How to stream on Twitch (A Start-up Guide for Musicians (Part 2)) - Video

Hi Folks!

I hope you are doing well! I am back with part 2 of my mini series on how to stream on Twitch as a musician. Anyone that follows me may know that I became affiliated on Twitch at the end of last year, meaning I have started to make money from livestreaming, and I wanted to make a complete start-up guide explaining how you can build up your livestreaming platform and get to the point where you make revenue from Twitch streams.

In the last episode (https://youtu.be/xMckZGkhg50?si=C40jPiFKijELMPco), I covered the Twitch platform, dos and don'ts, information about the community and how to personalise and fill out your musician profile on Twitch.

Here, in part 2, I cover what equipment you will need to get streaming on Twitch. I talk about general considerations to make for your video, sound, background, branding etc, and provide some links for some of the things I talk about below.

Let me know any questions you may have in the comments and I will try to address them in a future video, and in the upcoming third part for this series, I will also cover how to use streamlabs OBS to livestream your musical performances!

If you are new to streaming, or hope to be, then hopefully you find this video useful. Please find relevant timestamps and links below.

Thanks for all your support! Lots of new music content coming!

Blake

I stream on Twitch every week, and you can come and join my streams by following me here:
https://www.twitch.tv/blakebakermusic

My links:
FB: https://www.facebook.com/BlakeBakermusic
IG: https://www.instagram.com/blakebakermusic/
SPOT: https://open.spotify.com/artist/66DpokSMYX9Z3s6Uaz5bqG
TW: https://twitter.com/blakebakermusic
SC: https://soundcloud.com/blake-baker-556206236
TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@blakebakermusic?
Discord: https://discord.gg/m7BYjDZXyQ

My latest single 'Sundown' is available to stream on all platforms now:
https://ffm.to/sundownsingle

Timestamps & Links:
00:00 Intro
01:30 Curating Your Background
02:08 Interactive Elements & Like Counters
(https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1445671063/twitch-followers-counter)
03:44 Locomocean (https://locomocean.com/)
03:56 Setup Overview
05:32 Final Setup Details
@LeonBrattMusic's video on linking Ableton to your streams for audio:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNTZhat_YDU)
06:58 The Camera
Logitech C920 HD - https://amzn.to/49pTydT
08:20 Microphones
Shure SM58 https://amzn.to/3VoCXS0
Rode NT1a https://amzn.to/3OL1ZXY
Shure SM7b https://amzn.to/3ZpdFV1
AKG P170 https://amzn.to/41swg5r
Elgato USB microphone https://amzn.to/3OJo4G8
11:20 Sound Mixing
Scarlett Focus Rite Solo 3rd Gen - https://amzn.to/3OKirHS
Any mixer will do, find what works for you!
12:42 Lighting
Light (well a newer version of mine): https://amzn.to/4f5e5pA
13:23 Outro