LED Maxxing Studio Office Space Reaction

The next one. In this video, I give you a tour of my newly updated live work video production studio loft and show. The setup’s interesting, really, because it’s just. Because it’s the. His use of like LED lighting.

I’m going to say he’s like an LED maximalist, if that makes any sense. It’s not like he’s, he’s cluttered the. It’s not like a cluttered space. It’s just, it’s just so much lighting in there. It’s kind of.

I find it overwhelming. I think that’s kind of the point though. I think he just loves, he loves all these LEDs. He just likes everything bright like a. It’s like a nightclub.

It’s literally like a nightclub. But yes, the studio space, I think it’s based in Toronto. I’m gonna skip ahead to. I think he starts with the balcony tour. So, yeah, like you can tell for most of the video he’s building this out.

It’s quite, it’s quite a nice space, but it’s not maximilious. It’s just, just a standing desk with some LED lights built into it. And yeah, some interesting lighting in the whole room with the new setup. Super clean, super awesome. Okay, so we’re on the balcony now.

I really wanted this place to feel like a bit of an oasis in the city. So there’s a ton of plants, a ton of greenery. We got the govee outdoor neon lighting strip that is draping the entire balcony barrier right to the end. We got the barbecue, a little cactus. Of course you can see in like.

I know I don’t think this is his home, but I think it’s his studio, his YoYouTube studio, as it says in the title. But man, if you’re gonna have like an apartment, having a large balcony like that is like a game changer. The fact you can fit like a full size barbecue out there, you can even have like a sofa, like a dining table. Man, that’s, that’s, that’s the way to do apartment living if you ask me. Obviously, I think, you know, in a lot of cities this is, it’s very expensive to do so.

But where I’m in Asia, starting to notice that. Yeah, like, my apartment has a, has a balcony and most apartments actually do here. However, like, I’ve been to some friend’s houses and they have like a nice sofa on the balcony. I’m like, oh man, this is a really extensive living space. Yeah, if you’re going to do balcony living and it’s within Your means?

Yeah, man. Get some good balcony space. It’s, I guess, nicely covered as well. I think it has to. You don’t want a balcony space with no cover and it just is getting all the wind hitting it.

So yeah, if you’ve got this got cover, it’s got some sides. Maybe you can put some flooring down. Put barbecue out there, man. It’s like it’s almost. Almost as good as a garden.

It just needs, you know, trees and grass side to the studio from here. It’s a really fun place to hang out. I’m really happy with how it came out. We got the fire pit going right now, which I’ve done a on. And this is my view from the balcony.

Downtown Toronto in the heart of the entertainment district. It’s a pretty awesome place to hang out and I’m absolutely loving the vibes now that everything is finished and completed. Super awesome. Okay, so we’re going to step into the actual studio now, continuing the tour. So I have done a dedicated video on the govee curtain lights.

I kind of have them all mounted to the top here. And as you can see, when I open my sliding doors, it kind of just drapes them to the side like. So it’s all worked out. Yeah. After a lot of hard work and determination, this is the final studio now.

We’ll just do a full 360 here. So I got this new neon sign which I mentioned before. I will be doing a a full neon buyer’s guide. And I also redid this wall, but this one turns on. It puts out so much light that actually had it off right now, but it lights up the entire kitchen.

I can put it to 10%. But this one does tend to give a lot of flicker, so I don’t love doing that. Anyways, back to the main space. So we have our govee curtain lights set to a sound reactivity mode. But let’s maybe change them find the right vibe for now.

I do love this shapes mode as well. The meteor shower one is pretty chill to keep on the background. You know what, maybe let’s just keep it on the. The dream color one. That’s one of my favorites for sure.

So this is the studio space which I work in. Everything is now cable managed from what I was working on before. We have the full desk setup. The full streaming setup is now done. Everything has been nicely cable managed in the back, which is great.

All the cables have been run. That is a nice desk set up as well. Again, I think. I think that’s the MKH what’s it? MKH 16 Sennheiser.

A shotgun microphone up here. You’ve got a tube light. You’ve got some pretty nice speakers, I think. What are these? Are these Mackie?

Yeah. You’ve got a sound mix. I think that’s a Yamaha. And he has a blackmagic ATEM Mini Pro. I want to say, for doing switching.

A lot of live streamers use this to switch between different camera angles. You can do it in software. You can use OBS or ECAMM Live is what I use to do this. But having it done hardware is quite nice. Main limitation seems to be that they’re mostly 1080p, although I do think so these are made by Blackmagic.

I do think Blackmagic recently came out with a range of 4K switches. They have more of them. They. They’re expensive though. I think, you know, they started like ten grand.

So. But this, these ATEM Mini Pros, these old ones, the 1080p ones, I think you can get them on a secondhand market. You might even be able to get them new at reasonable prices. You know, you’re talking a couple hundred dollars. Maybe secondhand you can get them cheaper.

But yeah, this is. This overall nice setup here. Two monitors, what looks like a. Maybe this is the camera output. So sort of showing the camera output.

