This is a YouTube video titled "Home Studio Set Up - Best Gear for Your Home Studio" created in May 2018. It features Trena Little introducing and discussing home video studio setups and gear for content creators, especially those with limited space. Trena is joined by Meredith Marsh, who shares a detailed tour and explanation of her own home studio setup and equipment. The video is aimed at helping creative entrepreneurs improve their video content production for YouTube business growth.
Let's be real. We all wish we had a designated area in our house to set up all of our filming gear so we could be more consistent with our video content. But for some of us, we just don't have the space in our house. And so in today's video, I'm going to be showing you a video setup so that you can use this potentially in your house as well. Hi, my name is Trena and on this channel I help creative entrepreneurs like you get on YouTube to grow your business. Because as a mom of two and a business owner, I don't have time to be online 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So I use my YouTube channel and my videos to do all the sales pitching for me. Now, to create video content, you obviously got to have some gear and have a space to film content. Now I've done some videos on this before. I will link them above, but I've invited my friend Meredith, a VidPro mom, to give you her studio setup and her favorite gear to use in her videos and check her out.
Hey, thanks for having me on your channel, Trina. My name is Meredith Marsh and over on the Vidpromom YouTube channel, I help people figure out video stuff. I've been on YouTube for a few years about since 2015 and I shoot all of my videos at home and my setup has changed quite a bit over the years. And since Trena is over on my channel today sharing her knowledge on best YouTube gear for beginners, I'm gonna give you a little tour of my home studio setup in the that I use. So let's go on a little tour. So my office studio is in a spare bedroom in my house and it's really, really small. I'm not complaining because in my last house all I had was the corner of the living room. So one of the things that I kind of forced myself to figure out in here was a way that I could keep all of my gear set up all the time without it being in the middle of the room. And in the way my desk is, almost seems like it's up against the wall, but it really isn't. There's just enough room for one umbrella light in and then I have a mic stand and my camera tripod and the other light just kind of lives off in another corner when I'm not using it. And when I am using it, I put it right here on the right hand side of my desk. And then sitting at my desk talking directly to the camera is a really just easy, comfortable way to record videos. Sometimes I set things up a little different, but for the most part, this is pretty much my setup. And then if I do a live stream or something right in front of my computer, all I have to do is turn on the one umbrella light. It's right in front of me, it shines down and it works really well. As far as my current gear setup, I do have these two umbrella lights. These are from Cowboy Studio. I ordered them on Amazon. I actually ordered softbox lights. These are what they sent me. I think they're umbrella lights, but they work. I also have daylight bulbs in the recessed lighting in my ceiling. They're on right now. Sometimes I have them on, sometimes I leave them off. I feel like it makes everything look kind of sterile looking like it's a little bit hospital lighting. Ish. And for my audio, I have a rode videomic. It's actually designed to go on top of the camera, but I just put my microphone on a microphone stand so that I can be a little more flexible with it. So my microphone is actually right up here, just out of frame instead of being directly on top of my camera. That way I can put my camera anywhere. I could shoot from far away if I wanted to, but still have my audio close to me. And my camera is a Canon 70D DSLR camera. And I've actually been using since I started my YouTube channel. I didn't buy it just for YouTube videos. I had a DSLR that shot still photos that stopped working. And so when I replaced that, I wanted to make sure I had one that also shot video. And it's a great camera. I really like it. I think the 80D is the newer version of the 70D and I'm not even using a fancy lens or anything. It's just a regular kit lens that comes with a DSLR camera. It's an 18 to 55 millimeter lens, so nothing fancy there. And when I do screencasts and tutorials and record my podcast, I use my Audio Technica ATR 2100. It's a USB microphone, so you don't have to have a special like entire soundboard or anything like that. And it sounds really great. So I've been using this combination of gear and setup for about four months now because these lights are relatively new. Before that, I just would use a ring light and natural light. And that worked pretty well for what I needed to do. And on the Video Pursuit podcast, I actually had have an episode on the evolution of my YouTube gear. What I used when I first started how I made it work for me, what I invested in over time, what worked, what didn't, what I'm using now, and what is on my wish list if I should decide to make any upgrades in the future. So if you're into that, you can catch the Video Pursuit podcast over@vidpromom.com podcast so that's how I record my YouTube videos. Thanks again, Trina for having me on. And if you want to see more of the videos that I create, then head over to the VidPro Mom YouTube channel. Bye.
I really love how Meredith sets up all of our equipment, and some of that gear is some great gear to use. If you want to check out what my home studio looks like, click the video that's on your screen right now. And don't forget to subscribe for more tips, tricks and strategies on how to use YouTube to grow your business. Thanks for watching. Bye.
