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 11/20/2024

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 10/25/2024

Gaming/Secondary Studio
Custom PC

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

  • ASUS TUF Gaming X670E-Plus (WiFi) motherboard

  • NZXT Kraken 280 AIO CPU cooler

  • Crucial 192GB PC5-5600 RAM

  • Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL case

  • Corsair RM850x power supply

  • Lots of spinning rust, capacity totaling approximately 16TB

  • Intel i350-T4-based four-port gigabit ethernet server NIC connected to Cisco switch using VLANs to define point-to-point connections

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

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

  • Samsung SJ55W 34" ultrawidescreen (21:9) monitor

  • 2 Hewlett-Packard Z30i 30" 1600P (16:10) monitors flanking the Samsung

  • 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

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 08/15/2024

Primary Studio
Hewlett-Packard
EliteDesk 800 G2 Tower

  • Intel Core i7 6700

  • 32GB RAM

  • 512GB SATA SSD

  • 500GB SATA SSD

  • NVidia Quadro M2000 video card

  • Intel i350-T4-based four-port gigabit ethernet server NIC connected to Cisco Switch using VLANs to define point-to-point connections

  • Digidesign (now part of AVID) Mbox 2 dual-channel audio interface as backup microphone input

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 08/15/2024

VTubing
Hewlett-Packard
EliteDesk 800 G2 Tower

  • Intel Core i7 6700

  • 16GB RAM

  • 512GB SATA SSD

  • EVGA NVidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

  • Intel Pro/1000 dual-port server gigabit ethernet card

  • 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 11/20/2023

Encoding
Hewlett-Packard
EliteDesk 800 G2 Tower

  • Intel Core i7 6700

  • 32GB RAM

  • 512GB SATA SSD

  • 2TB HDD

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

  • ONN Android tablets running multiple stream deck platforms, primarily SAMMI

  • Intel i350-T4-based four-port gigabit ethernet server NIC connected to Cisco Switch using VLANs to define point-to-point connections

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 11/20/2023

Controller
Intel NUC 7 micro PC

  • Intel Core i5 7300U

  • 16GB RAM

  • 500GB SATA SSD

  • ONN Android tablets running multiple stream deck platforms, primarily SAMMI

  • Single gigabit ethernet port connected to Cisco Switch using VLAN trunking to talk to main and alternate VLANs

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 11/14/2024

Software

  • Microsoft Windows 10 Pro and 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Virtual Audio Cable for EVEN MORE audio routing options(!)

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

  • REAPER and Audacity for audio capture and editing

  • Vegas Pro 14.0, 16.0, & 18.0 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 09/22/2024

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.

  • 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, i340-T4-based four-port GBE card)

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

  • 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 03/26/2024

Miscellaneous gearConsoles and other ancillary gear

  • Animal Crossing Nintendo Switch

  • An auxiliary PC for stream management and non-stream uses

  • 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