I Got To 30K Subscribers with ONLY THIS Equipment

hello and welcome to my tiny office as you'll see here it is truly tiny i've been recording out of box rooms and offices and living rooms for around about seven eight years some of the earliest videos on this channel is me in front of a suspended screen of just a a fake brick wall i've used green screens that was a living room in the last year and a half two years i was lucky enough to be using a spare bedroom and putting these shelves behind me into my set and right now i'm pretty much in a box room which is big enough to put a cot and a wardrobe in and yes that means that i will be forced out of here but into a new office very soon an experience that i plan on sharing with you so if you want to see how i build out that new office in the next few weeks few months hit subscribe but there's a lot of equipment that i've collected over the last three five years that helped me make my youtube videos so today as part of me packing up my office i'm going to show you every piece of equipment i've got knocking around that i've used to make my videos on youtube over the last eight years and on this channel for the last four now obviously there'll be a few things that i'm going to be using was doing this so i'll list those up front one this wonderful chair an umi chair which you can see as part of this video here it is a gaming chair that was sent to me and it is really really comfortable ever since i moved in to this studio this has been the thing that i've been sat on was previously it was footstools or i was standing up this here the thing that you might not be able to see properly is a lavalier mic it's a boya b y m one and it's a cardinoid microphone in other words it's a little microphone that you stick here that way i can move around wherever i want even behind the camera and the audio would be focused here rather than a shotgun mic like the one on top of my canon 200d the canon 200d is my first and only dslr it was bought for me as a christmas present by my girlfriend and about 200 years ago and that was a huge investment for me because i really suck at buying stuff for myself and the videomic go is a shotgun mic which means it points it straight to you and it catch anything that's in front of it really whatever it's pointing at it's very good at pointing things but not very good if you're talking behind it or you're trying to get the spatial awareness and if i move away from the camera using a shotgun mic it loses the audio quality because if i'm halfway down a canal or halfway down a pavement i'm nowhere near the microphone was this boya by m1 not only does it have a stupidly long microphone cable but it's attached to me the camera is on a polaroid 60 inch tripod and tripods have saved my life because in my early videos you can go back and you can see where i piled it all up on tables and footstools and every time i even stepped forward the camera would wobble but those are the basics that i'm using right now the camera the microphone the microphone the tripod oh and of course a ring light which is right here my ring light doesn't dial in it just turns on and turns off but you can get ones that you can dial up in brightness even have colour scheme even have sleeves all of the equipment that i mentioned today by the way is in the description down below should you want to go off and investigate now i'm going to start tearing apart the set behind me i'm packing it away so i can move it into the new office that i'm hoping to get signed and sealed within this week but this way i get stuff packed and you get to see what i actually use starting off with the super simple stuff this is a usb and this is attached to me this is a microphone once again another lapel microphone now before your by m1 can connect to the camera right and it has a a headphone jack but it's not very good if i'm sat there trying to record screen records or trying to do voice chats or trying to do consultations using a laptop so this plugs into the usb this plugs here and then i can do a lot of work there this is probably something that you've seen countless billion times by many people a logitech c9 maybe even a c920c um these initially went for like 50 60 quid but during this pandemic thing people have been scalping them at 150 120. when i first started youtube i didn't have a dslr camera i just used a webcam and then tried to clump together some decent audio so you can start on your mobile phone or you can start on a webcam webcam is very good for live streams as well an obvious piece of equipment that everybody has is their mobile phone this is an iphone se 2020 edition i've had an iphone se for four or five years i had the original ones i just prefer the way the screen works and the and the button works here that's my misses on my lock screen this thing as with any smartphone can give you some of the great fantastic audio it can help you take video clips on the go you can record in 4k you don't even need a dslr if you're starting today you can just use a smartphone to get started content online is better than no content at all perfection of continuing to tweak is your enemy so this is a boya by dm200 i got this for christmas just gone why because i needed slightly better audio on my lightning port based smartphone so this plugs in to the lightning port on my iphone and it's a little microphone a little a little shotgun mic so what i do is i plug it in here right and if i'm making podcasts or if i'm recording a video there you go little microphone there it's just a little bit better than your on built on board audio there's no battery in it boya i find is quite a good cheap alternative to like the road or the sennheiser a road microphone could be a few hundred if you're going top end but you get bought your equivalent then they're easily half the price all the boyer equipment comes in nice little bags for you to carry it's even got what what it's like dead cat things so you kind of just like and take it wherever you want i'm keeping this out along with obviously my phone and maybe like a mini tripod to go and have a look at the office later i'll show you here you go this is an example of the microphone i've done a comparison on these by the way in another video i'll put it somewhere in the i card i did a comparison between the boya b y m m one which is the car denied shotgun microphone and the video mic go which is the road thing on top of this camera once again plugs into your camera gives you directional quality audio and it's always good to have a few options talking about this