
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 03/31/2025

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 03/31/2025
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
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-volume media traffic
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 03/31/2025
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 192GB PC4-3600 RAM
mATX case
Corsair RM750 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)
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 03/31/2025

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 01/04/2025

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 01/04/2025

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 02/08/2025

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 01/04/2025
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
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
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 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 03/31/2025
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, 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 01/04/2025