Have you ever wanted to sound like these cool announcers from Unreal Tournament or Quake? In this video, I'm going to show you. Hey, I'm Anfa. I'm an electronic music producer and sound designer, but I only use open-source software and Linux. You know, in my free time, I'm sometimes working on a game with a friend, and it's a multiplayer FPS, and we thought, we need some announcer for that. So in this video, I'm going to record actual lines we're going to use in the game. I'm going to show you how to do all that using Ardor, which is a free and open-source digital audio workstation. After we're done with recording, I'm going to show you how you can process the recordings to get that deep, manly voice. And after that, I'm going to show you how you can export all the sound effects so they are ready to be imported into a game engine. Me personally, I use Godot, which is open source and awesome, but I won't judge you if you use something else. Actually I will. Use Godot. You proprietary b****! All right, let's get going. The first thing you want to do is have water at your disposal, because recording vocals requires a lot of hydration. You don't want to be recording vocals when you're dry. All right, so here is an empty Ardor session. I also have all my lines written down. I'm going to show you. This is a text file where I have written all of the lines I need to record. You don't have to see this. I may have this on screen here, but really it's not that important for now. What is important is we need an audio track to record anything. So right-click, audio tracks. I want to create a mono track. I'm going to call this an announcer. One track. Let's edit and close this dialog. Now I need to check the inputs. This is a Shure SM57 microphone, including the A2WS windscreen, which, if I'm directly pointing towards the front, it can take some pops. It won't take pops if you go from the side, but from the front, it's pretty good at it. All right, so I need to make sure this is the microphone I'm using. I'm going to select this track, enable recording, uh, uh, uh, uh, okay, that's the track. Another important thing when recording anything is, of course, to ingest your gain. So I'm going to make a louder voice, huh, huh, huh, huh, all right, and I've turned my gain up only so that when I'm going to make the sound, the loudest sound that I possibly can during this recording session, it's going to clip. So right now we should have as much, um, volume in our recording as possible. Also making sure we won't clip because clipping means distortion means the recording is bad. Okay, now for the boring part, which is actually performing the lines. If you want to record your lines yourself, and that's what I expect you who want to do if you're watching this, then I may give you a little bit of hints as to what to do. Um, I'm going to actually turn on, turn up my monitoring. And one thing is that if you're listening through your, uh, audio interface with zero latency monitoring, I'm actually listening through Ardor so I can apply some effects. And it's pretty quiet. So I'm going to right click and insert a ACE, ACE compressor, which is a stock Ardor plugin. I'm going to use this to compress it a little bit and make it up so I can hear myself louder and you will be able to hear myself, to hear me, my voice louder as well. Now, if you're doing software monitoring like I do, you need low latency. I'm using a jack buffer size of 128, which is pretty short. This way I can hear myself through the software without a jolting delay. And this is important. Also, if you want to record anything, you need close back headphones because if you have open back headphones, the sound from the headphones is going to spill back into the microphone and that's not going to be great for your recording. Another thing we can select this and hit F to make the track full screen. And the only thing left right now is just to listen to your voice and find the sound you want. I'm going to maybe make this a little bit smaller. I am going to read my lines and like get ready, prepare and test. Actually, wait a minute. I'm going to swap these. Okay, I need to get comfortable like it's very important to get your throat loose. You don't want to be clenching. You don't want to be like pushing hard. If something is hurting, you're doing it wrong and it's never going to sound good if it hurts. Okay, it may sometimes, but not for long. So I want to go for a bassy low voice, but not too low because I'm going to use a pitch shifter later to make my voice more manly and deep. And I want to actually stay in a pitch that is comfortable for me because that's going to give my voice confidence and fullness and I can lower the pitch later. So I'm not going to struggle to sound like. Double kill. Double kill. When I'm going to strangle myself trying to get so low, I'm going to go maybe for something more double kill. It's a little higher, but more confident. And the confidence I can't like restore it with a plugin. I can't change the pitch with a plugin. So we need to prioritize that. Okay, I'm going to go a test run and try to record all of these maybe first. All right. Double kill. Triple kill. Double kill. I feel a little uncomfortable.  Not tense. I don't want to have, you know, don't feel tension. So when I'm feeling tension, I want to move my microphone into a more comfortable position. Maybe this is a little too low actually. This is, you may think that what am I doing? This is not important. What are we watching this? I came here for the sound effects, but, you know, you need to get some things right before you can do something. Well, you can't fix everything in a post double kill. Oh, now I feel more much more comfortable and I can get a lower voice with more confidence. A lower voice with more confidence and fullness in it without it feeling like I'm going to strangle myself. Double kill. Okay. My lips actually hit the microphone. I don't know if it's going to be audible. Double kill. It sounds a little bit muffled. I think I'm going to actually lower my chair a little bit. Double kill. I don't want to touch the microphone. Double kill. Double kill. Double kill. Double kill. Triple kill. Quad kill. Pentakill. Sextakill. Sceptakill. Oktakill. Nonakill. Decakill. Okay. I'm not fully confident all of these are going to be great. Double kill. Double kill. Double kill. Double kill. Triple kill. Double kill. It's always good to have multiple takes. I'm going to mute this thing here to like mark it for myself that these takes should be fine. It's always good to have two takes because later we're going to sort and find the best ones. So I'm going to record this again. Double kill. Triple kill. Triple kill. Quad kill. Quad kill. Quad kill. Pentakill. Pentakill. Sextakill. Sextakill. Sceptakill. Sceptakill. Sceptakill. Oktakill. Oktakill. Nonakill. Nonakill. Nonakill. Okay, I think it's easier to have like two takes for every line right away than to repeat this whole sequence twice. I'm gonna have a sip of water. I feel a little strain on my throat. I used a little bit of a distortion, kind of a little growly, and I think I'm not properly warmed up yet to do that, so I'm going to try and maybe tone that down a little bit to avoid tiring my vocal chords and just making my performance sound awful and also me hurting. But I think these lines are good. Let's listen a bit. Deca kill. That's quite loud. Sexta kill. Okay, I think this is gonna be good. I think we've got enough stuff to cut out great takes. Two in one. Two in one. Three in one. Three in one. Four in one. Four in one. