Customer Ratings & Reviews

I love this microphone. It's a bit light for my heavyweight boom, but it has very clear and good sound. I do have to keep the gain up fairly high to match my old mic, but so far this is just as good. Two things that make it the #1 for me--it is USB-C and the wave mixing software was something that I was missing. I never did find anything good for the PC, and now I'm using this. Also going to replace my lighting with Elgato's panels as soon as I get paid! This ties in great with my other purchase, the Stream Deck XL. I don't stream, but the deck controls the mic and the others items to give me ease-of-control that I didn't have before.

Bought this to use while gaming. Toying with the idea of streaming at some point. Microphone is excellent quality (came well recommended from a friend who streams). Wave Link software is amazing and eliminates the need for an external mixamp for separate channels, etc. Very light (see my review on the Blue Mic Compass boom arm for more info). I highly recommend this microphone and software. Bit of a learning curve setting up different channels, but that is due to my lack of knowledge, not any shortcoming with the mic. And the software will walk you through this as well. Just need to spend more time with it. Would give it 6 stars if I could.

For me this is a fantastic product that has provided me with better audio for my Zoom calls and Discord voice chats; no longer needing to use my AirPods or Sony’s which do not do well with voice chats unlike this microphone. The software is simple, but there is a little learning curve, though this mic is practically plug and play. The build quality is an issue for some since the casing is plastic, but that doesn’t bother me. There are mics that are built and sound better of course, but for the price I wasn’t going to turn these down. I do wish it was a little taller but I’ll be investing in a boom arm to fix that issue.

The mic is pretty nice. Well built, has a nice presence for streaming as it looks like a classic radio host mic in style. It's a pretty bright microphone overall, but it does come with inbuilt software that you can tweak. I think it's pretty good though a little bit overpriced. Bought it for my brother as a Christmas present and I think he likes it, but like I said, for $100 I think you could probably do a little better for even a little cheaper. But for ease of use it's probably the king in that way.

Amazing product and insanely easy setup. Highly recommend for gaming and just live chat with friends.

Quality is great, huge improvement over the built in headset mic that I was using. Software is easy to use by itself though when setting it up, my computer decided to not play nice for a while so I had to mess around with some of the sound settings. The mute function by tapping the top of the mic is a lot more useful that one might think (or if you're like me that does not like setting a shortcut or dedicate a key to software mute). The LED on the column/mic gain dial turns red so you know you're muted. Important note is that if you plan to fully use the software and use the mic's 3.5 mm jack for headphones, that is the only way it works. Wireless or Bluetooth does not work along with the microphone integration. So if you're using any sort of wireless headset, as I am doing, the microphone can only be used by itself (as a microphone) but if you are using a wired headset then you can manage 6 sound channel inputs using the software. Very handy IF you use 3.5 mm wired headset.

100% recomended voice can be heard clearly and super easy to use

I have been trying out different microphones over the past couple of weeks and this is the 4th one I have tried and so far it is the best by far. It's simple to use and I find the external gain control to be very useful. I'm mainly using this for video conferencing but the sound quality is way better than either my laptop internal mic or my Logitech Brio webcam microphone. It is a little pricy compared to similar mics that have polar patterns that this mic does not have but for my purposes I don't need all those additional patterns.

Awesome quality coming from the Elgato Wave 3. It is great for streamers and gamers. I compare it to the Rode NT1 that I use for recording music vocals. It even comes with a program for software-side audio routing so that you can mix & decide the audio that comes through on your stream/recording. This way I can still chat on programs such as Discord while I am recording content. I also enjoy the ability to quickly mute my mic through a touch sensor, as well as physically control the gain levels on the device itself.

Best Mic. I have it since 2022 and is still running like new during 2024. Software is very useful and practical for new streamers!

Best usb cardioid on the market! Before I bought this I used a blue yeti for years. The wave 3 is lighter, easier to position and comes with the wave link software. The wave link software is amazing for streamers and content creators. Really I almost bought this mic entirely for the software, it’s that good. The clip guard feature works well but I can’t tell if the low pass filter does anything at all. You’ll be very happy with this mic if you’re a streamer.

Was originally using a J-lab. The quality is night and day. Definitely worth picking up if you have the extra scratch to afford. I use it for general communication and pod casting and I’ve never sounded better!

The Elgato wave 3 has great build quality it sounds great to other people in discord or game chat it is the best mic I have ever bought and paired with the shock mount it is a great combination it doesn’t pick up any bangs from your table or background noise unless it’s super loud the software is amazing once you learn how to use it I love it 10/10 Elgato

Originally bought a Blue Yeti that was giving me some unexplained popping noise so I returned it and bought this instead. Glad I did! This mic has great sound, very easy to adjust, smaller for a desktop environment, have excellent button feel and function and it looks great. If you don't need a bunch of options and features you most likely won't use, I say this is your mic. Not knocking the Blue Yeti, just saying I like this one better.

Sounds great and was really easy to set up. Highly recommend

Sounds amazing, easy to install, software is fantastic

This microphone packs a lot of punch in sound quality and options for the price! It took a little bit to set up properly as you have to make sure you follow the directions on the website when setting up all your sound settings! Otherwise you might not have sound in certain video games which I think was a little annoying until I realized I had set it up incorrectly. The touch Mute button is possibly my most favorite feature of this microphone!

After researching several brands, we settled on the Elgato Wave 3, even though it is a bit more expensive than the other ones because it has all the features that we needed. It is just a cardioid microphone but it has an internal pop filter. It comes with a great software that you can download from their website. The sound quality of the recording when you are podcasting or streaming is really good and you can do several mixes.

I started with a different brand that was easy enough to set up but just not this level of quality. It takes a bit of figuring out, but once you understand the software you'll find this Elgato mic has great sound quality and is packed with features. I love that it has input monitoring directly on the back via 3.5mm headphone jack.

Nice, Good mic. I thought that the sound quality even when facing away from it was good.