Mastering my desk setup for the ultimate configuration

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So another office

toll video attached to a video.

I also want to show you guys my state,

because I have changed

everything up in here.

Like, it is completely different

to my loss of a store video

showing you my setup and stuff.

Mainly because I'm still not sure on

exactly how I want this one

to look at the same time.

I remember when I first started,

I wanted to make it

so that I can change it whenever I like.

I like changing myself.

I like changing workplace things.

I like trying different things.

It just keeps it fresh for me,

rather than keeping everything

in the same place.

So let me show you around.

Let me show you the changes

that I've made so far. So as you come in,

the door is behind me.

This is the room.

The room is three

and a half metres by three

and a half metres in size.

Ignore the light.

I have the light here because obviously

I'm shooting some stuff.

But that light in

these books is on wheels.

As you can see,

I have completely rearranged

the layouts of this room before

the desk was over there in that corner.

So facing towards the window

and my gaming desk set up was also white.

Now it's a virtual desk.

So everything in here

is from the channel.

All the setups on the side cabinet.

You'll see in a second.

I have changed the rug completely.

So I mentioned in the previous video

that I wasn't too sure about the rug.

I've got a darker, browny

coffee coloured sort of rug.

I kind of wish it was even darker.

But at night

it is really nice,

especially when it's dark.

It's very, very nice.

A lot of the shows you're going to see

are mainly going to be in the dark,

mainly because

it looks better in the dark

when I'm filming stuff

like it just does,

the lighting just is better

because I can control it.

Anyway,

we'll start with my gaming set up here.

I have a venue desk,

so those cables down there

that you can see,

that's the best I can do. Really.

I can actually manage them any more

because they need to dangle down

for the plug and for the Ethernet cable.

This is a venue desk, standing desk.

To be honest, when I'm gaming,

I'm usually not standing.

I usually just scoot my chair

over to my gaming set.

I have the LG 32 inch monitor,

the one that has the dual monitor

where it goes between

240 years and 480 hertz.

I have my gaming PC here.

This is the deep cool Seagate

160 minute case.

It's so small as you can see.

It doesn't take up too much room at all.

Has a 4080 super in it.

I can't remember the processor.

I think it's a 7100 x three.

They have a G pro

wireless mouse from Logitech

and I also have in the waiting keyboard

I move these actually

to make them a bit more

uniform.

The reason why my

keyboard was all the way back

there is because only my arm

is resting on the table on me.

The keyboard far back.

I also have the Logitech

nice creative console here.

No mad wireless charger for my phone.

I really like this setup for gaming

is fantastic

and the desk itself, as you can see,

is actually quite deep.

And that is ideal for me

because I like to rest

my arms on the desk

when I'm gaming

and it also helps

with the distance from the monitor.

This is a 32 inch monitor

and when you're quite close

is actually feels really big.

So I like to sit far back from it.

I also have a virtual side cabinet here.

Let me move this tripod out of the way.

I just simply use it for storage.

So if I open it up, I'll be able to see

I have like cables and other

island things in here

and this is quite deep in here.

Actually.

I have some stuff in there.

Oh, these are cool. By the way.

I would highly, highly recommend these.

So these are just simply

plastic boxes from IKEA

and they're three.

And I specifically chose them

to be see through

so that I can see

what's actually in the box.

So this is just my cables

block basically.

So whenever

I need charging cables or anything,

I can see what's in the box

without actually having to open

a lid or whatever else.

I have my Metal quest with that,

which is incredible.

By the way,

I have tried the Apple Vision Pro,

but the Apple Vision

Pro is like ten times the price.

So

this I think, is really good

value for what you get.

Have a large, huge window

here, letting in a lot of natural light,

which is fantastic in the day right now

I feel like it doesn't actually

make it ideal for filming though,

because everything is lit up.

But when I'm working here in the day,

having all this natural light come in

is such a nice experience.

And then if we move over

to my main setup,

we can see that I have a corner desk.

So let me disable like so

this is a desk from Vernal.

It is a L-shaped corner desk.

You can have it in two

different configurations.

You can have it

so that it's the left side

or the right side.

I went with the left side.

Initially,

I was

actually going to put this desk

over there in that corner,

but I ended up deciding

just to leave it here

because I think it makes more sense

really.

I still get a lot of the natural light

so I can look outside,

but then

I don't have a bright

light behind the screen,

which when I'm doing like video

editing and stuff,

can actually sometimes be distracting.

When I'm video

editing in the day,

I end up actually shutting the curtains,

closing the curtains.

So I have full darkness in here.

This desk is incredible, by the way, like

signing desk, of course,

for press the button,

the whole thing comes up

and I feel like it's just insane.

Like this is heavy as well.

This is a very, very heavy desk.

You definitely need

two people to put it together.

It's a very heavy duty desk,

but actually incredible, like

the quality, the same finish.

It's not a real one,

not like it's like a walnut veneer.

But I think that's okay.

I'm happy with the wall up in it

because if it was a real walnut,

it would be even more heavy.

It would be absurdly heavy.

My setup

currently still

consists of the pro

display XDR,

and I have this new monitor shelf here.

