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DJ Equipment
2 CDJ2000 Nexus 2 Technics 1200MKII (black) from 1996 each with a Stanton 680HP cartridge 1 Shure SM58 Microphone Sony MDR-7506 Headphones
Mixer
Rane MP-2016 Rotary Mixer w/ XP-2016 expander (extra tone controls incl cut off for the EQ and a crossfader) from 1997 - Booth Out goes to my monitor setup - Main Outs (labeled "House" on the mixer) goes to my soundcard
Monitor Setup
2 EAW JF-260 (top end) powered by a QSC-MX1500a 2 EAW SB-150 (subs) powered by a Crown Macrotech 5000i 1 Rane AC22 Active Crossover 1 dBX 166a Compressor/Limiter (helps save my hearing and helps me not piss off my neighbors lol!) 1 Rane ME-60 1/3rd Octave EQ
Computers
1 Lenovo 16" Laptop w/ Intel i7 for Twitch Chat monitoring connected to a Samsung 27" monitor 1 MacBook Pro 16" (2023) with M2 Pro processor & 16 gig ram which does all the audio/video processing and transmits the stream itself.
Soundcard
Focusrite Scarlett 8i18
Cameras
3 NexiGo N60 HD cameras Plus I use the Facetime camera on the MacBook Pro
Signal Processing for the stream
The MacBook Pro runs Pro Tools Studio (latest veriosn) where I run the mixer main outs (left & right) in to channels 1 & 2 of my soundcard. I run my mic in to channel 3. OBS only accepts 2 channel audio so I live process the audio in Pro Tools which allows me to add several Waves Plugins to process the audio for both the music & mic. I run several plugins on the mic. For the music I run a combination of the Waves L3 Multimaximizer plugins which allows me to tightly control the audio output level and add some EQ where necessary. I also use the several Waves C1 Compressor/Gate plugins which allows the mic to "punch-in" to the music signal - basically it creates room for the mic signal by dropping down the level of the music every time I talk. This allows me to talk without having to manually drop down the music signal on the mixer. I also use a C1 plugin for the mic as a gate to cut out the background noise from the monitors.
Using Pro Tools also allows me to record the stream with CD quality with all 3 channels (mixer L&R + mic). This is cool in the case I decide to master and release just the audio from a stream since I'm able to mute the mic track during the mastering process.
