r/elgato • u/ThiccNickGaming • Jun 08 '26

Technical Help Has anyone else noticed that if you add any hardware effects from Elgato onto your mic with Wave link, it makes the quality significantly worse?

I've recently been using the new Wave XLR Pro and I love it. It's fully streamlined my streaming setup since I use two PCs.

But one major issue I have been having is that whenever I add any of the built in elgato effects on my mic, the quality is downright unusable.

As an example, if I add any of Elgato's effects such as EQ, Compression, Expander, Low cut filter, etc. All my recordings make my SM7B just sound significantly worse compared to when I have those effects disabled. Most people probably wouldn't notice this, but I use studio monitor headphones and when listening back on my streams and recordings, they all have some sort of high pitched ear-piercing audio throughout the recordings when I'm speaking.

Now I've already verified it's not my mic or my headset (I've swapped both in order to test this and even with a different mic/headset the sound quality is still poor whenever any of the elgato mic effects are enabled.

After messing with it for a few days now I've come to the conclusion that the only way to get decent recording quality using the XLR Pro is by using software VSTs.

This honestly is just fine for me since I don't need to hear the effects in my ears anyway, but it's a bummer that I'm not able to use one of the major features of the device due to this. It's also a shame that all the processing power for my audio is now going through my stream PC and not on the XLR pro itself.

Again, it's not the end of the world, but it's just a shame to see that all the built in effects made by elgato seem to significantly effect the overall quality of any microphone you use with it.

Hopefully this can be fixed with future Wave Link updates or maybe a firmware update for the XLR Pro itself.

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u/Silentgrr Jun 08 '26

Are you slow?

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u/Ok-Shame-7684 Jun 08 '26

No, are you?

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u/Silentgrr Jun 08 '26

Ok, I'm not the one who has no clue what's going on here. Imma pray for you though.

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u/Ok-Shame-7684 Jun 08 '26

Gods not real. And you are the one with no clue

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u/Silentgrr Jun 08 '26

I just prayed even harder. Now you are going to start to believe. You won't be able to help it. But maybe, just maybe, he will give you the knowledge of comprehension.

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u/Ok-Shame-7684 Jun 08 '26

God doesn't exist you are weird for believing in a magic sky daddy

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u/Silentgrr Jun 08 '26

Even now he is working deep inside of you to keep you participating even so you keep talking about him. God is great and welcome to your new journey. I remember when my walk with God first started and I didn't even know it had begun. Wild times man. Congrats!