is much cheaper than the videomic go it just so happens that i've got a couple knocking about just in case and as you can see here i've kept the box for the video might go why because it looks good on the set behind me wireless headphones now i've got a few sets i've got a big set of cans that i edit with that cost me 20 30 quid the m pals i'll show you some footage here if i can find them but these little beauties but these little beauties are little in here like wireless wireless headphones from anchor they're the sound core something something sound course surge buds why are these important well in some cases i just want to listen to music whilst editing or i want to keep myself to myself and what these do is these can sync to your phone these can sync to your laptop right i don't know if you can just they come in a nice little springy thing a load of headphone wires and stuff like that great for keeping on me i take them when i go on walks when i'm walking down the canal hopefully when i get on flights in the year 20 27 billion i would be lost without a good pair of headphones because over the years i used to have the headphone jack ones and you'd lose one sound in one ear sounding the other right or you'd they'd get tangled in something this they clipped to me always here when i go out or they're in my pocket love them laptop calling pad right this goes under the beast of a machine right that i edit with so this plugs into the laptop and cools it down when needed because this is the beast that's on top of it it's the dell xps 15 the 2019 edition it's basically a pc equivalent of a mac it cost me two and a half three thousand two and a half grand so that's about i don't know three and a half thousand dollars but at this i only bought this because the business was doing well before that i edited on a really bad laptop that cost me 200 pounds that i slowly upgraded with an ssd and slowly added ram 2. this was a business investment some people buy cameras i was editing videos for other creators right so this paid for itself but every time i made a video for somebody else and uploaded it for them and that made me 75 50 75 to 100 pound maybe a video so this paid for itself and now this edits all of my content on here and i won't switch this out for easily another year year and a half two years why two years because if you truly use your laptop for work you realize how quickly you go through a laptop rather than just a casual user now i will list the spec of this right in the description down below but safe to say you're looking at a an i9 a 4k screen it's got a large ssd and i think it's got 32 gigs of ram so it's a brute force machine and the reason i got this is because the old laptop would render a 10 minute video in about 15 20 minutes half hour this does it in two minutes and saves me a lot of time and when you're in youtube and social media it's the time that you need to keep winning back because i can make a little bit more money with my half hour an hour on the laptop if it's available right when it's rendering in two minutes rather than rendering two videos in 30 minutes i hope you understand what i mean by that okay here's my bag of random wires now this this is a box that i also store all my stuff in i absolutely love these i would swear by these right they go in my my shelving unit here which is like by home base or by ikea it's one of those kalax square units but you have to organize them right so i've got i've got these they've got handles i've got them black i've got them in blue i want to do and they're all just below here so i can hide all of my terrible mess but i also store my wires and my cables and my other electrical equipment in here and my my tonic tea cakes that have eaten this is another wired lavalier microphone but this one plugs into the headphone jack of my computer now i got this because i had at the time a laptop that had a dedicated headphone and dedicated microphone slot so i wanted to use a jack based system i also to be honest wanted to test cheap alternatives the for the the camera thing but you you very quickly learn that not all headphone jacks were made equal it depends on how many bands they've got whether it's a digital thing whether it can be used for the smartphone that kind of thing and this is by toner they also do little microphones as well you'll see it trend over time i'm a firm believer in the anchor brand the anker headphones i've got an anchor soundbar mini soundbar this is an anchor power block which does around about 10 iphone charges right and it's fantastic it takes a while to charge right but once charged you've got your usbs you've got your lightning your usbc right and this can keep your laptop going this kept my phone going whilst my other half was giving birth to my son in a hospital and i had to be around for 10 11 12 hours trying to keep myself entertained was she was trying to stab me because she was in pain but this power block can i i can take anywhere i'll be taking on airplanes i'll be taking to hotels when the world opens up and having one of these knocking around your house is actually more useful than you realize because your mobile phone battery dies fairly often i always have a load of usb cables including and here they sneak into an old iphone charger because i've recently added to my setup an old ipad why old because it was free and it doesn't matter why an ipad well if i want to do screen recordings for i based content maybe maybe i i'll show you how to add in screens or edit videos on an ipad then there you go i don't have to use an emulator online i can use one of these and once again this i believe was donated to the family for the five-year-old by my father-in-law so yeah here we go so we can now place apps on here it's also very good at making notes keeping ideas on and keeping you entertained when you're out and about maybe having a script if you're recording in a in a park or something it's also a great way to entertain a five-year-old should you need to you know set up a camera and record something very quickly mini light you ready i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna blind you this is a fantastic way of giving you additional pieces of light now when i went to vidcon 2020 at the start of last year before the world went to crap i was trying to record a load of video footage in my hotel room in which i was using the orange lights from the ceiling and if i was lucky maybe the the torch from my phone this was my solution that i've thought of ever since it's a little light that i can that's all led