The Gear DJs Use To Livestream Their Sets

Over the last few years, our team at Digital DJ Tips have successfully livestreamed hundreds of DJ sets to YouTube, Twitch, and Mixcloud Live. If you're curious about what gear DJs are using to livestream their sets, you've come to the right place! The best bit is, the tools we recommend needn't cost you much to get going..

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0:43 Laptop & DJ controller
1:09 Livestream platform
1:32 Camera
2:59 Tripod
3:57 Lighting
5:35 Microphone
8:20 Software
9:55 Audio utility
14:04 Smartphone
14:36 Additional hardware

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📽 TIMESTAMPS 📽

0:43 Laptop & DJ controller
1:09 Livestream platform
1:32 Camera
2:59 Tripod
3:57 Lighting
5:35 Microphone
8:20 Software
9:55 Audio utility
14:04 Smartphone
14:36 Additional hardware

[seederiektdg]

Amazing explanation! But a tip: get a (girl)friend and make them a twitch moderator on your channel so they can watch the stream and comments for you. If your mic is off they can tell you what's happening and manage spam/bots. Just be prepared to get him/her/them on on the guestlist of your gigs.

[DJKJR]

Brilliant video, answered all the questions I have been searching for ages to find!! 👍👍👍🔈🔈🔈

[evanrandall]

You're really a fantastic resource for folks like me just getting started. Great tips as always thanks

[DJTheDJ.]

The platinum fx is able to record the microphone audio through your dj software

[Djmcode]

I was playing with my dslr camera for livestream as well, getting the benefits of the higher end glass

[househeadspeakz]

Even though you mentioned using a laptop for both your music software and Livestream, , the best way is to have a separate desktop/laptop. I am certain someone in the comments will say that is too expensive. Not if you know the specs and get fairly new or catch a sale on Amazon. I own 2 desktops, a laptop, and 2 cams. The first desktop and laptop are new. The other was a gift from a college I went to. My laptop is for my Livestream and where my cams are plugged in. One of my desktops is used for my DJ software. My controller is connected to it as well. My other desktop is where my BUTT and the recorded app are used I use twitch for my live streaming but trying a multistreaming service as well. I do use OSB and love it. Some say it is difficult. I thought so before but now I can't see myself live streaming without it. I have 2 HD cams along with the cam on my laptop.

[alexzanderking]

getting a mevo was the best bit of gear i bought other than my decks

[TravelingandVibing]

I wish you could do a updated version of doing a live stream with a mobile setup using the mevo and denon prime go. Copyright issues is the biggest issue.

[djsarumawashi]

Thank you for sharing.
GREETINGS from CABO VERDE ISLANDS
CHEERS🤩

[Riso-Musik]

That VB cable is just what I need. Thanks

[amygdalos]

I did a lot of streaming in 2020 when corona hit and one of my main findings was that more expensive cameras do not make this any easier. Especially using DSLR cams via capture card introduce a ton of latency and making it all sync is a nightmare. Especially if you have multiple cams (I had one webcam and one dslr).

It really is a shame that webcams have such small sensors/lenses which limits the image quality so much. I would literally buy a 1080p/lowlatency webcam with a huge lense for a grand if there existed one. Yes there are "good" ones like the logitech brio I use but even the top of the line webcams still suck big time.

The thing I found making all this a LOT easier is using two laptops. One with an audio interface streaming all the things and the other (or standalone gear) doing the djing. I also went down the route of using a greenscreen with visuals but I cannot fully recommend that if you do not have a permanent streaming space. my assembly time was 30-40mins and that was just too long.

In the end I switched back to a couple of webcams for my ableton + hardware live streams that need countless angles for all the gear. I just did not want to sync multiple cameras and with webcams the latency is low enough that you just don't need to care about it.

[cleio]

Great video! nice simplified livestreaming advice.
A few things I would add about live streaming on twitch. DO NOT use copyrighted music, It can get you banned if it gets reported enough times. Apparently DMCA laws make livestreaming music, even if you have purchased it, illegal without a broadcast license. Sadly those cost thousands of dollars for one use depending on the song. We've seen this affect even major artistis like the lead guitarist of Dragon Force (banned for playing his own song), Metallica (silenced while trying to stream a concert on twitch), and T-pain (temp ban for using his own music as alert clips).

A lot of people do slide under the radar but when the AI bots find you, the ban hammer will come swiftly.
of course an easy way around this is to not save your broadcasts on the twitch servers. a setting that can be changed in the stream manager area of twitch. As of today there are no bots that can crawl live content, but you can bet it's being worked on.

[Tesnopesno]

I've been trying to get mobile setup working. Atm I have JBL 110 boombox with line in and line out, laptop, usb powered hercules controller with only master/headphone output. Then I have 300e pocophone, cheap behringer usb sound interface, usb a -> usb c adapter. It's kinda tricky to get traktor to put out signal internally and streaming with same laptop that you use for playing drains battery quite fast, so I do streaming only with poco and irlpro software. behringer gives line in connection for phone that irlpro understands. jbl works as a monitor and you can put it in between sound interface and controller. this is more than enough for most cases in my opinion and I can play about 2 hours outside in part with this, or use parts of it for example to stream live gigs. extra phone works as a chat connection, if I wanna write something. If I'd really wanna have some voice in, I could just train tts with my voice I guess. I frankly hate speaking in streams. :D

[dei_and_knight]

Thank you for the video. I would love to see your travel setup walkthrough with the Mevo cam and Prime go! Are you planning on doing the travel videos again this year?

[meierthomas]

Great overview of what's required. Used OBS in my serup recently. Theres a controller app I ran on an unised phone to easily switch between scenes so i didn't have to fiddle with it on the laptop. One question on my mind is copyright. How does a DJ get "licenses" to legally stream?

[DjKennyisglobal]

Excuse me I was always was told it’s not good to run a dj daw & stream to a source from the same computer you should always separate the two for the best stream with out drop outs
I have a M2 and I still would work my labo hard like that I usually use an iPhone with the app on it and go from a mixer with usb giving a digital output

[TRYBEmusic]

and remember to avoid compresssed or cut in frequencies tracks..

[ashleyhodge]

Great Video, just what I needed to get started with my first video recording.

On OBS, rather than stream, I take it you can just record and then upload to YouTube at a later date or do you have another tutorial for recording video sets that aren’t streamed.

When using the mave portable camera how do you get output from a DDJ 400 (rca) to the camera and a set of speakers?

[rjsg]

Hi Phil, you need to do a video like this for prime series users no laptop