 One of the coolest parts of the new house is gonna be the five person LAN gaming room here in the basement so that my kids and their friends, and me, and my friends, that I'll make someday, can all game together. But when Elgato reached out asking if they could sponsor a six streaming setup, I thought, I mean, heck, why not make all of the stations streaming ready? So that is exactly what we're gonna do. This is the Linus Homeland Center streaming setup V1 Concept Edition, which means it could be subject to change, but it should be an excellent start. Now, obviously my house is still a construction zone, so this video won't be fully representative of the final setup, but it should be pretty darn close, other than, you know, the lifetime brand folding tables here. Now, before we even think about setting up a microphone or a webcam or any of the fun stuff, we need a computer to run it all. In the long term, the plan is going to be to virtualize all of these stations off of a single server in my mechanical room. So the conduit is gonna be accessible here, so it'll run under all of these desks. We probably won't be able to do sit stand desks for that reason, but that's kind of TBD. Now, just in case we decide to do standalone machines in here, we do still have the room wired up for ethernet, but my preference is to have everything in the server. For now, Corsair One. Hey, there you go. I mean, the video is sponsored by Elgato and Corsair, so it shouldn't be that much of a surprise. So this one right here is the A200 featuring a liquid-cooled Ryzen 9 5900X, an RTX 3080, and a boatload of storage and high-speed RAM. It's small, sleek, and well-equipped for even the most demanding games or streaming setups, which is why I won't be using one. In fact, I think the final config for each of these stations is gonna be more along the lines of eight virtualized AMD Epic cores, and then maybe more like 3060, something like that. Monitor-wise, things are a bit more up in the air. I think 27 inches is the perfect size to have one, two, three, four, five, and then actually we're probably gonna have a six station right here that's just a network port, so you could pull up a laptop or something like that, make it a nice even six. But in terms of resolution, I'm leaning towards 1440p, just because I think it's a great balance between the high refresh rate gaming you get at 1080 and obviously the better image quality that you get at 4K. This particular model, the LG 27GP850, has been a lightning rod for controversy, but the panel in it, this nice fast response time IPS, is definitely something that I would want in here. Just like I would want this beautiful desk pad from lttstore.com. Now, this isn't the best case scenario for Elgato's poor wave panels here. This is an enormous room that is basically nothing but flat concrete surfaces, and we've only got six of them. But we wanted to show them to you guys because they will almost certainly be part of the final deployment. Once, you know, there are walls, we'll probably put some on the ceilings as well, because stopping those reflections between the floor and the ceiling is one of the key ways to cut down on audio reverb. Are these sufficiently mounted? I can put wave panels on them now? Sure. If you want to see a more practical and scientific demonstration of how well these work, check out our video where we treated our workshop with them. It's really impressive. While Jake mounts the rest of the wave panels, let's talk about the rest of the audio setup. So, I could have opted for the much less expensive Wave 3, but some of my experiences with USB all-in-one microphones have not been the best, and they don't give you the greatest amount of control over your setup. So, instead, we've gone for the Wave XLR, which has all the same integrated mixing controls, headphone output, and all that good stuff, except you can plug literally any XLR microphone you want into it. So, let's get this set up. I've never used this thing. I think it looks pretty cool. Yeah. I mean, one of the things that Elgato does really well is that everything they do is designed for streaming. So, a lot of the XLR interfaces out there, for example, they're designed to lie flat, right? Yeah. But that's not what you want when you're gaming. You want something that you can reach for more easily. So, this is... Knob feels good. Got USB-C, there's your headphone jack, and there's your XLR input. Right around there is where I want the... No, I want it on the left side. Left side, and then I can have the stream deck on this side. Actually... Okay, no. So, no, I do want it the other way around, because the stream deck I'm gonna mess with more often, and I'm more likely to want to take my hands off of my mouse than... Oh, right. Yes. Yeah, I want to be able to keep my hands on WASD. So, yeah, let's go XLR on this side. Wait, how the hell are you gonna put this one on here? Screw on the side. Oh, really? As long as it holds itself up, right? Okay, where's the mic arm? It seems pretty standard as far as mic arms go. Caution spring loaded. Don't get bashed in the face, you know, little things like that, but... There you go. That guy just goes in there. Mmm... We're just gonna try it. This is terrible. I mean... Tell me how horrendous this is. You kind of nailed it. Yeah, damn straight I did. I'll never call you a screw up again. Oh, God. Come on, that's funny. You've never called me a screw before? It's a screw, because you're putting a screw... I probably called you a screw. I figured out what all these pieces do. This is a riser, so it can be like... up higher if you want. There's a little hex lock. I don't think we're gonna need... Oh, man. Do you want to know what that's for? Apparently, people install these behind their monitor and come over. