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**Streaming on a Budget: A Step-by-Step Guide**

I recently made a video about turning something like this into a macro device that can control OBS Studio, and I'm excited to share it with you. In this article, we'll go through the process of setting up a streaming setup on a budget.

First, let's talk about the camera. I've been using the Logitech webcam for a while now, but I recently replaced it with a budget-friendly option. The new webcam is actually pretty good for the price, and I'm happy with the result. To achieve this look, I positioned the light on the side of my face, which creates a cinematic and professional effect.

Next, let's talk about the lighting position. There are two sides to consider - one side of your face will be very bright, while the other side will have some shadows. This creates a more dynamic and interesting look.

Now, let's move on to the keyboard. I recently discovered the Numad numpad, which can be used as a macro device for OBS Studio. I'm excited to share my experience with you, and I think you'll find it useful.

One of the questions people will ask is why buy something like this if they can just use their numpad? Well, there are several reasons why using a separate device like the Numad can be beneficial. Firstly, not everyone has access to these devices, especially laptop users who only have them as an option. Secondly, if you start using keys on your main keyboard to control things in OBS Studio or games, it can lead to conflicts with certain keybinds. Finally, having a separate device like the Numad allows you to set up keys as separate macro keys that won't interfere with other keybinds.

Moving on to the microphone, I recently compared seven microphones and found that the Fine One was a great option for $30. While it's not as good as the Razer Sarin Mini ($50), which is my top recommendation, it's still a great value for the price.

In this video, we'll be using the Fine One microphone to record our streams. To test its sound quality, I conducted some tests and was impressed with the results.

