I have started streaming on Twitch as a variety streamer... "More of a storyteller and sharer of ideas than a busker – relaxed but intense vibes. Model Building. Hot Tub. Music. Yoga. Physics. Feminism. Video Games. Reading. TTRPGs. Philosophy. Audio/video production. Cooking. Electronics. Tarot. Etc.". I can be found at:
https://www.twitch.tv/oldmanpheloniusA lot of streamers have info on their "rig" (computer and camera and sometimes audio equipment, but usually just computer), so I decided to do an inventory of what I have. It seems I have gathered together a fairly ramshackle collection of random stuff over four decades that almost forms a functioning studio kit. Most of what I have was gifted, used, cheap, hauled from the garbage, or on huge sale... The computers I have were very much lagging-edge when I bought them, but they do okay. I have never been wealthy, but I have chipped away at things when I could. The setup I have would be great for anyone that wanted to do streaming, podcasts, music, video production, etc.. If the pandemic is finally ended some year (presumably because we've rebelled and sent the people responsible for the failed response to the guillotine) before anthropogenic climate change destroys society, I would love to host creative people here. If you're in the Ottawa, Canada area and have some ideas on how you could use what I have, feel free to reach out. It's possible that some sort of remote access could also be arrived at if I tried hard enough (and the project was sufficiently cool). I had originally posted this in the description of my channel, but said I would move it to its own page some day, and I decided to put that page here.
Computer Hardware
Main desktop (Windoze 10 Pro)
- Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Motherboard
- AMD FX8320 3.5GHz 8-Core CPU
- 16GB Corsair XMS DDR3 1333MHz Memory
- ASUS Strix GTX 960 Graphics Card
- Samsung S27R350 27" 1080p 75Hz Monitor
- Dell P190S 19" 1280x1024 4:3 Aspect Ratio, Vertical Orientation
- HyperX Alloy FPS Keyboard (CHERRY MX Blue)
- Solidus KU-2971 Keyboard (quiet)
- Logitech M330 Silent Plus Wireless Mouse
- Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball (repaired)
Laptop (Windoze 10 Education)
- HP 15-dy2018ca w. 15" HD Display
- Intel 4-core i5-1135G7 4.2GHz CPU
- 8GB DDR4-2666 MHz RAM (want 16GB)
- 512 GB M.2 SSD/Intel Iris Xe Graphics
- Seagate 4TB USB3.0 External HDD
- BenQ Mobiuz EX2710 27" 1080p 144Hz Monitor
- Plugable 36W Powered 7xUSB 3.0 2xBC 1.2
- Startech USB 3.0-HDMI 1080p External Graphics
- Logitech K845 Keyboard (CHERRY MX Blue)
- Logitech M570 Wireless Trackball (repaired)
- (want an HD projector for this rig some day)
Server (needs to be upgraded)
- ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS Motherboard
- AMD Phenom II X4 955 3.2GHz 4-Core CPU
- 8GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM
- 4x1TB HDs in 2TB RAID 1 (software) Config
- Runs Slackware 14.2 Linux (with updates)
ASUS Rapture GT-AC2900 Dual-Band Router
Brother DCP-L2540DW Laser Printer
Video/Streaming Hardware
Cameras
- Creative Live! Cam Sync 1080P Full HD Webcam w. Dual Built-in Mic
- Sony Handycam HDR-CX240, 1080p video (recording and live HDMI), 9.2 Megapixel stills, 27x Optical Zoom, auto-focus, etc.
- Smartphone (Samsung Galaxy A71 refurb fwiw) with DroidCamX over Wi-Fi (amazing!)
