- Hey, everybody, I'm Skill Stream.
And we're gonna talk today
about five technical tips
that are gonna change
your life as a streamer.
And I do not exaggerate.
I'm also gonna be recording
this video at my PC this time
versus the vlogging camera the last time.
Okay, so our first actual
tip that doesn't include
protesting over headphones
is gonna be Chatty.
Now, Chatty is awesome,
and I'll explain why here.
Okay, so this is a glimpse of Chatty,
and this is what it can do for you.
You can put it on another monitor
and make it take up the entire screen.
And then, the really nice part is,
you can adjust how large the
text is so that you can see it.
So as soon as a message pops up
that somebody sends you in chat,
you immediately are tuned
to receiving that message.
So your response time is instant.
It's (beep) great.
Second great thing about Chatty
is that it lets me do something
that's really hard for
me to remember to do.
Now, have you ever gotten a raid or a host
while you're live on stream?
And you have to remember
to go follow the person
that raided or hosted you.
Or if you want to do it on the spot,
you have to go through five,
six, seven different menus.
It's hard to do.
Now, Chatty makes this really easy
because you can just
right-click somebody's name
and go down to miscellaneous,
and then hit follow.
So you can follow them on the spot.
You can also ignore
their chat if you want,
if you have one of those
primary offenders in chat that annoys you,
and you really don't want to
read what they have to say,
but what they say isn't
really a bannable offense,
there's an ignore for that now.
Another really, really
cool thing about Chatty,
I'm gonna show you right here.
If you want to do any moderation actions,
Chatty makes it as easy or
easier than Twitch chat does it.
So you can use this as
replacement for your Twitch chat.
So check this out.
If I left-click somebody's name,
it brings up this menu that allows me
to ban, un-ban, time them out
for however many seconds you want,
mod or delete what they're saying,
and it's fantastic.
Also, if you go into main
and then settings up here,
you're gonna find settings
for messages in chat
and you're actually
gonna wanna uncheck this
if you're new to Chatty.
It tells you who is entering
and who is leaving chat,
even if they're not talking.
And it's not really a good thing
to be aware of if you're a new streamer.
So I highly recommend turning it off.
Some of the other things
you can do, though,
is you can adjust the chat colors.
You can adjust what messages look like,
what highlights look like,
what your messages from
your bot look like in chat
so that they pop really great.
So you can see my Streamlabs
messages here are green,
unlike anything else.
And it allows me to focus
on people who have just
followed the channel
so that I can greet them and thank them.
Another thing that it does is,
it lets you change the
colors of the users in chat
so that you can color-code
the people that are speaking.
So people that are subbed,
people that are unsubbed,
which is important in my own
channel because we do giveaways
and we give out subs to
people that don't have them.
And sometimes, we'll
run a game of marbles.
And at the end of the game of marbles,
we'll either gift somebody a sub,
and people might not know
who's subbed and who's not.
So I can show them my Chatty screen.
It's an easy way for them to tell.
And it's an easy way for me to
gift out a sub myself as well
to somebody that's not subbed.
So anybody that's in
red that isn't subbed,
I can target them really
easily, which is great.
All right, we're gonna do the
secret sauce tip of the week.
Now, if you're unfamiliar with
the secret sauce tips of the week,
the secret sauce tips are
tips that were unsolicited,
and they're not advertised in the title.
They're tips that you'll get for nothing
that will actually alter the
entire game of streaming.
And I try to throw in
one of these secret tips
every time I do a video.
You can check out last week's over here.
I think that's where it pops up.
Yeah, let's talk about the secret sauce
tip of the week for this week.
I was supposed to put that in earlier.
The secret sauce tip of this week is,
perfection is a thief.
And what that means is,
if you've been streaming
for any length of time,
you've probably spent a great deal of time
adjusting your audio,
which we'll actually talk about later.
And you've probably spent
a great deal of time
adjusting your overlays.
And I'm gonna tell you something that's
a little bit depressing to hear.
Your overlays and your
quality of your audio,
they matter, but they only matter so much.
You don't wanna spend
90 percent of your time
working on 10 percent
of what actually matters
to the quality of your stream.
I'm gonna tell you that
personal connections
are far more valuable and
far more worth your time
than are anything else.
If you focus your time on those things,
it'll be time much better spent
than focusing 90 percent
of your hours worked
on your overlays, your
alerts, and your audio.
As long as your audio is good
enough, people will be fine.
And we're gonna get you
there later in this video.
So if you like that tip,
and you like the first tip about Chatty,
and you never heard of Chatty before,
maybe you did and you
agree that it's useful,
do me a favor and hit that
like and subscribe button.
I am just getting started on all these.
This is the second video
that we've actually put out.
And I really want to put out
more content for you guys,
getting new streamers up to speed,
and making the process of learning
what works in streaming and what doesn't
a little bit less opaque
and way more effective
than if you don't have this information.
