Stream Critique: LTT Edition | Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Stream Setup!

I mean I'm hardly a streaming expert to be very clear like I shouldn't be the one advising you in fact I pause Vox watched my streaming setup upgrade video and basically tweeted at me he's like we should talk you should know yeah I'm going there welcome to stream critique LTT edition stream critique is brought to you by nerd or die if you want to set up some really cool on-screen overlays you'll want to do them quickly even in OBS studio without having to use extreme labs OBS although you totally can nerd or die is the place to go they have so many streaming layouts and overlays and accessories and even free tools free templates free panel makers they're always building resources and giving back to the streaming community and they have a lot to offer head on over to Evo's Vox GG slash dirt or Die to learn more I use quite a few different elements of different nerdo die layouts including the retro wave the synth wave chat box I have a few different ones integrated along with my custom graphics in my own stream layouts because I love them so much head on over to the link in the description Shuba shout out to nerd or die for sponsoring stream critique so at the time of recording - tech tips has just posted a video to their YouTube channel that is a modified version of something they posted last week - float plane which is Linus upgrading his streaming setup as many of you have noticed there's a stark difference between the quality of the videos that I shoot in the studio with my staff and the quality of the videos that I shoot at home by myself much of the LTTE staff has been working from home as have a lot of people and thus the wayon show and other content that Linus makes needs to be done from home and his streaming setup was nothing amazing so he's set forth to upgrade it and I have access to some behind the scenes knowledge to clarify a couple points in that they were trying to mainly use stuff they already have or weren't using and weren't trying to go for the best but for the most part the thinking process was right but they ended up with some weird results and I think it's super important to take a look at what they ended up with in order to really learn from their experience and kind of show you what mistakes not to make this video is not obviously intended to just crap on Linus sort their streaming setup or anything like that or what they chose or did because that's not useful but read to show you you know very common mistakes that I see everyone make when it when it comes to setting up specific parts of your streaming setup and how that might be able to keep other people of you from making those same mistakes because I hate seeing it every time and I hated seeing some of it here but they fix some of it in the YouTube video I will say that many people's first impulse when they want to improve their video quality is to upgrade their camera but as you can see I'm getting a dramatically better feed out of the same webcam that I started this video out with just by changing my lighting so that's where we're gonna start Linus started out with the right choices he's got a webcam and a mod mic and no real lighting he wanted to upgrade that experience so he went for new lighting Dale got okie light airs fine a new stream deck great a new microphone new audio interface new camera with a cam link that thought process seems fine totally fine but then once he started getting set up we had lovely Clips like this this even looked that much better than the webcam and this this is the mod mic and this is the broadcast mic which they then modified to change and he switched to a go XLR and then back to that u interface because that was just a quick cutting clip the so let's start with the camera lighting wise was fine - oh god okie light airs two sides flatlining mostly fine no complaints there his background is pretty boring I would add something to the closet doors there but you know whatever great choice getting a camera with a cam link again decent choice the problem comes in the camera that was chosen it was a Canon DSLR which I continuously tell people to stop trying to use Canon DSLRs for streaming cameras because they don't provide clean HDMI out what he ended up with was a 1080i interlace really messy video feed at some points with weird colors with the autofocus box and all of the overlays on and in order to turn off the Box in front of his face he had to turn on manual focus and then for the samples in the original flow playing video it was completely out of focus and he's questioning if it even looked better than his webcam now they went back and added in new clips and they ended up getting it to a better place once it was focused better and things like that but it's still a very crop did not ideal camera situation we at the Canon DSLR you're picking a streaming camera and you're picking a model you know a real camera to use for that unless it's like a 5d that you are certain has clean HDMI out or AC 200 or something don't go Canon they don't usually or the m500 that they showed it's a yes that has clean HDMI out but otherwise most Canon cameras don't go with the Sony go with the Panasonic go with a Fuji don't go with the Nikon because most Nikon's other than the big high-end z6 and stuff completely turn off your camera after 30 minutes but most of them are fine big t6 I was just literally one of the worst possible choices you can make there now there is a workaround you can get Canon DSLR sorta working over USB with sparkle cam but the trade-offs involved there make it almost not worth it when you already have a webcam like the Brio let's talk audio you upgraded to a Behringer broadcast mic which in and of itself is probably not that bad I've never used that specific one I'd love to try it but you know totally fine but then he ended up complimenting the mod mic heavily because the audio quality he got out of that broadcast mic was nowhere near great or any better than the mod mic now the mod Mike's a great Mike I've ran ads for them forever because I believe in them they're pretty cool and they were probably the right choice for his scenario given that he apparently doesn't actually want a microphone blocking the space but the problem comes in the interface he used the behringer um to which I have been told was the wrong choice which is why they added in the go XLR but that is a very cheap audio interface and I see this all the time people get a very expensive microphone like this shure sm7b and re 20 that behringer broadcast mic and then they spend $20.00 on an audio interface arguably the audio interface is more important than the microphone you get makes more sense to get a big nice beefy audio hardware box that can handle any microphone you throw at it and get a cheap microphone now cuz it will make that cheap microphone sound good then to get a very