- Can use the camera on my laptop too
- Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000 720p Webcam
- 4 x SMN15 Spy Cameras w. "Fake Phillips Screw Head" Lens, NTSC 525 Line Output, Microphone... thinking of using to view my close-up work from different angles as I stream
Lighting
- 6 x Neewer ZC-10S 10W Dimmable 5600K 66 LED Panel Lights, Colour Filters, Telescoping Stands, Ball Swivels, Three Toe Base, USB
- 2 x Nuomige SP-QC40W AC-USB Adapters ea. w. 3 x 3.1A USB and 1 x QC3.0 Quick Charge USB (used for Neewer lights and smartphone)
- Neatfi 5-inch 5 Diopter (w. 20 Diopter Sub-Area) Magnifying Lens w. 1,200 Lumens LED Ring Lamp, Spring Arm and Clamp
Video Capture
- TKD USB 2.0 Video Capture Dongle (composite/stereo, and S-Video in)
- GNS 1080p HDMI-USB 3.0 Capture Dongle
Other
- Saluspa Tahiti 71" x 26" Inflatable Hot Tub with Air Jets and Multicolour LED Lamp
- Note: I tore the pump unit apart and packed it with sound insulation because it was too loud out of the box to stream with (high density acoustic isolation foam pads, and cotton and low density foam I kept from an old futon)
- 2 x Munchkin 31001 Classic Rubber Ducks
- Pair of OG Minimus 7 Speakers on Sinilink XY-AP15H 30W/ch Bluetooth Class-D Amplifier
- Basic kitchen: electric stove/oven, fridge w. freezer, food processor, toaster, 1100W microwave, electric kettle, electric hand mixer, bowls, utensils, pots and pans, etc.
Audio Hardware
- Behringer Europower PMP1000 500W 12-Ch Powered Analog Mixer w. FX Processor and Feedback Detection (broken)
- Note: The PMP1000 amplifier blew up (apparently this is common) and Behringer has been completely useless at service... I'm pissed and am still trying to fix it. Until then I'm using the following three items instead.
- Yamaha HTR-3063 100W/ch 5.1 Receiver
- Realistic 6-Ch Powerered Analog Mixer
- Moukey 48V 1-Channel Phantom Power Supply
- Audio Technica AT2050 Multiple Pattern Condenser Microphone
- 2 x Samurai Pro Series Model 518 300W Liquid Cooled Speakers
- Audio-Technica ATH-M50x Headphones
- Focusrite Virtual Reference Monitoring (VRM) Box and Headphone Amp (for mixing)
- 2 x V-Tech VT-1030 Unidirectional Dynamic Microphones (not great)
- EYK EW-C02 UHF Wireless Belt-Mounted Microphone System (2 x Transmitters, 1 x Receiver) w. mono-stereo and mono-smartphone 1/8" cables
- 2 x lavalier (clip mics) and 2 x "small mics on short aimable bendy wires" for EW-C02, 1 x lavalier w. 1/8" stereo plug, and 1 x lavalier w. 1/8" smartphone plug
- M-Audio Delta 1010 8-Ch In/8-Ch Out full duplex (balanced/unbalanced, +4dB/-10dB) 24-bit/96kHz Rack Mount (w. PCI card in Computer)
- TEAC A-2300S Reel-to-Reel Tape Deck
- APC AP9211 8-Socket Rack Mount Power Bar
- Small Desktop 19-inch Rack
- General (and often inadequate) collection of assorted cables, stands, mic screens, keyboard stands, spring arms, mic shockmounts and fixed holders, cheap headphones, etc.
- Second Delta 1010 system (it failed a while back and needs to be repaired... have chips)
- Yamaha MT120 Four-Track Cassette Recorder w. Dual-Speed Tape Transport (faulty channel?)