To read our stream chat and recent events while gaming, I recently developed a tool that can display this information on top of our game window. This combination of tools - including the macro device we're using today - allows us to never leave our game and focus on what's important: streaming.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed making this first episode, and I'm excited to make more content in the future. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to like and comment something useful about it. It definitely helps more than you can imagine, and I appreciate your support. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in the next episode!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso building a streaming setup for $100 that's going to be a challenge I would say that a really important part when streaming is a second monitor but there is no way we can fit a second monitor in today's budget let's buy some stuff on Amazon to fit our streaming setup the first thing I would like to add is the Razer sarin mini because this is a phenomenal microphone for the price but being $50 I'm not sure if it's going to fit the budget I think it won't but let's add it to the card and then see afterwards if we need to cut some cost now the next big things we need is a webcam and a light let's buy the light first so these are very popular ones that show up all the time but I don't really have a good experience with these type of Lights I've had this light for a while it looks very harsh like there's a spot on your face so I would really like to find a budget version of the key light you see right there the alato key light but I think it won't be very hard because there there we go this is already a budget elato key light now this isn't available so let's keep looking let's keep scrolling there we go realino okay that's $60 that's still too expensive but maybe there's a smaller oh here okay so the smaller one will be available too there we go all right $36 and it's in stock by the way don't pay attention to the shipping or the arrive date on my part because I live in Europe I'm just looking on the amazon.com website because there are way more options there so let's add this to the card because that's a great light now we are at $87 already what we definitely need is a light stand right now because if I'm not wrong these type of Lights come without a stand it was the same with this one now something like this might actually work but I'm not really sure if it's going to be strong enough okay I think this one is great you can extend it to it's in stock $20 let's add it to the card great $16 we crossed our budget already let's look for the webcam first and then cut some costs $18 I'm not really sure if I can trust that wow there is so much choice I think I'm going to watch a few videos on webcam test and then go of that so I'll be back in a minute okay I watched some videos and it looks like the EM c960 is a great budget option $6,500 reviews $27 and you can save 10% let's add this to the card and before we look at the cost I want to add one more thing a npad which I want to use as a budget stream de now this will definitely keep us over the budget of 100 so you can good this if you don't want this but I really want to add this one because it's great to manage your stream especially if you're a laptop user okay quick pause I looked on nearby Amazon stores and I can only find the wired version for me okay that's everything $144 how are we going to fix this so let's say $10 less because of the coupons now you could completely drop this it's definitely not necessary for a budget setup but I'm going to buy it because it's cool to show you so let's not count this into the prize now we could cut on the lighting part but I think this is a great basic setup and if you go cheaper than this you're going to have to build a light yourself and then use the towel as a soft box and stuff like that you can do it if you want to go really really really budget but I want to build a solid basic setup I think the place where we can cut something is right here as the microphone so instead of the Razer sarin mini we're going to go with the fine k669b I just published a video on budget microphone so that's why I know the name but this mic was extremely good in the tests for the price so let's add this to the card and then proceed so we can delete the razor sarin mini we are at $104 so I think that's going to be good so I'm going to buy all of this stuff and while we're waiting for this to arrive let's pay the bill by thanking the sponsor of today's video are you looking for new emotes then the new emote maker from on TV is perfect for you after choosing your starting character you can customize it further to create a character that looks very similar to you when you're done customizing simply click on generate emote and then you will be able to select the emotes you want to buy the more you select the cheaper it gets per emote if you're interested then go to onto TV or click the first link in my description to start creating your own emotes today all right it's time to unbox the light here it's basically the size of a handun which is much smaller than I would have expected now even though it's pretty small I think it's definitely decent on the back of the light there are two knobs and I guess this is just to start the light on and oh it's battery powered I didn't even know that if you press it one time you will see that the lights turn on and I guess this is to tell you how full the battery is now if you keep pressing the button right here on the back then you see that it turns on so this one is to add yellow light and then this one this is to add white light so we will have to turn this to the maximum and then we've got the perfect white light to light our face there is one more thing inside of this box and I think this will be the cable okay it's two things one of them is this little ball head that's probably used to attach the light on top of something like a desk arm which is something we are going to use today so that will come in very handy and the other one a simple USB charging cable now let's get rid of these boxes here I think this one was around $15 or $20 it comes with a few things this will be the desk clamp you can just extend it like this and when you tighten this it will probably be very sturdy I think you can just screw this in yeah this works perfectly fine let's attach this to the desk so we can connect our light to it so let's connect this first and then connect it on top of it so now you see because of this ball head we can just loosen this a bit and then play around with the position of the light and then just tighten this again I'm really happy we were able to add a budget light like this to our setup because lighting is extremely important and to be honest it looks pretty clean we just just need to lower it a bit and don't forget to turn the yellow light knob completely to the left and turn the white light knob completely to the right because that's the perfect color for a natural looking light so the webcams you heard me right I bought two of them the budget webcam we chose together but then also the Logitech C920 this is one of the most popular webcams out there and it used to be cheaper but right now it cost around $70 to $80 so that definitely didn't fit into our budget but I want you to see if it's even worth getting one of these this one looks like a massive thing holy look at this look at how big it is on top of your screen okay let's take a look at the Logitech all right to be honest I thought this was going to be smaller now the right is the Logitech C920 and the left is the emit c960 I am pretty sure it's just a NOCO version of the C920 but I could definitely be wrong it's just that they are so very similar in most aspects let's see if they are as similar in terms of quality too so these are the two webcams these are the qualities the budget one is more wide but the quality is also notably worse now this was expected it's a $30 webcam compared to a 6070 $80 one but I think part of the reason why it looks as bad as this is that it's much too sharp if you right click it and then go to