My Gear

Often I get emails asking the Monitor I use, Microphone I use .. stuff related to my audio setup and apps that I use. Hence, I decided to write a blog post, so that I can point them to it when ever I get emails from enthusiasts.

I take a lot of time to make my mind, when ever I want to switch to new software/hardware, but once I do it, there is a very less chance that I will not use it.

Lets start ..

Editors

Visual Studio Code is my go the Editor since Salesforce released few extensions in VS Code under the hood of SalesforceDX.
Theme that I use for VS Code is Cobalt2 developed by WesBos.
iTerm is the Terminal that I use.

Hardware

I use MacBook Air. The only thing that's holding me back to upgrade to MacBook Pro is the faulty keyboard.
Acer 28” 4K monitor This is the monitor I use to boost up my productivity. Am thinking of adding one more Monitor, may be a 32’’ DELL monitor. Let’s see.
I use Apple Wired Keyboard as the external Keyboard.
Beats Solo 3 keeps me away from distractions.
I use Seagate 1TB Hard Disk as the physical backup drive.

Gear

I use Shure SM7B which is basically a premium dynamic microphone. I used to use Blue Snowball which is a condenser mic but it used to pick all the background noises and hence I replaced it.
Rode PSA1 Boom Arm is the Boom Arm I use to hold my Shure SM7B.
I use a DBX 286s Preamp to do almost all my audio compression and processing.
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 converts Analog Signal to Digital Signal.
All this equipments is pretty demanding and I use 4-Port USB Hub. Am planning to replace it with AmazonBasics USB 10-Port Power Hub with Power Adapter.

Softwares

ScreenFlow — All the videos I make are brought to life by ScreenFlow. If not this software, I wouldn’t have pursued the option of making screencasts/videos.

Podia - This is the storefront I use. I only focus on creating content and the rest I leave it to Podia. I have written my experience using Podia here.

Things — I cannot imagine my life without this app. I dont know what got me hooked to this App. But it just works for me. There are some decent alternatives, I tried all of them, but Things just worked for me.

CloudApp — As I train people I get lots of emails asking doubts, I find it time consuming replying to those emails with text, hence I do a quick video recording(or GIF) using CloudApp and send it across.

BearApp — This is my favourite note taking app. Couple of reasons I love this app is, it supports Markup and their themes.

Typinator - I use this for canned responses. Handling emails is a major challenge and I automate a lot of stuff using this piece of Software. I

BackBlaze — Backup is the backbone of my business. I cannot afford to loose my work or a video at any cost. BackBlaze backs up my complete Mac in the background without any hassle.

Google Drive System — I have1TB plan with GSuite, though I delete a file from my Mac a copy is always there in the Google Cloud.

ConvertKit — This is my email marketing platform and it is doing a fantastic job.

Rocket — I use Rocket App to for all the cool emojis, which you usually see in System.debug() and Console.log() statements.