All right, we're gonna move
on to our next tip now,
and that tip is very simply going to be,
run OBS in admin mode.
And you guys might be asking yourselves,
"What the heck is admin mode?"
Let me show you.
If you go to your desktop,
you probably all have a
link to OBS somewhere.
It could be an icon on your desktop.
It could be an icon down here.
It's not going to matter.
This method is always
going to be the same.
You're going to right-click the icon.
You're going to go to
run as administrator.
Then when it gives you a prompt,
then asks you to say okay, you say okay.
And what this does is, it lets our CPU
prioritize OBS so that
you never drop frames
or you very rarely drop frames.
So for anybody that's trying to stream
at a very high bitrate, and
you drop frames sometimes,
this should alleviate 90
percent of your problems.
And it takes two seconds to do.
So our next tip is going
to be about nested scenes.
You can't see it, okay.
Nested scenes.
That's a bird.
It's a very terrible bird, but anyway.
So what you can actually do is put
any little videos that you have to play
or any of your alerts into one big scene,
and put that scene inside of
another scene as a source.
So let's go back into OBS,
and I will show you how to do this.
Okay, so here is my OBS window here.
So if I hit the plus sign, and
I go to add and then scene,
and I go to add existing,
I scroll down to videos,
that's going to be the
path that lets me add
all of those videos, those 20 videos,
all in one action, which is fantastic.
It'll save you a ton of time and actually
let you do some really
creative things later too.
So nested scenes.
Let's talk about our next tip.
Our next tip is going
to be REAPER software.
This is going to be the stuff
that makes your audio sound amazing.
And to do this whole tutorial,
I'm actually going to use
a very popular microphone,
not one that I typically
use for streaming,
but one that I keep on reserve
just in case anybody asks.
We're gonna be using a Blue Yeti.
A lot of y'all probably have
this in your room somewhere.
A lot of y'all probably
use this to stream.
I'm gonna show you how to
get this to sound amazing.
Okay, so what you're listening to now
is the raw audio of a
Blue Yeti USB microphone
with nothing between it
and the USB connection.
It should sound pretty bad.
So we're going to discuss very quickly
how to make it a lot better.
The first thing you want
to do is click down here
in whatever your microphone source is,
this cog wheel, and you
want to go to filters.
And you want to add these
filters in this order.
If you don't add them in this order,
they're going to sound a lot different.
So the first one you add is
OBS's noise suppression module.
And all OBS's noise suppression does
is it takes repetitious sound,
so things like fan noises,
key presses, things like
breathing noises and wind,
all that low, rumbling sound,
and it tries to factor all
of those out as best it can.
So we're gonna turn that on.
And you're gonna notice an
immediate change in the audio.
The second one we're gonna add
is the VST ReaGate standalone.
Now, to add this, you're
going to go to the plus sign.
You're going to go to VST2 plugin.
You're gonna hit okay.
And then you're going to
select this drop-down here
that says ReaGate standalone.
The reason we're gonna
add the ReaGate is because
the regular OBSGate isn't that good.
And the ReaGate one is amazing.
And after you add the filter,
you're gonna notice an
immediate difference.
And what you can actually
do is adjust the plugin.
So when you hit open plugin interface,
it's gonna open this menu.
And if you want to set your gate,
all you're gonna need to make sure to do
is that this left slider here
is set above your quiet room,
ie. what your room sounds
like when you're not speaking
and when you're not clicking
a mouse or anything like that.
If I take it back just above
where my room's noise floor is,
that's gonna be where we wanna set it.
Okay, when you're done with
that, you can close out of that.
The next one we're going
to add is VST Compressor.
You're gonna add it the same way.
You're gonna hit plus, VST plugin, okay.
You're gonna go to the drop-down,
and you're gonna look for ReaCompress.
There are two compressors.
There's a comp and an ex-comp.
Ex-comp is much more complicated.
You don't need it.
I would recommend you just
go with ReaComp standalone.
To add that, you open the plug interface,
and then you adjust it as needed.
So here's how compressors work.
They have the same kind of threshold.
And what it does is, when
you go above the threshold,
it's going to compress any
sound that's above it back down.
The threshold for this
one should be just below
what you sound like
when you're really loud.
And loud on average, not
scream as loud as you can
two inches from the microphone.
Don't start with that.
Just make the loudest noise
that you usually do
while you're on stream.
And set the threshold just below that.
Your ratio, again, I just
recommend starting at four to one.
But you can tune it higher or
lower as you see fit as well.
All right, the next one
we're gonna add is an EQ.
And EQ is going to make it sound amazing.
Your EQ is gonna be added the
same way as the last two were,
so I'm not gonna go
through that process again.
But you should notice an
immediate and amazing difference
in the quality of the voice.
This is with it off.
This is with it on.
This is on, and this sounds amazing.
This is going to be
different for everybody
depending on what your voice sounds like.
This is what my EQ looks like right now.
