and get back and settle into my North Carolina 899 00:55:57.400 --> 00:56:00.880 home. So I'm excited about that big week coming up next week. We 900 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:04.559 got vid fast, we got podfast and Chris Stona speaking at that, Chris 901 00:56:04.760 --> 00:56:08.119 Giles, Monty Weaver, a lot of people are going to be speaking at 902 00:56:08.239 --> 00:56:12.159 that event. So if you haven't already planned to be there, make sure 903 00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:15.960 you go be there and if anybody in the chat wants to drop a discount 904 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:20.159 code or what not, be sure to drop that. I know there's all 905 00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:23.119 kinds of unfortunately, I will be in Florida at that time, but I 906 00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:28.000 will be driving through Florida. So if you're if you're happening to be on 907 00:56:28.119 --> 00:56:30.920 highway ninety five at some point you want to grab lunch and pet my dogs, 908 00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:35.199 let me know. We'll make that happen. Appreciate everybody jumping in the 909 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:39.079 chat. Super Fun today James brought the crowd with him. So, once 910 00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:42.639 again, guys, I'll miss you. I will miss you for the next 911 00:56:42.719 --> 00:56:46.599 week as I am moving, but I'm excited to come back and I'll be 912 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:51.239 more energized and ever more motivated than ever. Got A lot of new cool 913 00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:53.679 projects coming up. whant to get back in the states and can't wait to 914 00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:58.719 share all that with you and continue to inspire you and your Creator journey by 915 00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:01.840 bringing on other creators to give you tips, tricks how to use all that 916 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:06.280 kind of fun stuff. It's been a great show, it's been fun and 917 00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:09.360 we'll see June first, two PM Eastern. All right, go have a 918 00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:10.400 great day and we'll see you too.