Musical Instruments
- Cort Model L450-O NS OM-Sized Mohagany Acoustic Guitar (1.75" nut width)
- Vibra Model 56 Acoustic Guitar, worn to a nubbin, frets and intonation shot
- Nameless Fender Stratocaster Clone, beat up bad, whammy bar broken off, rebuilt and hacked over and over, frets and intonation shot, but... hardwired original Evans Humbucker pickups
- Pedals: Danelectro FAB Flange, Profile4 DDL-5 Digital Delay (need some DI boxes some day)
- Ibanez IBZ10G 10W Guitar Amplifier
- Crate BX-15 12W 8" Bass Practice Amplifier
- Epiphone 2007 Customized EB-0 Electric Bass
- Handmade 13/12 Hammered Dulcimer, hammers w. leather on one side (Asheville, NC)
- Cardboard Box and "Bent Nails in Wood" Mountain Dulcimer (Kit), frets/intonation shot
- Concertina (loaned to friend, waiting for details)
- Moperc 14" Wood Djembe w. Remo FiberSkyn Head (handcrafted in Québec)
- Traditional 9" Wood Djembe w. Animal Skin Head and Knotted Rope Tensioning
- First Act Drum Kit (cheap but useful): 14" Crash, 12" Hi-Hat, 12" Snare, 10" Tom-Tom, 13" Floor Tom, 18" Bass Drum, stands/mounts, bad stool
- Little Tikes Headless Tambourine (don't diss it, it sounds good)
- Toy "Drum Mixer" Electronic Drum (5 crappy pads, built-in cheezy rhythms)
- Cheapo First Act Discovery Electronic Drums Unit (8 okay pads. built-in rhythms)
- (I need to buy a real basic electronic drum kit)
- Conn Electronic Organ, Two 3-1/2 Octave Keyboards, One Octave Foot Pedals, 2 x Spring Reverb, 2 x Electronic Tremelo, Mechanical Leslie Tremelo and Celeste, Drum/Rhythm Generator, Chord Generator and Arpeggiator (sync'ed with rhythm generator)
- Roland D-5 Multi-Timbral Linear Synthesizer w. Arpeggiator and MIDI (61 full-sized keys)
- AKAI Professional MPK25 USB/MIDI Performance Keyboard (25 full-sized keys, pads, knobs, buttons, etc. ... basically a controller)
- PAiA 6710 Rack Mount Vocoder (built from kit)
- KORG miniKaossPad2 Dynamic Effects Professor
- KORG DS-10 Synthesizer for Nintendo DS
- Yamaha PortaSound PSS-380 Dual-Voice FM Synthesizer w. PCM Rhythm (surprisingly good)
- 4 x Floor Pedals, 1/4" jack (NO or NC), need some switch on/switch off type floor buttons
- All sorts of other rando stuff: C and D pennywhistles, slide whistles, toy whistles, nice sounding sticks, wooden musical spoons, zills, various acoustic kazoos, electric kazoos, plastic and proper wood drum sticks, etc.
- Can access a violin and ukelele as needed
Gaming Related Stuff
Game Hardware
- 2 x Sony PS2 Slim Gaming Consoles w. Controllers, Controller Cable Extensions, OG 8MB and newer Sony 64MB Memory Cartridges, SingStar Microphones, EyeToy Camera, Rock Band Guitar/Drums/Mic, the infamous Japanese-only Trance Vibrator for Rez
- Sony PS3 Slim Gaming Console, several Wireless Controllers (w. USB Charger and Cables), PS3 Eye Camera and Motion Controller
- Nintendo DSi XL Super Mario Bros. 25th Anniversary Special Edition
- Dead Sony PS3 60GB Fat (Original) w. PS2 Compatibility... bought used, have fixed YLOD twice... going to try again some day
- Control Yoke, Rudder or Gas/Brake Pedals, and Logitech Wingman Force-Feedback Joystick for Flight Simulators or Driving Games
Game Collection
- Much many games for PS2, PS3, and DS
- I have clients installed for Steam, Epic Games (yes, that dreaded beast), Rockstar Games, and Gameforge
- Bought the Charity Bundles for Ukraine from inch.io and Humble Bundle and have hundreds of gigabytes of video games, visual novels, TTRPGs, soundtracks, software, game development assets and software, comics, and books – an embarrassment of riches that would take years of full time effort to get through
