Streamer setup

Maya Higa’s setup

Conservation streaming, and the best-documented IRL stack anywhere

By Elan Harpaz · Published 2026-07-14 · Prices checked 2026-08-26

What gear does Maya Higa use?

Of the 13 items in Maya Higa’s setup, 5 are documented first-party, 8 are reported by gear trackers. The evidenced items are LiveU Solo, IRL Pro (Android), OBSBOT Tiny 4K, AXIS PTZ network cameras, OBS Studio, and 8 more. Reported means independent gear trackers agree and nothing first-party confirms it, which supports a reported label and never a confirmation. Conservation streaming, and the best-documented IRL stack anywhere.

Falconer, conservationist, and founder of Alveus Sanctuary, whose animal streams hit #2 most-subscribed on all of Twitch in June 2026. Her personal desk gear is not publicly documented, but Alveus publishes its entire streaming infrastructure, which makes this the rare page sourced first-party: a 41-camera, dual-OBS, field-streaming operation you can actually study.

Maya Higa's streaming rig — Photo: LeahBeahReah, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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IRL EncoderFirst-party

LiveU Solo

LiveU Solo bonds connections for field streams around the sanctuary grounds.

$995

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Phone EncoderFirst-party

IRL Pro (Android)

IRL Pro on Android for lightweight phone streams.

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PTZ CameraFirst-party

OBSBOT Tiny 4K

AI-tracking PTZ in the studio, part of a 41-camera fleet.

Buy

Animal CamsFirst-party

AXIS PTZ network cameras

AXIS M55/Q61/P56-series PTZ cams cover enclosures, with chat-controlled movement via their open-source bot.

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SoftwareFirst-party

OBS Studio

Dual OBS: a local studio instance plus a cloud instance feeding Twitch and YouTube at once.

MicrophoneReported

$439

MixerReported

$359

PreampReported

Cloud Microphones Cloudlifter CL-1

Buy

Audio InterfaceReported

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (3rd Gen)

Buy

HeadphonesReported

Sennheiser HD 560S

Buy

Wireless MicrophoneReported

Hollyland Lark M2S

Buy

CameraReported

Sony α7R III

Buy

Camera LensReported

Sony FE 24-105mm f/4 G OSS

Buy

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Sources

alveussanctuary.org (first-party) · github.com (first-party) · what.equipment (gear tracker)

A gear tracker agreeing with another gear tracker supports a reported label and never a confirmation. How that is decided: editorial policy. Prices are tracked, not live, and were last checked 2026-08-26. We do not lab-test hardware.