 Let's leak some projects. Nick's gonna get so mad. It's been so many years since we've done a formal tour of the Linus Tech Tips office and studio But I can't even really call it the Linus Tech Tips office and studio anymore We've got so many channels and so much has changed that you're barely going to recognize this place Even our access control doesn't work anymore Look at this because we got a shiny new one from Ubiquiti and this video is brought to you by anchor They got us equipped with their power comp bluetooth speaker phones as well as their c300 webcams so that we can remote work in style But that said most people are in the office today. So let's go see them Starting in the reception room we get the first look at the renovation Makeover that has been mostly spearheaded by Yvonne and Janice but also helped in no small part by Matthias and the rest of the logistics team because they wouldn't have been able to make It over if it hadn't been significantly tidied up first so we got rid of our old logo and the textured checkerboard feature wall and replaced it with well an up-to-date logo for the company which was Wrong for a long time as well as the thumbnails of our top 12 videos Some of these it makes a ton of sense that they're here some of them I wasn't even sure if they were content, but for whatever reason people watch it We made some small changes to the kitchen So we've got kind of a graffiti aesthetic going on in the editing den down here that I think looks super cool in an edgy like 90s or really 2000s kind of way and then our kitchen actually sees very little use because again Thanks, Kovid. We're not allowed to have coffee machines So they're like taped over and stuff like that, which brings us into Terrence office No But seriously he doesn't actually get his own office forever You can see that while we used to have the headphone wall and some decorations and couches and play buttons in here now We've got four more desks for future editors once we can cram them in and once we actually need them and this is intended to be kind of like a Quieter editing room. Terrence. Can you just run us through how many keyboards do you have now? Well there's three. Three, but okay, so you don't count the stream decks as a keyboard even though they have like Well, you can call it four They have 32 keys each That's why we call them the macro king Moving into the main editing den which is now much larger than it used to be we've got whoa. What is this? There's an office. We added a window to this thing So it wouldn't feel like a dungeon and then he goes and turns the light off almost literally all the time Stop that now that he is our formerly like manager of the editors and not just like head editor or whatever He needs an office that he can like have meetings with people or whatever You can't tell because a lot of them are work from home, but this is Mark. Oh, hi Mark We've got probationary employee number four or whatever. There's so many new hires lately. This is Dennis's desk Here's Hoffman. We've got Nicole over there And finally, we've got probation employee number G and then these are really cool There's certain things that are better done in an editing booth. These aren't quite done But the purpose of this room specifically is color grading So we're gonna add bias lighting for the monitor add blackout blinds for the door We're gonna come up with a better system for covering the sensor on this So you can basically darken this thing have all the tools that you need for proper color grading for HDR And we're gonna start uploading at least our mainline Linus tech tips videos in HDR on YouTube Which is something that's really exciting Next door we have a second booth that's gonna be all about that acoustic foam and all about that sound isolation So we've got some more foam that we're gonna be loading up into the ceiling to help prevent sound from bleeding over the walls we're going to add studio monitors because really that is Supposed to be how you edit the sound for your videos and we're going to equip this with all the equipment that we need for proper sound mixing and at every one of these desks we have Frickin badass workstations. I hand built every single one of these myself They are 24 core threadripper processors with 128 gigs of RAM Most of them have RTX 3090s or quadros with more than 24 gigs of VRAM so we can handle that stupid bug with the Ursa mini 12k footage and They've all got 25 gigabit networking so that editing on your timeline is as fast off of our server as it is If you just had the files locally on a high-speed drive Oh, and of course every one of these stations has two pairs of headphones. Why? Well for in the non-covid times the writer sits next to the editor and reviews the video together So clabboard also the penguin needs one Now it's time to visit the workshop although we call this the PC build corner now that we have a proper workshop So the main changes here are aesthetic the TS redesigned it with new wraps on the countertops much better storage for tools water cooling fittings all the cables that we need for building computers and testing them and This handy dandy rack so we don't constantly