#streaming setup

[sillyscribblesss]

hi! I really want to get into streaming on yt this year, and out of everyone that ive been watching, ur the one that I have decided to get help from bc I like ur content! so my question is how exactly do u stream on yt? (how do YOU do it, not just doing it in general) I really like ur tomadachi life streams u have been doing lately, so ig that goes into my question too. thanks!

also I freaking LOVEEEEE ur content.

I'd love to help!

To be honest, I kinda cheaped out on streaming equipment. I have a $25 microphone and a $30 capture card. A lot of streamers spend $100+ on these things, but I don't have that kind of money so I bought what was cheapest with good reviews. I'll link the microphone and capture card I bought at the end of the post. The microphone works great, although it does peak the audio sometimes. The highest resolution the capture card supports is 1080p without having your gameplay lag, which I don't mind because 1080p is already a pretty good quality standard, but you'll have to find a more expensive card if you want the resolution of your gameplay even higher.

Then I set up everything through OBS. OBS WILL BE YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND. It's super easy to hook up a capture card and microphone to it and there's millions of tutorials that show you step by step how to do so. Literally just google "how to set up a microphone in OBS" and you'll get a ton of different videos on it.

I also installed an app called veadotube mini, which allows me to have a little avatar of myself in the corner that moves when I talk. I drew the avatar myself with 4 different expressions: mouth closed, mouth open, and a blinking variant for both mouth closed and mouth open so that she has a little blink. You can then just import the window into OBS as a game capture, enable the transparent background option for your game capture, then set the background to actually be transparent in veadotube mini. Super easy stuff.

Although, since I'm using an avater, I'm not quite sure how cameras work on OBS. So if you're planning on having your actual face on screen that's something you'll have to figure out on your own.

Then, after your layout looks all nice and stuff, you can just connect your YouTube account to OBS through OBS's settings. Once your account is connected, you can schedule a live stream through YouTube Studio, and connect that stream to OBS my clicking the "manage broadcast" button in the bottom right. Then, when you're ready to start your stream, just hit the "start streaming" button and you're done. OBS is a godsend who basically just does everything for you and connects you to YouTube's servers. Whatever the layout and audio you set up in OBS is will be what's streamed on YouTube, so you can tab away from OBS for a moment and it won't affect your stream at all!

I play my games directly through OBS by opening up just the capture card in another window. You'll need a capture card if you decide to stream a console (Nintendo, Xbox, Playstation, etc.), but if you stream a game that's already on your computer (like something on Steam) then you won't need a capture card.

Hope you found this helpful, and I wish you so much luck in your streaming career!! :3

Cheap capture card and microphone I bought:

Microphone: https://amzn.to/4trEqWM

Capture card: https://amzn.to/3QmLbuh

[drunkenskunk]

Every time I think about my streaming setup, I can't help but laugh at how fucking scuffed it is.

Like, seriously: look at this mess.

We have, in order from left to right:

- a tv that is broken that I cannot afford to replace, which used to act as the second monitor for...

- a laptop that is easily 10 years old. To be honest, it's s probably significantly older, I just don't remember when I got it.

- a shitty camping lantern I have propped against a disused speaker, providing illumination for my face by reflecting off the landlord-white wall

- not pictured (because it's taking the photo) is my phone, which I keep propped up against the lantern during streams, so I can make a feeble attempt at reading the twitch chat

- a shitty $20 webcam sitting on my primary monitor that i bought from an office supply store

- we have OBS running on a not-a-monitor. It is a Wacom screen tablet that I keep propped up with a clear plastic cookbook holder i picked up for $5 somewhere

- and finally, sitting on my chair (making this less of a left-to-right thing, and more of a clockwise-from-left thing lol) is a pair of led cat ear headphones. Because it is, hilariously, the best headset I've ever owned

lmao

lol, even

[pixiemage]

Oh would that I had like 94 more dollars 😔 would that I could save my friends from hearing my weird scuffed vr mic setup and give them better sound...sadge

[cf-12]

Multicam / Icon set

[squidwolfy]

Evil Toy Tommy Oliver has taken over my scuffed set up

[kaiynite]

Hello streamers, I want to start streaming on twitch and I was wondering if anyone could give me cheap on a budget setup ideas/links and stuff for pcs and everything else, also any advice u could offer abt the technicalities of streaming would be super appreciated, thank you :)) pls rb!

[virtualcoretv]

I need to get to work rebuilding my streaming setup. But it's going to take a lot of work and I'm LAZY.

[cyberloops]

Some quick studio updates:

My spouse was having a hard time at their new job, so when my boss mentioned that he was looking for another person to do the same sort of tech helpdesk work that I was doing, my spouse decided to go for the opportunity. On the one hand, it means less stress. On the other hand... less money. Our income is going to be cut by about 1/3. So we really need to find some way to work from home to earn money to make up for that. So this week, while my spouse had a few days off before the new job starts, we buckled down and worked on getting our home office/studio situation set up in a way that will work for us.

