Gear

The mic is XLR into the RØDECaster, so Windows never sees it — the interface is the only part of this chain the machine can report.

Microphone

Shure SM7B

No inline preamp — the RØDECaster Pro II drives it with gain to spare, which is most of why that interface is worth its price.

Audio interface

RØDECaster Pro II

Runs the main multitrack and a separate chat bus.

Boom arm

RØDE mic arm

Headphones

beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro

Open-back — fine at a desk with a dynamic mic, which is the other half of why the SM7B suits this setup.

The camera goes in over HDMI, so it shows up as a capture device rather than a webcam.

Camera

Sony A6000

With the stock kit lens.

Capture

Elgato Cam Link 4K

HDMI in, UVC out — the camera appears to OBS as a plain webcam.

Lighting

Elgato Key Light Air ×2

Built to stream and play on one machine rather than two.

CPU

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

12 cores, 24 threads.

GPU

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080

16GB.

Motherboard

ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS WIFI

Memory

Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5-6000

2 × 32GB, CL40, running at 6000.

CPU cooler

Noctua NH-U12A chromax.black

Case fans

Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM chromax.black

Power supply

Corsair HXi Series 1000W

Case

NZXT H6 Flow

All NVMe. Recording locally to a drive the game isn't on is the part that matters.

4TB NVMe

WD_BLACK SN850X

2TB NVMe

WD_BLACK SN770

1TB NVMe

GIGABYTE AORUS Gen4

500GB NVMe

Seagate FireCuda 520

Keyboard

Mountain Everest Max

Mouse

Mountain Makalu 67

Control surface

Elgato Stream Deck XL

Scene switching, and the button that tells the site a stream night is off.

Monitors

LG UltraGear ×2

Monitor

ASUS VG289

28-inch 4K.

Chair

DTX Racing Tank

Desk

IKEA desk

Nothing exotic.