When it comes to live streaming and content creation, the gear that you
use, the way your desk is set up in your environment, where you create.
It's so important.
So today I wanted to go ahead and make a video of my current gear.
My current desk setup to give you guys some ideas or inspiration, to be able
to start leveling up your content.
So let's go ahead and dive into what I currently have and
what I've accumulated over.
Few years.
And unfortunately, a lot of the stuff that I have currently.
Now, it's going to go ahead and change as I'm currently updating the studio.
And I can't wait to go ahead and show you that.
So I wanted to show you what I currently have.
Give you some ideas as a console streamer, as a content creator.
What I currently use to make the videos that I have on YouTube.
Now, when I use to live stream what I utilize to be productive.
Throughout my work day.
So let's go ahead and dive right into,
so of course, starting with the webcam, this is going to be the Logitech C920.
This is going to be the first web cam that I acquired when I started streaming
directly from my X-Box to Mixer.
I has done me well now it's become my secondary camera that
I utilized as a secondary look, whenever I'm live stream or creating
content to get a different angle.
Keep in mind that utilizing the it's going to give you 1080 P and since most
people watch your stream on mobile.
It's going to give them a good quality as well.
Then I have this on a regular stand that I have, this is just a
desk clamp stand that I have here.
It's costs about, I think maybe 10 or $12 to be able to acquire it.
Then here, this is my go-to kitchen timer.
They have utilized here in my workspace to be able to keep me
productive and in deep focus mode.
So what I'd like to do is I'd like to set this some times to 25 minutes.
And then when I do is that I work and I focus in for 25.
Then when the timer rings, I put it on five minutes and it gives me time
to be able to, you know, social media.
Sometimes I jump on the switch, play a little bit of rocket
league and just to unwind.
And then I get right back into it for another 25 minutes.
And I typically do that throughout my whole work block.
Then what you see here is going to be a charging station.
This is, has been a lifesaver in so many scenarios, allowing me to
be able to charge my apple watch.
Charge my AirPods and charge my iPhone all at the same time.
These are things that I use daily.
I use my apple watch for fitness, a lot, use my pods to
be able to listen to my music.
And of course my phone to be able to browse social media work,
answering emails and so much.
And I think charger here was about 30 bucks, but it's been well worth it.
Then what you see here is going to be the logitech speakers.
These are going to be some budget friendly speakers I've really acquired them.
I think they were like 30 bucks on Amazon when I got.
But I just love the way they look and they sound pretty great.
They're probably not the best speakers.
If you're going to do editing, you need to be worried about audio.
But for the most part, for what I use them, which is watching YouTube videos,
I'm watching sports on, on my computer.
They get the job done pretty well.
Then here is going to be one of my prize possessions.
As you guys know, I am a console gamer.
So pretty much this is going to be my Elite 2 controller.
I use this pretty much every single day.
I play a lot of apex and a lot of 2K so you'll see here that my current
control layout is set for apex.
So I have two paddles on the back that I use for X and for sliding.
And then I have a.
control stick thumbstick here to be able to control my aiming so I can beam people.
So if you guys do play apex or two came in short to go ahead and add me
LAS Curry on X-Box is my gamer tag.
Then I have here two blue light canceling glasses.
One of these is going to be the gunner optics.
Now only do these help with the blue light, but the also zoom
in these are the ones that I.
For my gaming and then the other ones that I have here, they
just are, Bluelight canceling.
They don't zoom in, but these are the ones that I use when I do daily work.
To be able to kind of protect my eyes because I'm in front of
screens pretty much for anywhere from like 13 to 15 hours a day.
Then here I have the X-Box wireless headsets had these
things for about six months now.
I want it to look for a budget friendly, a wireless headset.
It didn't have any wires.
But still gave me good audio sound, especially when playing apex, you know,
how important sound is to be able to understand when enemies near and just,
you just need it is so important.
And I acquired these and I wanted something that was comfortable as well.
So I wear these for about, you know, I mean maybe sometimes eight hours a
day simply because they're Bluetooth.