Originally we had planned on keeping all the computers in the office (not the room in the picture here) and dividing the studio (the room in this picture) into halves. The half now taken up by the giant desk on the left would be where I’d set up my studio, the area where the other 2 desks are would be a workbench for crafting type stuff, and the drafting table would be where it is. But between the plague causing us to switch jobs and work from home and everything else that’s happened... well... plans change. We couldn’t both work from home in the office, so my spouse had to get a desk and set it up in the studio. And the little corner desk my spouse had gotten for the office way far too small for all of the paperwork that their new job entailed. So we had to get the giant desk.

Since we’d like to get back into the habit of streaming, we decided that we needed to once again change the plans we had for our studio. But with less income, that meant no more buying furniture. We need to work with what we have. So the giant desk that takes up half the room will stay, and will become the graphics powerhouse of the studio, with my spouse’s new computer in the middle, a big monitor on the left, and the graphics tablet monitor on the right. Unfortunately the USB C port is on the left side of the computer and the right side of the graphics tablet... which means we need a longer USB C to USB C cable if we want to use all three monitors. (We can use an HDMI cable instead, but then we wouldn’t be able to use the other big monitor.)

I moved the smaller corner desk from the office into the space between my studio and my spouse’s, and got rid of the little wooden table that was kind of in my way on the right side of my studio. Now we have an entire wall of nothing but desk. The drafting table is still just out of camera view on the right, so my spouse still has a space for traditional drawing.

You can also see in this picture that I was able to finally rig up a top down view of my studio, the camcorder is attached to a little microphone handle instead of a stand. The little handle came with a different mic, the one that I’ve currently got hooked up to my desktop computer in the office. I’m using a boom mic stand that I had packed away that was a birthday present to me like fifteen years ago. (I’m glad it’s finally getting decent use, I used to have it set up next to my old Windows XP desktop computer that had an M-Audio 10/10 soundcard that had XLR inputs so I could actually record a microphone directly into the computer. But that desktop died about 9 years ago, and I haven’t used that stand since then. I don’t even think they have drivers for the 10/10 for modern versions of Windows anymore.) Ironically, the microphone that came with the boom mic stand is in a little tripod that came with a DIFFERENT mic that crapped out on me and I’m not using anymore, it’s somewhere on that desk studio setup. I don’t know if it’s in camera view, it’s not currently plugged into the mixer, but it’s there if I want to record any vocals. However, that setup means that the camera is also about six feet away from where the computer will be... which means we need a longer USB A to Micro USB cable if I want to stream.

... and after moving all that furniture, getting sweaty and gross, and stressing out my bad knees... I didn’t wanna go to Best Buy to get cables. So we ordered them online, and maybe once we’ve gotten them, we’ll be able to get back to streaming again.

Also, since my spouse got a new, better computer, I’m going to see if their old computer is powerful enough to do basic streaming with just my sound and video setup. It’s (I think) about 9 years old, just like my laptop... but mine was bottom of the line at the time of purchase, and this one was midrange. They have the same amount of RAM and hard drive space, but my spouse’s old computer has about 3 or 4 times the processing power of my dinky little old laptop. So maybe it can handle it. We’ll find out once I get that new cable. If not, well, we’ll see what I can do. Now that we’re past the first few weeks of classes, my job is slowing down a bit, so I’ll have a little more free time and energy. I’d really like to spend some time working on more fun, creative stuff. I suppose I could just say screw it and move my desktop into that room, that’s definitely powerful enough to stream. And if I don’t feel like doing music, I can work on 3d modeling/sculpting instead. Or, hell, I could even go back to doing game streaming when we’re not streaming art or music.

I would love to also get a better chair. Unfortunately, all of the comfortable chairs we have right now are too wide to work with that setup, unless I can figure out a way to move my keyboards to the right side of my studio instead of the left. Which honestly, I could probably do if I just got some longer cables. I went cheap and just got 3 and 4 foot audio and MIDI cables when I first set up the studio, since I was jammed in the corner there. So maybe my last investment in the studio will be to buy a couple of longer audio and MIDI cables just for those two synths.

... and after all that, months and months of setup, investing my pandemic bonus money into setting up the whole studio... I still am finding myself kinda obsessing over the fact that the ONE kind of synth I wanted and still don’t have is one that can do more than 2 operator FM synthesis. I was really debating between the Modal Skulpt or the Korg Volca FM at the time, and the Skulpt only won out for me because it had 4 note polyphony, and I like complex chords. But with our sudden cut in income, I really can’t justify buying another synth anytime soon. So I really should buckle down and work with what I have.