More and more young people , encouraged by their passion for creating content and the success of many others like them, who started in their rooms and are now stars worldwide, decide to embark on the adventure of post your videos on Youtube or direct on Twitch . The new generation, which has already been born with an absolute predisposition to use and adapt to the latest available technology, is taking advantage more than any other of all those advances that we have experienced in the last decade. Ten years ago almost nobody I uploaded videos to Youtube. Today the Google platform has become the epicenter of virtual entertainment, with the permission of its rival, Twitch, which is increasingly eating more ground, especially in live streams , where content creators they can have a much more direct relationship with their viewers and create a united community that supports you.
If you are also thinking of entering this world of streaming , or you simply want to record some videos to create your own YouTube channel, the first thing to be clear about is the type of content you want to upload. We recommend that you get a powerful computer , not only to be able to play the latest games that are released without problems, but also to edit your videos quickly and efficiently. But beyond your PC, you will also need an environment in conditions to give a professional touch to videos and live shows, showing that you are here to stay, that you offer something of authentic quality to your subscribers. In this article we are going to give you some recommendations so that you can find just what you need, and spend your budget wisely , balancing each component and achieving a result like that of the most powerful streamers with the right money.
Choose the right space
Most streamers have their own studio , a room where they carry out their live shows and record their videos. It can be your own room, if not you have an empty room at home. The important thing is that it is wide enough so that you can be comfortable, and incidentally, that it has good sound, or rather, adequate sound isolation, to avoid annoying noises, or own effect of your voice with some reverb. When you have the place you will be able to mount all your set up here , not only the desk with the PC, but also the lights, the shelves, everything that people will be able to see at the back of the room, and that it can be just as important as what is in the foreground. That is why the chosen place must be perfect and have enough space .
Gaming table and chair
For the table , it is best to find a good desk that allows us to have a lot of space, since the usual thing is to place both the tower and the different monitors on the desk. Sometimes the tower can go down, but this can cause it to collect a lot of dust and overheat, because what is not always recommended. Today there are gaming tables prepared to accommodate all these peripherals, as well as the supports for the microphone, and even to vary their height to our liking. And the chair, which will appear in the image often, must also be a comfortable and colorful model, like those commonly used by current streamers . There are many brands that offer gaming chairs at reasonable prices, so to begin with, any of those can come in handy, especially if you feel comfortable with it, because you will spend many hours sitting there.
Computer and components
Obviously, this is the most important part of the whole set up . It is useless to have spectacular lights or a late-model chair if then our computer gets caught when we put a bit of cane with a game. Therefore, it is best to look for a balanced computer both in terms of its components and its price. The graphics card is essential to be able to play the latest generation titles, so we will not spare money on it. The processor is the brain of the machine, and whenever the budget reaches us we will bet on an Intel i7 or a Ryzen 5 or 7 of the most modern and powerful. The 16 Gb of RAM will be essential to be able to mount and record videos well, beyond playing games. And then we must also have a pair of monitors big enough to be comfortable playing and doing live. As for the microphone, we will choose one that picks up the sound well in a unidirectional way. And the camera , which is also essential for videos, will have to be at least 1080p , even being able to reach 4K if the budget is stretched.
LED lights
There is no set up gaming without good LED lights, so we will also look for this type of spotlights not only to have good lighting for the videos, placing them in front of us to give us that light perfect and look good on us, but also to illuminate the rest of the room in a special and almost magical way. LEDs give a lot of life to the studio and can also serve as a reference to change the environment according to the video. Nor is it that we have to fill the room with lights or LED strips, but a few, on the shelves, near the table, allow us to adapt the environment to every moment, to every type of video that we want to record.
Don’t forget your capturer
The video recorder will be an essential piece when we want to record and broadcast both live and delayed. It is an extra component that we will attach to our PC, to be able to record everything that happens on the screen, especially when we are playing games. There are programs that already do it live, but they tend to consume a lot of resources. The capturer also allows us to keep a saved copy of the video , and to be able to edit it later in a much faster way. There are many capturers on the market, although the Elgato brand has become the favorite of most streamers and therefore also the most used. There are different versions, adapted for any pocket, so the budget will not be an excuse. Furthermore, we must view all this as an investment, and not so much as an expense.