Professional-Quality Condenser Capsule. The Elgato Wave 3 Premium USB Condenser Microphone’s condenser capsule gives you warm, broadcast-quality sound. Its directional cardioid pickup pattern minimizes room sound and extraneous noise so that only your voice is at the fore, perfect for streaming or voiceovers for content creators and gamers.

Easy to Use. The Wave 3’s class-compliant USB output lets you send audio directly to computers without any drivers or external audio interface—just plug in the mic and hit record. You can just plug a pair of headphones into the 3.5mm jack to monitor your audio with zero latency. A volume knob right on the front of the mic gives you easy convenient control over your monitoring level.

Wave Link. Elgato’s Wave Link allows you to not only mix audio from the Wave 3 microphone, it allows you to mix audio from up to nine independent inputs, including game audio, voice chat, alerts, and music, all at once during your recording. You can add effects in real time as well, and create two differently mixed outputs: one for yourself, and one for your audience. This will ensure your livestream audio sounds great during the stream, or make post processing on video recordings a breeze, since all the mixing and effects can be done from the start. Wave Link does not currently support input from multiple Wave 3 microphones.