have to go bother them when we need a monitor for a test station or whatever The case may be also here is the tech link set if you'll excuse me though. I have to host tech link for a second Thanks for watching tech link. We'll see you again on Friday All right now you guys have my full and undivided attention over here is our green screen this used to be used primarily for Tech quickie, but actually now that we've moved to tech quickie to more of like a seated sort of host type of style We don't really use it that much other than to mount seamless paper Which we store on the back of the green screen wall and then use colored lights to turn that into sort of whatever color Backdrop we want and you dress that up with like a desk a little bit of furniture And you can create pretty much any look you want which brings us to the set you guys are probably most familiar with this is The apartment which has been renovated a couple of times, but not structurally We've just done new paint new decorations that kind of thing the main purpose of changing over from having just the old orange walls Set to this more homey feeling one was that we wanted the videos to feel less like they're being shot in a studio and More like they're being shot in a home and in particular in a part of a home that is relevant to the type of product That we're talking about they shoot everything from a roll to b roll to even audio pickups here because it's one of the areas Of the building that has the best acoustics Thanks to the open ceiling and of course acoustic foam that we have sprayed on the walls and rafters Oh, this is something that's actually kind of new since our last tour So I kept giving Brandon a hard time about just moving the same damn lights Over here and then over here and then back over here and back over here back over here And I was like look we need something that looks pretty decent, but just is one click to set up and he's like How much you want to spend? And we ended up with that of course a big part of keeping the sets on cluttered is having somewhere to store your equipment And we actually just very recently retooled this entire area Here's our charger for our Titan tubes these things are so much fun because they are RGB af You can set up all kinds of cool patterns on them and stuff and because they're battery powered it saves So much work in rigging we used to have all of our cameras in a lockbox But now we're gonna move to a system where they're all gonna be in a cage Here because it got to the point where it was just like half an hour at the end of the day and half an hour in The morning just rigging up and then unrigging these cameras and usually in exactly the same way yet Another coded thing is that we have to have a lot of distance between our camera guys at their desks now They do more than just operate cameras David for examples on the carpool critics Podcast make sure you guys are subscribed to that if you're a movie buff or even if you're not and you just like David's beautiful Face because it's also a video podcast on YouTube and then that's Brandon's desk where occasionally he will do things like color work for some of our more Complicated projects like say for example those recent car videos on the Chevy Volt and Tesla Model Y and then over here We have repurposed our old laptop charging cart Which we found was actually kind of inconvenient once we got down to it into an all batteries charging cart So it's just an all metal enclosure So in the event we have an unexpected fire or anything like that it will all be contained within this metal cart Yay as part of our upgrade to 25 gigabit fiber optic networking We didn't just upgrade the editing stations. We also upgraded our ingest stations So nowadays with a combination of red mag readers as well as USB type-c SSDs like we use on the Ursa mini 12 K's we can actually do what like up to 500 megabytes a second 800 about 800 megabytes a second of each of these concurrently Andy insisted I show you guys the tape wall, so this is where they keep gaff tape and stuff And then here are their tools for rigging up and tearing down cameras But I think it's actually more interesting to talk about this table So some cameras get used the same way day in day out say for example for short circuit But other ones need to be reconfigured and very differently often So you can see the battery has been set up to be kind of like a stock that you can support on your shoulder The top here has this nice handy small rig rail thing so that you can attach it to an easy rig that comes over your Head and supports most of the weight of the camera you hold here where your record button is you got your screen right in front Of your face like this And then you would actually put a follow focus on this rail right here And you can use that to adjust both your focus and zoom on your lens following the fresh yellow lines on the floor This is the no zone, so you're not allowed to store anything in these walking paths We've got our forest of light stands and tripods as well as our custom c-stand holders that apparently we are Finally getting rid of for a commercial solution We've got our bin of light stands