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Four in one. Okay, I think that's gonna be good. Head shot. Head shot. It's gonna be an important one. Head shot. Head shot. Head shot. Sorry. I've been listening to the original announcers from, you know, Unreal Tournament 1991, 1999, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 3, Quake 3 Arena, Quake Champions and these announcers often say things very slowly, so it's like overly, like meaty and very, very readable. There's no way you can confuse one line with another. And I think I maybe don't want to go as slow at some points because sometimes I'm not fully like on board with what they're doing, but yeah, I want to find my own sound in here as well. So I don't want to copy paste their work. It's like it's already been done. Who wants to do this again? All right, let's see our head shot. Head shot. I'm going to try it again. Head shot. Head hunter. Head hunter. Head hunter. That's weird. Head hunter. I'm going to try the lower. Head hunter. Head hunter. That's a weird, like. Hunter. Head hunter. Head hunter. Hunter. Head hunter. Okay, the making weird gestures with my hands is going, is helping me do the right performance. So when you're recording, like, feel free to, like, I don't know, stand up if you feel like it.   I don't know, whatever you need. Make sure you're comfortable. And I'm more comfortable when I'm, like, sometimes doing this. It may look weird, but you know, when someone is going to be playing the game, they're not going to see me recording it now. They're going to hear my voice. So the voice is what matters. But also don't hurt your voice vocal cords. I don't want to destroy your instrument, so yeah, take care. Let's take a sip.  Don't use Coke, soda, anything with sugar. Just water because sugar is going to die hydrate your vocal cords and your throat instead of doing the opposite. Maybe there are some things that hydrate better than water for this kind of stuff. It's going to work. I don't know. I just use water. Sometimes I'm tempted to use coffee or something else, but it's really not the greatest idea. A hunter. All right. I think I'll be able to edit something out of this headhunter thing. Let's go further. Bullseye, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye, bullseye. I'm not sure about this sound. Bullseye. It may be cool. We'll see. I think I have a bullseye. I have a little bit less and a little bit more. I can't fully eliminate it. Maybe I'll try one take where there is no bullseye. That sounded lame. I think that doesn't sound great at all. Bullseye. It sounds like a recording that a non-voice actor would do. Weird. Okay. Ragequit. Ragequit. Ragequit. Ragequit. Ragequit. Did I clip, by the way? I think I did not. No, I didn't clip. Yeah, this was close. We were at negative 0.5 decibels full scale. It was 0.5 decibels from clipping, but I did not clip. I just wanted to drop in a line, kernel panic. Not real reason I just like this. I'm not sure where we're going to use this in the game. I don't know. Maybe when it crashes, but when it crashes, you can't really play a sound when it crashes. I don't know. Kernel panic. Kernel panic. Kernel panic. I'm sorry. I have permanent ... I have some trouble with my nose. That's why I need to do these sounds. I try to cut them out in my videos as much as possible. Also, I could remove this because why would I ... Sorry. I'm just going to delete this stuff. What was the last thing I recorded? Kernel. Okay. Let's try it again. Kernel panic. Kernel panic. Kernel panic. Kernel panic. Kernel panic. I know I'm making weird faces when I do that. Kernel panic. Maybe that's a little bit overly sharp. Let's move on. Okay. These now. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. Payback. No, no, no. Too close. Payback. Payback. I'm listening to what it sounds like in my headphones as I'm recording it. Sometimes I hear that the recording isn't what I like. Payback. Payback. Payback. Like you hear there's way too like the proximity effect of me getting much closer to the microphone. Makes this recording sound much much different and I need this to be consistent. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. Okay, I think I'm going to cut it here. I don't think I can get blood to sound as I want it.   No, that's not it. You... No.   10. 9. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. 1. Overtime. I think the digits went pretty well. 1. Except for this last one. 1. I just, I am a little worried this might be not as intense as it should be. 2. 1. Yeah, maybe a little bit more distortion. I'm gonna try and drive it a bit harder. 1. 1. 1 ring to 1. 1. I'm not sure it's better. Let's move on. I think we have what we need. I'm gonna save this by the way. Victory. Victory. Victory. Victory. Merciless victory. Merciless victory. Victory. Defeat. Again, I need to loosen up. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1 Embarrassing defeat. I know what I need to add in here. These two lines. I written them for a different game but they're not going to be used ever. So let's put them somewhere. I don't know where to use them yet, but they are cool, I want to have them. Glory. Glory. Glory. Shame. Shame. Shame. Shame. Get ready. Go. Go. Okay. Go. Go. Why is this empty? Go. I need to cut off this. I think it would be good. Okay. So that's their recording phase. Now let's move on to processing. Okay. I'm going to maximize order now and we're going to work on our processing. First thing I want to do. I already done. It's a compressor. Second thing I want to do is a pitch shifter. Now what pitch shifter should I use? Pitch. AM pitch shifter is very simple and it sounds pretty glitchy. I think the best one is actually rubber band and mono is very good because it's important that we process this in mono because pitch shifting and stereo always adds stereo width, which may be unwarranted. Let's try this. Merciless. What about one octave? Merciless. That's way too much. Let's try three semitones. Merciless. Four. Merciless. Two. Merciless. Merciless. Make it stop. I've choked.  First blood. Choked again. First blood. That's pretty nice. First blood. This is also pretty cool. I think I would like something like two and a half bit semitones down. Let's try preserving formats. Okay so two and a half semitones. I'm going to actually mute this one. I'm going to compare it with other plugins that could do the same job. I want to find a pitch shifter that can give me the best results.  Phase evocated based pitch shifter. That's one also nice. Pitch scaler. Rubber band mono, tap pitch shifter, x40 no MA pitch shift was also... oh it's not there. Alright let's insert these and test them. One after the other. So AM pitch shifter. