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hey

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welcome back for another vlog

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hey uh hi everybody uh today

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i'm going to talk about my podcasting

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and gaming

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audio setup uh it's pretty complicated

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but maybe you'll find some information

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that you can use and also do a little

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review

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on some preamps and exciters and and all

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that

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i am using the sm7b broadcast microphone

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that runs into a preamp

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that then goes into a mixer that then

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goes

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into an exciter and then that

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goes into another compressor

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then that runs out into a task game

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recorder and then that gets funneled out

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into

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a headphone pre-amp

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that splits off into four possible

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uh listening devices one of which i'm

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i'm wearing right now

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so this goes step by step and and what i

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will do

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is i'll do some comparison meaning that

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i'll turn some things off so you can see

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what it sounds like

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with and without the the processing

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involved

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so this sm7b some people just say it's

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hey it's a glorified

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uh sm57 which

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possibly could be true but it offers

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some options on the backs for

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base roll off that offers uh increased

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presence i like it

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it it works well has some shielding

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against

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radio uh frequencies so you don't get

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the too much like background

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uh radio stations since i broadcast here

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in command center alpha one on the

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second floor

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uh i am prone to random

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radio frequencies going through all this

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process and equipment so

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having some kind of shielding does help

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now initially i was running this

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sm7b through this this is

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a cloud lifter and uh

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now the reason why you you want to run

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this sm7b into

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a preamp a mic preamp or a cloud lifter

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is because it's very low power

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meaning that you really have to crank

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this thing up to

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for it to be heard and so the cloud

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lifter will add i think

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almost 40 db

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of uh of clean gain meaning that

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you don't have to crank up your board so

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much so if you just have this microphone

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running directly into the board

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you won't have to crank the gain up on

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the board itself and it will remove some

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background hiss

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and so this this is originally what i

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just really throw a lot of volume at the

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board a lot of

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gain at the board so i didn't have to

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crank it up so much but with this for

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whatever reason this cloud lifter

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it produced an extreme amount

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of radio frequency interference like

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i i was getting stations from uh

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like the the big station around here in

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columbus is 997 the blitz and you could

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hear it coming through even at low

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volumes

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it was just it was so prevalent i had i

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had to give it up i couldn't use i tried

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to wrap this thing and

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in some kind of faraday cage to block it

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out but it didn't work because this

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uh draws it gets all his power from

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phantom power

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that you would supply through your mixer

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i was like this this is not going

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to work this is

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it's just too much interference and for

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150 bucks

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it's solidly built and it's good if you

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have

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a studio that's ground level or is

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pretty shield pretty shielded against

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the interference but mine isn't

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so uh i had to find another solution and

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that solution

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is the dbx

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286s that is a

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a preamp for the microphone and so far

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this thing

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has um been badass here's here's a

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picture of it right here

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this thing runs about uh i'll give

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prices for everything so

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this microphone is about 300 350

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depending on where you get it from i

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think from uh

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amazon and i think there's a deal on it

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um for 300 and then

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the cloud lifter which i paid for was a

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150 which i'm selling by the way if

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anybody wants it

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and then which i'm not not no longer

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using this the preamp i'm using is the

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dbx 286 which

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is an amazing preamp for 200 bucks

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i love this thing it sounds

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great now

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what i mainly use it for has some

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compression built into it i use a little

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bit of compression with it

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and only mostly it increases the gain

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and it really sends a lot of signal to

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the board and

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it has a noise gate so this is what it

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with it on and by the way majority of

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the audio you're hearing right now is

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being post-processed in adobe

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audition with the broadcast

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settings so it'll it's a multi-band

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compressor that'll boost the low end and

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kind of tame some of the the high ends

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a level a leveler to it so everything

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is uh pretty much post-processed

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so let's turn the uh the dbx 286 off and

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uh what it sounds like what the

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microphone sounds like what i

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sound like with the preamp off so here

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we go so this is

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the pro this is all bypass so this is

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and you can well you can there's no

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there's no uh noise gate it's over

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modulated and you can hear the birds

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chirping

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in the background here take a look how

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nice of a day it is outside take a look

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oh my lord it's such a wonderful day

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i feed all my squirrels down there and

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my dog likes to talk to the cat who

