Blog: NHAMFest '26: behind the scenes (a little)

NHAMFest ‘26 was a huge success this year, and was great for bringing together two of my favorite spaces: the VRChat music community and the Fediverse music community.Here’s some stuff about the specifics that went into producing this show on my end! I’ve already described my general performance setup, and that should be read as a prerequisite.Multi-streaming setupA big part of this particular show is that I had two streams running simultaneously: one in VRChat and one on my Owncast instance. Each of these came from a separate OBS instance; the VRChat one showed my Owncast live chat (so that people in VR could follow the chat), and the Owncast one had my live camera as an inset so that people on the outside could see what was actually happening in my physical space; as much as I love the whole “virtual critter” thing I also want to make it clear that I am actually performing the music live, at least to an extent.For the VRChat side of the stream I used VRCDN, while the Owncast side…