Budget Streamer Gear - What You NEED To Buy First?

Hey #EarlyGang! Hope you're having a great week so far! What gear do you love, what do you regret buying? I am sure lots of you have the mics I referenced today, and love them! Hope you understand why I don't always recommend them for their price and type! Also, I flubbed and saying 5600k and not 4600k for my lighting colour. 🕘Timestamps: 0:00 Small Streamers Waste So Much Money On Gear! 0:49 The Best Streamer Overlays and Graphics For Beginners! 1:29 What Budget Microphone Is Best For Streamers? 4:40 What budget Mic Arm To Buy For Streaming? 6:40 What Budget webcam to buy for streaming? 7:30 What Budget Lighting To Buy For Streaming? 9:18 What Streamer Gear Should You Buy First

A Usb number pad makes a great starter alternative for a stream deck, most major broadcast software had shortcuts you can map to keyboard keys.

Dude this was an awesome video. The biggest thing stopping me from starting to make some content here is sound: Ive watched a lot of plat/diamond YT'ers struggle with sound - especially echo - and discuss how difficult it is to get professional level sound for recorded content. Your video gives me the confidence to give it a go.

I was an early subscriber to your channel way back at the start of the pandy. You’ve grown so much with good quality honest content. By far the best advice giver for streaming I’ve seen yet. Good job dude keep it up partner.

I also use that webcam, it's a fairly solid choice. For a Stream Deck alternative, I used Touch Portal. It can turn your phone or tablet into the same thing, and is about £12 to upgrade to pro (which allows you to add more buttons on screen). I used it solidly for a year to control my streams. It handled scene transitions, bot commands, shoutouts, an emergency hate/bot raid button, mic muting, and even controlled my vtuber avatar. I can't recommend it enough.

Samson Q2U, and the Logi C920/2 are the ULTIMATE budget setup for streaming! The USB use of the Q2U is great, and it leaves room to upgrade to XLR! it is almost necessary to upgrade the Firmware of the Q2U tho! Helps with the bug that makes you have to unplug the usb cable and plug it back in to get it working (may be fixed with recent revisions!). The best tips with the C920, is to manually edit the exposure and other lighting settings, so you can force a high Framerate, so you don't get the "Overly Exposed smearing" with high motion. What a great video!

Great video. One thing to mention lighting and wearing glasses. A person wearing glasses will have to set up their lighting different from a person that does not. The reason being is that if you set it up like people normally do, you will see the light itself in the lenses of your classes in the video or podcast. You have to set it up more above you than in front of you. I just run a 4ft single bulb led light. Just hanging above me using fishing string and 2 eye hooks. Leave the fishing string long, and you can raise and lower the light buy the string and tie it off when you think it looks good on camera.

Thank you for mentioning the Q2U! I have been using the one I have for years, and I am CONSTANTLY trying to tell other people they should buy it instead of Yetis. Yetis are so hard to set up right, because, as you mention, they pick up everything. It took next to no time to set up my Q2U to p[ick up my voice and my voice only, and I sit right next to a vent.

Just picked up a samson q2u because of your recommendation and I LOVE it. Thank you so much!

Hi mate great videos. Very helpful. A little to say about your audio advice. I am an audio engineer just for clarity. What you are actually referring to is the microphones polar pattern. A polar pattern indicates a microphones rejection zones. Ie. Cardioid, hyper cardioid, or omni directional. Cardioid reject a lot on the underside of the microphone so placement of that microphone is just as important. Knowing where that rejection is happening is the key

I’m still using a Tonor Q9 condenser mic. £60 but I bought it off a friend for £30! Came with mic arm, pop shield, the works. It’s not ideal but it’s more than good enough with the correct filters and set up! Great video! And definitely one that a lot of new streamers need see!

I absolutely love my Q2U! I remember you mentioning it before I think on the Streamroom Podcast so when my mic died a couple weeks ago, I bought that and it’s soooooooooo good and very clear! So I will definitely look into these other recommendations when I upgrade more soon

Thanks man! You earned another subscriber today, love the honest recs!

Whenever he said “dollarydoos” I felt that 😢

Planning on starting streaming in a month or so, i can already tell you're gonna be a lifesaver cause wow, i thought i would've had to spend mega money.

Finally! A channel that gave me an ACTUAL REASON to choose one mic over the others that I can understand. All kinds of streamers will be like "just buy whatever you can afford" and I don't know if I'm getting a good deal or getting ripped off All kinds of tech review tubers will have a state of the art setup including just their room's sound damping and I can't tell what's best for me. The dynamic vs. condenser microphone distinction is finally what sold me on it. I put in an order on amazon for 1 day shipping since my old mic broke. Can't wait to try it out!

Bro you’re the most honest YouTuber I’ve watched. Definitely subscribing! Love the fact you suggest things that don’t gain for your benefit but it actually helps others out. ❤

Legit! I use that exact Samson mic for my podcast which is downloaded in 137 countries. It does exactly what you say it does. It has been a blessing in not picking up those pesky background noises - that you can't help if you're not in a purpose built sound studio. Thanks for this honest review of gear!!!

Condensers are fine too and all you would have to do is run some software in the background to control your gain and eq. Or you can just get around all that hassle and just get a dbx 286s pre-amp. A great condenser usb mic is the at2020. I personally use the tlm-103 and rode nt1 but I also make music so those are on the expensive side. While you are correct about dynamic mics being better at not picking up noise, you won't have as crisp a voice as you would with a condenser. You can also always get a sound enclosure for your mic if you're worried about extra noise. Me personally, I'd never use a dynamic mic unless it was for a live performance where there is tons of people around making noise. I care too much about tone to not use a condenser

Fortunately I didn't have to buy a lot of equipment to get started. So I splurged on that HyperX QuadS and I LOVE it. Appreciate all your recs!