Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 10/11/2025

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 08/23/2025

Primary Gaming
Custom PC

  • Advanced Micro Devices Ryzen 9 7950X3D (16 cores/32 threads)

  • ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-Plus (WiFi) motherboard

  • Major brand 280mm AIO CPU cooler

  • Crucial 192GB PC5-5600 RAM (inability to use EXPO profiles limit to the highest-available XMP profile to 5200MHz)

  • Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL case

  • Corsair RM850x power supply

  • Lots of spinning rust, capacity totaling approximately 20TB

  • Intel Converged 10GbE network adapter connected to Cisco Nexus 10GBaseT switch for high-bandwidth media traffic, e.g. Beam uncompressed video traffic; second port may be backhauled into 1000BaseT network for lower-bandwidth uses, notably for NDI video and/or uncompressed audio

  • Samsung 2TB and 2 Western Digital 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe devices

  • ASUS TUF Gaming NVidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB GDDR6+

  • LG UltraWide 32" (3440x1440, 21:9) 160Hz monitor

  • 2 LG 180Hz UltraGear (2560x1440, 16:9) monitors flanking the UltraWide

  • TCL 43" 4K TV on another desk to the left of my main desk

  • Elgato HD60X HDMI capture device

  • Shure SM7dB dynamic mike with built-in preamplifier (live events) or Sterling ST151 electret condenser mike (pre-recorded items)

  • Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB sound + mike preamp + phantom power

  • Creative Labs SoundBlaster Z

  • Sony MDR-7506 headphones

  • Logitech G815 gaming keyboard

  • Logitech G502 Lightspeed cordless gaming mouse

  • Logitech K620 cordless keyboard and M720 cordless mouse when I'm facing the 4K TV

  • Logitech M720 cordless mouse on my desk for non-gaming use

  • Logitech M570 cordless trackball for either position

  • Logitech F310 USB game controller, switchable between Dinput and Xinput

  • Sony DualShock 4 controller for use with Steam games

  • A corded gaming mouse for contingency situations

This PC stays at the studio and never leaves

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 08/23/2025

Secondary Gaming
Custom PC

  • Advanced Micro Devices Ryzen 7 5800X3D (8 cores/16 threads)

  • ASUS Prime B550M-A AC mATX motherboard

  • Noctua CPU cooler

  • Corsair 128GB PC4-3600 RAM

  • mATX case

  • Corsair RM700 power supply

  • LG BD burner drive

  • Some spinning rust, capacity totaling approximately 6TB

  • Intel dual-port 1GbE network adapter connected to Cisco Nexus 10GBaseT switch for high-volume media traffic (but only at 1Gb/sec), but may relocate to lower-bandwidth 1000BaseT backbone

  • Crucial 1TB PCIe Gen3 and Western Digital 500GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe devices

  • PNY XLR8 NVidia GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6+

  • TCL 43" 4K TV on same desk to the left of my main desk, operating on alternate HDMI port

  • Digidesign (now part of AVID) Mbox2 audio interface

  • ONN mechanical gaming keyboard

  • M720 cordless mouse selected to interface on this PC (can be used with the primary PC)

  • A corded gaming mouse for contingency situations

  • Other peripherals (like headphones, microphones, controllers) normally connected to the primary PC can be used here as well

This PC can be taken to events such as conventions or LAN parties

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts, videos, and assetsAccurate as of 08/23/2025

Studio
Hewlett-Packard
Z240 Tower Workstation

  • Intel Xeon E3 1230 v5

  • 32GB RAM

  • 1TB NVMe SSD

  • MSI low-profile NVidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

  • Aquantia AQC-107 (Now Marvell AQtion)-based 10GbE network card connected to Cisco Nexus switch for high-volume media traffic, e.g. Beam uncompressed video

  • Intel dual-port gigabit ethernet card for low-bandwidth traffic, e.g. NDI video and uncompressed audio

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 10/11/2025

VTuber
Hewlett-Packard
Z240 Tower Workstation

  • Intel Xeon E3 1230 v5

  • 32GB RAM

  • 1TB NVMe SSD

  • NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founder's Edition

  • Aquantia AQC-107 (Now Marvell AQtion)-based 10GbE network card connected to Cisco Nexus switch for high-volume media traffic

  • Intel dual-port gigabit ethernet card for low-bandwidth traffic, e.g. NDI video and uncompressed audio

  • Apple iPhone 13 Mini running VTube Studio

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 09/21/2025

Encoding
Hewlett-Packard
Z240 Tower Workstation

  • Intel Xeon E3 1230 v5

  • 32GB RAM

  • 1TB NVMe SSD

  • Removable drive by (coming soon) for inserting hard disk or solid state drives for either recording, onloading or offloading media

  • PNY NVidia GeForce GTX 1650 4GB GDDR6 (solely for NVENC)

