There are a lot of bass VST plugins out there to choose from, but which ones are the best? In today's video I'm going to give you my top 5 best bass plugins ever. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. We're going to be doing this in reverse order today starting off at number 5 and building up to my absolute favourite at number 1. Now don't forget to follow the VIP link in the description down below to get 7% off an already amazing price to distribute your music through the sponsor of today's video, DistroKid. Now let's get started with my number 5 pick. A lot of you may be surprised that I've got this Rickenbacker contact library in my top 5 at all. It's a pretty quirky sounding instrument and if you've ever loaded it up you may not have been that impressed. Well let me explain to you in a moment why I think you may have misjudged it, but first of all let's have a listen. So the Rickenbacker is a pretty distinct kind of sound and it's very easy to kind of pigeon hold it and think it's only suitable for one or two different styles of music. Added to that when you do first load this plugin up in its default setting it sounds like this. Now you may like that sound for certain types of music, yeah it sounds pretty harsh could be great for some rock songs but you may think look it's not that suitable for other types of music. But let me show you just how versatile this bass guitar is in terms of sound. So I'm going to start off first of all by clicking on the guitar itself and then I'm going to make some adjustments to both the neck and the bridge pickups. I'll just drag this tone control down just like you would on the real bass guitar yeah and I'm looking to make it a little bit more mellow sounding. Let's have a quick listen. OK it's getting there, it's still got a little bit of edge but I think that's OK. Now the real magic with this plugin or this library happens when you start to adjust and bring in the amplification and some of the other effects just like would happen in real life it's when you amplify a guitar or a bass guitar where the magic happens. You can do that over here by clicking on this amp head here. Now when you first switch this on it's actually going to sound pretty terrible. Just like in real life you really need to plug it into the cabinet. OK so I'm going to switch on that amp just like I have here. I'm going to go straight to the cabinet and I'm just going to switch that on. We've got a choice of cabinets here. We'll look at that in a moment but let's just see how it's sounding now. OK it's sounding much rounder. Yeah I think it can be even deeper and rounder than this. I've already experimented and I rather like this cabinet over here. Yeah you can see there's a number to choose from. Have a listen now. OK that's getting pretty nice and then if we go over here we can also add in some tape saturation. Yeah I'll just push the warmth up here a little bit. We'll have a listen to that. And you can hear now that it's a very different sounding instrument. The kind of bass guitar that you could use on all kinds of genres of music and that is why it's in this top five. Ample sound have a really great range of bass guitars in their collection including some classics and also a really nice upright bass as well. But it's this bass guitar the Ample Bass J which I use more often than not from their collection. It's based on if you excuse the pun offender jazz bass. Now strangely although this is at number four in my top five I actually use this plug-in more than any of the others. We'll talk about why I would do that in a moment. But first of all let's just have a quick listen. So I think the Fender Jazz bass sound is the most versatile of all of them and you know it just can be used in all kinds of genres of music. So that's partly why I go for this plug-in quite often. It loads up real quickly and I know what I'm getting. Also I often use it as a stand-in until I record a real bass guitar and my real bass guitar is a Fender Jazz bass. So that's why I quite often use this plug-in and although some of the other plug-ins we're going to see do have a Fender Jazz bass sound I just particularly like the sound of this one. Now with all Ample sound products you get great control over the instrument. So it's done with key switches. You can see some of the key switches in blue down here. So you can change articulations you know hammer-ons and slides all that kind of good stuff and also some sort of sound effects and things as well. But what I really like about these plug-ins more than anything is I can adjust the sound real quick with their amplification. So you know there's several different amps that you can choose from which just are all distinct in their own way. There's some other effects we have in here. You know EQ compression reverb delay all of that kind of good stuff as well. And you can also go in there and do things like you know swap out microphones on the cabinets and things like that as well. So overall a very very versatile instrument and it's just going to give you that Fender Jazz bass sound that so many of us want. You know up until a few days ago this contact library session basses prime bass was going to be my number three pick. However since then I downloaded and stored this and I love it. This is session basses icon bass. Let's have a listen. Now the power of this line of instruments is in the patterns okay and the sort of compositional side of this. And that's what you were hearing there. Just one of the patterns. However you can still play this in a regular way just by playing you know regular notes on your keyboard. Now you can do all of this all of the things I'm about to demonstrate that is with key switches but I'm going to do it with my mouse for now just so you can see what I'm doing. So we can just play regular notes here. And we can change the sound of those with articulations that we can see over here. So that was an open sound and then we've got a muted