as well as our flags this right here is the short circuit set This has been under construction for a few weeks now, and I think looks absolutely fantastic Shooting short circuit is supposed to be as simple as grab the product grab the host Get the impressions at the table, and you are done This is the a cam that the host typically talks into this is the B cam which is actually Operated by our camera operator who is monitoring all three cameras, and then this is our overhead camera Every single one of them is already set up already ready to go And we don't even need to bring any media to the set and install it in the individual cameras And they're all powered off the wall, so there's no batteries It's just freaking ready to rock short circuit will also have its own kind of Homie and unique looking space separate from Linus tech tips Oh, hey the director has taken his chair over there John oh does most of the short circuit channel coordination In addition to his business duties this won't be anything new for camera people But for the rest of you the follow focus that I alluded to before is Basically a separate knob that controls a motor at the other end of a unit So that's the way that one camera operator can just have all the focus and zoom dials in one spot At least they will in the future right now We've only got the one hooked up and they can just kind of like monitor everything it's pretty cool now We're heading into what I call the red light district This is where we keep all our sexy costumes and props and all that kind of stuff There's not really that much here because we just purged an absolute ton of it and we've got Andy's desk poor Andy Yeah, kovat safe. He's got to be way over here. Don't worry We'll get you over there with the other shooters soon enough behind the sets where it just used to be a ton of clutter We now have our DMX control modules for our RGB lighting That's over in the bedroom set as well as our giant Diffusion flags and our ladder for getting up into the grid and stuff like that. It's way more organized And we've got these nice motion sensing lights back here So you can actually see what the heck you're doing bringing us into the bedroom set Which is likely to be the resting place of our Mac channel that we're working on I'm just gonna hit this light so we can actually see what we're ah Basically, it used to be a bed and kind of like a bedroom setup in here Which is why we call it the bedroom set but all that's left of the bedroomness is a mattress in the corner and we're just gonna make it more of just like a Homie cool hangout a super cool thing about the bedroom set is that you can actually close it in So that you can shoot in any of the four directions in here There we go and not have any doorways in the way. Well, except this one. Anyway, this is our super tidy Thank you, Jake networking setup for the set. So all of the ports thanks to this micro tech switch are 10 gigabit So even if we're doing something really more test benchy and less shooty on set We can get full speed networking and benchmark to our hearts content Left or right Left, okay Now we're in what used to be one of the only office spaces in this building, but it has been significantly Significantly redecorated. So what used to be the writing den out here is now the accounting department We got special agent Janice who was of course responsible for a lot of what we did except this Janice was not responsible for that network port over there not working and us needing to hook up to this one and This used to be my office It is now Yvonne's office and she shares it with two more members of the accounting department Can we all take a moment to appreciate by the way how hilarious the name of the accounting department is? Accounting quarters get it because they're accounting quarters and this is our boardroom. We have Significantly remodeled this thing. We've kept the original table and built-in bench But now when we're having meetings We get to look at that wall and be inspired and look at this one and also be inspired All of our chairs grew legs when we hired a bunch of new people So there's actually no chairs in here, but we recently added the anchor power confess 3 Which they sent over as part of the sponsorship for this video It's got a really nice clear sounding speaker that everyone in the room can hear and more importantly It's got six microphones built in so you can actually see them all around it so that the person at the other end of the Call can hear everyone in the room clearly. It is a huge benefit and because we've got There it is this handy dandy USB equipped power thing there We just leave it right there We have a really short USB that we plug in when it needs to be charged and we're good to go Coming out of the conference room We've got Clarence who I think has probably the second most badass workstation in the building look at this He even went to the lengths of putting gaff tape in between the monitors so that he wouldn't get you know little slits of light distracting him from his Excel superpowers this is inconvenient I was gonna say that Nick's office is no longer Nick's office But now Nick is sitting in it because