Can you plug a podcasting microphone with phantom power supply straight into a DJI Osmo Pocket?
Yes you can! And I try to show you what it sounds like.
I'm using a NEEWER NW-700, a Neewer microphone pre-amp, the DJI Osmo Pocket mic adapter and of course a DJI Osmo Pocket camera! (On a PolarPro Cinema Grip Tripod Mount)
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Here I try out the different settings in Pro mode - custom audio settings under "Volume Amplification Level"...
I really love using lapel mics, so haven't been keen to try out a podcast style mic... but what really surprised me is how much less ambient noise the mic picks up, even though it's further away from me. I think I'll be recording audio more like this while I'm indoors.
Also, it's the first time I'm showing my studio vlogging setup with the Osmo Pocket.
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Hello I'm Neil and this is my audio test to see if I can plug my NEEWER NW-700 into my DJI Osmo pocket and you're hearing it right now!
Here's... I've got another camera over here hello ah
This is what it looks like
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I'll show you the setup, but firstly, let's get on this camera...
I had a problem with this where there seemed to be a lot of hiss
I wanted to see if you could plug a podcasting microphone - something that - a microphone that needed a preamp, just straight into the camera, just to see what would happen... and it was fairly good but I think this might be better.
So what I've done - hello there you are - I've gone into Pro Mode - up here basically with the phone attached to your Osmo pocket, if you hit on the three dots...
And you can either be in basic... oh it won't let you change when you're recording
I changed it from basic to pro.
Dunno if you can see that.
It's grayed out because it won't let you change when you're recording
But what you can change while you're recording - which really surprised me - is that you can change it from auto volume to custom volume
Now I had it on auto before let's put it on, auto and then I'll show you my setup.
So what I've done is I've plugged in my podcasting microphone - this is a NEEWER NW-700
And I've got that line going straight into my preamp box
So I haven't got a mixer or anything - I've just got it straight into the box.
And then I've got a lead that goes straight from that, to a 3.5mm jack.
If you follow the lead, it goes all the way up to my Osmo Pocket, overpriced everyone hates it, mic adapter
There you go and it's going straight into the Osmo pocket.
Now what I've found is - and as you can hear - if I'd be quiet what I think was happening was that the auto level in the Osmo pocket was just bringing up noise when I'm quiet and it brings up a hiss
If I'm quiet for a moment - it doesn't help there are people outside mowing but you should hear Atmos not hiss.
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So I don't know how that sounds - be interesting to see in the Edit and let it go through onto the video - and what I didn't realize was that I could go into the pro settings and set a manual audio level on the Osmo pocket
So what I did was, press the three dots put it into Pro Mode, there's the basic tab and a pro tab, then go down to "volume amplification level" - See it says Auto
I click on that and choose custom
You can now set the volume and what I want to do is to just keep talking I've got to think of something to keep talking!
So that you can hear straight out of the camera how this sounds at a level of 10dB which seems to be the default setting
[SILENCE]
So I'm just staying silent there just to show that it doesn't bring up the hiss
[SILENCE]
If you can hear noise it's my neighbours doing the gardening, good for them!
Alright let's bring it up to 16dB and I might come closer just so you can get that full benefit of the podcasting experience.
So this might be of use to anyone who wants to podcast and video podcast there isn't a word for it yet that I've come up with or heard.
Vlogcast is the-- or vodcast is the closest that I've heard, but anyway this is the audio volume at 16 dB and then let's get everything.
Put it up to 20 dB
Hello - let's put it back up on the screen
So this is-- ah sorry it's my throat that's going mm-hmm
This is the level at 20dB and again you know this might be the microphone I'm sure you've got an even better microphone than me but I just wanted to experiment with what would it sound like if I plugged a podcasting style microphone or a microphone that needs a pre-amp directly into the DJI Osmo pocket and this is what it's like at 20 dB
If you set the level to custom so that you're manually setting the audio level
So anyway that's my test I really truly-- I'm gonna stay I'm gonna stick with this cuz I've got a feeling that this might be the best one the best of the three but I guess I'll see in the Edit and you'll see along with me
If you have any comments or even suggestions for how to do this even better, why not leave me a comment down below
I'll just be quiet again so you can hear some silence.
[SILENCE]
And if you've reached this point in the video why not give me a thumbs up - let me know that this might have helped someone somewhere in choosing a microphone
This is my test and the setup for the test thanks again I hope--
that's surely that's enough audio for you now!
Why not hit the subscribe button - you don't have to watch any of my videos ever again but your subscription really does help me keep this going so really appreciate it and maybe I'll give you a tour of this little setup I've got bolted to the wall
It's completely portable.
Anyway thanks for watching and I'll see you soon
Can you please help my daddy get 1000 subscribers just click on his face, thanks bye!
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This is the IKEA APPLARO or, ÄPPLARÖ outdoor patio garden table and chairs... acacia wood stained brown.
I put it together sort of in real time with the assembly instructions and a first impressions review.
It's great, we really like it by the way.
0:00 What does the Ikea Applaro wooden table and chairs look like?
0:42 Is the Ikea Applaro table good quality?
1:30 Assembly instructions for the Ikea Applaro table and chairs.
3:30 How to build the Ikea Applaro table
4:25 How big is the Ikea Applaro table? Length 140cm, Width 140cm, Height 72 cm
4:39 How to put together the Ikea Applaro wooden reclining chairs.
8:51 What does Ikea Seglaro parasol look like!
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Hello I'm Neil thanks for clicking on this video. Usually I'm a tightwad dad and that's where we try to be happy with what we've already got, as you can see on these words on the screen now.
But in this video I'm going to go against all my tightwad dad principles and actually... we bought a table for the garden.
This lovely IKEA Applaro garden furniture set with table and chairs.
I'm going to show you how we put the table together and also how we put the chairs together, and it was pretty straightforward, but we only have one problem and that's this:
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I don't know if you can see this.
It's erm, not a very impressive bump, and I was worried that we were putting the screws in too tightly or that the screw would come through to the surface but this is actually the dowel - this is the wooden dowel that is pushed through too far, and actually broken through to the surface there.
That's not entirely impressive but otherwise the table's gorgeous, we love it and this is how you put together an Ikea ÄPPLARÖ garden table and chairs.
So we pushed them together with the pins and the rubber washers.
