Crystal clear with nice base
One of the strengths of the Elgato Wave 3 is its crisp and clear sound quality. The microphone captures vocals with impressive clarity, making it perfect for streaming and podcasting. The cardioid polar pattern ensures that background noise is minimized, allowing my voice to come through loud and clear. It also delivers a nice bass response, adding depth and richness to my recordings. While it may not have the deepest bass compared to some high-end studio microphones, it still provides a warm and full sound that enhances the overall audio experience. If there’s one thing I would change it’s the height of the stand. It’s a bit too short for my taste.

Solved all my audio mixing problems for livestreaming. Can’t recommend this product enough.
The value in this microphone has more to do with the amazing software rather than the quality of the microphone. Don’t get me wrong, the microphone is really good. But the software is what makes this product really great.This software replaces your external hardware mixer with a software version that can selectively grab sound output from specific programs like Chrome/Brave/Firefox while filtering out other sound sources like your instant messenger on your computer so they don’t get recorded to the stream.The one caveat here is that on macOS the default settings had the microphone giving a ~40ms delay in the voice due to software loop back. However, the software loop back can be disabled and instead a zero-time loopback can be activated very easily by disabling software monitoring. On Windows 10 this is already the default. But on MacOS it is not. However this little hiccup is not severe enough to remove a star. It’s just something took me about 15 mins to figure out.Now that the whole thing is setup correctly I can jump on a stream very easily. The microphone also features an audio out which allows me to attach super sleek black ear bud phones, which are normally have too short of a cable to be able to reach my main computer, but reach the microphone perfectly with slack.Also, this microphone has CLIP GUARD which will prevent you from clipping the audio when you get too close to it. This is one of the best features and I was using all kinds of hardware solutions to get this feature, including getting the AudioVox 286s that did this as one of it’s features. However, after getting this microphone I ditched the AudioVox product.Finally I want to add that so much hardware was elimiated by using this product. My studio is now way cleaner and the ability to jump on a stream immediatly without messing with settings is the best part of this entire solution. This product could be sold for more money and I would toss it at them. Very sad I didn’t discover this product a year ago. So many wasted hours and returned products trying to emulate what this product does out of the box.

Awesome Mic with a Learning Curve
This usb microphone came highly recommended from the streaming community and from many of my gaming friends online. And let me say, the recommendations were all correct.First, and arguably most important, the mic is VERY much worth the price in it’s own right. As a usb condencer, it’s not going to be the best quality, but for the price it sounds awesome right out of the box. Simple physical setup, just plug in the usb cord, and away you go. After some tuning in OBS, this thing is smoooooth.The real value, and pain, is in the wave software. I unfortunately found an audio bug when first installing and had to reinstall the software to get a perminent loop out of the feed. Once working correctly, I needed to go through at least a couple hours of setup to sort all my sound outputs (games, music, browser, discord, etc) and configure OBS. I’m pretty technical myself, so when I say it took awhile to wrap my head around the process… Yeah… But! The end product is totally worth it, as I have much better control over sound vs the alternatives and the recordings sound awesome!As a tip: I did opt to split the direct mic feed from the stream within OBS. I have Mic1 as my actual wave 3 mic and Mic2 as the wave stream. This allowed me to do some fine turning within OBS on my voice without influencing game sound. Again, more setup, more time, more Alpha Gaming youtube videos to watch.Overall, I’ve invested 3-4 solid hours into just initial setup and getting familiar with the basics of this mic. I will probably spend more time messing around and tweaking options. That being said, I am very happy with the product and look forward to improvements on the software side. The software actually makes it easier in the long run, so the initial investment in time is 100% worth the effort.Also, get a mic boom arm. This microphone loves being close close close to your face.

Tiene un audio excelente casi comparable a la calidad de micrófonos XLR, queda y luce perfecto en cualquier setup.

Le Elgato Wave:3 est un microphone de très haute qualité, parfait pour le streaming, le podcasting ou l’enregistrement vocal. Son design sobre et élégant, bien plus professionnel que certains concurrents comme le Razer Seiren V2 Pro, le rend idéal pour un setup clean et minimaliste. Elgato est aussi reconnu pour sa qualité audio, ce qui fait de ce micro un choix fiable.✅ Qualité audio exceptionnelle : Une clarté et une précision impressionnantes, il capte même les moindres détails. Très puissant, il peut même capter une respiration à deux mètres ! Bien sûr, cela se règle avec le gain du microphone.✅ Design sobre et pro : Les LEDs au dessus du bouton servent à régler le gain et le volume de sortie, ce qui est pratique et discret.✅ Bouton muet tactile : Situé sur le dessus, LED rouge autour du bouton pour indiquer qu’il est coupé. Très réactif et agréable à utiliser.✅ Ne jamais saturer : La fonctionnalité Clipguard intégrée au microphone permet de s’assurer que notre voix restera toujours claire et à un volume stable.✅ Logiciel Wave Link 2 ultra complet : Permet de gérer plusieurs entrées et sorties audio, de faire du mixage, d’appliquer un equalizer, de compresser le son, d’ajouter des VST, de rediriger des sources audio, et bien d’autres fonctionnalités. Il permet de choisir entre les entrées de microphone “raw”, avec FX, et Stream (pour ajouter de la musique ou le son d’un jeu).✅ Matériaux premium : Base en métal très solide, excellente finition.✅ Câble USB-C vers USB-A très long : Pas de souci de longueur, mais possibilité de le remplacer par un USB-C vers USB-C pour plus de simplicité.✅ SAV Elgato réactif : Il me manquait l’adaptateur pour le bras de micro, ils me l’ont renvoyé immédiatement !⚙️ Pop filter : J’ai ajouté le filtre anti-pop Elgato pour adoucir les sons plosifs (/p/ /b/).⚙️ Bras de micro + shock mount : J’ai commandé le bras de micro bas profil et le shock mount d’Elgato pour un setup encore plus stable et flexible.

I got a product with damaged packaging, strange dots on the mic, and black powder inside the box. Seems like it was used before.