he wants to confuse everybody I guess this is now a call slash meeting room and for some reason Nick is talking to someone who doesn't work here anymore, so That's a little that's a little strange. Yeah, it's an awkward way to find out Colton. Sorry about that, but Okay, see you later, buddy Nick has now moved over to create a warehouse and we will go there, but not yet first I'd like to show you guys Colton's office Colton's work from home because it's an awful long drive for him and also I think About a third of the space in his office is now storage. We took away the business team shelves. Hopefully they will Turn them over a little bit faster coming out of Colton's office We've got the team that he pretty much exclusively manages now. We saw Jono downstairs chase I don't know what chase is doing today But he does event coordination for us and then we've got probationary employee number six or whatever it is We're on here as well as Jeff and Matt so Jeff's in sales And then Matt does procurement and if you guys aren't disoriented yet, you will be now This is the stairwell down to the main entrance that used to only go one way But now goes two ways This unit over here was where we used to have the lounge downstairs But now has the lounge upstairs and it has been completely remodeled We now have more than enough room for our ping-pong table More than enough room for our games table once we're finally able to do staff events after hours We've got our dbrand provided current generation consoles Thank you very much for that dbrand and our sick Clip's slash LG OLED home theater setup that's not really a home theater. I guess because it's more like a work theater We're actually gonna be upgrading this soon with an Incredible Sony laser projector. So stay tuned for that video You are going to want to be subscribed all the computers have been moved upstairs now as well so we're almost ready to get some sick worms Armageddon action going and Check this out. The logo has returned but now with its very own feature wall. Not only does it still have RGB. Oh Yeah, but this thing looks absolutely incredible as an absolute work of art So special agent Janice and Yvonne mixed their own blue and bluey green paint colors Did the entire wall with this sick pattern that we all thought was great already Then they covered the whole thing in masking tape painted it black and then ripped it off So we have this like sick Circuit boardy style pattern to go along with our illuminated logo on the subject of painstakingly difficult projects This one wall is responsible for how many hours of work fun? And then we've ruined the whole thing with a comic sans ltt store.com at the top and lucky creator warehouse They get to be right next to the lounge and this basketball hoop Sarah. Hey, thanks. We don't have a basketball We lost it, but we do have these Linus plushies that are soon to be available on Ltt store calm. Wow, that was really terrible. Anyway, the point is this is where our engineer Kyle sits We've actually got two more engineers that are starting so we can work on all kinds of projects that involve in injection molding PCB design all that kind of stuff for ltt store.com in the middle we've got customer service as well as Bridget and Hannah our fashion designer and I guess pattern maker would be probably the best way to describe Hannah's job So for that reason a lot of the new projects like when hoodie v2 Which is finally coming soon are gonna be at oh, you know what? Let's leak some projects Nick's gonna get so mad Where's the when v2? Okay. Oh, here's the original one so that's the original when hoodie see we still have some brand new ones actually and That's not Nick coming over is it I don't want to get in trouble The best way to not get in trouble is to have him not seeing you doing things that get me in trouble So this is me when hoodie still got like all the like waterproof pockets and stuff. There's matching sweatpants Oh, yeah, Sarah. Do you recall how much this stupid fit mannequin cost? Yeah, it's like hundreds of dollars and and according to Bridget and Hannah. This isn't even like one of the really good ones. So Down the other side we've of course got Nick an empty spot for a new hire in the future the one and only Sarah but with her army of dinosaurs protecting her workspace from intruders It's excellent Sarah and then this is Lloyd's desk where he has made his own Sunlight blocking thing to protect his screen and Sarah's eyes or whatever from the Sun You know we put them in the one part of the office that has natural light the one freaking part of the office has natural Light they complain shall we make our way down into the hold? Logistics here does so much more than just a typical warehouse type of role like for example They still do have to receive inventory which sometimes is small and easy to deal with and other times is Extremely large and on the back of a truck and fragile but in addition to that they also have to do things like diagnose sometimes, you know very arcane pieces of hardware or Stuff that they might not have a ton of familiarity with like say for example this Maybe sort of not working, you know boom arm