My First Streamed Gig!

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Albatross

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I know there has been mentions of other streamed sets in other threads - but I wanted to break this out since streaming is a bit of an off-shoot of the core in those threads.

I know Chris has done them and is having some success.

The one I did was really for a captive audience. My company's people team asked me to put it together just for internal employees. So we used a webinar from Zoom so I could show two camera angles.

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I ran the same lighting rig I showed in the SoundSwitch video recently. And because it was on Zoom I had a good look at attendance during the session:
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For those of you that are doing them... how are you setting it up? Any best practices or things you can share for doing one that is more public facing?
 
A few tips for live streaming your DJ rig...

1. Connect your mixer to the machine as if it were your amp/speakers. Connect via USB or analog "line in" (not mic). This source should be your "microphone option" for whatever software/app you are streaming to. Get an app like VUMeter to help monitor what you're pushing through.

2. There is no need to use you PC audio out as a monitor. Only use it for hearing participants on Skype, Zoom, VOIP, etc.

3.Monitor with headphones from your rig as you would normally. You can send the audio out to your speakers, but ONLY if you are feeding the PC via analog. USB connections have a sight delay and your audience will hear a looping echo from your speakers playing.

*ZOOM TIP: In the advanced audio setting, disable both background noise options. If not, your audience will get garbled audio.
*For a more advanced video experience, use a braodcasting program like OBS, Xsplit or ManyCam.


I have been live streaming on a recreational and interactive level for about 10 years. I'm always willing to share what I've learned, so just ask. :cheers:
Check out my page. (not by mobile) Click the green bottle cap for video clips.
 
Congrats on this Ross!

I use the iRig2 ...which sends audio into my tablet. works real nice...

I was asked to do a family anniversary party in this same way...but realized all participants would need to be muted in order for my audio quality to be halfway decent... i think they decided to just keep it conversational.

i would love to utilize zoom for my future streams... hopefully they continue to make it better and better

cc
 
You can send the audio out to your speakers, but ONLY if you are feeding the PC via analog. USB connections have a sight delay and your audience will hear a looping echo from your speakers playing.

I did mine in Zoom, and used the DDJ-1000 SRT as the source which took a whole master signal out. And I was able to use my booth out to run a monitor in the room with me to hear. That seemed to work pretty well.
 
Do you have 2 master outs (like the SZ2?) .. run M1 into laptop and M2 into speaker.

I do - I have a master XLR, and a second RCA. But I didn't have anything plugged into either. Selecting the controller as the input for Zoom picked up everything. I only had a hard wired speaker for the booth out.
 
Oh .. gotcha. In a test, I ran rca back into line in (seemed to cast better that way) and used M1 as speaker.
 
I have been live streaming on a recreational and interactive level for about 10 years. I'm always willing to share what I've learned, so just ask. :cheers:
Check out my page. (not by mobile) Click the green bottle cap for video clips.

Just a heads up - it looks like you're having some missing file issues:

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nice work!! So were you reading the "chat" to get your requests? or how did you communicate with the participants?

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Meant to ask...whats the difference in a "Webinar" and a normal "Meeting" in zoom... i am used to just meetings when i use it

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nice work!! So were you reading the "chat" to get your requests? or how did you communicate with the participants?

cc

Yeah there was a chat function and then we ran some polls like, "Who is your favorite guilty pleasure artist?" Which is why I said something about Britney near the end of the video.

It basically has everyone's video off except the presenters'. We did it that way so I could show both cameras. One was a presenter but didn't have any audio, and the all the audio was running through the shot of my hands.
 
Yeah there was a chat function and then we ran some polls like, "Who is your favorite guilty pleasure artist?" Which is why I said something about Britney near the end of the video.

It basically has everyone's video off except the presenters'. We did it that way so I could show both cameras. One was a presenter but didn't have any audio, and the all the audio was running through the shot of my hands.

Thanks for the info!

With the Webinars...can u just send out an invite link to the masses? Do they need zoom downloaded?

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With the Webinars...can u just send out an invite link to the masses? Do they need zoom downloaded?

That's a good question... and I honestly don't know the answer.

I frequently invite clients into Zoom meetings... it may ask them to download a file to run. But they can sign into the meeting through a website.
 
That's a good question... and I honestly don't know the answer.

I frequently invite clients into Zoom meetings... it may ask them to download a file to run. But they can sign into the meeting through a website.

So im frantically trying to research this... looks like with a pro zoom membership and an additional 40 dollars a month you can host webinars..... my question to you is.... did you need to be the host or did someone else host and just add you as a participant? im assuming the latter right?

So.... with that ... did you just add your 2 devices on as seperate participants in order to get the 2 angled shots? with one having audio? or did you do some sort of video production and send one single feed with the split screen?

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