You've got to push the dowels into these four posts then with the holes in the middle, push them in round the outside
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Okay so the dowels don't go in there like we've done.
They go in this side.
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Right so there's two holes in the sides, you got to really follow the picture, so with the sides, make sure these holes are towards you and it's gonna go down like this, and the first dowel goes on right-hand side the second dowel goes on the left-hand side third on the right hand side that's and forth on the left-hand side, and that should tally with the dowel holes on the table.
[Music]
You know what, it is much easier to put the dowels into the table and putting these on instead of like the picture trying to squeeze them into here - because it knackers your hand.
At least this way around you can push the dowel down and it just stays there.
I don't know how far you're supposed to go down, so it's bringing the wood together which is good... but then it starts to go CRUNCH and then it really goes down.
I don't know when it's supposed to stop.
Okay so this is why this one wouldn't go in, there's a-- what is it?
Looks like dead bee.
Just some stuff from inside the wood has gone down?
Don't know what it is, looks like plastic.
There we go, ugh! What is it?
Maybe a bit of wood from this, it's gone down, you know it wasn't a clean hole.
Alright that should work now.
I put the cross braces in.
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Next is the legs. Gotta get this thing and that screw hole lines up with the hole.
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I love when on American vlogging channels, they use a knife like a proper knife, we- we use the... IKEA scissors!
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Bag of bits. That's for the back.
Arms.
Legs.
Other back.
And the back of the chair, that's the bit we need first.
I've made three of these wrong!
This, this is the good one.
We need the thin side up not the deep side.
Bag of bits.
One of these and one of these, and just put it into that hole there.
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Next slide this in with the "hole" side up.
And getting the right leg.
There is a right and a wrong, that's the right side, that's the left side.
Put that groove at the bottom and that's gonna go to this metal bit - goes in the groove.
And then this hole lines up with that hole.
Doing this one-handed so you get one screw - plastic bit - then the washer and the nut with the small bit sticking out, and spanner to hold one side, and the allen key to turn it round.
[Music]
Then get the 2 dowels.
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And these things.
[Music]
Then, do exactly the same on the other side.
[Music]
So I did this before - it's the wrong way!
[Music]
Okay now we stand it up.
[Music]
So the tube and the screw go here, and then I got the washer there, that goes through and then the nut goes on the other side.
And then the same on the other side.
[Music]
So that's it, it's finished!
And now I can reveal the table underneath!
Ready? Three two one go! Dah dahhh!
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I guess what we're going to do next just save up the money for the cushions - that should be ready in about three years!
So if this has helped and you reached this point in the video, why not hit the thumbs up that's how other people find it - and good luck with your Applaro.
If you're feeling even kinder why not hit the subscribe button because I'm trying to get to 10,000 subscribers and don't think I'll ever make it, I'm on one and a half at the moment.
But if you take me a step closer, that'd be really kind of you - or leave a comment!
Just realised... this whole journey is in the London Borough of Camden.
Took a 24 bus from Waterloo station all the way along the route to Hampstead Heath... with my retired London taxi driver Dad.
I grew up in Camden, and we drive past all the places we remember.
Funny looking at it now, as it was shot a few days before The Great Shutdown of 2020.
0:00 View from the top deck of a London 24 bus route Boris Bus for London.
1:30 Getting on the 24 bus in South End Green, Hampstead.
2:40 Constantine Road, Hampstead.
3:50 Mansfield Road NW5 near Gospel Oak School.
4:30 Railway line to Euston - Malden Road.
5:25 Mum used to live in Allcroft Road, near Queen's Crescent, demolished for the estate.
6:20 Queens Crescent market.
7:15 Rhyl Street Primary School
7:55 Newbury Mews, The Mews that bizarrely featured in the opening titles of Pipkins (an ATV show made in Birmingham)...
9:10 Prince of Wales Road, Kentish Town
10:13 Chalk Farm Road
10:44 Unmarked BMW police car
11:05 Harmood Street where the 24 bus garage used to be.
11:35 Hawley Arms, made famous by Amy Winehouse among others.
12:05 The New Hawley Primary School (I made a whole video about the Old Hawley Infants in Buck Street where I went - link below)
12:40 Jeffreys Street, junction with Kentish Town Road and Quinns pub.
14:30 Sainsburys Camden Town where I stacked shelves when it first opened in 1988.
14:45 Camden Road and HQ of British Transport Police.
16:20 Near miss with bus, almost colliding with van.
17:15 Pratt Street and the Bonehouse Pub (St. Martin's Tavern)
18:40 Bottom of Camden High Street, Camden Palace (Koko) and Mornington Crescent Station.
19:55 HS2 demolition works.
22:50 Hampstead Road junction with Euston Road.
23:45 New 2 way system down Tottenham Court Road.
25:50 Goodge Street Station.
29:20 Tottenham Court Road Underground and Crossrail station.
30:50 Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue.
This is a long video of just the view from the top deck of a London 390 bus. I love sharing walks around London
(full playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZM4-pHDwPmhVv2KuqmQcpv58ehRqhFk )
But this was 0945 on a regular Monday morning just before the quietness hit in March 2020.
Empty 390 bus from Victoria towards Archway, and the streets were bare.
Could only see one store closed, listed below.
This is a continuous view from the top deck front window of Oxford Street, and we also get to see the new box for the Tottenham Court Road Crossrail, Elizabeth Line station.
0:00 Intro: Take us on a bus ride on a 390 New Bus For London from Victoria to Archway - up Oxford Street London
0:40 390 Bus ride up Oxford Street starts outside Selfridges, junction of Duke Street
1:00 Destination Display: 390 to Archway
1:23 Past Gap, HMV, Boots, Bond Street Crossrail/Elizabeth Line station (behind hoardings), Disney Store is closed, Debenhams
1:35 "Digger!" Yeah... diggers!
2:04 New Bond Street traffic lights opposite Next (with traffic carriageway shut in Westbound direction)
2:40 Pan of empty street
2:56 House of Fraser and John Lewis
3:24 Junction with Holles Street and McDonalds
4:10 Pan left to Cavendish Square
4:35 Souvenir Luggage store, Microsoft Store
4:55 Oxford Circus junction, station and pan right down Regent Street
5:40 Passing some other Boris Buses, sorry, New buses for London - Route 73 and 390
5:45 Marks and Spencer Pantheon
6:35 Junction with Berners Street and Wardour Street
7:10 Stuck at green lights with cars trying to turn left into Newman Street, opposite the new (unopened) Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line/Crossrail station - view of construction work
8:10 View of Tottenham Court Road Western Ticket Hall (not opened), Dean Street
8:50 Primark, Tottenham Court Road tube station construction
9:40 Pan right down Charing Cross Road, CentrePoint and Crossrail construction
9:50 Turn left into Tottenham Court Road and off at the bus stop
Gordon Laing has 160k subscribers and incredibly been uploading to YouTube since 2006.
