In this instructional video, Antonio Moniz provides a concise, equipment‑focused guide for aspiring gaming YouTubers. He recommends the Blue Snowball microphone over the pricier Blue Yeti, emphasizing that a pop filter is unnecessary. For video capture he champions the Logitech C920 webcam as the best budget option. Audio post‑processing is demonstrated in Audacity with noise‑reduction, bass‑boost, and treble‑boost steps. Video editing is covered using Sony Vegas, including saturation adjustment for gameplay footage and a detailed render preset (720p, 30 fps, 6 Mbps, bitrate 8, best quality). He advises using the free OBS program for screen recording, and suggests royalty‑free music sources (Time Flies, No Copyrighted Sounds) with a simple download workflow via clipconverter.cc. Thumbnail creation is addressed with the free online editor Pixlr.com as a Photoshop alternative. Finally, he stresses the importance of a desktop PC (budget $600 pre‑built) over a laptop and recommends a wired internet connection for faster uploads. The video concludes that following these hardware and software recommendations will give new creators a solid foundation for a successful gaming channel.
Antonio Moniz.
Now this video is titled How to Become a Better YouTuber, but I'm not going to be talking about like the video making process or thumbnails or any other thing. I'm going to be talking about the equipment you use in your videos, like your microphone, your camera, just tips when you're editing your audio, things like that to improve your videos. We're just going to jump right into this. The best mic I would recommend for a new YouTuber is a Blue Snowball. People are going to be like, get the Blue Yeti, Yeti, Yeti, it's more expensive. You can buy a Blue Snowball right now for $50 used. I mean, that's nothing. $50 really is not that much. The Blue Yeti is going to cost you $80 to $90, and that $40 difference is just not worth it to me. I use a Blue Snowball. I don't even use a pop filter or stand or anything. I just have a Blue Snowball. And my quality is sexy, okay? So just so you know, Blue Snowball will work out fine. No one's ever complained about my mic quality. The Yeti's not worth the extra $40, and even if you can't afford a pop filter, you don't, you know, wanna set up a pop filter, you don't need it. I don't use a pop filter. Next, we're gonna be talking about webcams, and it is hands down the Logitech C920. That is the webcam you want. Don't buy anything else. They're all crap compared to this. Records in 1080p. It's just an insane webcam, okay? Every member in FaZe uses it in their cutcoms. I bought one. I love it. Any big YouTuber uses the Logitech C920. You can buy it at Best Buy, Walmart, every major store sells it. They're gonna retail it for $100. You can buy it online for around $70. No question, that's the webcam you want if you're gonna be putting videos from it on YouTube. Now when it comes to editing, you want Audacity and Sony Vegas. You want Audacity because, I mean, you can do anything in that. I can make myself sound like Morgan Freeman if I wanted to. And then Sony Vegas, just, I mean, the possibilities are endless in that too. Sony Vegas and Audacity are the two best programs when it comes to editing, and you just gotta get them. Now, I'm not saying you need to pay $400 for Sony Vegas. There are ways to get it for free. Not saying I did that, I'm just saying there's no need really to go out and spend $400 on Sony Vegas. And then Audacity, of course, is free, so I mean, why not use Audacity? Alright guys, so now I'm gonna show you how to make your audio so much better in Audacity. So what you wanna do is go to a part of the video where you're not speaking and highlight it. See this part? I'm not saying anything. I want you to highlight it, I want you to go to Effects, Noise Reduction, Get Noise Profile, and then highlight everything else, and then go back to Noise Reduction and click OK. And what it'll do is it'll remove that background noise from the rest of your video. So if you have a fan in the background, your computer's loud, it will get rid of that noise. And then something else you're gonna wanna do, you wanna go back to Effect, you're gonna go to Equalization, you're gonna click Bass Boost, click OK, and then you're gonna go to Treble Boost, click OK. It'll make your voice sound 10 times better. Just do those 3 simple things. And your commentaries will be so much easier to listen to and so much more enjoyable. Now here's some tips when it comes to Sony Vegas. Let's say you have COD gameplay right here. The gameplay looks kinda pale. What you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna go to View, you're gonna go to Windows, you're gonna