Bitterli
Studios

About The Streams

I livestream a wide variety of things, from IRL to music to gaming. It's really fun to be recording and have a live chat influence what I am doing. I also like livestreams in general, so that's why I do them, myself, as part of the content creation process. I also built many streaming tools on top of StreamElements to get the stream experience I want, including music players, overlays and a punishment wheel.

Where to Watch

I multi stream to different platforms at the same time. It's more about offering the preferred platform over trying to get more exposure. Each platform has its advantages and disadvantages for everyone, trying to make it accessible for everyone. Also, Twitch loves to disable the resolution picker at peal streaming times, so this really helps mobile viewers because YouTube doesn't do that.

Twitch

Where I livstream my schenanigans.

Kick

I simulcast my livestreams here.

YouTube Live

Simulcast and VOD archive of my streams.

The streams I do:

I do a variety of streams, so I try to put a little indicator in my title so you can know what I am up to.

IRL Streams: Lawn cutting, yard work, thrift store / garage sales, travels. If I am ever doing something interesting, I IRL stream it.

PC/Gaming Streams: Gaming, music, editing streams mostly.

The stuff I use:

I use a wide range of equipment to put together my streams. A lot of it is a confusing, engineering nightmare that would take too long to explain in detail.

IRL Streams:

I have a backpack full of technology to help me do stream in real life with a quality that doesn't look terrible. It was expensive to setup, but worth it.

• Samsung Galaxy S24+ to read chat, play TTS manage stream, close up camera and music player.
• IRL Hosting Cloud OBS to stream and control remotely.
• GoPro Hero 11 Action Camera with custom GoPro Labs Firmware for Clean HDMI and Audio Gain.
• GoPro Media Mod for HDMI, microphone input and USB-C charging.
• Sony ECM-lV1 Stereo Lavalier Microphone because GoPro's Media Mod Kit microphone sounds terrible.
• Inseego Mifi X Pro 5G UW as a USB tethered modem (Verizon).
• Verizon MiFi USB730L U730L 4G LTE Global USB Modem for Google Fi.
• Inseego USB8 4G LTE Global USB Modem for Google Fi.
• I will also sometimes tether my smartphone for an additional stable connection (5G UW Verizon).
• Raspberry Pi 5 with BelaBox Software for encoding, streaming and bonding.
• 2x INIU B62 Power Bank 20000mAh 65W to power the whole thing. I get about 2-3 hours on each battery.

PC Streams:

I use three machines when I am streaming. My main PC to play the game, Mac Mini to handle video/media playing and laptop to stream. I use a bunch of audio gear to connect everything together.

• Main PC: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti.
• Mac Mini: M2 with 16GB RAM.
• Laptop: Intel Core i7-12650H with 64GB DDR4-4800 RAM and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile.

Before going into the audio gear, let me preface this with the fact that I have acquired this stuff over the last decade and a lot of it was purchased used or second hand. Brand new, this would have been a lot.

• Main PC Audio Interface: 2x Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 2nd Gen, both connected in ADAT. Used to map virtual output devices in windows to physical outputs.
• Microphones: Neumann TLM-103 and Shure SM-7B connected to a Soyuz Launcher.
• Microphone Preamp: Both microphones are connected to the Apollo Solo USB. Yes, this is an interface but I only use it as a programmable preamp. I use various UAD plugins to clean up the audio from the microphones for the streams, including C-Suite C-Vox Noise & Ambience Reduction and Harrison 32C SE Channel EQ.
• Mixing Board + Laptop Audio: A broken PreSonus StudioLive AR12c Mixer that also doubles as an interface so I can multi-track record. Once the audio is mixed, it is sent through a DBX 166XL to level out the sound. There is also a very old Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 (2011) just to get the mix audio back and send laptop audio to the mixing board.
• There are other small things as well going on. Like how I have a MinFuse 1 hooked up to the aux send on the mixing board for discord calls, a random samson wireless microphone for some reason, AT2035 pair for room mics, AT2020 as a backup microphone... there's a lot. I think the streams sound good (when the broken mixing board works).

I don't need a lot of this, a lot of this stuff I have accumulated over the last decade of making content. Since I have it, might as well use it. :AkkoShrug:

Punishmet Wheel

On my streams, I have this thing called the "punishment wheel". Where in exchange for $10, 1000 bits (Twitch Only), or 880 Channel Points (Twitch Only), you can spin a wheel that appears on screen. The results on the wheel vary from punishments to me or punishments to the viewer. Now, because I was the one who built the code for the wheel and the API behind it, this is what the wheel is currently set to; the results and its chance the wheel lands on it. Like, this is where I set the wheel, any changes I make will appear here LIVE.

Stream Credits:

Things I use that makes my steams even possible.

• Slideshow Backgrounds: Background are all by @my_art_bytes on Ko-Fi.
• Music:
  • Lofi Music Playlist
  • Japanese Bossa Nova #1 | Japanese Chill | Japanese Bossa Nova #2
  • "Old Stream" Music

Support Me

You can subscribe to me on Twitch, a monthly subscription. And in return, you get some cool perks for the livestream. Subscriptions and resubscriptions have alerts, and each alert can have a message paired with it that will be read aloud with text-to-speech.

• Ad-free stream viewing (the best perk).
• Cool Emotes that you can use in the chat and in other streamer's chats.
• Add to the media request / music queue without tipping (only have 1 song in a queue from you at a time).
• Access to the AI in the chat; ask it questions to make it insult other chatters. !ask {Question}
• Discord server role with sub-only text chats and voice channels.
• Coming soon: Minecraft Survival-Economy server. Land claims, player warps, player shops. The year is 2013 and you're playing on a small Survival Minecraft server (but it's the latest version). Must be in the discord in order to get the IP and username whitelisted. Once whitelisted, you're in the Minecarft server forever / Minecraft role in discord.

Also on Twitch are bits, their own currency I get a cut from.
Spend 200 bits or more for your message to be read aloud with text-to-speech.

Finally, there is a tipping page, where you can judt directly support me and I get the full amount.
For at least $2, your message will be read aloud with text-to-speech.
For at least $3, you can attach a YouTube link to your message to add to the song queue.
For $10, you can spin the punishment wheel.