I'm a Development Producer helping as many people as possible get ideas out of their heads to make more people happy. I created GREAT BRITISH YOUTUBERS to help you get started and keep going with your YouTube channel.
This is part 3 of this episode, PART 1 IS HERE: https://youtu.be/WVwvyVI6YBk
0:00 Great British YouTubers podcast with Neil Mossey and Gordon Laing from CameraLabs.
4:00 What happened when Gordon Laing tried making a perfect coffee how to , and high end audio streaming videos.
5:26 The advantage that YouTube vloggers have.
6:30 Is the YouTube algorithm punishing me?
8:00 The Everyday Dad channel experience with specialisation.
9:10 YouTube creators who started in 2006 have weird channels, weird analytics.
10:30 Should I start a second YouTube channel?
11:45 Coming up on the next episode of Great British YouTubers podcast.
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Post this amazing video that you put in so much work into.
You try so hard, and you tick all the boxes this-- They're, you know your subscriber base is gonna love this. It's perfect. It's you! It's the definition of your channel and you post it.
But what if YouTube is punishing you for the previous deviation and that video doesn't do well - and I have seen that.
Is it because they are punishing you or is it because it just coincidentally didn't do very well.
And I don't know - but again it does kind of put you off.
It's like the day you, you know, you're in the school yard and you stand there you say "Hey everyone, why are we doing this?!" - WHACK! - and then you're like "I'm not gonna stick my head up again in that environment!"
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So Gordon, you've achieved so much.
I mean just look at your channel: you've uploaded 342 videos, you have a--
It feels like more!
I bet! You also have 160,000 subscribers which in itself is a massive achievement.
You've got 48 million views.
You run Cameralabs as well as this YouTube channel, and the podcast, and you're an author... we can see a little delicate nod to that over your shoulder.
If you're good enough to include this field of view in your edit Neil, you will see my product and I'm wearing my product - my merchandise.
Well I'll link to all of those in the description.
I suspect you're gonna crop me to about this shape, and shift me to one side, either this side or this side, and then put you on the other side - so that we're-- and then scale it so that... In fact you know what?
We should about line up we've got a bit of space above our heads, down to about--
It's almost like we planned this.
I have tried to plan this before and it doesn't work as well as you and I've done it here, we're quite well matched, even though we didn't try and match focal length or coverage here, so well done Neil!
Well thanks, that's because I watch your bloomin channel!
It's because you're a broadcast professional Neil!
Well that's the weird thing, we talked about that on the other video, that your background is print journalism - specifically magazine journalism. My background is comedy entertainment formats for TV, that's sort of why I wanted to make this show.
I still don't know whether to make this as a playlist or a whole other channel. I know the answer to that - it's gonna be a playlist because I'm just clinging to whatever statistics I can get. But I looked you up--
Are you sure though, are you sure that's the right approach?
Because I ask myself this all the time.
Is it better on YouTube to put everything in one basket, or to create smaller but multiple baskets?
This is exactly--
And no-one knows!
This is exactly the, the anoraking that I wanted to get down to.
So what do you think?
Nobody knows, and even if you did know the cunning algorithm - which changes all the time anyway - by the way when I mention algorithms that's basically the the software behind YouTube and every other social platform and search results which show you what you see.
So when you look at YouTube there'll be a bunch of recommended videos down the side, sometimes from people you follow; sometimes from people that you don't follow but you watch; sometimes from people who are posting something similar to something you've liked or watched a lot of before...
Because you don't have to like a video, although you should.
I'm just going to put a little request in here for any anyone - whether you're a content creator or a consumer or viewer...
If you watch something and you think it's good... click like!
You know it's easy to think "what a great video" and then walk away and do something else.
Click like, because not only does it make us feel better as creators...
It really does make you feel better.
It also gets fed back into the algorithm and YouTube will go "Ohhh, not only did they watch it, but they liked it, and therefore I'm going to recommend it using the algorithm to other people who may not have come across this person before - and that's how our channels grow, and that's how we sustain a business.
So always do a like, but in terms of the question of whether to do one channel or multiple channels I don't know.
What I can tell you is what I mentioned earlier which is if you are known for one thing, if you deviate from that thing you probably won't do very well.
Like recently I did a video on-- you see I'm really into coffee and I thought would it be fun to do a tutorial or a video about how I make coffee, that you know...
Now don't be put off by the fact that there were already a million other videos doing the same thing.
There, there were a million long exposure videos before I posted mine, right?
Just do it differently or better or hopefully a bit of both.
Well my coffee video wasn't different or better, but I thought I'd do it anyway and of course it bombed. No one's interested. They're like "yeah we know you're interested and that, but you're the camera guy."
I did one on-- I'm also really into hi-fi.
There's an interesting crossover between photographers and - enthusiasts.
I think it's maybe the technical nuances, the details that people are into.
I see a lot of that. A lot of crossover.
So there's been this thing I was trying to do, on my hi-fi for ages: streaming high definition audio blah blah blah.
It was this really, like most of the things I tried to do, this really obscure solution that nobody else had written about or talked about and I thought you know what there's got to be at least one other person who wants to know this.
So I did a video about it, and I've got it all across, and the people all the companies involved they were like: "really liked it, that was really good, you're the only person that's done that, great blah blah blah"
And of course it got hardly any views at all.
Even worse than the coffee video.
So you begin to think... "should I do a different channel for just general interest stuff?"
And in fact as a side note this is the advantage that vloggers have.
Because a vlogger: the thing that's consistent...
So for me the thing that's consistent on my channel is photography and specifically camera reviews. That's what people look for.
If you follow a vlogger, the thing that's consistent on that channel is them.
They could be doing anything.
They could be cooking today, they could be doing makeup, they could be doing photography, they could be doing travel, gardening, anything.
Because the consistent thing that people have subscribed to is them and their personality.