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't know why you would ever do that, but... If you had a very like wide-ranging microphone that could pick up really far, then maybe... Oh, yes. Yeah, that's not gonna be what we're doing today. And I'm probably gonna need the counterweight, because for our microphone, we've settled on an SM48 from Shure. Checkity check, checkity check, check. It does actually sound a tiny bit less bad. Yeah, it's just that most of the echo in here is off this concrete floor and those flat walls back there. That shouldn't be too much of a problem for us, though. The SM48 from Shure is a dynamic microphone with a... cardioid pickup pattern that means it should reject most off-axis noise and pick up your voice nice and clear. Let's get this cable managed and then we'll give you guys a quick demo. This is not a perfect solution. Oh, Lordy. Oh, God, don't do that. No. I don't want to have to take this down like that later. See? See? But look, look, it'll stay out of the way. Oh, did you? Oh, yeah. Well, you're doing it now. There we go. Normally on an XLR interface, you would want to plug your headphones for monitoring yourself directly into the interface so you have zero latency. Let's see how well Elgato's software ecosystem handles that. All right, we're firing up our game stream here, ladies and gentlemen. Gonna play some Doomator. Actually, we should just move on to the next part of the video we're gonna host and we can just do it on here. What's the next thing we're gonna do? Lighting? Man, this sounds great. Also, they have come a long way on their software, Elgato. This is handy. The Wave Link software has a quick link to your advanced audio preferences. So as soon as you launch your game, you're gonna want to set its output to Elgato's game, Wave Link game. Here we go. And then that way, OBS will be able to pick it up. You can access this through Windows just by right clicking, open sound settings, app volume, whatever. But it's a lot more clicks, whereas it's just right here. They just have a shortcut to it. That's kind of handy. You want to see what's really cool? If you set your game to Wave Link game, you can then have it come up as a track in here. And then you can create separate mixes for your monitor mix and your streaming. So if you want to listen to copyrighted music in your headphones while you're streaming, but want your stream to hear Monster Cat or whatever, you can give them two different audio tracks. And it's all done in Wave Link. You don't need like virtual audio cable or any stupid crap like that. That's pretty cool. Most streamers like to have a face cam of some sort. So that is where the aptly named Elgato face cam comes in. Now, at home, I actually use a different setup. I've got an Elgato Cam Link 4K USB stick. And I've used that to connect to a Canon DSLR camera. It works great, but it is large. It's more complex to set up and troubleshoot if it has issues. And that is even before you consider how expensive it would be to kit out a DSLR or a mirrorless camera for every station in the room. So that's where a more reasonable setup like a webcam comes into play. On the outside, this thing is pretty minimalistic looking. It's you got your lens, your detachable long USB-C to A cable, a small status LED over on the left of the lens, and an included monitor mount. On the inside is where things get a little bit more fun. Elgato designed their own eight element all glass lens, which is paired with a Sony Starvis CMOS sensor that's designed to provide excellent clarity with minimal noise up to 1080p 60fps. They also included a bit of storage on the camera itself so that any settings changes that you make follow the camera, not the computer. One cool feature or rather lack thereof is that the face cam doesn't have a microphone and it prevents you from getting pop-ups and notifications anytime, say for example, you unplug or plug something in and Discord's like, hey, do you want to switch to a new audio device? It's so freaking annoying. How does it not have a never ask me again? I think there is a never ask me. I think there is. I don't think it works. Anyway, we're not going to be using the built-in monitor mount because we are going with the Elgato ring light. Now at home, I actually prefer my pair of key light airs. These are basically the same product. They're just little square panels instead of a big ring shaped one. So you've got the same adjustable color temperature, the same adjustable brightness and everything can be done through software. The big difference is that with my giant 48 inch display, I can put them out on the sides and then I can decide do I want like kind of a more dramatic look? So I have a little bit less lighting on this side, a little bit more on that side. Whereas with the ring light, what you're getting is what ring lights are good for, which is nice even illumination. Clocks ticking, gotta shoot the video. No, I really like their mount. It's super easy to use. Yeah, I think Luke had trouble with it, but you know, whatever. Yeah. Just Luke things. I know this video is sponsored by Elgato, but I really do need to complain about one small