Profile
Name: Mike
Date of Birth: 29th August 1974
Marital Status: Married with 2 Daughters
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Occupation: IT Service Manager
Hobbies: Gaming, Content Creation & Bee Keeping
FAQ
Is streaming your full time job? No, I work full time as an IT Service Manager.
When did you start streaming? I started streaming in March 2019 on Microsoft's now defunct Mixer platform. I was partnered on Mixer in March 2020 until the platform closed at which time I moved to Twitch.
Who makes your Overlays/Effects/Artwork? Everything you see has been developed my me personally, it helps to be an old geek!
What are you favorite games? My all time favorite game would be Battlefield 4 followed by PUBG, Apex Legends and Skyrim. I currently think that Ghosts of Tabor and Escape From Tarkov are in that mix and will further cement their spot as the game is completed. Sadly, the failure of The Cycle: Frontier is a terrible tragedy as I thought this game had the potential to be one of my all time favorites.
What music do you listen to? I like most genres of music, in particular I enjoy Metal including bands like Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, Marilyn Manson and Motionless in White. I also listen to a lot of Psytrance which you will often hear during my live streams.
What got you into content creation? I never thought I would be a content creator, I used to play my games on a projector but just prior to Christmas 2018 the projector's lamp blew. I couldn't get a replacement for weeks so I moved my console to my study to connect to a monitor, a short while later I fired up the Mixer app on the console and started a stream for my mates. It wasn't long before I started to stream properly and I've continued gaming at my PC and have since moved the majority of my gaming from console to PC.
How many PCs do you use in the Studio? I use three PCs in the Studio, one for Gaming with a 34" Monitor, a second PC for Streaming with two 27" Monitors and a third PC for the Wallboard of four 27" Monitors.
Gaming PC
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5800X
RAM: 32Gb (2 x 16Gb)
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 12Gb GPU
Storage: Samsung Evo 870 1Tb
Monitor: Prism+ XQ340 34" 21:9
Broadcasting PC
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500
RAM: 16Gb
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 2Gb GPU
Storage: Kingston 240Gb
Monitor: Two Viewsonic VX2703MH-LED 27" 16:9
Broadcasting Software: OBS Studio
Capture Card: Elgato HD60 Pro
Scenes: Custom Scene Management using HTML5/CSS/Apache Webserver
Scene Selection: Elgato Stream Deck & Stream Deck XL Chat Bot: MixItUp
Webcam (Front): Elgato Face Cam Webcam (Rear): Logitech C922 Webcam (Birdseye/Controller): Logitech C922 Webcam (Corner): Logitech C922 Webcam (Side): Logitech C922 Microphone: HyperX Quadcast Green Screen: Painted Wall Audio Mixer: Voicemeeter Potato
Wallboard PC
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5800X
RAM: 32Gb (2 x 16Gb)
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 12Gb GPU
Storage: Samsung Evo 870 1Tb
Monitor: Four Viewsonic VX2703MH-LED 27" 16:9
Motorhome/RV PC
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: 16Gb
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1650 8Gb GPU
Storage: Western Digital 480Gb
Broadcasting Software: OBS Studio
Input Devices
Mouse: Logitech G502 Hero
Keypad: Azeron Classic (using reWASD for input mapping)
Controller: Xbox Elite v1
Joysticks: 2 x Thrustmaster T16000M