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. Oh that's weird. First blood. First blood. First blood. Okay. First blood. That's really close. Let's try high quality, higher quality pitch shifter. First blood. It sounds so bad. First blood. Oh my goodness that's just embarrassing. Steve Harris you've made so many awesome plugins. This is not a higher quality pitch shifter. First. This is really bad quality pitch shifter. I'm sorry. I love your plugins but this one the name isn't matching. It should be very metallic pitch shifter. That's what it should be called. First. What is this in? First blood. Okay that's semitone. So three and two and a half. First blood. Let's try compared with rubber band. First blood. First blood. I think rubber band is a bit cleaner. Let's try tap pitch shifter. Semitone. Two point five. First blood. This one is also not as clean. Rubber band wins. First blood. Rubber band wins. Ladies and gentlemen rubber band is the awesome. So pitch shifting is done. Actually maybe I should do it before compression because that's going to. First blood. Let the rubber band the pitch shifter work on a more natural looking waveform and after that we can cross squish it with compression and we will a lot. First blood. Actually squish it more. First. Not as much. First blood. First blood. Okay I think editing of this is going to be like the least important part. Maybe I'm going to show you like two minutes of that. So it's just going to be uh I don't know or maybe I will record that in another video in another day but I'm going to actually put this in one video or split this into three video. I don't know. Okay we've got compression. What do we need all absolutely every single time we have any vocals whatsoever is a de-esser unless you're recording only and no sibilants but let's see what de-esser I can use. Actually I often use called de-esser. First blood. First blood. First blood. I'm going to monitor. First blood. Ah painful. Yes. First blood. First blood. That's better. It is a little I'm going to delete all these pitch shifters I don't use. Okay what else. I definitely want some multiband compression so let's go and we could actually use zam multi comp. Can we? Multi comp. Lv2 please and this is zam multiband compressor. We can enable all of these. First blood. I need to lower the threshold. First blood. Let me just see what we can do. First blood. You know so use master trim to apply makeup gain. First blood. Let's try without. First blood. And with. First blood. I think it's a little much but it's pretty nice. Maybe we can increase the knees a little bit to like maybe lower the ratios. First blood. First blood. First blood. I like this. I like that sound. Okay another thing we need to do is an EQ. Let's use X42 EQ actually mono because we're all purchasing this in mono so far. First blood. I'm going to enable I'm going to enable spectrum analysis. First. Make this bigger. First blood. And I'm going to hype as it. Maybe 50 hertz. Be more. First blood. First blood. We do want lows in there. First blood. Oh no. Can I cut this out? First blood. Okay I can. It's going to be clean. All right. I was afraid because that's a good take. First blood. So I think I will need to maybe like lower these parts. First blood.  Yeah that's good. I could actually make a region range for this like okay crossover for editing. I'm going to make a range.  First blood. Okay let's go back to the EQ. First blood. Maybe we can try and add a little bit of brightness. First blood. First blood. That could be nice. We can now try and like remove some of the mids build up. First blood. First blood. First blood. Maybe here. First blood. Another one. Let's try. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. First blood. I think that's better. We may need to apply our de-esser after this. First blood. And maybe back it off a little bit because it's triggered way more. First blood. Okay okay that's good. Alrighty I think that's like the raw part of it. Like after that what we could do is add first blood. Like this could already be used in a game I think. However okay it couldn't. We need to add a limiter. I'm going to use X42, X42 DPL which is digital peak limiter and we can use the stereo version. Let's see what happens. First blood. First blood. Oh it doesn't touch it. First blood. That's good. But just in case we don't want to clip. First blood. We seem to be clipping though. I'm not sure what's that about. How is, how does it not touch it? First blood. That's a mystery. Okay could replace it with LSP side chain. Sorry LSP limiter stereo. Try this one. Let's see what it says. First blood. All right this one peaks. So this one registers. Something's going on. A good idea is to like try and limit the dynamic range. This is going to occupy just to make it easier to mix in our game. First blood. So probably I'm going to lower my. First blood. First blood. Okay yeah. Also it's good to not touch zero decibels. I'm going to go with negative one. First blood. You see we're catching a little bit of peaks and like usually probably this announcer will not be played as loud in the game so that we would need to do it but imagine there's a lot of action going on. We have explosions and also the music. The more dynamics everything has the harder we need to work a master limiter in the game engine to avoid clipping. So if I can take a little bit of dynamics out of some stuff to make that easier I think that's going to be a win in the long term. First blood. Okay I think this is pretty nice. We can I'm going to just show you now how to export your files. Let's do two lines. Just first blood.        Okay I think I like the K from this one because this one just like it. But the rest from that first one is really nice. I'm going to remove this.  Oh I removed the wrong one. Okay let's go like that. I'll align them.  Very nice. I'm going to make this fade in.  And so I'm going to create a range marker.  Okay now for exporting. What I'm going to do is hold hit alt E for export and in here we need to do multiple things. First thing is create a new profile. Let's hit new and I'm going to call this announcer actually going to this lib last announcer because the game is called lib last and now we want wave session rate 16 bit shaped noise dithering and what we want also is trim silence at start and trim silence at end which is going to try and remove any silence that we may have in our file before and after that means I don't have to put these range markers exactly precisely on the start and end and also this is going to help us mitigate the trouble that the plugins that have some latency might give us because the pitch shifter is going to delay the signal by a certain amount and the latency compensation and RO should take care of that and align it back to our markers but it may be that we are going to have some silence at the start and some clipping at the end so having a leeway and then just enabling trimming is going to help us with that also we don't need to export this as stereo it's going to be a waste of space I'm going to go to the channel section and just switch to one that means we're going to export in mono and third thing let's go to time span and here we have our regions let's go select all and disable session session is what we have between the start and end markers in our session and we don't need that we eat first blood and we do suck so now i'm going to hit export and here is our exported files you can see that we have trimmed some silence from the start and the end you see that this thing this yellow bar is here it should be here that means there was silence in the end but because there's a bug I reported this this this is misaligned and we're hitting zero negative one disables to