thing. Like this is the longest power break. What are you compensating for? I can't, how am I supposed to plug this in? Takes up an entire power strip. Hold on. I think I think I managed to jam it in there. Hello? Hey, there we go. I can't believe we made it this far without setting up a stream deck. If you're not familiar with these, come on guys. This one specifically is Elgato's Stream Deck MK2, which features type C interchangeable faceplates as well as a detachable 45 degree fixed angle stand. But each of the 15 keys is an individual display, so you can have whatever icon you want, their full color, and you can configure them to do anything from button presses to macros to starting and stopping your stream. Now that the light is connected to Wi-Fi, we can adjust our color temperature to be warmer, cooler. We can adjust our brightness. Whoa, that's that's that's pretty bright boys. 5600. Sorry about that. Okay, what do you want? You want 5600? Yeah. All right. There we go. And then it's probably a little bit on the right side right now. Let's at least get a couple of things configured on our stream deck here. All right, let's go ahead and I mean, I don't know, this one can be record. Basically instantaneous. I, you know, scene. I have a gift. Oh, you have such a terrible, ugly background. That's true. I do. Let's fix that. This is Elgato's green screen. They actually have two models. This is the floor standing one. They also have one you can hang from the ceiling that's a bit bigger. But for our purposes, this is just fine. All you gotta do is open the locks, grab this bad boy. And you have a green screen. I think the manual probably says adjust the feet first. It's before you open it. There it is. Can I do that again? Stop Jake. You can play around these settings in here. You can say how similar the color needs to be. There you go. So here we filter out basically anything that has any color other than red. Here we're basically not filtering out anything. So you just want to find that ooo right about there gives us a nice uniform gray on our green screen. That's what we're looking for. Is that it? I noticed we had some other stuff over there. Yeah. They've got the pop filter, which we don't need because of our mic choice capture card in case you've got like a, you know, next gen console. You want to stream your 4k gameplay or whatever else. Shock mount. We didn't end up using the wave three. So we don't need that light strips. We got the green screen, so we don't really need that. Okay. We're going to play. We're going to play some competitive CS go here. Ladies and gentlemen, we're getting competitive today. Now that we have CS go configured to use our wavelength game output, we don't actually have to have our desktop audio play a role in OBS at all. Everything just goes out into the stream mix, which we control through the wavelength gap. So you're going to see when I highlight this window, our in-game music shows up here. That's a little loud, both in my headphones and in the stream. So we're going to turn that down a little bit, have a look at our levels. That's about where I like to have my background music going, like somewhere in the minus 30, minus 25 range. So that's pretty good. Now, if I was actually playing competitively, I would restart it because Counter-Strike does not like being changed from windowed to exclusive full screen, but I suck anyway. So, all right, official matchmaking. Oh God, really? Oh God, I'm going to die. I'm going to die, Jake. I'm going to die. Oh God, they're going to come through. They're going to come through here. They're going to kill me. I'm too casual, Jake. This guy's telling me to go back. I disagree. That's the worst livestream ever watched. Officially pro gamer, Jake. Where you at? Oh, come on. Wow. I helped. I helped. I did 21 damage to him. All right, let's make sure this recording is actually good. Hey, this is awesome. Yeah, you look great. Look at your. I know it's clean. You should get a, you should get a green screen. It looks so pro. I probably, I probably should. It does look so pro. Like look at that and then look at the room we're in right now. I know, right? You would have no way of knowing what's going on. Right? You would have no way of knowing. It looks legit. Okay, let's try and get one more kill. I want one more kill. Oh, oh, the buy period has expired. Okay. That's a problem. It's slightly mildly problematic. Yeah. Come on. Ah, no. Well, all right. Didn't even manage to hit him. Man, it's amazing how much this stuff has improved. Back when we set up our original green screen for Techquickie in the old house, we spent a hundred dollars on just the material. And then we had to like jury rig our own like hanger for it that took a lot of time and probably end up costing more than this. Obviously this is a little bit smaller. This is really designed for a game streaming setup as opposed to a full host with, you know, full arms reaching out and stuff like that. But they have a bigger one. That's super reasonable. Actually, all things considered. Yes. You too can look and sound that pro even in a horrible environment that is not conducive to streaming. And it's that simple. All you have to do is spend a bunch of money. Obviously we're going to have everything linked down below. Thanks for sponsoring this video or Elgato, I guess. Thanks to you for watching pro streamer Jake in three, two, one. Did I get it? Oh yeah. Wow. I sound like a streamer, streamer. Okay. Bye.