So not only I can listen to music as well when I'm on here, but they
also allow you to be able to go ahead and And change the volume of the
game of the people you're talking to in a party and also of the music.
So you can listen to all three at the same time.
And with the app inside of the X-box called the dobe digital you're able
to enhance the audio even more.
So these has been, this has been great for 99 bucks.
Can't complain then you'll see back here.
I have my Mac laptop.
Now the Mac laptop is what I pretty much use on a day to day to do my work.
So that's.
And you'll see me, I'll respond to emails.
I'll be managing YouTube comments, handling a lot of my social media and
just what I use on a day-to-day basis.
Now I don't save anything to my computer.
I always use an external hard drive.
So I have a one terabyte hard drive that I save all my files to.
And you'll see, I do the same for my X-Box and the same for my windows computer.
But that's going to be my Mac.
That's what I said.
2019 model.
I had that connected to a dongle that allows me to be able to connect a.
AAC and my cable connect multiple USB port because the 2019 model
didn't have any additional ports.
So you needed to get something external like that.
Then as far as my lighting that you see here, I'm utilizing the key light airs.
So these are not very budget friendly.
I didn't, these are the ones that actually sit on your desk.
So if you don't have.
The space and you want the elagto key lights
then you want to go for the key lights, the ones that are have the actual clamps.
But I wouldn't recommend these as a budget friendly light.
I know that there's now lights available for less than a hundred dollars,
sometimes even less than $50 that you can utilize to be able to light
yourself for your stream for your.
So I'll link some alternative products in the description of this video
as well, along with every other product that you see here today.
So moving over this brings me over to my monitors.
Now these are extremely, extremely budget friendly monitors.
Since I don't game on the computer, I wasn't really.
For a gaming monitors just needed a monitor that was sent ADP carotid,
a low, a millisecond response rate, which this does, I believe it's a
one second millisecond response and the color quality of it is pretty
great for what I, for what I needed.
I'm not very picky.
But when I got these at the time, they were about 80 bucks.
And you couldn't beat it.
They were slim profile.
I had good quality audio even has speakers built in, I'll recommend some
better monitors that you can be able to utilize simple because these now are
about like 120, 130, and there's way better gaming monitors for that same price
point that you can utilize, especially if you really are into the quality
that you get from your console or from the games on your computer, so I will
link those in the description as well.
Then we need here into my console.
I use the X box series S.
Since launch this thing is a beauty has done a lot of great things for me.
A lot of people have issues with this overheating.
What I've come to find is that after every use, I just simply unplug it because
it does like to stay in standby mode so that it can power up as fast as possible.
Then it's connected to my.
I have the Elgato, HD60 S this is what I used to be able to connect my X-Box to my
computer, to be able to bring it into OBS or even to be able to record and create
content and utilizing Elgato software.
So again, I know that they've released now recently, a new Elgato capture card.
That's more than.
For the new series consoles.
Then as far as my camera, that I'm utilizing to be able to record my
content also for live streaming is a Sony, a 5,100 with a 16 millimeter
1.4 lens camera itself, I think was about four or $500 when I got.
And the lens was about two, $300.
And I have it connected directly into my computer using the Elgato cam link,
which turns my DSLR camera, which that's the Sony 5,100 into a webcam that can
be picked up into OBS and any other streaming software that I'm utilizing.
Then of course we have here, the stream deck or the stream deck is a pretty
handy tool that improves your workflow.
So I utilize this to be able to go ahead and turn on all the lights in the stream.
Simplifies the process of you getting started with your streaming.
If I want to clip something, if I want to zoom in my camera, I can
use the stream deck that to do that.
And then looking at my desk, I have this nice matte finish a desk mat that
I got on Amazon for about nine bucks.
But a wash is pretty good.
You see?
That I have my keyboards have my apple keyboard that I utilize every
single day with my apple mice.
And then I have just a basic keyboard, simple because of my windows, computer.
I just utilize it or minimal tasks, but I will be upgrading this here shortly
then that leads me here in to my PC.
So this is going to be a windows computer that I went ahead
and built about two years.
It's strictly just a streaming PC, so it doesn't have any kind of graphics card.
