Throughout the weekend, I watched a lot of videos on how to get a good setup for recording videos and livestreaming. They talked about everything from audio, lighting, effects, and cameras. I got really interested in all of it, and decided it was time to actually clean my room! 

After moving some cords, a desk which I wasn't using, and some random equipment and trash on the floor, I vacuumed the carpet. Things were starting to look good! Next, I cleared the space in a corner in the room (where the camera would see as a background) and took down my sound panels. They were all together in one sort of square and in one place. I wanted them to be more spread out, so I put them back up, but 3 hexagon panels at a time, side by side with about a 3 inch gap. I also moved the LED Light strips I had, and aligned them along the corner of my room (vertical), and then horizontally on the bottom of the walls.

How to sound like a robot in adobe Audition:

First, record your voice to be saying whatever you want your robot to say. After you have that done, go to Effects>Generate>Tones. You should see a panel with a ton of options and sliders pop up, which can be a bit overwhelming. Go to the Presets tab and select the Chord preset. Look further down on the panel and click "> Advanced". An extra section of the panel should drop down. Right below "DC Offset" change the "Replace" to "Modulate". Now apply the effect, and it should sound pretty robotic!

I sometimes like to mess around and have fun with effects in audition, and if you use some of them right you can come out with some really wonky. Here's how you can make your voice sound like a sci fi alien!

First, record whatever you wanna say (which we will turn into an alien voice). Once you have that recorded, right click the waveform track and click "Copy to New". This will copy the file and make a new file appear in the files rack that should be named "Untitled 1". Repeat the process until you see another file appear named "Untitled 2". Create a new multi track, and then drag all 3 files onto the multitrack. go into the 2nd file, and then go to time and pitch>pitch shifter - Modify the semi-tones to -7, then apply. Then go into the 3rd file, open time and pitch>pitch shifter, then modify the semi-tones to +7, and apply. Once you play all 3 files together, it should sound like a funny alien voice!

As I've said in a past blog post, I've been posting minecraft Youtube videos documenting what I do on my survival minecraft world. But it's not just any "world", I have it on special settings to make it very challenging, and it consists of a lot of item preserving and farming to make the most of the few items I have or can get. 

I make 1 minute long videos and post them to youtube shorts. Youtube shorts is a different type of youtube video, where it's limited to a 60 second time length, and the format/frame size is like a phone (9:16). When I make the videos, I record my voice describing what happens over the video. I always say my lines several times so I can get the best ones, and I say them off of the top of my head rather than read a script. 

You can hear them all here:

Yesterday I switched my whole stream setup to streamlabs. Streamlabs is extremely useful for essentials for a stream, they provide everything from twitch alerts to webcam overlays. I've been using OBS for streaming and recording, but turns out streamlabs has their own OBS version specific for just streaming! The layout is very similar, but you can customize everything for your stream strait from the software, rather than going to their website which is what I had to do before that. 
The original reason I switched was because apparently streamlabs had it so you could customize certain overlays, but it was only possible by downloading their app for it. I needed an overlay that showed the specific amount of followers I got per stream out of a follower goal. Unfortunately since this was so specific, googling how to get an overlay like that wouldn't get me anywhere.

OBS owns streamlabs, so what was really nice is that when I opened streamlabs, it asked me if I was using OBS already. When I answered yes, they asked me if they could import ALL OF MY SETTINGS FROM OBS TO STREAMLABS. I said yes, AND THEY IMPORTED ALL OF MY SETTINGS IN!!! This really impressed me, because I thought I would have to set everything up again, which would be a pain, especially since I would have to track down a ton of videos and images I used for my stream and re-upload them.

I can't wait to add more features to my stream using streamlabs. I wish I downloaded streamlabs months ago!