And all you're gonna do
is take these little dots
that should have set for you,
and you're gonna drag them around.
And I don't recommend ...
If you're not into audio,
I don't recommend doing anything specific.
I just recommend playing around with them
and seeing what sounds good.
You might actually spend like
an hour or two adjusting this.
But it's going to be a lot less time
than somebody doing it
with hardware, which I use,
or somebody doing it any other way.
So just play with it, see what
sounds good for your voice.
Everybody's voice is different tone.
Mine tends to be more bassy.
That's why you see these
on the low end of this left side here.
That's why it goes up really
high on the right side.
It is very, very low.
That's pretty much it.
So what we're gonna need to
do is add one more filter.
And this is just an OBS standard.
We need to add one more filter
to get it as loud as we need it to be,
and that's going to be gain.
And again, same thing,
you're gonna go to plus,
and you're gonna add gain.
And then, you're gonna
slide it up and down
based on how loud you need it to be.
And that's it.
Those are all of your audio tips.
That's how you get a microphone going from
sounding like this
and being really
noticeably unprofessional,
and you get that to going
to sounding like this,
which should sound a lot better.
And this is how you do it
in less than half an hour.
You can play around,
again, with the EQ a lot.
You can play around with
your compressor a lot.
But this will get you
90 percent of the way,
and that's really what you should
be worried about as a streamer.
All right, so that was REAPER software.
And again, I ask, if you
guys found that helpful
and if you have a friend
that uses a USB microphone
that you really want him
to sound a lot better,
just send that over to him.
It'll get him in the
right place in 20 seconds.
All right, here's our
final tip of this video.
And that tip is called ZoomIt.
ZoomIt is a piece of software
that will make you able to
commentate like John Madden.
If you guys aren't
football fans, don't worry.
I will explain right now.
All right, so this is
what ZoomIt lets you do.
If you have something on the screen,
if you have something that
you want to commentate over,
ZoomIt lets you hit ctrl+2
and draw all over it.
And as soon as you want to get rid of it,
you can just hit escape, and it goes away.
You can do this in video games,
and it'll actually
pause the scene for you.
It's super useful.
Now, let's show you how it works.
Number one, this works best
if the video game that you're
playing is in windowed mode.
I'm gonna start Dark Souls,
and it's gonna be in windowed mode.
And I'm gonna show you how this works.
All you need to do to download ZoomIt
is follow that link down below.
Download the zip file.
And what it's actually gonna do is,
it lets you run the exe from the zip file.
And that's all you need.
As long as it's running from the zip file
and it's down in your system tray here
at the bottom of the screen ...
See, this is ZoomIt.
Looks like a window with a
magnifying glass over it,
and it says ZoomIt on it.
When that's active, ZoomIt is working.
And ZoomIt lets you do two things.
You already saw me draw over them.
ZoomIt also lets you
zoom, believe it or not.
Go figure, ZoomIt, zooming into things.
The default binding for
zooming into things is ctrl+1.
So if I hit ctrl+1,
it's gonna freeze my game's frame.
It's gonna take a screenshot.
And then, I'm gonna be able to
mousewheel up and down on it.
So if I want to zoom in
on something in a video
game that's hilarious ...
Let's go generate a
hilarious moment right now.
I don't know where my sprint key is.
Stabbed.
I don't know where that sword is going.
Actually, I know exactly
where that sword is going.
That's what ZoomIt lets you
do, as long as you're creative.
That's one thing that it lets you do.
Let's talk about the second thing.
All right, the second thing
that ZoomIt lets you do
is commentate like John Madden.
So let me find an enemy here.
Also, like for Dark Souls
'cause Dark Souls is amazing.
All right, we have ourselves an enemy.
So I hit ctrl+2, and it
froze the frame for me.
And now, I'm gonna be able
to draw over the frame.
This is gonna be useful for anybody
that wants to add
commentary to their games,
and snapshot a moment,
and then draw in it,
or explain plays, or explain
things that are going on,
or for anybody that does
explicative content like this,
where they can stop and
then draw on things.
Stabbed in the ...
So that's it, guys.
Those are my five tips for this week.
These are technical tips.
They're going to change your
life as far as streaming goes.
They're going to let you do
a lot more creative things.
And they're gonna make
your stream run smoother.
And these are tips that
you don't usually hear
out there in the world.
So if you liked it, please
like, please subscribe.
I'm just getting this
channel off the ground now,
and it will really help me out.
So thank you, and I will
see you next Monday.
Oh, and if you want to
check me out live on Twitch,
I am much more vulgar than I am here.
We're live Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
from nine p.m. to two a.m.
Eastern Standard time.
And you can usually find me
playing something like Doom.
Doom Eternal is coming out.
Not an advertisement.
But I'm usually playing
stuff like Doom, Dark Souls,
all those games that you
see on my desktop up there.
So thank you guys for watching,
and I will see you next week.