So if you do that, then you have the flexibility to cover almost any subject.
So I'm kind of frustrated that didn't go down that route, because that would give you greater flexibility.
I mean is that something you might still experiment with?
What doing, doing different videos or experimenting with a different channel?
Experimenting with different videos and committing to the channel.
Because you know that deep down, that those couple of thousand who watched the, the coffee video are probably the diehard fans.
Yes.
The ones that do actually like you doing stuff.
But it's such a double dare from YouTube isn't it, because they feel so much at stake.
The more achievement you attain, the more at stake it suddenly appears.
There's also a kind of paranoid aspect to this, and again I have no evidence for this.
And like everything that happens, you can read anything into anything, but let's play.
Which is this.
If you post a bad video - or worse still - two badly performing-- sorry, I'll rephrase that.
Not a bad video, a badly performing video. A video that doesn't get that many views or likes, okay?
Doesn't get as much engagement. People don't watch as much of it, blah blah blah.
If you post a couple of those in the- in a row, will the YouTube algorithm punish you so that when you come back and you say "ah, forget this!" This strategy has not worked.
I'd better go back to my core subject, whatever that is, and post this amazing video that you put in so much work into.
You try so hard, and you tick all the boxes this-- They're, you know your subscriber base is gonna love this. It's perfect. It's you! It's the definition of your channel and you post it.
But what if YouTube is punishing you for the previous deviation and that video doesn't do well - and I have seen that.
Is it because they are punishing you or is it because it just coincidentally didn't do very well.
And I don't know - but again it does kind of put you off.
It's like the day you, you know, you're in the school yard and you stand there you say "Hey everyone, why are we doing this?!" - WHACK! - and then you're like "I'm not gonna stick my head up again in that environment!"
On a video by video basis, it's so difficult to take that leap.
It's incredibly hard.
There's a creator that I follow called the Everyday Dad who I met because he did camera reviews, and they were great camera reviews.
But then he did an iPad review, and it did like 10 times better, and he was like "oh my god! This was a bit of a shock."
And then he did another iPad video and it did really well.
And he thought "wait a minute" and then he did a camera review and it didn't do very well, and the message was getting across - and the interesting thing about that is that his channel, while it is about technology, and while it was initially about cameras...
It was more about him than he perhaps realized or even thought his viewers realized, that it was more about him.
So it was easier for him to pivot, to transition to a different subject, than it was for me because mine is more about the products... so the thing, as opposed to me as a personality or as a person you might be interested in hearing or watching.
So I thought that was really interesting, and I know that I have tried to do videos about phones which are massively successful for other channels and just haven't done anything for me.
I think my channel has has been algorithm-ed to a point, and I found this with some other creators who started in like 2006-2007, sort of pre-2010.
Basically those first three or four years' worth of creators.
They have weird channels with weird stats, and they don't grow very fast - like you were saying oh you know you've got 160,000 followers which you know it is great.
It's alright but for a channel that's 14 years old, it's terrible and in my market the people - the events that I get invited to, I'm the smallest one.
Most of the-- most of my contemporaries or peer group... well I call them my peer group. You always refer to people who are better than you as your peer group.
That- I bet they don't refer to ME as being part of their... They're like "who's this guy? Who's this loser?!"
They're on over a million and they're younger channels.
Younger as in that-- then the channels aren't as old - the people may be the same age or older...
Generally a bit younger.
Always more fun. Is that a factor?
I don't know, you tell me, but the, the more recent channels seem to experience greater growth than the older ones, so again there's the paranoia... You know, the grumpy older channels get together and go "why is the algorithm punishing us?!"
Is it the algorithm or is it just that no one likes us?
I don't know but I do know that the channels that started at the beginning have surprisingly fewer followers than you'd expect.
That seems to be a common theme.
So should I start a new channel?
I don't think so.
I think you should train that algorithm.
I think that-- I honestly I think putting in curveballs makes it more interesting for your, your core audience.
Yeah you can, you can look at statistics and analytics until you go mad and they provide a ridiculous amount of detail.
I mean if, if you're a YouTube creator there's a-- there's an app, or a page on the site, but it works better on the phone. I think called creator isn't it?
Yeah, well the app's called Studio, but it's for analytics, yes?
Yeah, yeah exactly and it the information it provides is, is absolutely fascinating but also disheartening as well, and I am kind of, of the...
I'm of the mind that maybe the hours you spent looking at analytics might be better spent producing more content to feed the beast?
But then I'm-- the most successful youtubers I know, know their analytics back to front.
So they know their audience back to front, they know when they stopped listening...
I mean typically people don't want a long video.
I don't want a long video!
I'm like get to the point, and I'm the worst for it, because my videos are LONG.
And surprise surprise, the shorter ones generally do better than the longer ones!
But do I pay attention to that?!
And there's more of my chat with Gordon Laing from Cameralabs...
And THAT is why I gave up YouTube for three years, which is-- which really confused the algorithm because I was pouring my heart into these technical reviews, right.
And live testing every aspect of a camera and trying to get that across to people and then some kid doing an unboxing video gets more views, and all he's done is filmed him opening a box!
And they were getting more views and I was bewildered by this.
I just couldn't understand why this was more popular...
And please hit the subscribe button if you want to see more Great British YouTubers.
There's a playlist and a podcast. All the details and links are in the description.
I'm Neil Mossey and I'll see you on the very next episode of Great British YouTubers.
What are the displays like? Do they have hand sanitizer?
Are the toilets open?
What is IKEA like when it opens after the Covid shutdown of 2020?
Is there a queueing system in place and how long does it take to get in?
Trying to social distance with other Ikea shoppers...
Does IKEA still serve food, like the hotdogs and meatballs?
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Hello, I'm Neil
I'm usually a Tightwad dad which means that we try to be happy with what we've already got - that's what the words on the screen say there.
This is probably not very tightwad daddy, but today I'm at... Ikea.
Ikea!
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So we're here... and it's really empty.
And, they've closed the top, the top floor of the car park, so that, I guess it's for the queueing.
You're supposed to stay-- Well you're supposed to only be one... one adult and one child - it's sort of frowned upon to bring a child... whoops
So I split up with my wife and my son (LAUGHS) there's metaphor for you from IKEA there.
We're pretending to not be related.
Ohh, there's quite a queue.
Woah!
