Having the two audio techs is nice, that’s something we’re in pretty desperate need for future shows. I have a good friend of mine who’s in the industry and owns a behringer x32. At this point we have all the gear and a killer space (two actually) but finding local acts who are available is difficult.
For size (very small footprint and produces quality video) look into these Marshall cameras. I forget which model I have exactly.
https://www.marshall-ecom.com/cameras/miniature-cameras
Outside of that, tech wise I think it was great. Most of the things I would recommend are related to the RSS side of stuff. I would definitely encourage yall to try out the split kit to build a live watch page that includes chat, scoreboard, buttons to boost bands directly at any point stuff like that.
with all the shit you can do with boost triggers, I’d like to work towards doing more themed out concerts. Build a set, work in special effects triggered by producers from home. Big enough space for an intimate crowd.
I think Dr M.O.O.K.Y.-Stein and the Electric Keep or Survival Guide playing to an ungodly amount of boostable fire flickering light bulbs would be sick as shit. Go back to those Alice Cooper root levels of stage production.
Nice! Now that would be very cool… totally agree about having the splits etc. that’s something about boosts I love, the fact that I’m still getting a few sats for a gig I’ve already done, and it’s automated and everyone’s getting paid, including us techs is an incredible feature.
I did watch the vids about splits etc. and although totally doable, given there was just the two of us it was a lot to take on, especially given our lack of experience but these are all things we can learn and improve on, I’m very much a kinetic learner and getting the first one under my belt gives me confidence we can cover the basics.
Q: With your podcasts, are you self hosting? Aside from the gig, the big thing I’m trying to achieve (and not there yet) is to self host PC.2.0 content. Been trying with Peertube and Yunohost but going round in circles, do you know of any other self hosted options? (Also tried Castopod but can’t get it working).
Agree, I'll definitely look into the split kit next time for this.
BTS and B4TS are hosted with Podserve, but I submitted a self hosted feed to the index for both shows. At some point I want to get off Podserve but I don’t have the required smarts to make that transition easy.
Thunder Road Media is hosted on cloudflare, but if you are gonna do consistent video uploads it could get expensive. nostr:npub1zm95kw87nf6gkesg76jedyfejt0u2zgx2fxgxywdxc9ugq3z4w2q4m092t and nostr:npub1yvgrrzf4dnmu30qfhw95x87ruu0g2kpv3a64h8hpvqsre8qeuspsgd6pv9 were able to get video hosted using bunnycdn I think it was? There’s a tutorial video floating around somewhere.
For the music I host for people, that all goes on my dreamhost account using Wordpress to manage the uploads.
Check out satellite.earth. Lets you buy file hosting with sats. 1gb month was 47 sats last I checked. So a 1gb video could be hosted for a year for 500 sats or so. Not bad deal.