properties you can go to configure video here now by doing this you can change a bunch of settings to make it look better and this one has way too much contrast so I'm going to pull the contrast a bit down like this which will be better already and I would kind of like to reduce the blacks but I don't think it's possible we're going to add a bit of sharpness still it looks good but not too much so something like this and to be honest it looks better already right it looks way better than it did before so let's click on okay right now click on okay here and this is way better than before no it still looks a bit pixelated right but that's just because it's a budget webcam but it doesn't look as harsh anymore on stream you will probably be like this in a corner and here I am sitting in front of my PC I think this looks perfectly fine so I guess we can just remove the Logitech webcam the budget one is actually pretty good for the price I want you to pay attention to the position of the light there I did position it on the side as a result one side of your face will be very bright but the other side will have some Shadows which makes it look more cinematic and more professional so we got our webcam we got our light let's quickly add the budget stream budget stream neck I don't really know if it's worthy of being called a budget stream neck but at least it's a budget macro device so basically the plan with this is following a video by another Creator called nuty he made a video about turning something like this into a macro device that can control OBS Studio there are a lot of things you can do with it and I'm not going to do everything in this video because it's way too much to check out right now but I am convinced that using one of these numpads as a macro device will definitely give you some extra feeling of control over your stream and one of the questions many people will probably ask me in the description if I don't address it right now why buy something like this if you can just use your numpad and there are actually a few reasons first of all not everyone has one of these laptop users only have these right here but second of all if you start using keys on your main keyboard to control things in OBS Studio Etc it will eventually give conflicts with certain keybinds in games or in programs so it's definitely beneficial to have a separate device like the numad right there because you can set up these Keys as separate macro keys that won't interfere with your numbers on your keyboard or any other keybinds it's really handy and finally the most important part of our streaming setup the microphone I recently did a video where I compared seven microphones and I'd say the winner of that video was clearly the Razer sarin mini however this costs $50 and we didn't have a budget for that so I had to look for a $30 mic and the fine one was a really good microphone for $30 in that video now this is a really popular microphone let me get it out of the box this is what it looks like it's very well known and it's really good for $30 if you have the budget to buy this $50 microphone over this $30 one I would definitely go for it because this one is better but nevertheless this is a great mic so in this video we are going to use this one I will quickly let you hear the sound tests this is a test of the F fine microphone standing on my desk in front of me this is the Razer siren mini standing on my desk in front of me now since we only have one monitor we need a way to read our stream chat when we are gaming and OBS Studio isn't opened on the monitor I recently made a video about showing your streams chat and your recent events on top of your game while you are streaming and that tool combined with the macroad we are using is the perfect combination to never have to leave your game now that being said we can finish the setup for this first episode of streaming on a budget I really enjoyed making this first episode and I'm definitely looking forward to making more of them in the description you will find a link to the playlist it will be pretty empty since this is the first episode but the second is coming pretty soon and in that episode we will have a bigger budget if you enjoyed this video definitely give it a like and comment something useful about the video it definitely helps more than you can ever imagine and besides that thank you so much for watching I really enjoyed this and I will see you in the next episode have a nice dayso building a streaming setup for $100 that's going to be a challenge I would say that a really important part when streaming is a second monitor but there is no way we can fit a second monitor in today's budget let's buy some stuff on Amazon to fit our streaming setup the first thing I would like to add is the Razer sarin mini because this is a phenomenal microphone for the price but being $50 I'm not sure if it's going to fit the budget I think it won't but let's add it to the card and then see afterwards if we need to cut some cost now the next big things we need is a webcam and a light let's buy the light first so these are very popular ones that show up all the time but I don't really have a good experience with these type of Lights I've had this light for a while it looks very harsh like there's a spot on your face so I would really like to find a budget version of the key light you see right there the alato key light but I think it won't be very hard because there there we go this is already a budget elato key light now this isn't available so let's keep looking let's keep scrolling there we go realino okay that's $60 that's still too expensive but maybe there's a smaller oh here okay so the smaller one will be available too there we go all right $36 and it's in stock by the way don't pay attention to the shipping or the arrive date on my part because I live in Europe I'm just looking on the amazon.com website because there are way more options there so let's add this to the card because that's a great light now we are at $87 already what we definitely need is a light stand right now because if I'm not wrong these type of Lights come without a stand it was the same with this one now something like this might actually work but I'm not really sure if it's going to be strong enough okay I think this one is great you can extend it to it's in stock $20 let's add it to the card great $16 we crossed our budget already let's look for the webcam first and then cut some costs $18 I'm not really sure if I can trust that wow there is so much choice I think I'm going to watch a few videos on webcam test and then go of that so I'll be back in a minute okay I watched some videos and it looks like the EM c960 is a great budget option $6,500 reviews $27 and you can save 10% let's add this to the card and before we look at the cost I want to add one more thing a npad which I want to use as a budget stream de now this will definitely keep us over the budget of 100 so you can good this if you don't want this but I really want to add this one because it's great to manage your stream especially if you're a laptop user okay quick pause I looked on nearby Amazon stores and I can only find the wired version for me okay that's everything $144 how are we going to fix this so let's say $10 less because of the coupons now you could completely drop this it's definitely not necessary for a budget setup but I'm going to buy it because it's cool to show you so let's not count this into the prize now we could cut on the lighting part but I think this is a great basic setup and if you go cheaper than this you're going to have to build a light yourself and then use the towel as a soft box and stuff like that you can do it if you want to go really really really budget but I want to build a solid basic setup I think the place where we can cut something is right here as the microphone so instead of the Razer sarin mini we're going to go with the fine k669b I just published a video on budget microphone so that's why I know the name but this mic was extremely good in the tests for the price so let's add this to the card and then proceed so we can delete the razor sarin mini we are at $104 so I think that's going to be good so I'm