sound. Yeah we've got harmonics and this slap and pop sound. Yeah so you've got some changes that you can make in terms of articulations and then you've got these patterns over here yeah. So I'll just play one of these patterns. That was the one we were listening to a moment ago and another one. And these are just a few of many many many patterns that you've got. These ones are the dusty slap patterns but we can change something completely different. Let's have a try with this one. Of course all linked to the sort of tempo in your door and you can also as I say play individual notes so you can do your own variations as well. So I'll have a listen to this one. And loads and loads and loads and loads and loads more. Now as well as being able to play those patterns and play the individual notes you can change the sound of the bass guitar itself in many many ways. For example we've got bass settings here which is a little bit similar to what we did earlier. We can just change the overall tone of the bass before it goes through amplification. And then we also have an effects rack here including some amplifiers and cabinets as well. And then in terms of the actual playing we have some control over the kind of how human that playing is with things like humanized swing, et cetera et cetera. So this is a fantastic tool. I mean it sounds great as a bass guitar but it's also a fantastic tool in terms of getting something together really really quickly by using these onboard patterns. One thing I like about some of these bases is the way that it makes life so much easier for you. In just the same way as DistroKid our sponsor makes it easy for you to tell people about your music releases. This is the hyperfollow page for one of my EPs Wonderland. When people visit this webpage they can choose for themselves which one of these great platforms they want to listen to my music on. But I didn't have to create this page. It was generated automatically for me when I uploaded my EP to DistroKid. If we visit my DistroKid page here and look at this EP and scroll down you can see the section just at the bottom here where they supply the link for me to share. Now I can share that on places like Facebook where they will automatically be generated my album artwork and people can just click on this and go straight to that hyperlink page. Now this is all included with the base price of DistroKid which is just $19.99 per year. If you follow the link in the description you'll get 7% off of that already great price. This is Easy Bass from TuneTrack and there's a very specific reason why it's in here at number two. But before we get into that let's just have a quick listen. Now with the basic version of this you get a couple of basses here. I was using the Easy Modern Bass but you can also switch to the Easy Vintage Bass. So I preferred for this particular song the Modern Bass and I should mention you can actually buy additional libraries that you can drag into this but you basically come to these two basses. You can also go to some different presets for these. This is on the clean DI one at the moment but as you can see there's lots and lots of presets that you can choose from to get a different sound. This is firm distortion. Let's have a listen to that. So you get the idea there but I don't think that the sort of real strength of this plugin is going in and tweaking the sound. You can't do too much of that. It's basically based on the presets. The really cool thing about this particular plugin is the way that you can compose with it. So if we go to the Groove section here you can see there's loads and loads and loads of different categories and play styles of grooves. So you can go through so I want a disco groove. I could click on that and go to some standard ones and I can find them in here and audition them like so. And then once I'm happy with the groove that I want I can grab it and I can just drag it into my song and I can start to create a composition in that way. Now one of the features that I found really good with this in terms of actually being able to find the groove that I want is this tap to find feature.  So I'll do that now. That was a kind of a rubbish rhythm but it doesn't matter. Then I can just click on find similar grooves. I'll click on that and it's gonna find some which have a similar kind of a rhythm pattern to that. So I found that particularly useful. Now once you've dragged your groove in onto your sort of composition area down here then you can change several aspects of it. Primarily one of the things you can do is go ahead and actually change the chord that the groove is based on. So here I've got an A minor, A minor D to E progression but I could change that from an A minor to let's say a C here. Yeah, and it's then gonna change that. Let's have a listen. Yes, you can hear the chord changing there. So that's very, very handy. It makes it super quick to put together a bass line but you don't need to think of this as a very rigid thing where you kind of stuck with the patterns that you've got. There's also this grid editor where you can actually go in and make fine adjustments to those patterns and create your own little sections and things of course, incredibly versatile. As well as this, you can do things like import MIDI or audio and have the plugin create a bass line based upon what it can detect in those things that you import. So my main point about this plugin is yes, it's got a nice sound to it and yes, you can get some additional libraries and you've got a whole bunch of presets but its strength is not really about going in and tweaking the sound. Its strength is in its compositional abilities. And you know, once you've actually created this composition down here, you can actually drag this out into your door and drop it there and you could actually use these patterns with other plugins as well. So I think this is fantastic, particularly as a compositional tool. Now before we move on to my number one pick, I