I'm not too sure about the monitor

shelf yet.

I might actually put the monitor

on a monitor arm

or put the monitor

maybe underneath the shelf

because I found it's

a little bit too high,

but I'm trying it, testing it

and see what it's like,

because having them on a shelf

is obviously very useful

for being able

to put things above and below.

It gives me more room for stuff like my

Thunderbolt Dock

and my Mac Mini over there,

which I recently got.

It's funny, I bought that

and I'm not even actually using it.

I still obviously use my MacBook.

Yeah, this setup here is incredible.

You can see my subwoofer

down there as well.

I'm very happy with this setup so far.

I think it just works really well.

If we go back to

what else is in my setup,

I have the audio engine,

a two plus speakers here,

which are incredible.

I have them on speaker stands as well.

Like I said, I have to count as you talk

and I also have a note in my charger here

for my Apple Watch phone and AirPods.

I have my Mac.

This is the new amp

for Mac's MacBook Pro,

which I only got last week.

I'm testing out.

I will have a review on this

very soon,

so make sure to watch out for that.

But so far very, very good.

I mainly got it

because I needed more SSD storage,

my M1, Macs, MacBook Pro, which is here,

which is going to be going up for sale.

Actually, I do need to sell that.

That is like there's no problems with it.

I just needed more SSD storage.

Mainly

when I'm on the go

because I don't want to carry around

external SSDs.

This is my my car

actually it closed that

so you guys can see the stand.

I'm using a native union

laptop stand here,

very high

quality laptop stand

and I think it fits

the rest of the setup quite well.

The black and whites.

Then I also have my iPad Pro.

This is the M4 iPad Pro crazy

how there is an M4 chip in our iPad.

I'm going to have the logic.

I come aboard.

It's called the light beam.

Alex I think it is now lot.

You like your beam?

Alex You can change the colours of stuff.

You can see it's red and white right now,

but you can change the colour on top

to whatever colour you like, if you like,

but you can have that.

I can't have it as red.

I think it looks quite nice.

Gives it some nice mood lighting in here.

And then this side here, obviously

I just have my cameras,

so it's nice

having this section here

because it almost acts like another

sort of workspace

set up where I can just put stuff

that I don't actually need

in front of my computer.

So when I'm working on something,

I can just put it here

I don't have to worry about,

Oh, I have to move to another desk

or I need more space or whatever.

I can just put

whatever I need to put here.

I'm still trying to figure out

what I should do with that,

but I think I will

just keep it as like an open space

where I can put stuff.

I can work stuff

without it taking up my desk

space where my mouse and keyboard are.

The artwork that I have

there is from post a lot,

just a place I got from him.

He has some awesome designs

and I do have another poster down here

of a Daytona, a Rolex, Daytona.

So I'll take it apart probably.

I actually should put that on the wall.

I think that poster

that looks really good though.

I'm happy with that on the wall.

I should probably also put some art

maybe on this side as well.

What I also like to do is

I like to avoid using the light up here

because obviously it looks terrible.

So I always like to use lamps and stuff.

So I have this lamp here,

which is like

it's like battery powered,

but you can see

it's plugged in right now.

I also have a light

on top of this monitor,

a light bar on the top of this monitor.

And then, of course, I have the energy

lighter beam over here,

and then I have another govee floor

lamp here.

I think having lighting like that

really makes a big difference

to the space at night.

It just makes it feel a lot cosier,

makes it feel a lot more,

I guess a lot less sterile

because I've seen all the walls in

here are white,

so I don't want to actually paint them.

I want to keep them white,

but I want the furniture.

I want the accessories.

I want the curtains.

I want all of those too, to instead

have the colour

and bring sort of darkness and

I guess cosiness to the room

for the month.

I've had this set up

very, very happy with it.

I'm sure it will change again, though.

Like I love change

the things around

so I probably won't be like this forever,

but this sort of our desk shape

this out as design cool design.

This is awesome.

I might actually even move the monitor

to the to the corner over that.

We'll see.

I have a design again

Now let me show you the studio.

So the studio is in the room next door.

This is the studio room.

This is where you guys see me record

a lot of the videos,

the Arrow for the videos

and the be all the while, actually.

Yeah.

This is another room,

which is three and a half metres

by two and a half metres.

On the left

we have a shelving unit

which I use for sort of background

and stuff.

I think it just looks quite nice.

You can see

I just have a random IKEA unit head

which actually needs to go out,

have some lighting.

Again, a lot of natural light coming in.

And then I have this desk here

with the Vive myself

that I mentioned in my previous unique

desk accessories video.

So this is awesome because of course

I have the light up here,

I have a light here.

I can record any B-roll of

whatever I need for videos.

It acts as a nice sort of studio space

studio setup

for when I need to record some stuff.

I have my camera

trolley here

for mounting my camera

on being able to see myself,

and it also acts

as like a station for my camera stuff.

And then

I also have another desk on wheels,

which I primarily for the analogue setup,

and that is the studio setup.

There's a lot of echoing areas

and I need to deal with this. Okay,

So.