 We've teamed up with CableOrganizer.com, Ubiquiti Networks, Bonded Logic, Trendnet, and Protocase to give this place a complete makeover. Now the only thing that remains is to do something about the noise. That's where the UltraTouch batting comes in. The bad news is that we've got some theories but no concrete ideas when it comes to how we're going to cover the inside of this room with it. The good news is that because you have to leave it out overnight to fluff up to its full thickness, it's pretty easy to find in our office. Our Antlion Audio ModMic 5 giveaway continues. We're giving away three ModMic 5s and a Hi-Fi Man Edition S ModMic combo. Enter now at the link below. Okay, someone put all this stuff in a pile. I gotta get it over here. Anyway, this insulation stuff that we're using is really cool. I was first put onto it when Mike from Silent PC Review was showing me how he built his anechoic chamber. It's made by a company called Bonded Logic, and it's got a few things that set it apart from other insulation. So it's not made of fiberglass or anything like that. It's actually made of recycled blue jeans. So it's like, if you're into sustainability, then I guess that's cool. But it's also got awesome thermal properties and some of the best acoustic properties, both in terms of like dispersing sound and actually blocking its transmission. They actually make a ton of stuff out of this recycled blue jean materials. When I was talking to them on the phone, they actually mentioned to me that one of the biggest uses for this stuff now is actually shipping perishables like food. Blue Apron, a sponsor of ours, actually uses Bonded Logic's shipping material to ship, you know, like cold stuff that sits on your doorstep so that it doesn't get hot and spoil in the sun. Pretty cool, right? Check this out. Check this out. If you didn't believe it's made of recycled jeans, there's a piece of zipper. That's awesome. Okay, so right now what we're doing is we're getting a baseline measurement of what the sound is like through this wall of the server room. So everybody quiet. It's about 42, 43 decibels. Pretty sure that says LS, right? We've got a couple of different tools to help us cut. We do have a hand insulation saw, but from what I've read online, one of the best ways to cut it is actually with a band saw. So we had tried to come up with a brilliant plan for using like some kind of a mesh or like a netting to keep it up, but we actually ended up settling on good old fashioned nails. Hold on, I've got to get a hammer. So we'll start in the corner behind the UPS over there. I'm also going to need a lot more nails than this. Dang it, Bobby. Okay, I'm clearly going to be better off pre-measuring this. Look, I'm new at this, okay? Actually, you know what? For this one, I should just go right up the wall. If this doesn't work, we don't really have another plan at the moment. This is looking like it might work. Huh, how about that? Okay, so just a few more hours of this and then I'm good. Okay, this is a thick one. Wow, I'm going to go through a ton of nails. How many are in here? I don't feel like this is enough. Oh, damn it. Was that the label maker? We'll deal with that later. Oh, s***. That's the steel. Good for security, bad for putting nails into. Good thing we dusted the servers, right? We are ready to get our after reading. Okay, everybody, quiet. And we have discovered a fatal flaw in our testing methodology because the room is way quieter, but we would have had to take our measurement from quite a bit closer to isolate the noise that comes from the room from the noise that comes from the computers that are here and the transformer over there. So I give up whatever mission accomplished, but boy, is there ever still a lot of work to do. So what I discovered very quickly when working with the UltraTouch installation is that it still sheds a fair bit of material creating dust for my freshly dusted servers. Look at this keyboard. Look at this keyboard. Fortunately, I was one step ahead and I ordered like a custom air filter, but we need a longer term solution. So that's where this special black stage cloth comes in. If we can cover up all of the insulation in here, we'll be able to keep this place from being a dust mine. Let's get crack-a-lacking. Holy crap, this thing is heavy and expensive. This roll was like hundreds of dollars. This stuff is acoustically neutral, I believe is the term for it, and it lets sound pass through so it can be absorbed by the UltraTouch. If we were to put plastic over it, we would actually get substantially more reflections. Where did my tape measure go? This is the problem with any DIY project. So I've actually done a lot of the easy stuff along this left wall here. It only takes a couple of nails and staples actually to hold it in place, but now it's going to get a lot more challenging. So check this out, standing right behind the servers, you can hear how loud they are. And standing right here, it's that much quieter. Cool, huh? Oh, nice. I think this is going to make it all the way