you can see all the little bulbs there right that i can put wherever i want and shine to give a little bit of light in places right i can bounce it off a wall like i'm doing there see the difference when i turn it off right i can make it my main light i can attach it to my camera if i want to or in dark areas i can illuminate you can also get color covers should you want to put red blue green behind you you'll be seeing that in some of my videos in future when i go into the new office i'm going to set up a an area that says this an area that is is light based but this is the alternative to the ring light the ring light might cost you 20 30 50 quid or more this is the cheaper alternative and a hell of a lot more mobile i can put that in my pocket without any problems hd video capture card now i'll be honest i've not used this yet i i blame rob wilson for this idea existing he hooks up his dslr camera to his laptop using one of these now this is not like an elegato kind of capture card it could be used as a low res capture card he says opening it right but what it is is a hdmi to usb kind of connector okay so i can connect this to my computer and then plug my camera via hdmi into here and then it converts it maybe even turn it into a webcam that i can live stream with or use it directly into the laptop it comes with a cable and an extender so i can i can extend it as far as i wish and it says that it records in 1080p 60 frames per second plug and play no no need to install and it's a high speed flash thingy basically i saw rob wilson from vidiq use it and i thought well if he's using it and i'm part of the vidiq team maybe i should get to know what it does as well and most importantly it was only like five bucks old phone charger like you know micro usb always great for charging things always good to have these knocking around rather than plug it into another thing that charges off your laptop spare lightning cables you can never have too many another boya this is what was inside the boya by m1 box just to show you that it's extra fluffy it's got the connector at the bottom and this one comes with a mini tripod and a little spring so i can attach it to like a phone or clamp it onto a camera this is a homemade storage device basically i had an old laptop and i ripped out the old sata hard drive it's a terabyte drive in here right and then what you can do is you buy a case that you plug it into and then it turns it into a usb driven external hard drive this way i can save and back up everything i want and because it is usb c rather quick and it's fairly cheap because it's not an ssd now you can get an ssd equivalent and put it in there it's even faster as well and some people suggest that if you edit on an external hard drive ssd using usb and usbc it could be faster on slower older laptops tripods i easily have about five six tripods knocking about this is one of those like cheap equivalents of a gorillapod where you can manipulate it and wrap it around things it's good for cameras it's good for phones it's good for stands i can mount my lights on it can even have too many of these and because it is quite small i can put it in a backpack i can walk into town i can set up a shot and it stabilizes something rather than me trying to wedge it up against a tree or not just generally not getting that shot at all because i don't have something to to hold it up on however one of my biggest secrets and easily one of the best tools i ever got is a freebie from our people at vidiq right we were giving these out to the vin iq stand at vidcon what is it right it is a mini tripod that i can keep in any pocket that i can mount my phone to right any time that you've seen me sit there and quickly switch around i'm using this right i can move it around wherever i want it's got legs right i can even detach it should i once again want to put a camera on it or anything that is mountable and this is free and this just goes to show that you don't have to pay anything to get equipment that you're going to use on a regular basis and i use this easily four or five times a month when recording content if i'm out and about if i'm walking on the canal if i'm just generally filming content that i've planned to make out and about it will be with this unless i go with slightly slightly higher production when i was vlogging in my vidcon like vlogs i was using this in my earlier videos i used to show you how what equipment i used and i used giant softbox lighting these are the bulbs that are inside that light these are 5500k light bulbs that's the color the brightness how different they happen to be in human terms that means that if i turn this on it looks daylight white rather than if i turn a light on in the living room it's kind of tuned to be a little bit more orange this one's small and this one's big in all honesty there's no difference between the two just i could find them slightly cheaper on ebay be warned that daylight bright light bulbs could set you back anywhere between five and eight pounds or ten bucks per bulb because there is very specific need and they're not mass produced but i use two light soft boxes on tripods normally one here one here and a ring light in front of me but in this little office i don't do that i don't need to because there's not much light to be pulled away from me i'm really close to the camera that's me pretty much touching the lens and i'm not i'm not playing around so all i need is the ring light to flood here but when i go into the new office so i'm going to use multiple light sources to to light me up i'm even going to use ring lighty stuff behind me you know color things like that but i just wanted to point out that you don't have to have a massive setup this is me stealing a corner in a tiny little room and what i used to do is still a corner in my living room setting up the stuff and sitting down the stuff this is my general day-to-day equipment obviously there'll be for example spare batteries and sd cards for the camera all of which i'll list down below but this is everything i film with and here it is one of the rooms in the new office that hopefully you'll get to see me kit out over time now it's been a long journey getting to this point where i can finally have the business afford an office and i'm going to tell you that story next week how i went from being pretty much bankrupt to be able to have the business afford a place for me to record it so subscribe to see that story and be here if it's made already and there'll also be a little tour once i get this wonderful new cottage out