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lives next door

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oh my lord but you can hear the birds

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chirping

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and that's why this preamp

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is so nice for a room like this and in

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this environment

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let's turn it back on that that cleaned

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a lot of stuff now the bypass just

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and it turned off i believe the

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the high and low frequencies that you

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to really dial in the the type of voice

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that you want

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so that's critical for 200 bucks that

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does an amazing job and i'm thinking

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about buying another one of them

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for uh i got a mic over there where

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other people sit uh when they come over

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and do a little podcast with me and have

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a good time in chit chat

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now i just use a kind of a shitty

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behringer like i think it's an eight

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input

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mixer which which does the job it's it's

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lot of shows i can't even

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count how many hours of audio i've

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recorded on it and

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and how much dust and smoke it's been

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through but it

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it has been a very good piece of

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equipment

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i don't have anything bad to say about

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it it's got built-in effects

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and it's got two audio

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outs meaning that the audio

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out so the auxiliary audio goes into

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skype so people

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on skype can hear me talk through this

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microphone not some open air stuff

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and then the second auxiliary out goes

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my xbox for game recording

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and there i can process and people can

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uh can hear me

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that kind of stuff and i can

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if i don't want to talk to somebody in

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game i can just mute

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so i i basically said hey you're you're

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but they couldn't

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hear that because i pressed my mute

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button so i'm running all my audio

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going into game through my mixer um

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and to skype so i have a lot of control

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if there's outside interference people

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girlfriend or

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bogey my dog comes in here i can i can

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have a lot more control so preamp in the

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into exciter now the exciter

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in audio exciter it will add harmonics

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there's pretty gross but

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uh the audio exciter will add harmonics

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it will compress the bass to really kind

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for my understanding the way i hear it

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like a real good

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like radio host dj voice it adds

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a lot of uh like texture to it but you

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can really you really get out of control

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quickly if you had too many harmonics

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and compress it too much

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but right now it is running on the

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compressor is on

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going i'm sorry not the compressor but

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the exciter is on and i'm using

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an afex uh exciter i don't know the

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exact model number it might be on the

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back of it but

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here it is here's a picture over here

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and um

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it's a nice piece of equipment runs

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about uh 200

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it runs about 250 and it does the job

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and previous to the exciter i bought

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one of these the the bbe

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sonic maximizer which is a different

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form of exciter

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the afex doesn't add

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wrong any

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new audio people out there the the

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the apex doesn't add

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frequencies to the signal it only

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enhances it so it's not going to be any

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louder or require

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leaving that uh that piece of equipment

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so with a bypass on it your your your

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volume is not going to go up or down

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it's it just enhances what it already

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has and then sends it on

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now the enhancement what was so this is

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what it sounds like with it on so i'm

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gonna turn it off right now

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so that's what the that's with it off

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you you didn't probably hear like a

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little bit of a hiss

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there's like a background hiss to it

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which i don't mind it kind of goes away

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after a while but that's the processing

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and it does add a little color that adds

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a little flavor to

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a little a little tasty morsel of sound

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and i enjoy it and this is it's kind of

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what like the missing piece of equipment

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i needed to really take

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the audio i wanted to produce and i'm

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obviously a stickler for my

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audio if i've

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dropped this much money into it but this

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is what it sounds like with

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there it is it's back on so maybe i'll

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go do like a little

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uh it's this is on

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and that's that's off off and this is

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on so i don't know it's very very be

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very picky with it

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um oh let me back up a little bit i

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didn't talk about this

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this bb e um

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exciter so why did i choose the apex

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exciter over the the bbe

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well this is post processing as far as i

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i guess texture after the fact and it

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does affect the volume

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in a little ways from what i could tell

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and

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on the the the processing side it

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processes the high end

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in a weird way and meaning that

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it'll add a like uh like textures and

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stuff harmonics to the high end

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but then if you listen really closely

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you'll hear it kind of roll off

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like it's it's like a one to two second

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kind of roll roll-off and if you're

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doing

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a podcast where there are breaks and

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talking there's a silence you can hear

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it roll off

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and it's got very annoying to me and so

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i was like it i'm buying

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uh a real piece of equipment i'm not

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saying this is not real

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it's great probably this exciter is