Then we found out why the top floor of the car park was closed
Yep there is a major queuing system in place
We went first thing on a normal weekday and this is what it looks like at around 10 o'clock in the morning
Sneak under!
Least you can see the cruise ships
They provide chairs for you at different points in the queue
I can smell everyone.
We queued for about 40 minutes then when you do get to go in, we really recommend you bring your own bags to carry around
Those famous reusable yellow bags that they hand out that the entrance obviously aren't there anymore and there's a single hand sanitizer dispenser which to me smelt a bit like cognac.
It's disgusting.
So the hand sanitizer-- smells like booze.
And it's disgusting.
Ah, it's lovely. It's like I'm going through IKEA stinking drunk.
This is our first time that we've gone anywhere for three months
It was weird being around other people and not, you know, in a supermarket.
Gotta say, people in here aren't quite down with the whole two metre thing
It's almost like three months practice wasn't quite enough?
Like in any regular theme park, there were things that were closed and taped off
It's the saddest sight... restaurant closed
We had this question though, which is, if the restaurant's closed... are the toilets open?
And, yeah, they are!
Toilets and the lifts were pretty much the only places where we saw hand sanitizer on the upper floor, so you might want to bring your own
There were extra stickers on the floor and these sneeze guard clear blinds for the staff workstations
Saw a woman just now, she did... Exactly what I would have done.
Because I feel like I should be wearing a facemask... so she's wearing this face mask and she goes up to a worker to ask them a question... she pulls the mask down to ask the question! I was like-- Touching my face now.
It is so quiet!
It was only meant to be a quick trip but we ended up there for over three hours
So the big question now is will there be anything for us to eat
So can you see down into the warehouse there?
Oh yeah we're going down there.
So we're gonna see now if the hotdogs and the ice cream are open.
We've bought our one item, which is down here. Don't know if you can show that? Maybe I should do an unboxing. I should do an unboxing because I always get thousands of views when I do an Ikea product here on the Tightwad Dad vlog.
I hate that word!
What, Tightwad Dad? I do too!
Oohh Swedish Meatballs! So we've got a thing and some meatballs. Meatballs, and thing.
The check outs were exactly the same but with no queues whatsoever, so going early seemed to pay off for us.
Well, pay off's probably a bad phrase with the amount we spent
But we did want to spend more on those hot dogs so is that hot dog store still open?
It was! There it is! And again absolutely no queues.
There's no ice cream machine or unlimited fizzy drinks. Just cans for £1.20 which we didn't go for - but they do do the meatballs, though we decided to go for hot dogs this time.
And that's what IKEA or IKEA looks like now that it's open again after the Covid lockdown.
So we got the hotdogs, we got the hotdogs, got a little bit of hand sanitizer, that was good.
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. You know, there's fewer people in the store, which is great. But they don't like distance -- that's not a cultural thing we seem to be doing in this country yet.
Thanks for coming on our journey with us and hope you got to shop vicariously through us on this video without spending hundreds of pounds or dollars... depending on where you are.
Where are you? We'd love to know - Leave us a comment!
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DIGGERLAND!
A JCB digger theme park in Kent, UK.
I love coming here, so try sharing it with you here as part of my Dad Delivers Vlog.
Spend so much time visiting places through everyone else's YouTube videos, wanted to put some back with a place we really enjoy.
It's a theme park where the kids can actually drive and operate real live Caterpillar and JCB diggers - and what kid (and Dad) doesn't love a digger?!
In the video you'll see some of the rides and attractions - ones where you drive the machinery yourself and others where you ride in the bucket or on the back.
I didn't show the soft play and restaurant areas which are also great...
I mention there are special Diggerland offers on their facebook feed, the link is here:
https://www.facebook.com/DiggerlandKent/
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Diggerland! It's Diggerland!
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Hello I'm Neil this is the Tightwad Dad vlog
It's where we try to be happy with what we've already got
yeah alright yeah
Today we're spending a bit of money in a county - a beautiful County called Kent and we're enjoying the beautiful scenery and atmosphere because today, we're at Diggerland!
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So the the brilliant thing about this place is that you actually drive the diggers yourself - or your kids can drive them too, depending on their height
Each ride is a different height restriction
Here we go into the mud... Woah!
Look it's totally clean.
I managed to-- keep my trainers clean, somehow. Look.
Here comes our digger... You ready for this?
This is great so I've got... my daughter is driving us.
I'm doing the power and so you're on steering - doing an amazing job there.
You actually get to drive diggers - it's the best!
This is what being British is all about.
Machinery - building machinery theme park. I, I love this place.
We're here on our half term in October and the weather's gorgeous as well so that's, that's nice.
Now, on the videos it looks really industrial and muddy but it's not
It's actually - it's really lovely tarmac path that goes around the park so it's completely family-friendly completely buggy friendly and I think it's a gem
I think it's one of the best theme parks in the country. "You get to actually ride diggers!"
So we can see - we can see all of Rochester on top of this digger
It's like 86 grand!
86 grand?
You get a good view of the park from here.
What's been your favourite one so far?
Driving that.
Driving the 4x4?
There is no way I'm getting on that.
My son's up there. Somewhere.
I've gotta say this - the staff here at Diggerland Kent are absolutely amazing.
"And nice!"
Yeah, they're really nice - really friendly - but when they spin you round, on a digger, they're spinning round too
So I don't know how they do that all day long
So that's Diggerland!
I've only shown you a fraction of the rides.
We actually got a really good tip-- Are you okay?
"Yes."
We actually heard a really good tip from the lovely woman who runs the food - shop - restaurant! That's what a food shop is called, isn't it! Restaurant.
She said to check Diggerland's social media, so check their Facebook page - they have offers there on the holidays
I'll put the link to their website and their Facebook page in the description - and apparently quite often they put offers up there
We didn't check that, so we paid full price in there and... it's not cheap, but it's worth it, isn't it?
"Yeah, it's worth it."
So that's it - that's what Diggerland, Kent looks like
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Gordon Laing has 160k subscribers and incredibly been uploading to YouTube since 2006.
I'm a Development Producer helping as many people as possible get ideas out of their heads to make more people happy.
I created GREAT BRITISH YOUTUBERS to help you get started and keep going with your YouTube channel.
This is part 2 of this episode, PART 1 IS HERE: https://youtu.be/WVwvyVI6YBk
0:00 Great British YouTubers podcast with Neil Mossey and Gordon Laing from CameraLabs.