just wanted to make some honorable mentions for some plugins that could have been on this list but didn't quite make it for whatever reason. The first one is Trillion Bass. This is an absolute classic bass plugin. I used to have it installed on my system. It's not anymore. And part of the reason for that is it's quite big. So there's a lot of basses in there which is one of its plus points. But I just find that it's starting to age a little bit now in terms of its workflow and you know, the way that you can adapt the basses and things like that. But it is definitely worth looking at. I'll check out some other videos about that if you're considering it. The next two are bass fingers and also bass slapper from Waves. Now these probably wouldn't quite have made it into my top five anyway. They may have been at six or something like that. However, I am hesitant to recommend any Waves plugins at the moment. I'd like to see a better track record from Waves first with in terms of the way that they treat their customer base before I recommend their plugins. That's one of the reasons why they're not in there. Now let's look at my number one pick. Not only do I think Moto Bass 2 is incredibly deserving of the number one spot here but I happen to notice just before I started making this video that it's being sold at an incredible price at the moment for this full version, yeah? Before we get into that, let's have a quick listen. Now if you've found that you were not all that happy with the sound of the bass there, that's fine because I have to say that this is easily the most versatile of all of the bass instruments that we've got here in terms of being able to change the sound. Now particularly with the full version that we're looking at here, that's partly possible because of the range of bass guitars available. You can see them all here. All of the classic ones you'd expect plus some upright basses in there as well. The list is just incredible. So you can sort of get your sound going just by choosing a particular model of a bass. But beyond that, where it's really at with here is with the actual customization you can do to the sound. For example, I can change the playing position by dragging this little thing around here, okay? So if I put it all the way up here, it's gonna be quite mellow. And if I put it down here, it's gonna be a little bit more sort of high end and it's got a lot more attack to it down there. It's subtle, but have a quick listen. Now a far more drastic change comes about when I start to move the pickups around you. I'll just push this bridge pickup all the way up here. Have a listen. And then you can change things like the playing style for example. So we were using fingers there, there's pick and there's slap as well. Have a listen to those. So there's all kinds of things about the playing style you can change. You can even go in and change things about the strings. Yeah, the type of strings that are used. Also whether this is a fretted bass or whether it's a fretless bass, we can change that here as well. The number of strings, whether you're using a drop tuning, the age of the strings, the gauge of the strings, all kinds of things about the strings there that you can change, which all change the sound. And then we looked at this a little bit earlier, the electronics, we can certainly move the pickups around. We can also swap them out for different pickups completely as well, which drastically changes the sound. Then we can sort of mix those pickups together. We can also go into the studio mode where we've got a couple of different choices of amps in there as well, as well as some stomp pedals that we can use in there as well. And on top of all of that with the different sounds of the bass, we've also got some patterns to choose from. A lot of patterns to choose from in different genres. You can find the ones you like and then you can just drag these out into your door here and you can play those patterns there. So this is why this particular plug-in is my number one pick, okay? Now it's being sold currently. I just happened to notice over at Sweetwater for $99 for this full version. Yeah, that's where you get all of these sort of bass guitars and things in there. Now normally this would cost $299, so $300 and it's kind of just under $100 now over there at Sweetwater. So definitely check out the link in the description down below and I wouldn't miss out on that. It's only for this month I think. So a bargain indeed. Now all of the drums that you heard accompanying today's basses were created with addictive drums too. One of the best drum plugins in my opinion and you can find out why right here.


Offer you prayer. I would save my prayers for the wedding day. Hey, Tyler Perry. I just got done watching your film, Acrimony, and I am just curious. I am dying to know your thought process when you was developing this film. My name is Brandon Keith-Avery, and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on, everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review. For Acrimony, written and directed by Tyler Perry, I really do appreciate it. Now, as you're looking at me as I'm talking, you're probably like, Brandon, why are you not looking at the camera? I'm looking at my computer right now, because I am just trying to quadruple check all the films that Tyler Perry has done. The reason why is I am not against Tyler Perry, but I can't necessarily say that I'm a fan either, but I have enjoyed a number of his films. I liked I Can Do Bad All By Myself. I like Daddy's Little Girl. I like Why Did I Get Married? 