peak which is exactly exactly what we wanted to get to hit with our limiter and on you suck we also hit that which is good because we're using utilizing all of our dynamic range and that's great and we've also he see that our silence was nicely trimmed fantastic I can hit open folder and we see the folder where the files have been exported and you are free to drop them into your game that's all I hope this video was useful and interesting if you have any questions or suggestions for other videos I could do please leave them in the comments also I would like to thank all the people who are supporting me financially if you dear viewer would like to join them please go to patreon.com slash anfa or libera pay.com slash anfa or you can give me a buck or two every month and I'm really happy to see every bit of support I get from the community especially these recurring donations because they build up to a steady monthly income that one day hopefully will let me do these kind of videos as my main job which is exciting so yeah that was a long video but I hope you you have been inspired and I hope I was able to give you something valuable show you some ideas you might not have had before show you some tools and that you will have fun making your own announcer voice lines oh and if you would like to check out the game I'm making this for it's called liblast and here's the link you can find it on github or somewhere else too and I'm going to put the links in the video description as well also what if you would like to try Linux and open source software for audio production and you don't know where to start it's a good idea to start on my community chat at chat.anfa.xyz where you can find a lot of people who are using Linux and open source software for audio work and who will be happy to help you solve problems and get you started in case you have trouble and I can also recommend you videos I made that were relevant to your situation yeah so that's all now go record some awesome announcer lines oh I I initially thought this video is gonna take like 15 minutes boy oh yeah we've got some really nice lines I just I'm gonna need to just edit this off and we have 14 minutes of audio recorded oh wow that's gonna be fun


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Welcome back to my channel. My name is Nika and this is high black girl a channel That's all about helping you live your life at your absolute highest potential and in today's video I'm going to show you how to create a vision board in Canada Similar to this one my vision board, but first before we can jump into that We have to take some time to reflect on where we've been if we're going to know how we're going to live like First before we can know where we're going we have to take some time to reflect on where we've been So my first step before I start making my vision board is actually to take a moment of reflection Before I create my vision board. I have to do my reflections. I like to just take my Journal and just take some time flipping through the pages saying what I really loved about the year What I didn't really like so much and if you need some examples I'm going to share some of mine with you Literally right now. All right, so I like to focus on glows and grows So your glows are things that went really well throughout your life So things in 2022 that you loved and you felt went swimmingly well And you want to just keep going into 2023 and then also your gross things that you know Maybe need a little water. Maybe need a little sunlight and can really improve So some of my examples are my first glow is Travel I was able to leave my job in 2022 and travel in Europe. It was one of not my first time my first time in like Portugal and Lisbon Lisbon is in Portugal My first time in Spain And my first time in London, I also went to Marseille, France and honestly I have a whole like travel vlog series if you want to check this out But I really enjoyed that and I had no idea that it was going to even happen like life Just went so crazy and I just was really open to opportunities And so in 2023 I want to continue to prioritize travel and really continue to be open To the travel opportunities that come my way. Okay, so my second glow And like an example for you guys is really building community Because I was no longer working a nine-to-five job. I kind of missed that like human interaction So I really put myself out there at my yoga studio I'm also a yoga teacher if you didn't know you can check out my day in the life of the yoga instructor in New York City here But then not even just at my studio Also at Y7 Another yoga studio and then at SoulCycle as well. I'm really sorry to like make friends With the people I work out with and like hang out with them And that's just been a really great way for me to build community and something that I want to continue to do in 2023 so an area that I didn't do so well in and something that I really really want to grow and facilitate in 2023 is Content creation. I did not have a YouTube goal for the year of 2022. I'm wanting to get to 500 subscribers I'm filming this in January of 2023, and I think I'm at 463 so if you want to do me a favor and go ahead and press subscribe I would really appreciate it. I'm gonna make a new goal for this year Not sure what it is yet, but I definitely want to get more subscribers than I have now So I really want to focus on creating more content and just being really consistent with it in the new year and then my second grow Just like as an example for you guys I ended up dating like two really crappy guys in 2022 and so in 2023 I want to put myself out there a little bit more and just go on more dates I don't want to download any of the dating apps. So I'm not sure how This is gonna happen. I think if I just manifest everything will come to me So that's kind of my focus areas and some of the reflections and I felt comfortable sharing with you guys So take some time now Journal Reflects are your journal from the year and see you know what was glowing and what could be growing in the new year Vision who you want to be in 2023? These can also be called New Year's resolutions I mean I want to be so honestly like just start thinking of the habits of like your ideal life So so an example to make this a little bit easier a little bit more digestible for you One of my new year's resolutions is I want to start waking up at 6 a.m Again, I did this for maybe two or three months straight in 2022 but then I ended up falling off so My goal to help facilitate this in my life is to create morning routines and nighttime routines That help to grow this habit of waking up at 6 a.m Another example is I really want to get back into reading I got really great at it actually at the end of 2022 And my key was like just reading things that felt good reading things that I was like Actually excited to read for a while in like 20 20 and 2022 and their earlier Bites of that year. I was trying to just read these like really dense like self-help books But I realized what I actually wanted to read were just like fun Light-hearted romance novels. So I started to just let go of the limitations I had on my reading habits, you know, not every book on your shelf has to be like knowledgeable or Informative or you know, you're trying to learn something about budgeting or finance or just anything, you