  • Intel AT2-based 10GbE network card connected to Cisco Nexus switch for high-volume media traffic (currently installed, via jerry-rigged installation until the item below can be acquired)

  • Aquantia AQC-107 (Now Marvell AQtion)-based 10GbE network card connected to Cisco Nexus switch for high-volume media traffic (coming soon with actually properly-signed drivers for recent releases of Windows)

  • Intel dual-port gigabit ethernet card for low-bandwidth traffic, e.g. NDI video and uncompressed audio

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 08/23/2025

Controller
Intel NUC 7 micro PC

  • Intel Core i5 7300U

  • 16GB RAM

  • 500GB NVMe SSD

  • ONN Android tablets running multiple stream deck platforms, primarily SAMMI (currently on administrative and technical hiatus while implementation details are assessed and possibly enacted)

  • Three Elgato Stream Decks, including mk2, XL and +

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 01/04/2025

Software

  • Microsoft Windows 11 Pro amd64 (Remote Desktop accessibility and Hyper-V's services and tools require Pro)

  • Hyper-V ancillary software (but not the hypervisor) to add advanced networking options (e.g. tagging for multiple VLANs) to systems, regardless of NIC vendor

  • OBS Studio on all streaming systems with one OBS Studio installation on controller unit to listen for Websocket events to pass on to BGM playback software

  • Several OBS Studio plugins, the loadout depending on the machine in question

  • DeckMate on an Android tablet to stand in the stead of an Elgato Stream Deck owing to the flexibility the Stream Deck could never offer (on administrative and technical hiatus)

  • SAMMI for its ability to communicate with multiple instances of OBS Studio in the stead of Elgato's Stream Deck software on the back end since Elgato's software is completely incapable of communicating with multiple instances of OBS Studio (also on administrative and technical hiatus)

  • Bitfocus Companion or the Elgato Stream Deck mk2 and XL connected to the controller PC to operate the pertinent OBS Studio installs on the other machines

  • Elgato's Stream Deck software on the gaming PC for the Stream Deck+ to interface with Voicemeeter Replaced with BitFocus Companion, described above

  • VTube Studio to put my cute self on-screen

  • T.I.T.S for throwing stuff at me

  • PlayIt Cartwall for playing "audio carts" like "Fidelipacs" at radio or television stations

  • VB-Audio VoiceMeeter Potato (main setup) and Banana (Valorant setup) for sound mixing, processing and routing

  • VB-Audio Cable, Audio Cable A-D for more audio routing options

  • VB-Audio Matrix and Matrix Coconut for EVEN MORE audio routing options(!!!!)

  • REAPER and Audacity for audio capture and editing

  • Vegas Pro 14.0, 16.0, 18.0 & 19.0 for video editing

  • Gimp for graphics editing

  • Krita for work that needs PSD support

  • mRemoteNG for remoting into the other PCs

  • VMware ESXi hypervisor operating system on several hosts to run various infrastructure applications, such as firewall, DNS (both hosting and resolution) and other general-purpose VMs for experimentation and general technical tomfoolery

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 08/23/2025

Infrastructure"'Go pro or go home!' they said.
So I went enterprise!"

  • Two Cisco Systems Catalyst C2960X gigabit ethernet switches, one with 370W PoE+, both stacked at the switching fabric level. Port totals: Ninety-six copper 1000BaseT ports, four SFP+ 10Gbps interfaces over copper, glass, or both.

  • Standalone Cisco Nexus C9372TX ten-gigabit ethernet switch with 48 10GBASE-T copper ports, six QSFP+ 40Gbps ports and switching fabric rated at over 1.4 terabits per second

  • Cisco Aironet AIR-CAP2702I-A-K9 wireless access point

  • Several computers running VMware ESXi with various amounts and types of equipment running various VMs (see below)

  • Hewlett-Packard Z240 small form factor desktop PC running ESXi on bare metal, hosting VMs running VyOS for routing and an Ubuntu Server for internal DNS (Core i5 6500, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe drive, Hewlett-Packard i340-T4-based four-port GBE card)

  • TrueNAS SCALE NAS/SAN server on bare metal for larger-scale, fault-tolerant storage

  • ZimaOS for lighter file sharing (has neither iSCSI SAN support nor default ZFS support and does not support system-wide multiple users)

  • Several Linux and FreeBSD servers in VMs for various purposes

  • Older Intel NUC micro PC acting as a PXE bootstrap server

  • While not strictly "enterprise gear", a TP-Link Archer AC1900 acting as a wireless ethernet bridge to the house Internet

Katt's Gear

Here's a reasonably-complete list of gear and software I use for production of my channel broadcasts and assetsAccurate as of 01/04/2025

Miscellaneous gearConsoles and other ancillary gear

  • Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch

  • Meta Quest 3 Virtual Reality headset and controllers, along with a USB cable for either computer-hosted or standalone VR

  • More forthcoming as I get more gear