1 and 2. I'm kind of over the Mendea films, but to be honest with you, a family that prays is my most absolute favorite with Kat The Bates. She's a fantastic actress. There was a lot of other great performances in that movie, but I guess enough of that. Let's just talk about Acrimony. Now, the reason, I mean, when I first saw the trailers for this movie, I kind of rolled my eyes, like, oh my gosh, are we getting the same thing over and over and over again? And I don't want to say I'm glad to say, but I will say that we're not getting the same thing over and over again. We are getting something completely different. We are getting something that Tyler Perry has never done before. And what that would be is possibly not only the worst film in 2018 so far, this is like one of the worst films I've seen in the past five years. And I say that with no exaggeration, I am not trying to be facetious or sarcastic.  This was ridiculous and it just makes no sense. And if this was anybody else, any unknown writer, director, producer, something like that, I may be able to give them a pass, but I'm not saying that you're the best filmmaker in the world, not even close. But I have seen you do much, much, much better than this lazy, rugged garbage trash attempt of a film that you try to deliver us moviegoers. And I'm beyond disappointed. What acrimony is about, actually, let me go ahead, let's just go to school real quick. Do y'all even know what acrimony means? Let me go ahead and just read the definition to you. Bitterness or ill-feeling, okay? I think that's accurate for the title of this movie. If you watch the trailers, what the trailers are leading you to believe is that, I forgot her name. Taraji P. Henson is married to a character. She plays a character by the name of Melinda. Her husband's name is Robert play by Lyric Bent. The trailers lead you to believe that they are married, that Taraji P. Henson's character did everything in the world imaginable for her husband. And he dumped her and let her go and it was marrying some other woman and she's mad and she wants revenge and things like that. That's what the trailers led you to believe. And even if that's what this movie was about, we've seen that a ton of times before, but hey, this could have been a completely different take. But no, that's not what this movie is about. To me, they try to paint Taraji P. Henson as the protagonist or the person that you should feel sorry for, but no, she is the person that you actually want to fail just because of her character decisions in this film.   It is impossible for you to empathize, sympathize for Taraji P. Henson's character. It just makes no sense. She has a relationship with this rock, she has a relationship with this character Robert at the very beginning of the film. They meet in college and they end up getting married. But just from the very beginning of the relationship, you're just wanting to know, why are you doing these things?   And I'm gonna try my best not to spoil this and make this review too long, but I'm also gonna speak in general here.  Ladies, if you are out there and there is a man in your life that is not your family or husband or things like that, there is no rhyme or reason why you should be voluntarily giving this person thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands upon dollars over and over and over again. That just makes no sense. And Melinda is doing that. Now, people try to give people a pass if they do something crazy or wrong, but they're self-aware.  I said she was idiotic. She is the textbook definition of dumbfounded. They tried to, Tyler Perry tried to give up pass by making herself aware. But from the very beginning of the film, as she's narrating to us just around all the idiotic decisions that she's making, she's blaming everybody for her shortcomings, for her shortfalls, and I'm just not getting on board with it. The acting in this movie is atrocious. Nobody in this film can act. I don't understand because you have T'Rajie Pienson in this film. She can act, but she is overacting because everybody else that she is surrounding herself with can't, you know, it's like a kindergarten fifth, you know, not fifth grade, five year old, six year old school play or something like that.  They're just proud of the damn kids up there. But that's how everybody else has been portrayed in this movie. Just like, you know, simpletons, just non-experience. I mean, like, I don't even... Gosh, I don't want this review to be long, but at the same time, I wanna talk about two hours just how horrible this film is. Let me slow down. Let me get myself together.  That's one thing.  The budget for this film was possibly $12. There was a number of scenes where they tried to use a green, a blue screen and you can just tell it was fake. It just wasn't real. Just so many things are wrong with this film, just like the setting. Knowing when to, like with the editing, knowing when to start a scene, knowing when to end the scene, knowing what's actually necessary, okay? I mean, then you don't need, if somebody's walking out of a house, you don't need to show them walking out of the house, checking their watch, going down the stairs, all the way across the lawn, all the way across the parking lot. You know, showing them, trying to get into the key, put the key in the car and open it up. Trying to, you know, you don't have to show the whole thing. I mean, like just wasting minutes upon minutes in the film.  But you don't need to see that. I mean, it's just things like that. The film is so bad that it's undescribable because I'm having a hard time right now just describing this, you know, to you right here. The film was so bad that people gave, people left the film. These two, it was predominantly black people in this film, but it was these two white guys of, I think they were white, they were to my left. People were giving up on the film to where they just didn't care anymore. They was laughing. I was sitting next to a stranger. There's all the black women. She was so nice. She was so sweet. We started joking and laughing at the film together, like what the hell is going on? You know, screaming at the film.  