Could also be a teleprompter. I’m not sure up here. Yeah, it’s a nice setup. I like how he has in the corner as well. I don’t like these Apple keyboards, but, you know, to each their own.

Underneath the desk, as you saw me working on before. And this the final production area. Pegboard is now finished. Let’s turn on the lights, which. This is an awesome work light.

I have done a video on that. I’ve done a video on mostly everything here, but this is the final production area now. So much cleaner than what it was before. You know, I had this huge printer taking up so much space. So I’ve gotten so much.

Man, nothing beats a good pegboard. You know, like if. If you have an office space and. And maybe you just have like a. It’s very basic and you’re kind of like, man, I want to jazz this up a little bit.

If you. If you want to combine like decent organization with I guess satisfaction is a term like, it’s like organization. You can also make them look quite nice. Like he’s added here. He’s added these.

I think these are yeelight. I think yeelight make. These are like magnetic LED lights. I think you purchased them in packs of three or packs of two. But yeah, you know you can add these LED lights it seems here he’s got a bunch of screwdrivers and you can add your tapes and you can, you can even turn them into like charging centers for your equipment.

So you know, you can even add in, strap on like strap a power strip to the side or to the back or to the top of it. And yeah, you can power stuff from your pegboard. They’re very useful. I actually have one right behind where this camera is and I love it. I keep the things which I use on a semi regular basis.

So one of the main things I have on there that I just used a couple of hours ago was a wire cutters which I use for cutting 3D prints. You know, I have one of those sort of hang i3D printed a small mount for it and I use it all the time. You know, it’s so handy. Before I used to have those same wire cutters in a drawer and I was constantly just, you know, opening the drawer, cut the thing, chuck it back in there. It’s just not as clean as having right there on a pegboard.

It’s just out available, but it’s still neat. It’s packed away, it’s against the wall and it’s a good space saver. Yeah, nothing beats a pegboard.

By removing that printer, putting up the pegboard for the stuff that I use most often and then organizing all of my gear into these cabinets here which are all full fully labeled such as camera and battery hard drives and media audio just to give you a few peeks. Everything I need is here. Now I’m trying to really take a minimalist approach and just keep the things that I use most often. Everything has now been nicely cable managed to into these boxes. I’m a big fan of using these cable management boxes otherwise.

Thank you. Thank you sir. Is the first real sort of someone who’s taking cable management seriously here. I have a bunch of these boxes around my house. They’re awesome.

This is something about like you can have even like a neatly sort of like wrapped up power, like power extension cable or even like you know like the, the power bricks that you have for some electronics. It’s fine, it’s fine. It’s just sitting on the floor sort of wrapped up. But if you just put it in a box, it’s just so much nicer. It just feel it, it like transforms that little bit of space.

It just makes it look, look neat and packed away just the fact that it’s in a box, so much nicer. Also, you can route cables in different directions in a sort of more tidy way. Or you can just hide. Hide the chaos within. Yes, these are great.

And it’s. They’re super cheap. You can, you can normally pick these up for like under 5, $5, 5 pounds, or wherever you are in the world. Also, I realized recently you can 3D print them if you have a 3D printer. There’s a bunch of models for cable management boxes.

Yeah. So depends on how much filament they take, it might just be worth just buying one of the cheap boxes from Amazon or something. But yeah, cable boxes, man, these are. These are hack. Great hack.

We just look a mess. The three HDMI cables are running along the baseboards all the way around running into this box right here. For when I do live streaming and such. All the feeds are there to get the multi cam setup going as well as the monitor going. So I’m really happy with how everything turned out.

It’s all cable managed. I got my hypercubes. I’ve decided to put the big hypercube under the desk, and I fit the two hypercubes into these shelves. I had to drill them out and run power from behind there. This is everything with my desk.

I have done a full desk tour video. Those hypercubes. Those hypercubes are why I say that this is like an LED maximalist thing. Without those hypercubes, this would just be, you know, like a kind of cool RGB lit setup. But the fact he has those, those are like, they’re pretty expensive.

I mean, I think I might have looked them up like, oh, those look cool. Let me see. Thinking that they’ll, you know, maybe 50 bucks. No, no, no, no, no, no. I can’t remember exactly how much they were, but it was enough where I was like, oh, really?

And I think that was for the small one. I was like, it might have been like 4 or 500, I can’t remember. But yeah, it’s. It’s a. It’s like an led, like an infinite, infinite mirror sort of set up with led.

They look awesome, but, man, they’re very expensive for what is essentially just like a box of LED lights. It looks awesome. I don’t know. Too expensive for me. But yeah, this, this, this guy, he likes his light.

He has his neon lights, he has LEDs everywhere. Everything’s colorful. I kind of like it, you know, Like, I, I respect this dedication to, like, it’s like, you know what I really like? I just, like, reds and greens and blues and everywhere. Like, not.

Not just. Not just a small splash. I want RGB everywhere. And, yeah, I respect it. Definitely.

I think falls into maximalist, now that I. I think about it. All right, so.