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Lights, Camera, Action! My Tech Setup For Recording Courses && Podcasts

Emma Bostian ✨ on October 03, 2020

Earlier this week I posted a couple of tweets regarding my new camera and lighting setup! Many people were interested in what technologies I use to...
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HawiCaesar

Awesome Setup!

Quick question, is your Mac always hot...well because of the external display...Don't get me wrong I understand the importance of an external display...but have you in any way experienced slowness, lag or delay when using the external display ?

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Jeremy Meiss

FWIW... there is a lot of discussion on the interwebs about Macbooks and their incessant heat issues if you plug things, especially those using PD (power delivery), into the ports on the left hand side. I plug my hub and power on the right and the heat and constant fan went away. YMMV but it's worth a shot (assuming you're plugging things into the left side of the MB).

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HawiCaesar

I'm plugging things on the left, the ports are on the left. Seems like that is the issue from your description

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Emma Bostian ✨

Nope! :)

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HawiCaesar

Oh well seems like its that me...haha

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Jean-Michel Plourde

Hey Emma! I really liked your article, satisfies the gear nerd I am. I really enjoyed how friendly it is written. Always a pleasure to read you.

I bought myself a blue Yeti some time ago and I searched a lot to tweak it properly, so here is some advices if that can help someone else: it's a very good microphone that's plug and play out of the box. There is 1-2 things to know before hand: if it sits on your desk, you will hear every vibrations coming from the desk while typing on the keyboard or any other vibration really. Second, while the mic is good, you'll quickly notice the raw sound is very limited and isn't too great. I highly recommend Voicemeeter: it's a free software that act as a console for your audio input and outputs. You can easily apply a gate (only activate the mic for certain frequencies, blocking background sounds) and filters. The sound upgrade is insane. If you still have a lot of background noise and have a Nvidia graphic card, I highly recommend Nvidia RTX Voice. It's a software that does magic by using AI to remove backgroun noise. Like I can vacuum clean near the mic and it's not picked up.

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Shubham Setia

What an awesome setup🥳

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mohammad taheri

Jesus Christ

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Niko Heikkilä

Really cool setup! Can you get any taxing benefits from purchasing expensive equipment for work?

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Jeremy Meiss

Thanks so much for sharing this! I have accumulated a bunch of stuff and making it work, but I love seeing what others are doing. Thanks for taking the time to document!

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Amir Hameed

waaow.