I mean, like none of the characters in this movie were realistic. Her husband, Lyric Bent Robert, he was like, he was a deadbeat. He was dreaming that he was gonna be an astronaut flying around the solar system. I mean, that's just not realistic. I mean, he was an engineer trying to make this self-charging battery. And he was depleting their family, all of their money in just like millions of minutes. Like, oh my God, this movie is so bad. I can't even, I can't give my thoughts together. It's that sorry. This movie sucked. This movie was lazy. The characters were lazy. The dialogue was lazy. The script was lazy. The editing was lazy. The story was lazy. It just didn't make any sense to what like, it is beyond me. You saw me drinking bleach into the, in the thumbnail. It's like, who in the right mind would dream like this when Tyler Perry was done writing the script for this movie and turned it into like Taraji. Hey, Taraji, please say, Taraji, you know, I've been wanting to work with you again for a long time. You know what I'm saying? I got the script right here called Acrimony. You know what I'm saying? Here you go. I mean, the Taraji Pete look at the things that go like, okay, oh man, this is good. Okay, yo, we can do this. I'm on on board. We know where do I sign? Did the executives at the studio, what I like? Oh my gosh, Tyler Perry, I cannot believe this. You know, you did it again, my brother, you did it.  Like, I don't understand how anybody could be on board with this. This is the dumbest movie in the whole world. Like real talk, Taraji Pete's Hanson's character is so, like often the cuss, you know. Okay, I don't even care about spoiling. Nobody's gonna go see this movie. Spoilers are coming right now. No. God, dog.  You know what I'm saying? And I'll pay for this movie too.  You know what? I don't even care anymore.  If I'm gonna rate this movie out of a one out of 10, I give it a one out of 10. Yes, a one out of 10. I don't even want to talk about it no more. I was gonna get into it, but it just, it just, it's just a horrible film. It just is, there's nothing good about it at all. A faithful wife tired of standing by her devious husband is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That is a lie. That is not, that is just not what happened at all. This is just a horrible movie. I don't know. I may come back and wanna do a part two or something like that, but I'm done. I'm done. Subscribe to my channel. Have you seen this movie? Let me know what you think. Comment below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you liked the video, give me the thumbs up. If you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. Look me up on social media, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, all that good stuff. It's there at the bottom of the screen. And I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below. But guys, I just wanna thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review of Acrimony, a horrible film. And before you go, don't forget that my name is Brandy Keith-Avery. And that's just my opinion. Peace.


Welcome back to the channel Quick shout out to all the subscribers Check it out the content appreciate y'all and those that's watching that's new just go ahead and subscribe Right now. I got a few playlists for you all about sublimation content confirming printers Graphic design free software stuff a lot of good stuff. So Get into the video I don't want to make this a long tutorial. We're going to be talking about transfer paper. This is t-shirt printed on to a 100% cotton shirt, okay, or a cotton blend So it's photo paper direct as the name of the company not affiliated with them It's not a sponsor. It's in my research and I got 11 by 17 cookie sheets and In the back it has detailed instructions.  It's not scripted. So I Got the letter by 17s and this reminds me of easy sub-leaves. I do have eight and a half by 11 easy sub-leaves from sizing But it doesn't You do the comparison So 11 by 17 compared to the easy sub-leaves 11 by 16.5 So you get action point five and it comes with 50 sheets. Like I said, actually you can put two designs on So you got 50 times two. That's a hundred designs. Think about it. Let's just want to do some big It's the back of the logo So of course if you use the workforce this size cannot use the paper tray on top You will have to load this at the set to face down one at a time Saw the thumbnail already did a black shirt the watch test. I'll show you the results at the end but Also, it would be good for the scissors because you will have to cut off the white part of the borders Good with the scissors, you know, makes you sure your scissors are sharp If not, I would invest into a craft then Paper trimmer that's you know, that's to replace the blades and everything. This has a lot to it I would recommend a higher quality paper trim or the guillotine the one you be chopping stuff But the blade got you super sharp. I think that would be better then this normal paper trimmer Because this is totally different from sublimation paper. It's not gonna cut like the paper and also You don't want to be pressing too hard on the blue part. Just go hold it in place, you know And because you don't want to smudge the image and things in that nature So I'm just going to show you the proper way how to set everything up The heat press I got this demonstration shirt It says soft cotton Does this tell you the percentage? That's why this is demonstration shirt BW attire So definitely go to ever So this is a good way a gray shirt and You still want to test it out on the shirt doesn't have to be black, but it's kind So we're gonna go ahead and get into the video All right, so the set is going to be 375 12 seconds, so you're not going to use the paper trail here. Okay, and If you ever see this firmer update, just close it out. Don't update it. If you have no worries This is the button you want to press Okay, right now it's set up for the A4 pull all the way out. This is going to be for your 11 17 If you have the eight and a half by 11 You'll load that in cassette one normally. It's like this Make sure the logo is down. This is tight