for a microphone they've got to do all of it while looking extremely pretty which is a Challenge in a department like this because there's so much Hardware coming in and out of this place that it can be difficult to keep it all organized There's Matthias right there I gotta keep my two meters from him because I'm not wearing my mask and then we've got Nicholas as well as Serge who is hiding over by the jackets because he's so shy go get Serge Andy See Serge this went from zero to absolute freaking hero. Look at this This might as well be an electronic store. We've got our cooling. We've got our water cooling We've got our motherboards. They are sorted by chipset. We have magnetic labels so we can move them around We got our power supplies. All right, ladies and gentlemen, they're sorted by wattage Freaking love it. The point of this is that when we have multiple projects on the go which happens often I will show you that area soon. It's nice if multiple people can have a 2080 super or whatever it is that they need it Look even we like we don't have a huge surplus of 3000 series These are 3090s, but these are actually for our editing stations when we water cool them in the very near future This is the old CPU Slash RAM storage rack. Yeah, and of course now that m.2 is a thing. We've got our SSDs here as well This is probably the sickest shelf in the entire office if you guys are into like, I don't know computers or whatever Down here is our podcast slash live streaming setup And why is it here because this is gonna be the new set for ideally both carpool critics and the WAN show that is Once we've put in some acoustic panels and some big thick carpet and stuff like that. This is something I'm pretty proud of this is the graveyard system So it used to be that if we had a case that went back without some accessory and then we found a spare accessory But we didn't know what case it went with The accessory got thrown away and then the case didn't have it the next time we opened it and then it was useless But now we've got Graveyard's so if you find a thing that you know looks important But you're not sure what it goes with you just put it in one of the graveyards and then hopefully They will become reunited with the thing that they came from and everything will be hunky-dory left or right Left, okay Now, let's see what would have happened if we had turned right instead of left Ha ha ha I get it. We would have ended up in the writers block Get it get it over Here we've got Madison our social media coordinator with her excellent googly eyes on the back of her chair And then over on this side you're gonna find a lot of familiar faces The one and only Jake who set up that ubiquity access control along with our new security cameras James who has actually I think been promoted since the last time I like formally did a tour and talked about people So he is my my right hand, you know, and I'm right-handed So that's a good thing So he helps me manage the rest of the writing team as well as continuing to produce videos on his own He also does a lot of the hosting these days on tech link tech quickie We've got the one and only Riley see I'll take the place of Riley today. This is Riley He writes tech link did you guys probably know the one and only the legendary Anthony who has been of course writing LTT helping out with the Mac guys Providing technical support for the technical support and then he's been doing quite a bit of Linus tech tips hosting lately Massive high five to Anthony. Good job. Thank you. Now. We're not actually allowed to touch over here We've got someone on probation So you can't see them and then now we're in the middle of the tech link So you can't see them and then now we're in sort of like the NG corner. So Colin's desk is right here He's off today and then Alex is to desk. Oh, you put this here for this didn't you? I know you did. This is our absolute one-of-a-kind 10 million subscriber diamond play button RGB lit gaming PC. I'm calling it a gaming PC We've got these cool little shelves and like wall mount things where we can put all the different knickknacks We need like little compressed air thing in the boobers for cleaning stuff out Alcohol for cleaning off CPUs. I fix it kits all those little materials that we need so we can keep our workspaces a little tidier These are the scripts of some of our top videos including all the little Annotations that we do to help the editor with their visualizations So that's kind of one of the collaborative things that the writers and the editors work together on This has been where we've hosted the podcast the carpal critics podcast But soon it won't be this is going to be the call slash meeting room for the writing team What's all of this podcast crap is out of here? And then this is my office Colin is still working on my upgraded desk PC. So hopefully I'll have a video on that for you guys soon So this is still the og one And of course, this is actually a perfect opportunity to show off my anchor C 300 web cams So they do 1080p 60 FPS with a hundred and fifteen degree field of view not Necessary for me since I end up sitting so far from my webcam But what does help when I'm