help Streamer gear

[Gzer0o]

Dear awesome humans of the LTT Forum

 

I have been enamoured by a pretty female who wants to try out streaming from a pc, and wish to help her, and honestly I could use a upgrade for myself aswell, so thought I might aswell buy a set for myself of the good stuff.

 

Now the problems come forth with all the choices that are on the market, I need 2 complete sets of gear, 1 with streaming accesories and one without, just for playing games, occasionally with my better half who decided to try out streaming.

 

Thank you for reading my love story, now for the actual stuff.

 

I'm thinking that we need:

 

Gear:

Mouse

Keyboard

Mousepad

Headset (Needs good sound for gaming, aswell as very comfortable for prolonged wearing)

Monitor

 

Accesories:

Standalone Mic (Heard good things about the Yeti's)

Mic stand (If not included)

Camera.

 

Did I miss anything?

 

Biggest requirement is comfortable for prolonged use and wearing, and midrange price as its a beginner stream setup to try it out mostly and since I'm sponsering her endeavor and want matching equipment it can go high end if the reasoning is solid.

 

It'll be a one pc streaming and gaming machine to begin with, though she's already thinking into the future of a secondary pc as the stream machine, that'll have to wait until she can buy her.

 

I currently use a G430 headset of the blue varierty, and the sound is great, mic is great, cable goes on forever, but it gets really uncormfortable to wear after a while.

I have a Steelseries Rival 600, which is an amazing mouse, but the thumb pad is falling off due to wear and grime catches in every single crevice and is hard to get out and clean, honestly consideres just buying a new one and get identical one for stream setup.

Keyboard I got a Razer Arctosa, has served me well, but is also getting kinda worn out and grimy in the hard to clean places.

As for mousepad, I've used my current Steelseries hard surface one, not fabric, I've had it since I went to kindergarden, this thing is old as dirt and I wanna frame it and put it on the wall when I get a new one.

Monitors I got a xl2430 benq which honestly, I'm happy enough with just buying 1 or 2 more for the stream setup, these monitors are great in my modest opinion.

 

Now please, masters of RNG and happiness, help me make good choices, what should I get?

[Statik]

1 hour ago, Gzer0o said:

 

Did I miss anything?

 

 

Yes, a budget.

[_Omega_]

Most of the gear is to the taste of the owner.... Which switches do you like? How are you grabbing your mouse? and so on...

[Curious Pineapple]

You just reminded me that I have 3 cases of microphones upstairs, and a massive rack mountable ADC/mixer.

 

I'm looking towards starting a streaming channel soon and something you will need to be sure of it the software you use, and if you will use a second machine with a capture card, or one machine with screen capture.

[Gzer0o]

Budget is limitless honestly, but midrange gear mostly, and highend is fine if theres enough reasons to back it up, even if the streaimng venture fails, most of this equipment will be valid for gaming in general.

1 hour ago, Statik said:

Yes, a budget.

 

[Gzer0o]

39 minutes ago, Curious Pineapple said:

You just reminded me that I have 3 cases of microphones upstairs, and a massive rack mountable ADC/mixer.

 

I'm looking towards starting a streaming channel soon and something you will need to be sure of it the software you use, and if you will use a second machine with a capture card, or one machine with screen capture.

Tackling one issue at a time, the basic equipment first.

 

1 hour ago, _Omega_ said:

Most of the gear is to the taste of the owner.... Which switches do you like? How are you grabbing your mouse? and so on...

Well mouse doesn't need more than 2 thumb buttons and the basics, I have given summarized my current equipment which is what hardware experience I got and how I liked those.

But all my stuff is several years old, if theres "improved" versions of what I got on the market, I'd easily take that, else I could just buy 2 sets of current gear, really wish for some suggestions on good gear though...

[Esteban_G]

In my experience, having a second monitor is essential for streaming, but I don´t think that different a better quality monitor is important. I do prefer to have 2 extra cheap monitors than only 1 extra monitor expensive.

 

For the camera, the logitech c920 is the standard for streaming, but if she is only going to use it for a small facecam on the corner, any good 720p webcam should be more than enough (I heard good things of the Logitech c525). I use an old genius 720p webcam as facecam for teaching which is fine, but I cant recommend it because I do have low fps (15-20fps) that could be an issue for her stream. Take into account that right now webcam prices can be pretty high (where I live they got 3-4 times more expensive!!)

 

You are missing something really important: lights! You can have the best possible webcam but if you don´t have enough light it will look bad. You need at least one light directed to the face or it will look too shadowy. I made my own light panels using some photography equipment I had, so I can’t recommend any in particular.

[Curious Pineapple]

On 5/13/2020 at 8:06 PM, Gzer0o said:

Tackling one issue at a time, the basic equipment first.

I have dual Xeons and having issues with audio stuttering. Running everything in virtual machines so got some overheads and tweaking to do.