into this corner. Perfect. Okay, I need my stapler. Another handy dandy thing about this fabric is once you start ripping it, it rips in a straight line in both directions as far as I can tell. Whoa! I need a shirt made of this stuff. So everyone's back in the office now though. It is a couple days later, so I can't afford to accidentally unplug anything anymore. Oh no, I pressed a button. Escape. I didn't put duvetyne behind the server cabinet itself, just because I figured if I'm running cables back there or anything like that, I didn't want to have something that is more grippy. Not bad. Okay, finally almost there. We've got all the insulation contained and finally the last piece from Proto Case arrived. So this is my custom vent for the door of the server room. Now, noise isolation relies on sealing up a room as much as you can. I'll open this later. Come here. And as you can see, I've got this just covered, but in the event that our air conditioning fails, we've actually got a thermostat here that's going to monitor the temperature of the room and kick on an auxiliary fan up there, so at least it doesn't completely bake in here. So Jake designed and Proto Case created for us a custom shroud that we're going to cover this hole with so that the sound doesn't have a direct path out, but the air still has a way in. Ow, my elbow. It's metal. What do they expect to happen to it in shipping? No, I'm not angry they packed it well. Ow, my knee. Oh, my heat sinks. Would any of you watching this believe I'm not much of a handyman? You guys try cutting through five inch thick blue jeans. It's hard. Okay, just going at it upside down. Ow. Damn it. Oh no, where did all these screws go? I won't have time for this. There it is. All right, come on in, Brendan. I think this hole is not optimal. I think we may have to cut back a bit more. Also, I have to remove some of my nails. Did he just hammer nails into a door? Yes. Yes, I did. And now I'm removing them with my bare hands. Oh, damn, I was hoping to hook that up there. No, okay, screw it. I'm going in. We're just going to drill right through the metal. Oh, cut myself on a drill bit. Okay, here we go. Wait a minute. Oh, I installed them backwards. Ah. It's actually a very simple, kind of elegant design. Good work, Jake. So we still have to do this, then the duveteen, then the grand finale. Here we go. Acid test time. Aha. Nice. Wow, it's actually almost level, too. Look at that. Awesome. So there's ventilation. And here is noise blocking. Ow. Home stretch now. We just got to secure the insulation to the door and cover. Oh, we're so close. So 42 by about 90. So I want to secure this really well. People are probably wondering why I'm using nails for this. The answer is pretty simple. They're easy to remove. If it's wrong, I'm sure the internet is going to tell me about why it's wrong. And then I'll know. So it's good. That's how we learn. By doing things wrong and then being corrected on the internet, I'm going to cut it sort of approximately but smaller and then just kind of fold it over. I will give you this, Brandon. This really is very cool fabric. Ow. There. So theoretically, I don't need this anymore. It's all covered. You know what? I think the air filter on this thing is overkill anyway. I'm not going to bother. Get in there. Hey, yeah. OK. So we're done then, right? The room is quiet. The room is clean. The cables are managed. And fresh from its adventure in learning to be water cooled, this export server is sliding back into the rack. There's nothing left to do, right? Oh, you underestimate me, my friends. RGB lighting. Oh, this is RGBW. Chainable up to three meters. OK, first I need to know if these are the magnetic kits. Oh, yeah, baby, they are. OK, that's excellent. We've got a couple standalone power supplies because we don't actually want these to run off of the computers that are in here because the RGB always needs to work. I cannot wait. Oh, this is going to be sick. Sick, I tell you. I'm going to give some thought to cable management here, given that was the whole point of this bloody project. OK, so we're just going to go straight into the wall. Realistically, these do not need to run off the UPS. Wow, it's amazing. That's what I'm talking about. All right, let's see if I can hit both of these at once. Oh, yes. Ting makes it easy to spend less on your monthly mobile bill. Basically, you head over to their website, so that's linus.ting.com. We've got that linked in the video description. And check out their savings calculator. 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Maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description. Huge shout out to bonded logic, cable mod, trend net, cable organizer dot com. Those guys were instrumental in helping us figure out how to do the cable management stuff and supplying us with all that gear that we needed. And I sincerely hope I'm not forgetting anybody, but I have a feeling that I am. All right. Thank you guys for watching. Subscribe and Merch Store and all that stuff. I am freaking exhausted.