right here Okay Adjust the camera Now I'll adjust the camera. So you got to put the little tray back on okay, it's cuz Then you got to take both hands so you can't just push it in from the back end, okay? So let's go ahead and just slide it in until these little Got these little holes right here So it gets it like a little snap So you trade should look like this Okay, don't worry about the paper settings because we're going to go onto the computer I'm not going to do that share screen stuff Alright, so now we add the computer So I pulled up silhouette studio. It's gonna bring you something like this. If you look to the right see the mouse cursor On the new send click on that little paper eight there It's going to bring you to this So don't worry about the machine. Don't worry about that. Don't worry about that go to with It's gonna be inches 11 by 17 Okay, got the portrait and it will have a print border Okay So what you want to do is make it a little smaller You can pull up your folders file any kind of way and all you got to do is click and drag your image image one image two So once you click on it, you can size it. I'm just gonna put it at this corner and this drag So you got to do just drag it out Don't have to worry about holding any kind of keys This one. I'm gonna start from the bottom You see that little blue. This is telling you hey stop right there and Just drag it out and you still have a little gap in between And it tells you the measurements It's gonna be 8.3 The height and it's gonna be about 10.8 wide Now this is the most important part Once you hit your printer Send to printer It's the most important part right here Once you hit print because it's the preview see what I did. It's the real picture in our cartoon This picture right here. I could do another video. Just leave it down in the comments how to cartoon Using free software. So once you hit print find your printer Whether it be the workforce or the echo tank equal tank hit the preferences What we want is high quality Now we load it if you're using regular eight and a half by 11 You'll put cassette one if you're using 11 by 17. You will have to do cassette to Document size very important All right, leave it as is paper type high quality plain paper Quality high now you have to mainly to do all this stuff Now what you want to do is go to more option tab right here in the top left Now what you want to do is click on custom Click events Now if you want to get straight to printing Go to ICM still get some vibrant colors. If not Go to color controls make sure this is eps and vivid Click the sidebar and I still remember my settings to negative 20 Negative 15 and I do have a video for your print preferences colors these colors been working pretty lovely for me click okay and Then if you want more options click the image options and you can emphasize Then lines edge moving and fix red eye click, okay Click, okay Click print It's gonna load up. You got your heat press on and it's going to print out It's gonna send to the printer. All right print out pretty fast faster than the normal through the paper tray Um, you probably want to do is let it sit. This is a little bit before we start cutting. All right, so not be afraid to Go over Make sure you don't get your nails on it Cut that one later Real Tyson on here. This is the tricky part. The tricky part is actually removing this So this is where you have to be careful separating This right here. Now this can take a minute This does take a little bit of time actually get it but you can get it It's a little Little bit of work It's a little tricky part there you go, so Separating it you're gonna have to be really careful. That's why I say you should let it try playing with me There it is. Once you get it It's peeling this thing is not sticky This is not sticky. It's very flimsy Try to hold it from the bottom Design to the side Then do our little five second pre-pass start a little spook leg Go ahead and Fibers So taking off the corner is to the most tricky as part about it, but it beats having to do the mask and everything by extra material like All right, we're gonna do four the color and of course if you don't have a t-shirt Or you don't have measuring tape some kind of ruler Always fold armpit to armpit. He press it down that way can get the center point straight down the middle Tack it down. It's gotta make sure Line it up like you're doing it for the customer of course you Don't use no heat transfer tape or nothing like that Parliament paper Place it over right here Can't take a teflon sheet. That's to protect the garment for the second press So we're gonna lift up this bad boy out the way and We're going to go ahead and hot peel it As you can see it doesn't stick So you can actually reuse this you are gonna smell something funny see right here I was talking about you gotta be very careful because I nicked it But you can't tell You cannot tell so it looks pretty good. All right, so we're gonna press it one more time It's gonna stretch it out. It's a little bit stretch Stand back on that Place this right here And we're just gonna go ahead and let it press for another 12 seconds again as for It should be saying 375 but with this heat press it be jumping around Do that back So nice solid shirt set up the camera for the clothes cons So here's our demonstration shirt came out good came out good I tell you the difference is it feels like I mean the press on there Did it bleed through that's good. They didn't bleed through. This is dual a little vintage look to it I'm not supposed to do that on a lighter color shirt. They actually got separate ones for that This is two washes. I'm ready to do two washes This is the cartoon version. So it looks pretty good. It survives. It's not peeling I Messed up. I smudged it here with the normal paper trimmer So that's why I say, you know, you might want to invest into a regular But look I Did it on a white team So it is possible. I just recommend for the second press If you do you probably may not want to stretch it so much the only issue is Doing this got to make sure you have a sharp sharp Cutting tool. Okay, you're good with the scissors and you're good with the scissors After you cut it, you got to make sure your fingernails ain't all in the way Because sublimation ain't it's easy to smudge this or nick it and Also doing the corners That's pretty tough.  