go to Video FX, and then pretty much this is called adding saturation. Most people know how to do it, but if you're new to YouTube, you might not be 100% sure. You're gonna go to Saturation Adjust, you're gonna drag it onto your gameplay, and then see where it says Low? You're gonna drag it all the way to the right side and boom, your gameplay looks so much better. Um, here, actually, never mind. Just, if you look at it before, it was really plain. Now it has saturation. It looks so much better. Now we're gonna move on to the render settings. When you're rendering your videos in Sony Vegas, this is the best for Call of Duty gameplay, and it works for vlogs, anything. It's really just, I use this anytime I render a video for YouTube in 720p. What you're gonna do is you're gonna go to Windows Media V11.wmv, then you're gonna go down to 6 megabytes per second, 720, 30 frames. 30 frames, I mean, who cares? We're not— people are going to be like, it's not 60 FPS, you know, and cry. It doesn't matter. And then what you're going to want to do when you're in here, you're going to go to Video, drag this to 100, go to Bitrate, always set this to 8. It makes a huge difference. It'll take longer to upload because it'll make the file bigger, but it'll be a lot more smoother. So just set that to 8. And then go to Project, and where it says Video Rendering Quality, set it to Best. Click OK. Name it whatever you want to, and then hit Render, and it'll be ready to upload to YouTube. That's the best render settings I've ever found. Sony Vegas when it comes to gameplay, webcam recordings, anything. It just works really well, so I'd recommend you use that. And the last thing I want to mention is the best software when it comes to recording your PC, which is what I'm using right now. It is called OBS. It's free, so since it's free, it doesn't lag. I mean, there's no reason not to use it. Don't go out and pay money for something when you can just use this. It's pretty convenient. I'm using it right now, as you see. Really simple, doesn't cause you to lag, and it's free, so why not use it? Next thing I wanted to mention is if you want to use non-copyrighted music in your video, a good channel is Time Flies. They do vocal music. It's actually really solid. FaZe Clan uses a lot of his songs. Or if you're into electro, dubstep, any of this stuff, trap, it's all on No Copyrighted Sounds. This is the channel you want to go to if you want music. None of this is copyrighted. You can use it in any video and not have to worry the slightest bit. Just go to No Copyrighted Sounds. All you want to do if you want to download it, just right-click on this, click copy link address. And then go to a website called clipconverter.cc. You just enter the link right here and then you hit continue and it'll download it for you. So that's how you get music on your videos. Alright guys, and the last thing I'm gonna say to wrap this video up is for thumbnails, there's this website called pixlr.com. If you don't have Photoshop, I'd recommend Photoshop, but if you don't have Photoshop, this is the next best thing. You just— it's called pixlr.com. It's pretty much like Photoshop online. So let's just— I have thumbnail backgrounds right here that I've downloaded this week. Just you throw up a background here, you can, you know, do whatever you want, draw on it, write text, import pictures. This is the best place to make thumbnails. It's all online, it's all free. If you don't have Photoshop, I'd recommend it. It's called Pixlr.com. And that's pretty much everything you should know for your YouTube channel. If you listen to everything, buy all the equipment, and do what I said in this video, you should have the solid foundation for a good channel. The last thing is a PC. Now you don't want a laptop. Laptops suck. For YouTube, you want a desktop unless you're putting thousands of dollars into the laptop. It's just not going to be able to render videos fast enough like you'd want to. So you're going to want a really solid PC. I only paid $600 for my PC and it was a pre-built, but it does everything I want and it's really, it's really good. I love my PC, but I, I greatly recommend when it comes to YouTube, do not buy a laptop unless you're putting thousands of dollars into it. It's just not going to render the videos fast enough and And it's just like you also want to be connected to your router, like have a direct wired-in connection so you upload faster. But that's pretty much all. Those are just a couple tips to new YouTubers. If you've done YouTube for a while, most of this was probably obvious. Sorry about that. Just trying to help out some new people. See you later.
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