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a year ago we showed you how to put together a decent setup for video

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conferencing and streaming for anywhere from zero to fifty dollars and

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okay i lied a little to get your attention you sound pretty darn good and

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well you're breathtaking you're breathtaking

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but that doesn't mean there's no room for improvement somewhere between our

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previous zero dollar and three thousand

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dollar setups has got to be a middle ground that levels up your streaming

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game without breaking the bank and to show you how much each upgrade changes

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the experience owned pro sponsored this video where we've recreated our original

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zero dollar streaming rig and we will be upgrading it piece by piece that way you

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can judge for yourself if our choices were worthwhile so um

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i hope you picked good stuff because this still looks and sounds pretty darn

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good don't it

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there we are back to the original lighting and still not bad considering the budget of

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course we've got some more money to spend so where do we start

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sound if you've got some money left over it is hard to go wrong with an audio

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upgrade or sort of many of you will already know that gaming microphones

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tend to compromise performance for aesthetics flashy lights and

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sponsorships for esports teams but while the conventional wisdom used

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to be well the people in the know are gonna go get

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a usb mic these days once you're past about the 50 point there really isn't

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any reason to do that even with the blue snowball being as decent as it is

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the thing is they just don't have the same internal space and isolation that a

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good dedicated audio interface and a standalone analog microphone will for 65

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dollars you can get a behringer umc 22 which has dual inputs a trs jack and a

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combo xlr trs connector it's got midas preamps which are a little bit better

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than you'd find on behringer's basic units and it's got three more trs jacks

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for headphones and stereo studio monitors for when it's time to upgrade

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your listening setup of course since we're not going for an all-in-one

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solution now we need to choose a microphone with condenser and dynamic

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microphones being the go-to's for most streamers and podcasters dynamic

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microphones are known for their exceptional noise isolation and the sm48

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which you're listening to right now is no exception it's a hammer style mic

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like you might see at an event or concert but that doesn't mean it's only

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meant for stage use dynamic microphones do have some downsides they tend to have

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a very tight cardioid pickup pattern which means that if you lean or turn

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away from your mic you'll almost immediately sound muffled but if you

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live or work in a room that has a lot of reverb or noisy air conditioning or

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something this bug quickly turns into more of a feature also because dynamic

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microphones don't use phantom power they can require a huge amount of gain to

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hear clearly that means that some mic and interface combos may require a gain

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boosting add-on like a cloud lifter though ours is fine without they also

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naturally cut off the high end fairly early which can result in them sounding

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somewhat flat without any additional eq'ing but we'll talk more about that

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later condenser mics on the other hand tend to have a more open pickup pattern

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meaning more background noise but their large diaphragms also mean that they

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tend to capture those noises with more clarity and a wider frequency response

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particularly on the high end if you have a room that's already quiet

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as is and you'll be close to your microphone but you might move around a

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bit well there's a reason that the hundred dollar

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audio technica at2020 is so popular it

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can sound fantastic however if you're planning on using a

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condenser you will need 48 volt phantom power on your interface now our

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behringer umc 22 did end up doing a pretty nice job with the aston spirit

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mic that i'm using at the moment but at 450 dollars i think the biggest takeaway

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here is how much bang for the buck we had with our 40 dynamic mic after a

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cable and an inexpensive stand then that puts us at 130 dollars for sound meaning

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we can now turn our attention to video and as crazy as this might sound if

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you're a tinkerer i would strongly recommend buying an old flagship phone

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and a cheap tripod on ebay rather than going with a traditional webcam apps

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like ipwebcam make it easy to import the video feed into a program like obs or

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zoom and as an extra bonus you can always use it for phone things if you're

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in a pinch the main drawback of this strategy is that some phones can

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overheat during prolonged use and you will want to get one that allows you to

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set a charge limit to prevent the battery from swelling or you can take

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your game to a whole other level with a dedicated camera if you already have a

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dslr mirrorless camera kicking around with an HDMI port there's a good chance

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that it can output a clean video feed even if it's an older model it will look

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significantly better than a smartphone thanks to its much larger sensor and if

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you don't have one already we really like the sony a5100 it's a mirrorless

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camera that can be had for around 300 bucks on ebay with a 16 to 50 millimeter

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kit lens included and if you add a cheap tripod from amazon for 20 bucks hook it

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into a capture card more on that in a minute how do i look

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pretty plug and play right actually i should point out that we are using the

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step down a5000 it is a hundred dollars cheaper but it

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doesn't support clean HDMI output without a third-party modification so if

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you're a tinkerer good for you but if you're not i'd