0:48 Gordon Laing was one of the first channels to review products, let alone cameras.
1:28 How to get more YouTube views and revenue.
3:11 Why start a YouTube photography channel?
4:05 Why YouTube starting in 2006 was completely revolutionary.
6:18 How to cope with competition on YouTube.
8:53 Coming up on the next episode of Great British YouTubers podcast.
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If you wanted to post a video, it was going to cost you tens of thousands of pounds or dollars and if you're-- who's gonna pay that?!
Not even a corporation is gonna pay that, and then in 2006 YouTube comes along and says "oh we'll we'll host your videos free of charge."
It was completely revolutionary.
Completely revolutionary as a content creator to suddenly have a platform which let you publish videos and embed them on your own web pages if you wanted, free of charge.
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How did you know that your channel is a thing?
It was a-- it was a thing because no one else had that thing when I started.
I started on YouTube in 2006 and was one of the first channels to review anything let alone cameras.
Today, reviews are absolutely everywhere and it's great because it's caused-- it forces everyone to raise their game.
It can be very disheartening and demoralizing big-- especially if you're reviewing something that's popular, because everyone else will be reviewing it and you're going to be trying to get attention for something about a thousand other people - probably more than a thousand other people, who have got-- a lot of them all have way bigger followings than you may have, or we may have, and you're trying to compete against these people which is very hard.
Which is again - just before I answer your question Neil, top tip number two:
Talk about stuff that no one else is talking about.
Some of my most successful reviews and videos have not been because they were any good, or useful or incisive, it's simply because no one else had reviewed them.
And you can't guess what that's gonna be.
You know a new camera comes out and you're like "is everyone going to do this" because time is of the essence.
You've got to be one of the first as well.
So you don't know if anyone else is doing it, but typically when I attend like a camera launch as a journalist, there's rarely just one piece of news or one product.
There's typically lots of different things.
There'll be the one main product though, that's the thing which you came along for and that's the thing which everyone's going to be talking about - but there'll be some crappy accessory that you'll be like "yeah whatever".
Film it.
Talk about it.
Review it, because no one else will and you could end up getting way more views and revenue based on that than the main thing which you're invited for.
So the unfortunate thing is to cover everything - but how did I know I had become a channel?
It's because again when I started no one else was doing this, so when I put out a review it kind of... it was such a refreshing... it was such a nice world to be part of because there was no competition.
So everything you did, did really well because there was nothing else!
There were no other camera reviews.
You want a review of the Canon whatever?
"Oh it's that bald British guy again" because no one else has done it, so let's listen to him and look at his terrible technique.
Sorry again to interrupt, but you started in 2009...
Six.
Oh sorry 2006.
Yeah.
So did you know quite early in the late noughties then that this is a thing that actually is gonna be quite big.
No not at all.
I'll tell you why I started doing it, so I come from written well-- I have done some broadcast or TV or radio, but most of what I do is written.
So when you're writing a review or something you have to describe it with words right?
And if you're paid by the word which are-- anyway forget that!
You've got to describe how something looks.
How something moves.
How something sounds.
And when you're reviewing a camera and you want to describe in words how the lens extends... the kind of noise it makes... when it extends or zooms... the clicking sound it makes for some reason under certain circumstances...
It's really difficult to write that in a sensible way.
The best way of doing it is to point a camera and it film it and say "Look, look this is what it does. Listen, this is what it sounds like."
But here's the rub.
I've been publishing on the internet since the late 90s and back then in web 1.0 video was out of reach for pretty much everyone: even major corporations.
It was so expensive to serve video because you would have web hosting for your webpages but then you need separate hosting for audio or video, and they would charge you per view, and it was like something stupid like a pound per view or something right?
And the quality was rubbish as well.
So if you wanted to post a video it was going to cost you tens of thousands of pounds or dollars, and if you're-- who's gonna pay that?!
Not even a corporation is gonna pay that.
And then in 2006 YouTube comes along and says "Oh we will host your videos, free of charge."
It was completely revolutionary.
Completely revolutionary as a content creator to suddenly have a platform which let you publish videos and embed them on your own web pages if you wanted, free of charge.
And then shortly after that they allowed you to monetize it.
Now as anyone knows who tries to monetize on YouTube you don't get paid a lot, but you can see that it's scalable, and if you get enough views, it can actually bring in some money.
So it was you know a truly revolutionary platform back then, but so I got into it as a way - because it was the most affordable way to demonstrate something on video, and I had no intention of... it wasn't in my mind to see it as a platform which would grow by itself and where people would go to YouTube.
I thought people would use it the way I was using it, which is to host video that you then put on another page, and people would view it there - and I think they did initially with my content.
And in the meantime while you're doing that, you're getting all these comments on this other platform - this YouTube platform - you're like "who are these people" that were actually watching on YouTube.
So once that started to come in, and once you were getting really massive views at the time because there was no alternative - that's when I thought "this is a thing" and I should actually produce content specifically for YouTube and for people who are consuming on YouTube.
What year roughly was that?
I would say a couple years in.
This was approximately at the time that other people really began to catch on, and suddenly I was getting-- I went from having no competition to loads of competition, and it was... it was really hard for me because imagine-- (LAUGHS) imagine thinking you're the most popular person on the block, but sadly is actually only because you're the only person on the block.
And these other people were coming along who were better in every way.
They were more entertaining, they were way better presenters.
Some of them... "Grrrr!"... I thought "well the one thing I've got is experience and technical knowledge" but people come along with that as well, and people most crucially of all - and this is how you disrupt it as a creator - people who are coming at it, not with a journalistic perspective you know, like sometimes I think I should put on a dinner suit and do everything like the early days of the BBC and "speak in a voice like this."
You know, maybe we should go back to that?
But no!
These other people come along saying "I have no idea how to present this guys but here it is!"
And you'd look at it and you go "what's this rubbish" and then you'd look at the views, you'd be like "crikey, people really like this!" and actually I like it too because it's entertaining and it's fun and it's a bit like when you...
I encourage anybody to do a quick experiment which is to play any episode of the first season of Friends where everyone speaks in a kind of monotone voice and they deliver like this.
Go forward a few seasons and everyone's up and down they're doing comedy voices...
"I'm now speaking like this!"
When did that happen?!
And the same thing happened with YouTube, except it took ages for me to catch up.
