hi so today I wanted to do a video just
saying thank you to a lot of the people
who have actually sent stuff in for free
or close to free to help try and improve
the production quality of this channel
let's start off with the microphone here
so as a lot of you know I don't really
care much about audio or lighting or
thumbnails and my youtube videos like I
got this email recently from somebody
from YouTube going on and on about how
you would love to talk to me love to
call me I'm thinking they want to give
me more money they want to renegotiate
my rates they want me to be exclusive to
you oh boy and you know that's what
everybody thinks and they get these two
these emails and the reality of it is
there like so if you want more viewers
you could add more detailed descriptions
and you could add thumbnail pictures and
it's like man I thought this was for
real oh well but as you guys know I
don't really put much effort into that
because I'm doing these videos kind of
at the end of the day at one or two or
three in the morning my priority is kind
of you know mi lucid enough to actually
explain this and do this versus do I
care about thumbnails or lighting and
things of that nature but again as this
progresses you know over 10,000
subscribers that probably should care
about this stuff a little more than I do
so the first thing that I got here was a
dpa 4066 microphone so the first
microphone that i was using originally
was one built into the camcorder that's
not terrible it's kind of terrible but
it's really terrible when it's across
the room from you especially in a room
that's not acoustically treated it just
sounds like [ __ ] and balls so then I got
that short w age 20 which pretty much
sounds like I'm a piece of paper but it
was better because it was right next to
my mouth then you know Jessa needed a
set up for herself that didn't sound
like [ __ ] so i had i sent her that so
I'd have an excuse to buy this shure sm
30 or short sm 35 this is yeah this is
the show us i'm 35 the reason I choose
short products is because they well if
they sound like crap they kind of sound
conservatively like crap like they don't
try to even on the cheap end they don't
try to do more than what they should you
know I mean you buy some of these one or
two hundred dollar condenser microphones
and you will get the most siblings
skinny crappy sounding noisy piece of
[ __ ] that money can buy whereas you buy
a short product it may not be the best
thing in the world but for what it is
trying to do what actually kind of
accomplishes it the second reason cheap
third reason they're very adorable and
you know anybody who's watches how I
treat my own stuff would know why
durability is really important to me it
was great for like 50 or 60 bucks
besides the constant plosives and
siblings coming and sounding like you're
constantly under water and even if you
move it around and try to get rid of the
proximity effect then you go back to
sound them like a piece of paper and
this terrible siblings and it's just
it's a good fifty dollar microphone
otherwise it's fairly awful in garbage
so as a pro decay actually offered to
send me this DPA 4066 microphone for the
cost of shipping which is pretty amazing
so this microphone when you google it it
so this is like a 657 under fifty dollar
microphone so that's pretty cool then
again even if you can't hear the sonic
difference I can hear the sonic
difference right away even if you can't
tell that what I can tell is that this
microphone sounds good right out of the
gate or is that one too even sound
remotely close to this one so for me to
sound not sound like I'm underwater is
about 15 minutes of EQ compression
filtering and all sorts of other job
because that right out the gate sounds
like just complete garbage and the only
catch with this thing is that it didn't
come with it came with the wireframe
pretty much in one piece yet yet i
actually had a bend it so when you buy
it it comes pretty much set up so it's
right by your mouth and you can just
move it I had a custom Bend this thing
and also it didn't come with a connector
I had a broken XLR cable at my house I
actually didn't have the entire housing
it has had a few pieces of it this is
not even a complete XLR on the end I
just soldered the you know the hot and
the ground directly to this and tied the
ground pin 32 grounds it's not balanced
and then I pretty much I strain relief
that so it would stop breaking in
captain tape so yeah so if the people at
avatar studios that were teaching me how
to do this stuff saw this now they they
would hope that I would stop mentioning
their name because this is not what I
was taught how to do this is what I did
because I knew I wouldn't have time to
go out and order an XLR connector and
honestly it's it's fine it's great see
it's already open so when I break it and
destroy it all you know it'll be less
work and this thing this is amazing this
microphone sounds absolutely amazing
thank you very much does a pro DK for
sending that for the cost of shipping
very very nice again this is this is
like this is one of the best headworn
microphones that money can buy and then
minutes here that's all
second thing are these flux dispensers
so I ran out of flux dispensers at
because of practical board repair school
they they vanished into the sixth
dimension and now I have these so for
the whole last month I've been using you
know like the top of the ametek flux
containers it has a little plastic thing
before you get to what's on the bottom
but there's always kind of flux leftover
on the top I've been pretty much using
that and just scooping it out my
tweezers and cleaning my tweezers with
alcohol before and after I do that just
to make sure that I wouldn't you know
contaminate the flux underneath with any
jump for my tweezers that is not how to
use flux like this is good and the thing
is I knew where to buy flux Rangers I
knew that the flux syringe that i buy i
would have to buy from an Tek and mail
order over the phone which I don't I