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recommend going for the a5100 and this should give you a pretty good idea of

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what to expect in terms of image quality in terms of camera settings most

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streamers aren't gonna have to mess around with too much 30fps is lots for a

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corner cam which means you're going to want a shutter speed of 1 60th then you

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might just need to tune your iso which is the sensitivity of your sensor to

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make sure you don't have too much noise in your image your white balance to make

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sure it doesn't look too yellow or too blue you might have to tune your tint a

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little bit we had to push this a little bit away from green and towards yellow

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to get it to look just right and then you're going to want to set your

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aperture as wide as possible to get that nice pleasing depth of field bokeh

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effect in the background if you want to avoid focus jittering with an older

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camera like this one set your focus to manual and you should pretty much be

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good to go now i want to note that there are other options other than the a5100

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just make sure you do your research that 150 canon rebel might be tempting but

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its HDMI output might be full of menu garbage which there's no hack to get

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around and that's going to be pretty hard to explain on your parent teacher

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conference or whatever now in terms of lighting we previously recommended a

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basic halogen light either in a lamp you found at value village or in a clamp

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style work light that'll run you anywhere from a few dollars up to around

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35 bucks they are power hungry and they do tend to run a little hot but with a

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reflector and a sheet of wax or diffusion paper i mean that's what you're looking at

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right now man and there's definitely an ambiance to it but i look not bad right

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switching over to an elgato key light for comparison

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certainly looks a lot better but compared to just

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adding another halogen light i think it's hard to justify the 200 price

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at least from strictly an image quality standpoint where elgato stands out

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though is in software control brightness and color temperature can be adjusted

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with a little slider in the taskbar making it easy to compensate for a cloud

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suddenly covering the sun outside your window or what have you and it also

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looks a lot more professional on your desk if that matters to you back to

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capture card for a moment it is crazy how cheap these things have gotten with

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generic usb stick size devices available on amazon for as low as 15 and these

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aren't even the cheap crummy ones either they have low latency they record at

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reasonably high bit rates for 1080p and they don't need any additional drivers

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or software this makes them perfect for a quick capture of your camera with that

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being said you do get what you pay for to an extent

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and a lot of cheap capture cards may suffer from signal degradation or

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crashing issues earlier than higher end options also warranty right another benefit of

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premium capture cards is low latency passthrough so that you can stream your

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xbox gaming for example from your pc but

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a good workaround to this is a cheap HDMI splitter and for your viewers it'll

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look exactly the same even if for you it means a little bit more cable clutter of

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course if you want to capture in 4k you will need to spend more money on a

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capture card avermedia and elgato both have solid 4k offerings around the 200

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mark although for like your face camera i really can't say

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that i'd recommend them unless you are recording your footage locally on your

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pc so that you can edit it later and you want higher quality source files now

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let's get everything set up after taking a break to take a sip from

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my water bottle lttstore.com

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yeah love the elgatos at home but the bang for the back here just cannot be

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beat we're gonna need a couple key pieces of software obs and voice meter

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both of which happily are free with both programs open use a1 to select your

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preferred listening device ideally using a hardware seo engine if it's available

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set your first input to be your microphone and then select your desired

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output channel on that input to eq your mic and make it sound all fancy all

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you've got to do is right click on the eq above your output and well for me we

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might want to raise the bass and treble a bit giving it a warmer more podcasty

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sound let's give that a shot with audio dialed in it's time to start getting our

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and buttons for your twitch page items are in groups in the sources panel and

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you just need to add your webcam setup by clicking on add source and then video

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capture device and your game or full display capture if game isn't working by

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using game or display capture resizing elements is simple just select the one

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you want to edit and you can resize it holding shift and control keys to change

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how it's resized or you can right click to gain access to a whole bunch of extra

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you can easily add custom alert variations and messages and everything

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sticks to your alert theme without any extra hassle god

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i shot my teammate oh god how where is it get out of here

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we're running we're running boys this is the original setup not bad by

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any stretch of the imagination but i think the difference after our upgrade

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is pretty striking leveling up the stream

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got that better audio quality now i'm comfy oh shoot ah

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get him

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i hate that gun so much i don't know i don't know what it's called do i look

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like i know guns to you i'm a pacifist canadian

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oh god my aim is so bad well there you have it whether the upgrades

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are worth it that's up to you but at least now you've got a solid idea of

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what's out there and how to set up for different kinds of configs thanks for

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watching and remember to check out own pro at the link in the description to

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else to watch um maybe check out my home streaming setup

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upgrade that was more of like the deluxe version of this