know Sometimes you can read just for fun and I find that I read the most when I'm primarily reading for fun So that in addition to not being on myself was a strict like book budget as well I think those are really gonna help me just continue to grow my reading habits So if I really want a book, I don't care about how much it costs. I just buy it because I know I want to read more. All right. And then the last example I want to share with you is travel so I wanted to Travel more in 2022 and I definitely did and I want to keep this behavior going in 2023 So a person who travels a lot Isn't going to be super nick picky when their friends want to put together a trip Whenever my friends invite me on a trip. I honestly just say yes Um, you know someone who travels a lot also isn't going to be you know Kind of tied down and waiting for their friends to plan a trip for them to go somewhere So I also really just embraced traveling solo as well And I think just continuing those habits in 2023 is going to help Like keep me aligned With the traveling girl that I want to be slash already am So you take some time Think about who you want to be in 2023 and where are some resolutions that can kind of help Manifest and really facilitate that growth for you and the new year Yay. All right. Let's get to Vision board planning Stop three. Okay. So now at this point you've done all of your pre-planning You are ready to jump into canva and make your vision board So I'm really excited to show you guys my vision board right now I love using canva because I just think it's a really fun like easy tool To be creative and it's totally free This is not sponsored by canva, but maybe you will manifest that for 2023 All right, let's jump right in so this is my 2023 vision board As you can see I really started to incorporate some of those things that we talked about but You guys don't want to see my vision board. You want to see how you can make your own So let's go to a new page I like to start with the year right in the center and then My theme for the year which this year it's elevate with me So when I'm making my vision board on camera. I first like to find something that's like Aesthetic to be a background. So I quite literally search aesthetic background I like to use photos And then I believe this is the one I use Because it's calling to me right now But you know, you could use anything that you wanted to use if you drive them It would automatically just make it take like the full With of the canvas. So it's nice to have like a cute little like link sleep I also like to use things that are already kind of collagee because I feel like that helps just Make the process like a little bit easier I'm going to leave that I'll just show you guys how I made mine exactly So the next thing I wanted to do was look up photos of the places that I wanted to travel So London is one of the key places that I want to travel this year. I believe I talk Oh, I did like an illustration of the London bridge But for the purposes of this I'm just going to show you how to use like one of these photos Let's say I used a photo of the London bridge instead I would go to edit the image remove the background Give it a minute for it to load Beautiful and then I would just click apply Then I would just move it around until we're Canva girl Don't do it to me now All right, girl All right She's with us. She's back with us and then I just put it like wherever it makes sense Another place. I really want to go is Paris specifically. I want to go to the Or the Lurg I've been there. I want to go again. This is the image that I like the most So I just did the same thing edit image background remover Bam click apply And then you kind of just oops Everything will work out for you And then let's move that down here actually This is a little better Put this one over here I like kind of like the two cities classic clashing to you. I think that's kind of cute And then I would just keep doing that process with like anywhere I wanted to travel And then after I get kind of like all the images up there. So here I have LA I have the Paris. This is um a university in London Um, I then started to add in just like stuff about continuing the life that I already live in 2022. So I live in Brooklyn So we just keep that there. I also did like New York City Um, but this time instead of looking at photos I wanted to get some graphics So I was like, oh, I really like this line thing. So I added that in here Change the color Just to make it, you know, kind of match my aesthetic And I kind of just kept doing that until I felt like it was full enough Um to where I was kind of happy. So you can see here. I have some books Um, I also have like a kind of a book tower that you may or may not be able to see I have some money here because I really want to pay off my credit card debt this year. Um 10k balloons because I guess I want to hit 10k on youtube that sounds really really ambitious This mandala to represent yoga And just you know, I just kept kind of stacking stuff up for the background for the 2022 I just kind of looked up pieces of paper And I just kind of kept like adding it until I felt like it was a really cool like kind of aesthetically pleasing like just Bunch of little scraps of paper. Um, I really like a scrap bulk vibe That might not be your vibe Uh, but just do you know, whatever you think looks good. So I kind of just kept going like this Until I felt that it was you know, everything looked nice at this little piece Great. Um, so let me know in the comments below if you guys have any questions This is essentially just how I did my vision board What I also really like about canva is you can resize things. So this is like youtube thumbnail size Um, but if I wanted to make it like iphone size, I can do that Phone wall paper you just click it and it'll automatically resize it So you can kind of fit your phone wallpaper and let me just show you How that would look It looks kind of okay I might have to reconfigure it a little a little bit, but basically you get the gist um I don't know we'll see I'll I'll play with this later, but Probably not going to include that because I actually don't like the way that looks Well, I forgot what I was saying and now I'm on a tangent. So let's just wrap up the video All right, thank you so so much for watching make sure you give this video a thumbs up Especially if you made it all the way to the end and please do me a favor and subscribe You know, I have a bunch of goals for the year. You know, I need I need your help. I Need you cutie. Please help me But yeah, feel free to leave me any questions in the comments below and I'll see you guys in the next video Bye