That would be the better option. How I did the other shows So that's it for the tutorial. 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We are going to consider very simplistic kind of a model, let us say like an ant or a bug or an insect which decides how to make its next move based on where its friends are because the friends have some you know hint about where the sugar cube is. So they send us some of these information over the network and these ants or whatever they make their moves based on that. So what is the basic model going to be? If I represent P i is equal to say X i, Y i as the position of the ith ant, right? Then the dynamics is going to look something like this, summation P j minus P i such that this notation means that j is listening or rather i is listening to j, in other words j is a neighbor of i. In graph theoretic language there is an edge connecting the ith node to the jth node. If I am not even connected to you, if I do not know what you think, how am I going to be influenced by your opinion, right? If I am always mouthing my opinions throughout the day on radio, TV, everywhere, right? And you get to hear my opinion, I never get any feedback from you, right? So unlike that in this case, j and i are neighbors means both of them listen to each other's opinions because it is an undirected graph that we have in mind. Is this clear? Why this is a logical way to formulate such dynamics? No, it is not j till day, this is a notation, j is a neighbor of i, j is a neighbor of i means there is an edge connecting j with i, it is a graph theoretic notation, it is something new, do not blame yourself if you do not understand this because we never explained this in linear algebra, it is a graph theoretic notation, right? I am introducing it now, now just think about it, what does this mean? I can decouple the dynamics along the x and the y directions, I can just say x i dot is equal to x j minus x i summation and y i dot is equal to y i, y j minus y i summation. So these dynamics are completely decoupled, I might just look at the single differential equation in terms of x's or the y's, it does not matter, right? So what does this eventually lead to? Does this tell you there is something going on? What is this? I put it to you that if I stack up all these p i's together like p 1, p 2 until p n, yeah? This is a stacked up position of all the n agents, this is a 2 n sized vector, right? Then what is this? p dot, isn't it equal to minus Laplacian times p, yeah? Because this is what the Laplacian is, that is why we were so invested in the Laplacian. It helps us in grasping this idea, what is this?  Suppose p 3 is not connected to p i, then that will not appear here because there is this restriction where only if j is a neighbor of i will disappear. So this is exactly this, right?  What do you think is the solution of this going to look like? Let us say p, isn't it equal to p of t, isn't it equal to summation c i e to the lambda i t v i, i going from 1 through n, yeah, where lambda i is at the eigenvalues of the Laplacian, v i is at the eigenvectors of the Laplacian. This is just linear differential equations, theory of linear differential equations, okay? I am not going to go very deep into this because if you have done a course on control theory or about to do, you will learn this anyway. It's basically ordinary differential equations at the end of the day. If you like, you can also write this as e to the at times x naught or p naught. That is also another representation. We have seen that 2 by 2 case by the way, just before we started our, you know, venture into this eigenvalues and eigenvectors, we have already seen at least a 2 by 2 case. The same thing holds for the n by n case. So, it's an nth order differential equation, right? Linear differential equation. So, this is the solution where how do you solve for these c's? These c's are solved essentially by using the initial conditions. See, how do you solve differential equations? You get a solution with some constants. How do you evaluate the constants? Because you know the initial condition. So, you equate them at the initial condition by putting t is equal to 0, but there is something more interesting here. We are going to assume that this Laplacian is a connected graph. After all, if there is multiple discrete groups which are not even communicating with each other, then there is no point in modeling the motion of ants or vehicles in that group, in such groups, right? So, we will assume that g is a connected graph. So, if g is a connected graph, what do we know about the eigenvalues of minus l? The eigenvalues of l will be non-negative, one of them exactly 0 and no more than 1 must be 0, because it's a connected graph. So, I might as well write this as c 1, lambda 1 is just 0, so e to the lambda 1 is also a constant, right? So, c 1, v 1. What is v 1? Isn't it the all-ones vector? We have just seen that, right? The kernel of Laplacian is spanned by the all-ones vector, right? So, this is just the all-ones vector, right? Plus c 2 e to the lambda 2 t v 2 plus so on till c n e to the lambda n t v n, right? I don't care if the lambdas are distinct or not, this matrix l is always going to be diagonalizable. If it's diagonalizable, then there's going to be no terms such as t or t squared appearing here, because there's a Jordan form, the Jordan form is just the diagonal form, right? So, we'll see that in some greater detail also. So, I'll just do a couple of steps and you will be there with the result. There are multiple ways of getting at this and I'm