don't feel like doing that right now and
and yeah this is this is pretty cool I
just didn't know where to buy the empty
ones that were the ones that I liked
with the you know the plunger this way
and night I did just because like I
don't know what to call it but you know
he did so he got it and that's the thing
it's not even that the spending the
money it's not even the going online to
buy it it's I know what I want but what
is that called and where do I buy I know
what I want it's in my head I have a
picture of it I know how to use it but
what is it call that's so odd that's
been the problem so often with a lot of
these little things that I need and it's
cool when they get solved like I
remember the magnet wire that I want I
knew what I wanted but what is it called
or for the jumper wire like if the the
battery wire that i use for running
traces to an is Ella I knew what I
wanted what is a call did you first know
that you get that out of a battery wire
did you first know that if you want that
for trace repairing a 5s that you get
that at a vibrator coil you know what
you want where do you get it on what is
a call that that's kind of the hard part
that I often don't want to deal with at
one in the morning so Peter send oh
don't tell me I forgot her name is Peter
or James mother okay well I got this
stuff like a week and a half ago and
I've been trying to do a video on it
ever since so I read the card about a
week and a half or two weeks ago i'm
pretty sure the name is Peter and not
James I am incredibly sorry if I've
forgotten your name I would look I know
that that card is also in the sixth
dimension right now but the person who
sent me this I appreciate it at the time
I still appreciate it
thank you very much for real so again
right after the week of practical board
repair school I come back and two of my
employees are on vacation for two weeks
so yeah I haven't had time to do a damn
thing so all the iphone repair all the
selling people or the shipping all the
stuff that I didn't used to have to do
in the general repair I have to do while
selling people while talking to
everybody who walks in while fixing up
your motherboard that comes into the
store while fixing every board that came
in while I was away a practical board
repair school isn't this fun you may
have noticed that my desk is empty my
microscope and my multimeter and all
that stuff is not here this because it's
sitting in the front at the front desk
so while i'm at the front counter and
every time you know I somebody walks in
i will stop my motherboard repair get on
my microscope and go hi how can I help
you see that's why that's not there and
that's also why I didn't do this video
two weeks ago when i first got all this
stuff to begin with which probably would
have been the nice thing to do now
what's next comes from somebody named
Sybil lizard and this is again you can
see I haven't even thrown away the paper
yet I haven't even gotten to finishing
all these ascent tech machines from that
[ __ ] and balls company that sells all
the [ __ ] that they tried to fix and
failed you okay this is pretty cool so I
got an ascend Heiser MKE 600 microphone
again really cool stuff I got batteries
I got a little thing to plug it in could
just you just not only this guy actually
thought what if he doesn't have an XLR
camera i have an XLR camcorder what if
it doesn't have an XLR camera there's
actually an adapter here on this table i
got batteries i got a battery charger
but ultimately the coolest thing here of
all this stuff is this light that I've
actually yet to plug in that I want to
plug in and show you again this is a LED
light that's pretty much made for
filming and you know the lighting in my
office really does suck so these the
lights that I have in my office they're
LED but they're that cheap [ __ ]
first-generation LED where it tries to
combine purple and yellow to make white
and that needless to say that [ __ ] sucks
that's not that's garbage lighting for
filming which is why so many of these
videos I kind of look like it looked
like oh I mean Antarctica so let's turn
this on probably going to [ __ ] up my
video on my camera because I have it
pointed right at the camera full blast
but I just want to see
others thing works okay on and whoa this
is [ __ ] cool and that is real white 2
that's not that [ __ ] white that's in
my office yeah I'm definitely [ __ ] up
my video production by doing this but it
comes with a tripod and all sorts of
stuff i mean this this is just this is
just absolutely [ __ ] amazing and you
can even control the you know which rows
of LEDs light up and I have a lot of
learning to do to figure out how this
thing works but still this is so oh my
i'm going to have fun with some of this
stuff like this is going to be cool so
this is from civil lizard thank you very
much civil lizard for sending this thing
let me see what happens if i turn the
lighting off my office and I just have
this thing pointed away or something
again I obviously I have to set up the
tripod and all that for this to be
useful because without you know without
using this this is a really cool tool
but without using it properly it's
pretty much wasted but this is pretty
cool so if I like hang have this thing
pointed up pointed to the side pointed
at MIT ah oh wow I look like I'm on fire
this is pretty cool I'm gonna have some
fun with this e okay see ya obviously I
have to put it up there and kind of
point it down or figure out how this
works but when I'm right over here like
my face is actually you can actually
tell that I'm made of you know flesh and
blood and that I'm human and that I'm
not just pure blue like when my shitty
ceiling lights are on this thing is
[ __ ] amazing like really [ __ ]
amazing thank you very much this is
awesome again I really should have done
these videos when I actually got this
stuff I just haven't had the [ __ ]
time but yeah you can I'm back to the
I'm back to being blue and green and
purple and still thank you very much for
everything that you've sent I really
appreciate it