I'm Jake Fidel and this is our flagship energy show at 4 p.m. every Wednesday Hawaii the state of clean energy and My co-host is Sharon Moriwaki the co-chair of the Hawaii energy policy And our special especially honored guest is Dave Bissell He is the CEO of Kauai Island Utility Co-op, which is K.I.U.C. And if you don't know that at the end of this show, you'll know how fabulous they are The future is now with K.I.U.C. and David Bissell fabulous So we're going to talk to you Dave about what's going on over there You've got some great initiatives going on you are showing the way to solar with Storage a combination of marriage of these great technologies happening on Kauai That's correct. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me here today. It's always a pleasure Yeah, we're excited about what's happening on Kauai We've got a good strategic plan that our elected board of directors puts together a lot of the success of K.I.U.C. And the Kauai utility is from our board of directors laying a good Groundwork that we take out to the community get buy-in on where we're going and then it's up to me and my staff to Go make it happen and deliver on deliver on the plan and in the co-op the board of directors That's the people that's right board of directors. We've got nine directors Three are up for election each year. They're elected by everybody. That's a member of K.I.U.C. We have members not customers each one gets a vote and they vote a third in each time So there's a direct connection to the people the actual ratepayers and members So ultimately they got to be happy or the board of directors will be changed out and management will be changed out So it's a direct touch from them from the people down to me and down to my staff. So point is it's working Yeah, this is a co-op that is actually working working well You guys are really doing a good job getting where you have to go in this You know form of doing business and you said that the strategic plan was just adopted by the board So so how did that go? I mean, was it a year-long process or? It took about six months and that involved we had a good plan that originally had us at the 50% Target on Kauai and that started off Being really aggressive when that came out in 2008 Nobody really knew how we were going to get there. We were about 8% renewable at the time Board stepped up and said let's move it to 50% Now we were proud and pleased that we've reached 50% either with projects that are done or in front of the PUC right now So we've got to the 50% and the board went in looked at it again and said well That's not good enough. We're gonna move it to 70% let's go through your slides. Yeah, we're gonna have a slide show now slide show So I talked a little bit about this But just where we're sitting relative to our goals in one of the big areas when you're trying to talk about Renewable percentages is how much your sales are gonna grow the more sales grow the harder it is to meet them And sales are starting to grow on Kauai I think they are on the other islands as well a little bit With 1% sales growth in the current projects we have we'll hit 47% supply side renewable energy when complete that's before the AES solar project But after the Tesla what does supply side mean? Supply side means generation That's a generation side and that so that has the 47% has the Tesla solar city dispatchable solar project is going to go online Soon it should be exporting power. Maybe as early as tomorrow So you're here with us. That's right. Well, I want to stay away when they start It'll be it's starting to go within a month or so it should be a full commercial Operations how exciting is that? I don't know. It's just very exciting No, no, no, no, that's the Tesla solar city when we signed last November. So it's still well November of 2015 We signed so it's still pretty remarkable a little over a year a year in three months So what's the PPA you just signed on Friday was it you sign now we signed PPA last Oh, was it last November? No, it was a New Year's Eve signing I remember that clearly because we were pushing to get it signing last year was a gift. Yes gift heading into the New Year, but It was a push and the staff and I and our team we pushed hard and this was with AES Distributed energy and they were pushing hard to make that project happen and get it signed by the end of the year That's a big project. It's 20 megawatts by five hours of battery storage. So 100 megawatt hours of storage a day Almost double what the solar city Tesla one is that's that's a 13 megawatts AC solar by four hours So 52 megawatt hours a day. So another hour of battery and bigger size So we keep moving on our way to Being a continuing to be a leader in the distributed batteries and distributed so can we unpack that a little bit What 20 20 megawatts is what percentage of your total use on on Kawai? that'll be about pushing 10 or 10 11 percent and the Tesla one that's going on lines about 5 percent. Ah, okay You knock it off in blocks. Yeah. Yeah, and and AES. Who is AES? It's AES distributed solar. That's a subsidiary of AES The company that has the coal plant here and it's a big worldwide company. So that's one of their there They're a big energy company all over the place big company all throughout the world Turning into a leader and in a distributed energy and they're and they're putting in the solar That is the solar panels as well as The Tesla batteries both. Nope. We got a we got two projects Tesla solar city. Yeah, and AES AES will be sourcing their own batteries. Okay. So AES is the is the upcoming project Tesla is the one that's going to go on Okay, it's early. It's so many So where is the where is the new one that you where are they both actually the first project? I don't have a picture of it. It's by our existing Kappaya plant it ties right into the switchyard there So it's a real efficient location. It's how I grow farmland there Sharon Yeah, right across the way and the second project is going to be on the south shore of Kauai We haven't announced the exact location yet because they're still doing some final paperwork on it But it's going to be a nice sunny site a good location. They're all former sugarcane land and Kauai that's one of the advantages we have is a lot of Former plantation land is available. It's relatively cheap to Convert over to renewable energies and projects. So it helps helps make them happen And it's a good, you know, we can't do these projects without cooperation from the big landowners on Kauai We've been lucky about that. They they've been supportive By the time we're done, I think we'll have done projects with all of them grow farm A and B Gay and Robinson That work do they lease you the land? Even the state through DHHL on a whole So it sounds like you're on a path of doing utility scale at least Ki you see utility scale of solar Combined with batteries all over the island in sufficient, you know output to reach a hundred percent ultimately Conceivably we could get there. We're starting to see a path We need to emphasize that this is still a relatively new technology The solar city one's going to be the first utility scale one anywhere going into service So we got to make sure they work well that the batteries live up to their expectations And because the batteries don't work as well as planned over a 20 to 25 year period The costs are going to go up on future ones. They got to work where we're optimistic. They will but it's got to be proven out What I like about this is that you're willing to take a risk not only are you willing to take a risk But all of Kawhi all your members are willing to take that risk Well, it's a very measured risk for us on distributed solar because we own two large solar Plants on Kawhi 20 24 megawatts the Anahola and the Kaloa one So we're built about a year you're apart from each other and are in service now and we have some batteries with those Six megawatts with lithium ion at Anahola and about six megawatts of advanced lead acid ones At the other serving