never sure which is the most convenient way to explain, but let's just hold on to that thought for a moment. So, what is this? From this, can I not write this as v 1, v 2 or rather this is all-ones? If I know it already, let's not pretend as if I don't know. v 1, v 2 like this. Actually, you know what? I'll just write this as x and get rid of the, because otherwise it's going to be of size 2 n, right? The dynamics along the x direction mimics the dynamics along the y direction, no? Because p is just 2 tuple of x and y. So, let me just, because I am convenient dealing with the 1n, the n-sized, right? So, let's just call this the x. The y-direction dynamics is exactly the same, except that the initial conditions have to be different. If I know how to solve the x-direction, I know how to solve the y-direction, the decoupled, right? So, let's just call it this until vn, I'm just writing it in a different fashion, but make sure that this is going to be 1. This is going to be e to the lambda 2t is going to be e to the lambda nt times c 1, c 2, until cn, right? Now, what are these c's? How do we evaluate these c's? We know that x0 is equal to what? If I equate x0 here and x0 here, what happens? So, we know that x0 is equal to c1 all 1s plus c2, at 0 the exponentials will not matter, c2 v2 plus dot dot dot till cn vn, which is nothing but all 1s n v2 until vn followed by c1, c2, cn, which means that c1, c2 until cn is nothing but the all 1s v2, I mean what I am doing here is very standard, I am not using any property of the Laplace n, this is just standard for any Laplace, here I just happen to know that this is all 1s, you could have just replace this with v1. This result is very generic, inverse times let us say x0, x0 is a vector, right? So I might as well replace this here with all 1s n v2 until vn and then this with 1 e to the lambda 2 t, e to the lambda n t and then this c1 I am going to replace with. So what do you know about this matrix? This is a matrix of the Eigen vectors of the Laplace n, is not it? So it is an orthogonal matrix, what do you know about its inverse? It is just the transpose of this fellow, so I might as well just write this as transposed to v2 transposed to vn transposed times sorry not c1 times x0, yeah? This is clear so far, this inverse because this inverse is just going to be its transpose because it is the, so this is the special case, up until this point there was nothing special that I harnessed, remember? Just any matrix, it comes up to this form and that is why you actually have this case, right? e to the at, you diagonalize, this is just the diagonalized form of that. This is true of any general matrix, here I just happen to know that one of the Eigen values is 0 and it is corresponding Eigen vector is this, apart from that I also know that the other Eigen vectors are form an orthogonal basis, right? So that is all the knowledge I have used. So let us write it out now. So x of t is going to be all once n v2 until vn times 1 e to the lambda 2t e to the lambda nt, the lambdas are the Eigen values of minus l, remember not l, yeah? Because our dynamics was governed by minus Laplacian, not Laplacian and what is this? This is just all once transposed x0 v2 transposed x0 until vn transposed x0, agreed? So as t tends to infinity, that is the asymptotic behavior of the system, what happens to xt? What happens to all of these fellows as t tends to infinity? Do we know the Laplacian to be positive semi definite, only one Eigen value is 0, the others are all positive? What do we know about the Eigen values of minus Laplacian then? Exactly one 0, all others are negative. So these lambdas are all negative as t tends to infinity each of these degenerates to 0. So we essentially have just all once n v2 until vn and this just leaves with just this one and this huge vacuum here and just, sorry, all one n transposed x0 v2 transposed x0 vn transposed x0, alright, what do you think this is going to do? If I hit it with this, it is not going to matter what these are, all that is going to be just this and then this is going to be operated on by this, right? So what is this? This is going to be equal to, what is this by the way? When you take the inner product of all one's vector with x0, what results? It is just the sum of the initial conditions of the fellows, right? So this is equal to the summation of xi0, yeah? So I think I had to actually normalize this, right? I had to actually normalize this, otherwise it is not the identity, you know? So wherever I have missed this, sorry about this, because otherwise it is not an orthonormal matrix, right? Yeah, I should have taken the normalized fellows instead of just this, yeah, otherwise it does not match with the average that I have in mind, okay? So that is how I detected that there was something amiss here, because these are all unit norm, right? Only then they give the identity. So we have an orthonormal basis. So what happens then? This is just this, but that is a scalar times the all n, all ones, right? That is your final solution. As t tends to infinity, it just converges to the average of the initial conditions of all the fellows. So if you have a connected graph of people listening to each other, exchanging information without malice or biases, everyone will eventually come to agreement on an average. Now whether you like it or not is up to you. You might say, oh, the good people are getting more mediocre, but also the weaker people are getting stronger. The good or bad, I leave it to you, but that's it. That is where consensus or agreement will happen, okay? At the average of the initial conditions, when the graph is connected, okay? You can tweak around with the final value. If you have an directed graph, but with an undirected graph, it's always going to be the average, right? So we'll end this lecture here today, and in the next and the final lecture, we shall try to see another application of this, perhaps in the domain of economics. Thank you.