For years, up until-- like about only a couple of weeks ago, I was still speaking "like this"
"Hello."
I didn't even say hello!
No, it was worse.
I would actually read out the URL.
I think I actually said "Hello I'm Gordon Laing. Editor of HTTP - colon - forward slash - forward slash - dot..."
And if you still have viewer retention after that, you've nailed it.
They love you.
But of course they all go "who's this guy?" compared to the guy who goes:
"Hi guys! I'm going to be looking at the new whatever..."
Who would you prefer to watch?
And that's what happened and I got really disheartened because everyone started watching them.
My views went from literally-- everything I posted got hundreds of thousands of views. Half a million views was not unusual for me.
Now... half a million views? I've only had like one video in the past two years that has had that number of views and that's the long exposure tutorial, because it did everything right.
Everything else - to these days I'm delighted with ten, twenty thousand views because there's so much competition.
And there's more of my chats with Gordon Laing from Cameralabs...
And post this amazing video that you put in so much work into.
You try so hard, and you tick all the boxes this-- They're, you know your subscriber base is gonna love this. It's perfect. It's you! It's the definition of your channel and you post it.
But what if YouTube is punishing you for the previous deviation and that video doesn't do well - and I have seen that.
Is it because they are punishing you or is it because it just coincidentally didn't do very well.
And I don't know - but again it does kind of put you off.
It's like the day you, you know, you're in the school yard and you stand there you say "Hey everyone, why are we doing this?!" - WHACK! - and then you're like "I'm not gonna stick my head up again in that environment!"
And please hit the subscribe button if you want to see more Great British YouTubers.
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Gordon Laing has 160k subscribers and incredibly, uploading to YouTube since 2006.
I'm a Development Producer helping as many people as possible get ideas out of their heads and into action, to make more people happy.
I created GREAT BRITISH YOUTUBERS to help you get started and keep going with your YouTube channel.
0:00 Great British YouTubers podcast with Neil Mossey and Gordon Laing from CameraLabs
1:25 What is Gordon Laing's all time favourite video on his channel?
5:35 Why Long Exposure Photography tutorial is Gordon Laing's most successful video.
7:25 Why a good title and thumbnail is essential on YouTube.
8:30 How the YouTube algorithm encourages Creators.
9:14 Coming up on the next episode of Great British YouTubers.
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Are there things Gordon Laing, that other YouTubers do that you don't think that you would ever, or you tend not to do?
Unboxing.
First of all as a word, I hate that word.
Unboxing. How can you-- that's like... I, now tell you what this goes back to that song "Unbreak My Heart" which at the time, I thought that's not even a word.
How do you mean unbreak my heart, how about... "make me feel better"... "cheer me up please"?
Unbreak my heart?
Unbox my camera!
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I've got a little reassuring... yep... one two one... that's probably how every episode will start: someone's chest shot and us going "hello testing?"
I've got this idea for this series called Great British YouTubers.
The best I've got for a logo at the moment is kind of a frankenstein bolting together of the YouTube logo and the Union Jack, so I both infringe copyright and enrage a nation.
Job done.
But the first person that I wanted to talk to was you...
...wasn't available, so you came to me!
Never! I feel that we have explained each other on another video that I've made, one of my favourite videos on my channel.
I'll run a clip now and there's a link in the description to it but before we get into the chat can I just ask you what is your all-time favourite video that you've made on your channel Gordon Laing?
My all-time favorite, and this is this is the problem that all creators have is that everyone wants you to be pigeonholed, and then... and we'll talk about this I'm sure later on, but in the same way that Jamie Oliver probably wouldn't be that successful if he suddenly did a video reviewing a car or doing, uh, gardening or something like that...
People know you for one thing, and if you deviate from that woe betide, woe betide, the algorithm will punish you and your video will underperform horrifically and you'll be put off... you will be beaten into submission to continue doing what you were put on this earth to do, which is what you initially uh defined yourself as, which for me was a camera reviewer.
And it's amazing how specific people can get because even though we're talking about hybrid cameras now, if I go off and review a microphone?
"Nope, too far off..."
So I'm going to choose as one of my favourite, uh videos, my first attempt at actually doing a vlog, which was eight years ago in to... no, no, nine years ago, 2011, 2012 time frame.
I went on a holiday from where I lived at the time in New Zealand for three weeks, a three week family holiday that ended up taking a year and a half!
And we were location independent for a year and a half, which is just a fancy way of saying you're homeless, and you're spending the money that you would have spent on rent or a mortgage on hotels - and surprisingly it's actually similar when you're not paying utility bills, insurance on the car that you don't have...
All of these things really add up and you could spend that in a different way and I tried to make a series of vlogs about it that... of course I thought were revolutionary and interesting because I was doing something quite different, and people saying "hey!"
In fact I think you Neil, I think you actually said to me you should make a video about that!
So I started making videos about them...
Uh-oh!
They're really rough because I was talking about the cameras I was using on this trip but I only had one main camera, and I wanted to show that camera.
So if I want to show my proper camera, on camera, what am I filming with?
And I scrabbled around and my second best camera was an ipad.
An ipad 2! Generation 2, circa 2011, and if you've ever tried to film video with that, it crops so massively that you have to position it so far away, that I was literally filming with an ipad balanced against walls in various cities around the world, about four metres away from me right?
Somebody tried to pick it up and walk off with it,
With the ipad or the camera?
Yeah yeah yeah because it was--
It's just a free ipad!
I'm being a crazy guy on the street going "hey everyone the reason that I'm doing this..." and everyone's like you know "whatever" and then, then they'll walk past then because of course you're drawing attention to yourself, so they're looking, looking at what you're doing, and then they notice this ipad just sat metres away from anyone, and they would as anybody in their right mind would think...
"Well, someone's obviously left it and doesn't want it anymore"
Even though it's kind of, flashing tally light on it, and of course it was so far away the audio would have been rubbish so I was using a zoom portable, uh sound recorder, which was quite close.
The sound quality on these are quite good, but anyway I thought these were quite fun videos and it was my attempt at vlogging which eight years ago was, you know, not that common a thing uh but of course no one watched them because it wasn't a pure camera review.
So those were probably my favourite videos that I did - we'll put the link to those in the description and we will run some footage while you're speaking there.
Oh make sure you use the footage of me in Morocco with camels going by behind me - that's that's quite fun.
Morocco?