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great for like desktop djs

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you want to add a lot of low end some

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highs and

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it's only like 85 bucks and by the way

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i'm selling mine if you want it

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it's good if you have constant audio

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going but i don't always have it so i

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needed something

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that wasn't processed after the fact

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and you didn't hear the process roll off

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that's why i went with the apex

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over this now the difference in price

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hey

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um it's more than twice than what this

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is cost there's a rack version of this

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which pretty much does the same thing as

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far as i can tell maybe there's

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um better processing you don't hear the

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roll-off but

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i don't know i wasn't going to spend a

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bunch of money to find out i'm perfectly

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happy with the apex

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it's the best one that i've found so far

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and i've done a lot of research on these

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exciters so

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apex versus the bbe

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apex wins and so

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that audio apex audio exciter gets

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dumped out into a compressor

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a behringer compressor which is okay um

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there's better

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compressors out there i'm thinking about

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buying a new compressor

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it's here it is here's a picture of the

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the behringer compressor i use it's not

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bad

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i i mostly use it as

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like a brick wall limiter meaning that

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any audio you dump into it it will

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push it up to top it it will just

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make everything a little louder and even

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and that's what i use my compressor for

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i don't

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use that rack uh compressor to add any

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sort of

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low end enhancements or or too much too

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much

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other kind of like eq and you can you

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can do some eq with a with a compressor

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and

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it's just

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audio my whole goal with all this kind

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of like

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audio equipment is to create like a

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professional broadcast

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sound i mean i'm a big fan of howard

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stern and he uses a lot of compression

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on his voice i use a lot of compression

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on my voice

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i like it i like i grew up listening to

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howard stern so i wanted to replicate

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his sound and um i've come as close as i

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could

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get i believe with uh without spending

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oh let's say five thousand dollars on uh

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on a really nice broadcast compressor

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you can spend

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easily uh ten thousand dollars on the

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setup and

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i think mine's close to right now i

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don't know i don't know it's a lot

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all this stuff so far from the

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sm-7b to the preamp to the mixer

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to the exciter back into a behringer

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compressor

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uh then that goes into my tascam let me

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get the exact number here

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it's a tascam mp3

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player let me see if i can so all the

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audio processing gets dumped

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out into this tascam mp3

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recorder there it is so i got the

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the the sm 7b

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the preamp the dbx preamp going into

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the behringer mixer the behringer mixer

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going over

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to the apex exciter

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the apex cider going into the behringer

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compressor the behringer compressor

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going into

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the tascam mp3 recorder

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the mp3 recorder going into the

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behringer headphone amplifier that's it

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and then

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that's that's where you plug in all your

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headphones you can line it out into a

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computer for

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broadcast or what have you it's kind of

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messy over i got some

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xbox controllers and whatnot

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as i said back up yeah i think i set

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back up so

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i run when i record my video game

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audio i record it all through

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this setup meaning that i will run out

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the video game audio through my

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television i have this is my monitor

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right here

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and then above this i have let me see

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so i got the my my workstation oh check

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it out man we're getting freaky dude

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check it out

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computer reminder here and then up there

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is my television where i play all my uh

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my fun video games and

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my xbox one lives right over here a

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little dusty

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uh right above all my audio equipment

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and so i'll run

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out all the the game audio out of the

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television into the mixer

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and so i'll have the game audio

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on his own channel through the mixer i

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have my own channel on the mixer talking

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to people in game

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and then i use the auxiliary outs on my

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mixer to run

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into it runs into the controller on the

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xbox so everyone else has

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their own everyone else in game has

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their own channel so i can mix that so

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one channel for myself one channel for

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people talking in game and then

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one channel for the game audio and then

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i also have another

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channel for the computer so if people

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call in through skype they can talk to

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me

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it all gets recorded so

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everything's kind of separate so i have

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a lot of control over the audio

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not on the content of the video i i

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think it's pretty good we're not a big

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channel

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but i take pride on on getting the the

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best audio i can

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out there to the people i want to be

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heard so

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thank you i hope this hopefully this is

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educational in some way uh please

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subscribe

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and like and i will talk to you guys

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soon bye i'm trying to fix the camera so

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i look you guys in the eye but it's kind

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of hard because

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it's up there so all right goodbye and i