other projects, so we've got a lot of batteries, but that's all for frequency control That's not the overnight kind. That's right. And the point is here We own solar projects traditional solar projects that are very low risk It's high capital cost but low risk We do not own the these next two projects coming online with the batteries because we did not want to Right, so it actually moderates the risk that happens, but let me ask you this, you know, it's a math question Well energy is technology and technology is math there you go But you said that one of these projects is four hours of storage and the other is five hours of storage now What I get is either four or five is less than the dark hours in the day So how does that work when the batteries run out at three in the morning? Well, you we the way these projects work is they have five hours times 20 But it does not have to come out over a five-hour period They can come out over a 10-hour period 15-hour period So what it's doing is it'll help originally shave the peak and I think we have a slide Yes, right there showing how it'll look like this is KIUC is a dispatch starting at midnight going through till 1159 at night And down at the bottom is the blue part That's our legacy hydro projects. The green is the green energy biomass plant and those are absolutely Flat, yeah, hydro moves a little bit, but all it all flat On top of that is our remaining conventional generation that a few years ago used to fill the rest of the right mark there and all that yellow is solar and The big big news out of these projects is instead of having the solar the yellow all being over a four or five-hour period We are now moving into our morning and afternoon peak with the batteries so you can see we're starting to smooth out our conventional generation and As we do more of these projects it'll get smaller and smaller so that conventional generation may look more like the Hydro or biomass a fairly flat, but there's still quite a bit of you can see there's still quite a bit of Black or brown there the conventional generation to fill as we do more projects, but you can see it can get there Where are the darkness hours I? Can't tell from the start the peak our peak is right about 7 o'clock 7 o'clock 9 o'clock and so solar Comes in very strongly between say 11 and 2 or 3 o'clock And then it drops off quite a bit in the shoulder period So during this the peak time it'll be feeding the batteries And as the sun goes down later on in a day We'll start exporting out of the batteries where we would normally be hitting our peak using conventional generation We'll be using it with energy from the battery So it's really our peak will be powered by the sun. Yeah, and at 2 in the morning People are asleep anyway The other thing I wanted to ask is these these all connected I mean to like with sound over here in our studio all the sound goes into one mixer and the mixer Distributes it wherever we've got to go and the mixer is smart most of the time But what what happens here is all these plants go to a central repository and then to be distributed Or they get distributed without going to a central No, that's a good question the central repository big words What most people refer to is the electrical grid and everything that goes into the grid gets spread amongst the entire grid So that that's really the keeper of all the energy that goes in and it's it's our job to balance The how much we have to put in the production of it to exactly meet the usage of it During all the hours of the day And it's one of the nice parts of a grid that people tend to take for granted is If it's nighttime and you want to use more you want to use less It's going to be there You don't have to go out and fire up a generator or go adjust your usage because you don't have enough capacity for it We're doing that for you and it's a it's a heck of a convenience and that takes us to the next question And the next question right after this break is exactly how do you do that Dave? We're going to take this break Dave's gonna think about that. We come back. You're going to answer the question Aloha Howard wig. I am the proud host of cold green sink tech away I appear every other Monday at three in the afternoon. Do not tune in in the morning My topic is energy efficiency. It sounds dry as heck, but it's not we're paying five billion dollars a year For imported oil. My job is to shave that shave that shave that down in homes and buildings While delivering better comfort better light better air conditioning Better everything so if you're interested in your future you'd better tune in to me Three o'clock every other Monday cold green aloha and thank you very much Okay, we're back rely with Dave Bissell my coat my co-host Sharon Moriwaki I'm gonna call you a co-chair my co-chair co-host Sharon Moriwaki Dave and us we're talking about uh, what's happening on kawaii only amazing projects and ppa's they got going there And one of the things is is is the the grid when how you do it we can learn from you We can learn from you. I think you're you know an exporter of best practice is what you are And so the question is how do you manage the grid?  That's a multiple compound question And you can answer it by saying it depends Let me I'll answer it slightly different We've got an awful lot or we're not an awful lot, but a lot of very smart engineers at kiu c and Every electric utility has that and that's what those guys get go to school for that's what they get paid a lot of money to To do it's technical and it's a mix of kiu c engineers. It's the engineering staff of the Developers a s and tesla a lot of real high-level cutting-edge Technology these guys are implementing and working together. It's a it's a partnership a true partnership between kiu c and the developers They set the controls for these projects And they're really this is the first place it's being done. So it's it's kind of being made up as it goes Yeah, that's the amazing thing. So can we break it down a little bit like in schematic? So on the utility side You're going to want to know what people what people are asking for And you want to know what you have to give them and you want to match that How do you do that? What kind of boxes and where are the boxes? That's what our control room operators do that are out in a power plant. They sit there 24 hours a day seven days a week Managing the one control room one control room actually Well, no, it's out of port allen and their power plant. Okay big power plant And these guys sit there and that's their job to make sure that it all balances out And it's not all manual a lot the vast majority of it's automatic through controls that are set up But there's somebody sitting there making sure if something goes wrong or the The load is getting too low that they're firing up more generators or vice versa. So And they're seeing everything they see the The bio what you call the bio fuel to the the the high high high what do you call it? Hydro We've seen that Sharon. I've seen that To the solar to everything you've got it's all there in port allen. Yeah, yeah They're sitting there basically looking at a computer screen that's got all those all the generation We have showing where they're at what levels they are how much extra capacity there is so called spinning reserve If it moves up because it's got to