Budget Streamer Gear - What You NEED To Buy First?

I have bought a lot of gear in my job as a filmmaker, content creator, and now as a Streamer… and a lot of it has gathered dust as well, because of this I have learned my lesson… for the most part…

Today I am covering the BEST streamer gear purchases you should be making and in what order to grow your stream… while sticking to a budget!

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Why Should You Upgrade A Microphone First?

We are assuming that you have a PC that can run a decent stream quality, then the most important purchase is a good microphone, if someone drops by and you are streaming 720p or even 480p they are usually okay with it, but if your audio hurts their ears or doesn’t sound right I promise you they will leave.

There are plenty of affordable USB mics that sound amazing, and you can take them to even better heights when you apply the right filters that are free and come with OBS and Slobs, our recommendation in this video is the Samson Q2u.

🕘Timestamps:

0:00 Small Streamers Waste So Much Money On Gear!
0:49 The Best Streamer Overlays and Graphics For Beginners! - Own3d
1:29 What Budget Microphone Is Best For Streamers? - Samson Q2u
4:40 What budget Mic Arm To Buy For Streaming? - Rode PSA1
6:40 What Budget webcam to buy for streaming? - Logitech C922
7:30 What Budget Lighting To Buy For Streaming? - Dazzne D50's
9:18 What Streamer Gear Should You Buy First?

What Are The Best Webcams and Lights For Streamers?

Your lighting is really what is going to make or break your webcam or camera quality, you can get some cheap LED panels from Neewer 90W or the Dazznee D50's Panels are great as well.

I use the Logitech C922 Pro, and then use these little LED light panels to light myself.

This little light is enough to light my face, and then I manually set my webcam settings which you really should be doing as well, slap a custom LUT I made for myself to make the colours look nice, and we’re good to go.

The lights behind me aren’t as bright so I stand out and they make the background look nice, which is important. You should try to make your background look nice or look at grabbing a cheap green screen.

The style of this video is similar to Alpha Gaming and Gaming Careers in parts. A large influence on this series has come from content creators like Wild4games and Nutty.

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[StreamScheme]

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?

[SuperTrainStationH]

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.

[SonicAlpha]

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.

[zramirez]

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.

[baraffe]

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!

[curtistennant]

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

[jerseyjoes]

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.

[Sundog]

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.

[AZRockslide]

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.

[acnigthmare]

I have a $20 USB mic on a $30 mic arm, and i literally used that video you mentioned to make an old keyboard into a stream deck. I keep thinking of upgrading my stream set up but I just cant see how it will improve on what I have. Great video and great advice.

[thegayestgay]

Whenever he said “dollarydoos” I felt that 😢

[willyumsstudio]

If you have an iPhone and a Mac, just use the Continuity Camera feature built into them. I’m very happy with my picture quality and how I didn’t have to buy a new camera. There’s software for connecting an Android phone as an IP camera as well, so I hear.

[reaper]

I have an sm7b on an elgato lp and it doesn't sag but you need the fingie strength to TIGHTEN those thumb screws

[cringecouple]

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

[tatertottgames]

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

[jlovelylives]

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 good and very clear! So I will definitely look into these other recommendations when I upgrade more soon

[ABPRGOD]

three swerves?! my good sir, here is a like and subscription.👴

[ShaunRF]

Dig the babyfaced look today Eljay! I just started streaming with a SUPER cheap setup. My vods are here on my YT channel if anyone wants to see the results. I've been very happy with my Nexigo N980P webcam and Nexigo Glow Light. The webcam is especially nice because it has a very wide field of view and has surprisingly good video quality out of the box. The effectiveness of the light will depend on your setup. I suspect it works well for me because I'm streaming from a laptop that is right in my face, but the built in battery is nice to have. I'm less enthusiastic about my cheap Fifine USB lavalier clip-on mic, but I went with that because I already had it on-hand and using it didn't require extra equipment like a mic arm. I'm planning to play around with EQ settings a bit more when I'm over this cold to see what I can squeeze out of it. That will probably be the first thing I upgrade though.

[potatodawin]

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!

[YoungVonni]

9:07 “Please don’t buy these $50 neewer lights, they suck”

Me staring at my $50 neewer lights that suck:👀👀👀👀👀