Yeah because we we visited Morocco and uh camped out in the Sahara Desert as you do, which i highly recommend doing.
Oh there you are! You're wearing, you're wearing a thing!
Yeah thing, a thing. That's that's the technical term of the privileged white man.
"He's wearing a foreign thing! But it's okay because he's one of us!"
Oh brilliant.
Yeah those were fun.
One of the other favorite videos of mine which is actually one of my most successful videos which automatically makes it one of my favorites, was a tutorial that I filmed.
Photography tutorial of course. Try and do a tutorial on anything else, you're finished - and this was about long exposure photography and a lot of people when they go on YouTube or other social networks, they want the secrets.
They want to know the top tips.
How are you going to succeed at something, and it's actually pretty obvious what you need to do, it's just that very few of us do it, and I rarely do it, but I did it in this one which is... you do everything right.
And that sounds glib but here's what you do.
You plan it.
You plan very carefully what you want to say and where you want to say it.
You don't skimp on things like locations.
I've done tutorials that I thought were great, but it was just me sat on this sofa - didn't really engage with people.
This one, because if you're doing a tutorial on "how to run" you don't do it from your sofa, you go out and you run.
If you want to do a tutorial about cooking - again you don't do it for yourself, you do it from your kitchen.
And when you set up that shot in your kitchen, you realise that your kitchen's a mess, and that you have to tidy up and frame it carefully.
And if I'm doing a tutorial about long exposure landscape photography, I've got to be out there doing it.
So even though it was awkward and difficult, I did it, and guess what?
It, it came across really well and I cut away to me on the sofa when I wanted to add additional details that I'd forgotten in the, uh, on the location, and of course that made it more interesting switching between two locations.
I also filmed it very carefully.
I filmed in the best quality that I could.
I edited it in the best quality that i could, and then, and perhaps more important than anything else, it has a decent thumbnail.
And that is what more than anything else causes people to open and play a video on YouTube, is decent thumbnails.
And as someone who likes to think that their content is okay and that you're above these things, you're not. It doesn't work.
You could, you could produce the best video of all and if it's got a rubbish thumbnail and a terrible title no one is ever gonna play it.
However, conversely, and this is what frustrates me about YouTube - the best thumbnail and best title will guarantee opening even if the content is rubbish.
Completely.
And of course we call that clickbait don't we, but it works, and a good thumbnail game is, is critical - and I haven't mastered it, but I was very lucky to have a picture that I took that worked really well with the text I wanted to use, and it's very easy to see in a very small scale because a lot of people are looking on mobile devices.
So I lucked out on the thumbnail, and that really helped, but basically it was a good video.
That's the thing, it's a good video that I was proud of and guess what, it did- it did all right.
That's so frustrating isn't it?
I suppose it's the, the story of art since the dawn of time, is that once you've, you've created - so that is your Bohemian Rhapsody, that is your November Rain, and now you've got to make another one! And it's crushing!
Well the algorithm does some naughty things as well.
Well we don't know what the algorithm does.
We can be paranoid about it and suspicious and we can guess at the things that it does, but one of the things I think it does do is encourage you from time to time.
Especially new creators who, maybe you haven't had a lot of luck yet.
At some point, for everyone, one of your videos will do really well.
Really well.
Way better than the others.
In a way, it has "gone viral".
Not so viral that you can retire on it or anything like that, but it does comfortably better.
Maybe not ten times, but a hundred times better than one of your normal videos.
You're like "what on earth did I do there?"
But wow, the potential - the potential!
And there's more of my chats with Gordon Laing from CameraLabs.
If you wanted to post a video it was going to cost you tens of thousands of pounds or dollars.
And if you-- who's gonna pay that?!
Not even a corporation's gonna pay that.
And then in 2006 YouTube comes along and says oh we'll we'll host your videos free of charge.
It was completely revolutionary.
Completely revolutionary as a content creator to suddenly have a platform which let you publish videos, and embed them on your own web pages if you wanted free of charge.
And please hit the subscribe button if you want to see more Great British YouTubers, There's a playlist and a podcast: all the details and links are in the description.
I'm Neil Mossey, and I'll see you on the very next episode of Great British YouTubers.
Hello - I'm trying out a new thing every day.
Today I want to MASTER my Vaillant boiler remote control...
so I'm reading out every single page of my Vailant boiler remote control instructions manual!
I'm trying out each chapter on the remote control timer itself - the Valliant VRT 350f controller for our Vaillant Ecofit Pure boiler.
For a TightwadDad, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! (Or "Not using power")
Here are the chapters from the manual, just click on the times below to jump directly to the "How To" in the manual...
1:50 Operating instructions manual for Vaillant VRT 350f remote control for EcoFit Pure boiler
2:35 How to navigate around the remote control screen - what does the sun and moon icon logos mean? What do the buttons do?
11:15 Reading the system status
13:55 Setting Desired Temperatures - What does Desired Temperature mean? Find out here!
15:20 Hot water generation settings
16:00 Setting timer programmes. How to set the timer program on a Vaillant Boiler remote control.
20:20 What does Days Away From Home Scheduling mean?
22:15 Setting timer programmes: Days away from home scheduling
23:20 Setting the language - how to change the language on a Vaillant boiler remote control unit
24:10 Setting the date: How to change the date on a Vaillant remote control
24:30 Setting the time: How to change the time on a Vaillant combi boiler remote control
How to set the time after the clocks go back or forward
25:30 Setting the display contrast on the remote control
26:00 Setting the offset room temperature.
26:55 Changing the heating circuit name. How to change the name from HEATING1 to something else and rename it.
27:20 Reset to factory settings. How to factory reset the Vaillant boiler Remote control
28:20 Operating modes for the heating circuit -automatic mode, summer mode, comfort mode, setback mode
28:40 Automatic mode
29:05 Summer mode
29:25 Comfort mode
29:45 Set-back mode
30:15 System off mode: How to turn the Vaillant boiler system off
30:30 Modes for hot water production
32:40 Cylinder Boost
33:15 Party Function Mode
34:35 1 Day Away From Home Mode - for when you're away from home for one day
35:40 Service Message: What does Service Heat Generator 1 mean with a spanner logo or icon
36:00 Fault Message: Heat Generator 1 fault
37:05 Changing batteries: How to change the batteries on a Vaillant Boiler remote control unit for an EcoFit Pure combi boiler - AA batteries