be instantaneous So and then the batteries are there also Batteries are super fast response. So the control room that the generators move relatively slowly matter of seconds But the batteries move in matters of fraction actually easier with batteries. Yes to do demand response Well, and it's it's easier in a lot of ways that the batteries are a great system resource the building that they're sitting there kind of And this is all based on control set to the batteries how they respond if there's a if there's a fault in our system If a car hits a utility pole and because of all those batteries are automatically responding So our system may not even blink anymore if there's a Line fault we're in the past conceivably We were shedding low because the generators couldn't respond fast enough. So because the battery just kicks in That's fabulous, but that means you have to have a lot of data coming in all the time You have to you have to censor is there somebody sending you data about all the elements of the system coming into port allen, right? That's correct. How do you do that? Well, it's a combination of our smart meters can get down to the actual residential level and there's an awful lot of controls and set out at the substations that that Send information back to the the control room and the screens that the operators are looking at So it's all Down to a circuit by circuit level. They can see see what's happening on our grid You see that now I think we need to move off this. I'm going to get myself Is that so that they're helping you develop the software and and then it'll be kind of like operated then by your staff Both a s and tesla is they're setting up their controls for their system. They're their systems But our guys operate them. The only requirement is we have to take all that it produces Every day and we have to run the battery out every night So our guys within that have complete well not complete but pretty complete Ability to dispatch the batteries in the system as they see fit Subject to some operating constraints and all of that is ready to roll or is rolling It'll be rolling. It'll take some tweaking, but they'll be coming out and expect that after all we're we're doing You know very advanced things you say run the batteries out. You mean run them run them, you know to empty Well, it's they that's one of the things that the developers the as and a tesla's control They say how far down they can run, but essentially they set a floor, but to us that's that's empty Yeah, sure. That's very interesting. So and that's healthy for batteries. Isn't it you want to do that? Well, they we you don't want to run batteries too much all the way down and up or too low But within those within those controls we you know, we're paying money through these ppa's to have this The the pv generated energy go into those batteries and be able to bring it back out at night So we want to use those as much as we can. Yeah, that's the most efficient use It got to think about the economics But the economics are pretty good on this last ppa because it gives you 11 cents a kilo. That's pretty terrifically good They're really good at both of we thought the 13.9 cents we got a Tesla one and then you better very solid and then it got better So that's a indication of one bigger projects get a little cheaper movement and battery pricing from them And it's it's an aggressive market right now. You know the there's a few few large providers tesla solar city One a s another and there's a there's probably Another ten or so that are fighting to be the leaders in this so there's a lot of interest But you know, we've been talking about utility scale. I mean for kawai What about, you know the homeowner? Well, what about, you know the rooftop? How is how are things moving on the rooftop? You have the same kind of dramatic increase going on there? No, not on kawai and I don't I don't think on the other islands as well that one that technology is more expensive and it's just not Is readily deployable right in today's time of the bad I think Overall distributed both the pv and the batteries End up being two two and a half times more expensive than the utility scale This is a big lesson, isn't it? So you're here to say really that utility scale solar is is the future and It's it's so much cheaper more efficient Then roof by roof by roof. I think so. I mean we got to see how technology evolves. There's a chance that the There's the breakthroughs on the smaller side and the pricing drops radically It's helped happened with pv projects, but every time on the distributed side That's dropped. We've dropped the larger ones have dropped equally in the utility scale side fairly consistently stayed about half the price So from a capital deployment Overall to me it makes a lot of sense to put it where the The price is the cheapest and if it's half the price that seems like a good investment So what's the secret sauce there? We're about out of time, you know, and some people say it's your looks Yeah Some people say your personality But things are working well in in kawai. What what is the secret sauce? We should take note of there's no secret sauce We've got a really good team We've been working for years to develop this team and develop our approach and it's evolved from Doing our own projects relatively small ones to bigger ones to Going out and working within the industry in the marketplace to To make these deals happen, which so we've got a real good team We've got real good engineers good financial people good consultants who have helped us on this and It means a lot to the development community. Whether we're buying it from them or doing Uh, they're selling to us through a Project the kiuc would own they know we can execute And make deals you can make deals get it done. That's really a statement means a lot to them Sharon it's time for you to wrap up summarize And tell people what we learned here today. I think we learned a lot I think we learned that if you have a good team together that you execute on what you say you're going to do I think that that really is the major first step of doing anything And we really want to hear more about what you're doing Dave as we go along But it's very exciting to hear pushing them. I just wanted to know how how scared were you when you said We're going to go from eight percent to 50 percent And what were you thinking when they said do it just do it Well, that's one of the things we I work really closely with my engineering team And it's a lot of it's a testament to them that they've been willing to push the envelope. I'm a financial guy And I'm more willing to say hey, why can't we do this and the good thing with my engineers is they say why not That's let's try to make this happen. We can make it happen You know go do these things within constraints And and we'll make it work as opposed to say no, no, no, you can't do this. It's impossible And and we couldn't and it's a part of our relatively small team that the engineers work directly on the projects To make it happen. It's not A separate group a separate Side trying to make things the engineers are part of it So if everything works together well, and I think that's a big part on being a development Oriented a company good lessons learn Come back to tell us more thank you so much Dave Bissell CEO of KIUC great to have you here man