Anyway, we’ve totally converted what was a two car garage into a studio which will allow us to do regular videos for the site. Also, I’m thinking about podcasts, if we can get the context right. While I’ve been scrubbing floors and walls I’ve taken the opportunity to listen to a lot of different tech-related podcasts. I must admit, some of the content is pretty good. Unfortunately, the way in which they are recorded isn’t. I think I’ve found one podcast that didn’t make my ears bleed from time to time due to incorrect volume levels and strange background noises, due to lag corrupting chat recordings. It doesn’t matter how great the content is, if it’s not recorded properly using quality audio devices, it won’t be on my subscriber list.

 

So we’re just about to unplug some of the PCs and move them into the new office area. I’m going to patch the network together for the time being and I would like to also investigate how good the N standard of wireless networking really is while I’m setting it up. I might find that I don’t need to fully cable the whole office.

 

The new office/studio will give me the ability to work on more than one or two projects at the same time. Testing can be extremely time consuming and also time wasting if you have to sit around for one test bed to do its thing. The area that we’ve been working in has proven to be quite unproductive as far as video production is concerned. It was wasn’t big enough once you have studio lights in there and all the camera equipment to make a semi-quality vlog. Not to mention having to pull everything apart to make it all happen.

 

Probably one of the best moves we’ve made in the new studio is to invest in about 3000 lumens of lightings, permanently fixed to the ceiling. We’ll see how it goes in the coming weeks. I’ve got lots of cool peripherals and video cards to have a look at as well, which I’ll show you in my vlog. We might even turn on the lighting and turn on the camera and see how it all looks today!