Think it has 16 gigabytes of Ram.
And I built it for about $400 case in all everything included.
I've built and I have a video on my channel on that, and I build this
specifically just for streaming.
Then as far as the microphone that I'm using, this is going
to be the audio Technica.
And this is a great budget microphone for 99 bucks.
I also recommend the road pod Mic, as a streamer mic as well, which is also 99.
I think the Audio-Technica is like 120 as well, but I'll link those microphones
in the description of this video.
But this has been great.
I have a pop filter on it.
And then I utilize a newer mic arm stand.
That was about maybe 15 bucks.
And then here I have a memory card reader.
This is just to be able to go ahead and have some additional
USB ports along with being able to grab my memory card from my camera.
To be able to pull that content.
And then as far as the desk where everything is sitting at, this
is going to be another budget friendly desk that I utilize.
I got it on Amazon for like 70 bucks.
It's 60 inches long, and then two feet wide, which allows me to have everything.
Sit it here on the desk.
If I had any issue, as far as the chair that I'm sitting on, this
chair has done me wonders as well has been with me for quite some time.
It's a S racer gaming chair.
It's pretty good.
Like I said, for the aesthetics, if you want a gaming chair, I'm
going to be upgrading to hopefully either Herman Miller or respond or
Mavix chair, I'm still have to go ahead and make a decision on that.
And I'm focusing more on economics and making sure that my posture is right.
So this chair has done me wonders its a great.
starter chair.
It definitely looks aesthetically pleasing on camera, but now I'm
looking more towards a health things.
Then the backlight that you always see in my videos that are less, oh, either
blue purple or any simple color, that's going to be the RB nine weelight.
So that light is going to be about anywhere.
It's like a hundred, $120.
But it's amazing.
The amount colors you can choose.
To is just amazing.
And it just, I use a backdrop which has the backdrop you see
here behind in all my videos.
But what you can see here is that I've mounted on the wall
and I've gotten a grey paper.
And when you utilize gray, any color that you splash on, it will
change to the color that you.
So if I have a blue light, the wall changes blue.
If I have purple, it changes purple.
So, and it has a pulley system where you can go ahead and pull
the backdrop up if you want to.
I always leave it down.
So it's always in my videos then here at the bottom, I have the
Elgato green screen, which I don't utilize quite often, but it is
going to start getting utilized now.
In my new setup for my tick-tock videos, for my Reels to be able to
put backgrounds behind me, of course, Elgato creates some amazing products.
They're not always the most budget friendly but they are durable
and they do last a long time.
So also think about that when you're investing in your gear, think about future
thinking as opposed to just getting the best and the cheapest product right now.
On this desk here to the right.
Unfortunately this is probably going to disappear here in the new
set up, but this is where I put a lot of the memorabilia things that
I want in my shot for my videos.
So I have a ring light that I use as a back hair light.
And what that light does is that it separates me from the background, giving
me a little bit more depth in my video.
So just makes the background look a lot better.
And then here I have three quotes that I always like to live by.
It's never too late to be who you are, who you say you're going to.
Good thing comes to those who wait, but great things come to those
who take action and don't give up.
It won't be easy, but it will be worth it.
Those are the things that remind me on the journey that I'm in.
And then here I have several books that I've loved to always read and go
back to along with some sports figures and just plenty of things that I.
Looking at and just really set the tone for the studio here.
So overall that is going to be the current desk tour for what I utilize
to be able to live stream, to be able to create my content and my YouTube
videos and what I currently use.
Of course, there's going to be an update to the studio where I talk
about the sound panels that I have.
How I went ahead and created a sound absorption on the ceiling using
the tic-tac cloud ceiling and so many other gear and equipment that
I'm upgrading to, to be able to make the production even easier.
So as always everything that I mentioned, this video, you'll
find a desscription of this video.
And if you want to learn how to go ahead and start making your live
streams look professional, that you want to go out and watch this video.
Where I show you how to be able to utilize OBS.
And I even gave you free overlays that you can utilize to be able to enhance
the look and feel of your live streams.
I'll see you guys in the next video.