expensive microphone and not be able to power it and that's exactly what happened here that interface could not provide anywhere near enough gain for that microphone and the audio quality was poop they added in in the YouTube copy a clip that where he added in a go XLR and it sounded a little bit better but it didn't sound much better and then he made a comment about this small update I did get my issues with the go XLR sorted out I'm using that now it might not have the most amazing reputation for audio quality either but I really like a lot of the features and it's super easy to use so this is a very common misconception about the go XLR and I really hope to dispel it as much as I can because I hate that people keep perpetuating this the go XLR has Mitas preamps not Midas built Slyke preamps kind of like the UMC or um 204 ehe these are genuine Midas preamps that are very expensive and incredibly high quality they can power both the re 20 the golden HD to the RO or the high opr 40 and the shure sm7b without a cloud lifter with clean up to 60 DB of gain it has incredible preamps the best preamps you can probably get in any sort of multifunction box for the price period this is not sponsored by them say what you will about literally everything else on it but the raw audio quality you can get out of go XLR is some of the best bang for the buck especially even in the mini that you can possibly get just the settings weren't right he probably from what it sounded like there were no like none of the post-processing processing was applied and the advantage of using high-end audio Hardware it hardware is you get to start to add in equalization to balance things out properly compression to make sure that your audio levels are you know consistent and that you sound you know nice and boomy over top of your gameplay or what have you and all of those things and this was just kind of plugged in and was like it don't sound good and these are a lot of the comments that I get a lot of time it's I threw this together I chose the wrong things the initial results aren't great and both audio and video requires a lot of fine-tuning if you want to improve that the go XLR needed some compression some EQ specific to Linus's voice because his voice is you know it has a little bit of a higher pitch that could be smoothed out by a good EQ curve compressor could help balance his levels a bit get him a little bit more present overtop its gameplay and overall provide a pretty great audio experience with this camera t6i for all of the issues he ran into it all he needed to do in the original clip was just focus it and then moving on to upgrade from there maybe turn down the lights a bit so that they're not casting so much on the background or make sure that the overhead lights he may have just had these ceiling fan lights on and background turn that off and you get a nice little contrast between what you have in front of you and what you have behind you you can get a $20 colored like to cast up on the backdrop that's sitting the sitting on the floor and add a little splash of color there's a lot that goes into building a streaming setup and too frequently I see people grab these things that they see recommended from people like me from other streaming channels and throw them in a completely mismatched configuration because they either don't budget accordingly or don't want to put in the time to set it up and you end up with lackluster results with what should be phenomenal hardware you should never be buying I mean granted they didn't buy pretty much well they may have bought some stuff but the idea for this setup was not to buy anything was used what they had around but you should never be buying upgrades to your hardware and then setting it up and your immediate thought is wow this doesn't look any better if that's the case you're probably missing something there's a lot that can be done hey there's there's a lot of videos on the Internet I was about to recommend my own I don't actually have any videos about optimizing your in camera settings learning shutter speed ISO aperture for your lens things like that there's a lot that goes into that rule of thumb at least shutter speed it should be double your frame rate so at 60fps it should be 120 or 125 at 30fps it should be one over 60 and then you optimize your eye iso based on how bright your scene is from there the lighting balance of having two key lights here and here works out pretty solid you may want to kick or light depending on how dark your background is audio positioning in his video was good the microphone arm positioning seemed like it would get annoying you can get microphone arms that reach up over your monitor like I have but otherwise mic positioning and technique was all good it's just a matter of getting the right hardware to back up the hardware that you have all this being said the actual lancet way in show production has actually been fairly got a solid from what I've seen and I don't have any major complaints there and Linus brought up a specific complaint that he has that a lot of people do about this style of production and that he didn't want a big microphone in his face for the video now I just recently released a video this week about tips for non-game streamers where and I say if you're doing teaching or something like that it may not be considered appropriate to have a microphone in the frame at which point you could use a lavalier mic phone for your stream you'll just have to manage the wires or battery life for wireless kits deity has a interview a wireless microphone kit that I highly recommend you can go with something like that or you can get little shotgun microphones or pencil condenser microphones that you mount in different places and in that video I even have a sample of a cheaper just super basic shotgun map mic mounted on my monitor just off frame and how great that sounded without needing something like this in my face so go check out that video but I just wanted to provide a little bit of a critique of you know what he's got going on the due to the cropping and everything I felt like the camera angle was like super crunched in on his face I prefer a little bit of a wider view but I guess if you don't have that much like in your room if it's just an empty wall you don't really need that wide of it view so it depends on you know what your production needs are hope this was helpful to you hope you enjoyed the video go check out Linus the streaming setup linked in the video description below hit the like button if you enjoyed subscribe for more stream guides and stream critique signup form if you want your stream critiqued in this series that's what I normally do in the show will be linked in the video description otherwise I'll Mabel's box I'll see you next time

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Length: 12min 10sec (730 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 17 2020