going to buy all of this stuff and while we're waiting for this to arrive let's pay the bill by thanking the sponsor of today's video are you looking for new emotes then the new emote maker from on TV is perfect for you after choosing your starting character you can customize it further to create a character that looks very similar to you when you're done customizing simply click on generate emote and then you will be able to select the emotes you want to buy the more you select the cheaper it gets per emote if you're interested then go to onto TV or click the first link in my description to start creating your own emotes today all right it's time to unbox the light here it's basically the size of a handun which is much smaller than I would have expected now even though it's pretty small I think it's definitely decent on the back of the light there are two knobs and I guess this is just to start the light on and oh it's battery powered I didn't even know that if you press it one time you will see that the lights turn on and I guess this is to tell you how full the battery is now if you keep pressing the button right here on the back then you see that it turns on so this one is to add yellow light and then this one this is to add white light so we will have to turn this to the maximum and then we've got the perfect white light to light our face there is one more thing inside of this box and I think this will be the cable okay it's two things one of them is this little ball head that's probably used to attach the light on top of something like a desk arm which is something we are going to use today so that will come in very handy and the other one a simple USB charging cable now let's get rid of these boxes here I think this one was around $15 or $20 it comes with a few things this will be the desk clamp you can just extend it like this and when you tighten this it will probably be very sturdy I think you can just screw this in yeah this works perfectly fine let's attach this to the desk so we can connect our light to it so let's connect this first and then connect it on top of it so now you see because of this ball head we can just loosen this a bit and then play around with the position of the light and then just tighten this again I'm really happy we were able to add a budget light like this to our setup because lighting is extremely important and to be honest it looks pretty clean we just just need to lower it a bit and don't forget to turn the yellow light knob completely to the left and turn the white light knob completely to the right because that's the perfect color for a natural looking light so the webcams you heard me right I bought two of them the budget webcam we chose together but then also the Logitech C920 this is one of the most popular webcams out there and it used to be cheaper but right now it cost around $70 to $80 so that definitely didn't fit into our budget but I want you to see if it's even worth getting one of these this one looks like a massive thing holy look at this look at how big it is on top of your screen okay let's take a look at the Logitech all right to be honest I thought this was going to be smaller now the right is the Logitech C920 and the left is the emit c960 I am pretty sure it's just a NOCO version of the C920 but I could definitely be wrong it's just that they are so very similar in most aspects let's see if they are as similar in terms of quality too so these are the two webcams these are the qualities the budget one is more wide but the quality is also notably worse now this was expected it's a $30 webcam compared to a 6070 $80 one but I think part of the reason why it looks as bad as this is that it's much too sharp if you right click it and then go to properties you can go to configure video here now by doing this you can change a bunch of settings to make it look better and this one has way too much contrast so I'm going to pull the contrast a bit down like this which will be better already and I would kind of like to reduce the blacks but I don't think it's possible we're going to add a bit of sharpness still it looks good but not too much so something like this and to be honest it looks better already right it looks way better than it did before so let's click on okay right now click on okay here and this is way better than before no it still looks a bit pixelated right but that's just because it's a budget webcam but it doesn't look as harsh anymore on stream you will probably be like this in a corner and here I am sitting in front of my PC I think this looks perfectly fine so I guess we can just remove the Logitech webcam the budget one is actually pretty good for the price I want you to pay attention to the position of the light there I did position it on the side as a result one side of your face will be very bright but the other side will have some Shadows which makes it look more cinematic and more professional so we got our webcam we got our light let's quickly add the budget stream budget stream neck I don't really know if it's worthy of being called a budget stream neck but at least it's a budget macro device so basically the plan with this is following a video by another Creator called nuty he made a video about turning something like this into a macro device that can control OBS Studio there are a lot of things you can do with it and I'm not going to do everything in this video because it's way too much to check out right now but I am convinced that using one of these numpads as a macro device will definitely give you some extra feeling of control over your stream and one of the questions many people will probably ask me in the description if I don't address it right now why buy something like this if you can just use your numpad and there are actually a few reasons first of all not everyone has one of these laptop users only have these right here but second of all if you start using keys on your main keyboard to control things in OBS Studio Etc it will eventually give conflicts with certain keybinds in games or in programs so it's definitely beneficial to have a separate device like the numad right there because you can set up these Keys as separate macro keys that won't interfere with your numbers on your keyboard or any other keybinds it's really handy and finally the most important part of our streaming setup the microphone I recently did a video where I compared seven microphones and I'd say the winner of that video was clearly the Razer sarin mini however this costs $50 and we didn't have a budget for that so I had to look for a $30 mic and the fine one was a really good microphone for $30 in that video now this is a really popular microphone let me get it out of the box this is what it looks like it's very well known and it's really good for $30 if you have the budget to buy this $50 microphone over this $30 one I would definitely go for it because this one is better but nevertheless this is a great mic so in this video we are going to use this one I will quickly let you hear the sound tests this is a test of the F fine microphone standing on my desk in front of me this is the Razer siren mini standing on my desk in front of me now since we only have one monitor we need a way to read our stream chat when we are gaming and OBS Studio isn't opened on the monitor I recently made a video about showing your streams chat and your recent events on top of your game while you are streaming and that tool combined with the macroad we are using is the perfect combination to never have to leave your game now that being said we can finish the setup for this first episode of streaming on a budget I really enjoyed making this first episode and I'm definitely looking forward to making more of them in the description you will find a link to the playlist it will be pretty empty since this is the first episode but the second is coming pretty soon and in that episode we will have a bigger budget if you enjoyed this video definitely give it a like and comment something useful about the video it definitely helps more than you can ever imagine and besides that thank you so much for watching I really enjoyed this and I will see you in the next episode have a nice day