- Some of the games were on Steam and some on GOG.com (Iris and the Giant, Wanderlust: Travel Stories, Liberated) and I got sucked into buying more games on GOG because they were such great deals (realMyst: Masterpiece Edition, Worms W.M.D., The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Loop Hero, and Homeworld Remastered Collection)
- Still love Kingdom of Loathing, need to finish West of Loathing, and want to do more Tera
- One of the Ukraine Humble Bundle games was Rockstar Games' Max Payne 3
- I got Borderlands 3, BioShock: The Collection, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Maneater, Supraland, and Fall Guys for free from Epic Games (I liked the OG BioShock but never finished)
- On Steam I got 84 games in the Ukraine Humble Bundle that I have to check out, before that I had purchased (to give an idea of the sorts of things I seek out) Microsoft Flight Simulator, Rakuen, Crypt of the Necrodancer, West of Loathing, Ys Origin, Downwell, Half-Life 2 (played through a couple of times), Never Alone Arctic Collection, Papo & Yo, Alice: Madness Returns, Batman 1 and 2 and Gotham City Impostors Bundle
- I've also played through Half-Life, Quake, DOOM, and many other games before the existence of things like Steam
Relevant A/V Software
Streaming
- OBS Studio Cross-Platform Video Recording and Live Streaming Software
- DroidCamX (on phone and streaming PC)
- XSplit Broadcaster/VCam/Presenter (bought it, but am very disappointed because it will not work for the basic streaming setup I wanted to use, switched to OBS Studio)
Audio and Music Production
- PreSonus Studio One Pro 5 Digital Audio Workstation for Recording, Mixing, Production, Composing, Mastering, and Performing
- ACID Pro 10 Suite (Music Creation and DAW)
- Ableton Live 11 Lite Music Creation and Live Performance Software
- Audacity 3 Cross-Platform Multi-Track Audio Editing and Recording Software
- FFmpeg 5 Cross-Platform Tool for Audio and Video Recording, Conversion, and Streaming
- ACID Plugins: essentialFX and coreFX Audio Effects, Vintage Effects Suite, Analogue Modelling Suite Plus, Vandal Virtual Guitar and Bass Amplification, VariVerb II Nonlinear Algorithmic Reverb, DN-e1 Virtual Analog Synth, VITA 2 Sampler, 33+ Virtual Instruments
- Celemony Melodyne 5 Assistant (full version)
- iZotope Plugins: Nectar 3 Elements, Neutron 3 Elements, Ozone 9 Elements, Relay, RX 8 Elements, Trash 2, Vinyl, Visual Mixer, Vocal Doubler, VocalSynth 2
- Exponential Audio Plugins: R4, Nimbus
- Native Acess Plugins: Blocks Base, Controller Editor, Ethereal Earth, Expansions Selection, Guitar Rig 5 Factory Selection, Guitar Rig 6 LE, Kinetic Treats, Komplete Kontrol, Kontakt Factory Selection, Massive, Micro Prism, Play Series Selection, Reactor Factory Selection R2, Supercharger, Traktor DJ 2, TRK-01 Bass
- Plugin Alliance Plugins: Ampeg SVT-VR Classic; Black Box Analog Design HG-2; Brainworx bx_cleansweep Pro, bx_console Focusrite SC, bx_console N, bx_delay 2500, bx_digital V3, bx_masterdesk, bx_oberhausen, bx_rooMS, bx_stereomaker, bx_subsynth, bx_townhouse Buss Compressor, bx_cleansweep V2, bx_masterdesk Classic, bx_rockrack V3 Player, bx_solo, bx_subfilter; elysia alpha compressor, niveau filter; SCHOEPS Double MS; SPL! Ranger; Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
- PreSonus Plugins: Ampire, Analog Chorus, Analog Delay, Pedalboard, Redlight District, Rotor, Tricomp
- 50GB (and growing) Commercial Royalty-Free Loops and Samples Library
Video Production
- DaVinci Resolve 17 Cross-Platform Editing, Color, Effects, and Audio Post Production Suite
- Video Pro X13 Editing and Production
- NewBlue: Filters 5 Ultimate, Titler Pro 7
- FXhome: Ignite Particles and Post FX, Ignite Keying and Flares
- ProDAD ReSpeedr Slow-Mo and Timelapse
- MAGIX Travel Maps
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