Production rigs
Stream and gaming
One box is used for streaming and gaming.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-7700K4.2 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Asus GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB |
| Motherboard | Asus ROG Strix Z270FATX, LGA1151 |
| Memory | G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32 GB |
| Cooler | NZXT Kraken X62 |
| Case | NZXT S340 Elite |
| Power Supply | EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550 W 80+ Gold |
| Video Capture | Elgato HD60S |
| Microphone | Audio-Technica AT2020 |
| Audio Interface | Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 |
| Control | Elgato Stream Deck, KORG nanoKONTROL2Scenes and sources on the Stream Deck, audio levels via the nanoKONTROL2. |
Software
- OBS
- Capture and scene layering, and RTMPS stream at roughly 6 Mbps. Every per-platform variant is produced off-box.
- Streamer.bot
- Chat macros, stream automations, and the chat overlay.
- Speaker.bot
- Text to speech for announcements.
- Voicemod
- Soundboard and voice modulation.
- Chatterino
- Chat ops across channels in one window.
- VoiceMeeter Potato
- Audio routing, with custom filters and channel separation. Music sources, mic, and speaker and headphone outputs each stay on their own path, so they mix and route independently.
VJ setup
The hardware and software that makes the visuals happen.
| Laptop | MacBook Pro (M1) |
|---|---|
| Software | Resolume |
| Video mixer | Roland V-1HDHardware switching between source feeds; physical faders. |
| Control surfaces | Akai APC Mini, Akai MPD26APC Mini for Resolume, MPD26 for generative sources. |
| VHS Tape | RCA AccuSearch VCRUsed primarily for archival capture. |
| CRT Display | Commodore64 MultiTech CMC-131Output from the VCR. |
| Video Capture | HDMI to RCA ConverterComposite adapter for capturing VCR's output. |
VJ Process
- Live mixing
- Resolume. Layer mixing, effects, and beat sync against the incoming music, and the generative sources too. The ouput is live-mixed and beatmatched.
- Projection mapping
- Also Resolume. Output shaped to whatever surface the venue or installation needs.
- Loops
- Built as genuinely seamless cycles rather than clips with a hidden cut, which is what lets them run indefinitely under a live mix.
- Lineage
- Resolume since its earliest releases, with Cthulhu, DancerDNA, and Arkaos alongside it. Twenty-plus years of the same job through several generations of tools.
- Next
- Unreal Engine, for generative source material. It's a learning project rather than a production pipeline, so it isn't in the current chain.
Broadcast infrastructure
I’m working on an idea to build an RTMPS push out of OBS, fanned out to muiltiple services by a self-hosted VPS relay box, provisioned as code and monitored end to end. Until it has carried a live set, the stream goes straight to Twitch.
Why any of it exists is on the about page; what it’s like to watch the result is on the stream page.