so far from my webcam is the microphone is excellent I get absolutely no complaints whatsoever about my audio quality and I really like that They use a USB type-c connection because if I do want to take it with me on the go you can just kind of fold it up grab your cable and You don't have to worry about like which way it goes in when you're hooking it up to your laptop This is my workbench where I've got a UPS just in case the power goes out Well, I'm flashing a BIOS or whatever the case may be Everyone has UPS is on the workstations and on their test benches. I cannot Overstate the importance of a good UPS. This is where I put all my awards like, you know Oh, do I have any that I lost here? No. No, here's one though I'm gonna put this up in its in place of honor here Okay Next to my my throat my dead thread ripper. There you go. 404 success not found scrapyard wars 7 Here are the chairs people sit in when I'm having meetings with them Oh if you guys haven't seen this video by the way, make sure you go watch it. My chair is pretty special It's actually got a sub ambient chilled water cooling built into it for those hot days Oh, these are the LTT sticker packs that you get with current orders on LTT store.com and I guess that's pretty much it for this Room it does have some cool decor that Yvonne and Janice worked on but it wasn't part of this makeover like my Apple clock and my Apple themed cork board that Minor minor issues just outside my office We've got the writing team for the upcoming Mac channel as well as another on probation LTT writer All of them have these same anchor webcams the reason for that is we have to conduct all of our meetings over like Microsoft teams now because Thank you. Covid but hey at least it helps to have nice fast autofocus That's another one of the sort of key points about these bringing us finally to the workshop Which doesn't have an inside doorway into the rest of the office because it's a concrete supporting wall for the building that we're in This place is basically Unrecognizable from the last time I showed it to you guys it used to just be that bathroom boxed in and then an Open freaking empty concrete warehouse, and I gotta say they have done a pretty bang up job of it We've got our vertical and horizontal belt Sanders I had only ever seen this and now that I've seen this it absolutely changed my life got our bench grinder Got our sandblaster that I think we it is pristine in here. We've yet to actually use this one But did you use it once? All right We've got a way better bandsaw than we used to have drill press all The fittings that we could want well I could still want more fittings But that's a lot of fittings pretty much all the tools we could want This is going to be a paint booth at some point in the future Oh, wow, they've actually made progress on this since the last time I looked at it So the idea is that it's supposed to suck air in through these filters And then that's an air replacement from outside so that we don't end up with negative pressure in here This is Kyle who has a toaster oven So that's our workstation for like soldering or electronics work. Here's our speedy 400 flex Laser let's call it a cutter use it for engraving too though These are the discs for the reservoir for my new desk PC that Colin is working on in fact Ow after I made fun of Yvonne so much for dropping her phone on her face and cutting her face Here's our sink slash eye wash station that cost an absolute fortune to get installed We had to cut out and like dig into the foundation of the building in order to get the plumbing over here Yvonne made it work. Thank you Yvonne Here's our lathe that I have now been informed sucks, and we're getting a better one We're getting like a CNC one now or something like that Here's where we put all of our devices that need to be charged like our you know impact and heat gun and all that kind of stuff the Mill is definitely going this is getting replaced by one from Tormach that's right that thing is gonna be Freaking sick you can actually have the machine Automatically change out those bits for you in the middle of the job So you don't have to be constantly watching over it and like hand changing things is pretty sick And then of course there's our CNC router Which we've had to use for both router and mill duty all this time, but now we'll be just pulling router duties We won't have to cut out stuff like this on it And we can more use it for like you know Plexi and wood and that sort of thing if you want to find the details for any of these tools We'll have some of the key ones like the speedy 400 flex which you can learn more about at the link in the video description Also linked in the video description we will have anchor who is featuring their power conf as well as their C 300 webcam and And thank you to them for sponsoring this video. I hope I managed to hit where the cut is on my eyebrow And I hope you guys enjoyed this tour of the Linus tech tips well Linus media group studio I haven't even talked about some of the really cool stuff like that compressor outside means we have compressed air like everywhere in this room like all the hookups and everything