Microphones

The Razer Seiren Emote microphone can make your livestreams stand out with its animated display, but noise cancelling is lacking if you’re not using a livestreaming app.

The Elgato Wave:1 is a sleek, compact condenser microphone that boasts excellent sound quality and a novel approach to audio mixing. It’s also extremely beginner-friendly.

The HyperX QuadCast S is a refresh of the brand’s top-end streamer mic and features a largely unchanged design under a new RGB hood.

A low-cost entry point for streamers with tight budget and space constraints, the HyperX SoloCast is sound-rich and feature-light.

Designed to take on Blue’s Snowball Ice, the Razer Seiren Mini is feature-light but rich in tone.

If you can get used to its quirks, Blue’s Snowball iCE is an excellent way to get into vocal recording or streaming.

Offering a smaller, more portable version of the imperious Blue Yeti for a cheaper price, the Blue Yeti Nano is a big deal

A generous swathe of hardware and software features make the Elgato Wave:3 the streamer mic to beat, but it’s less versatile than others on the market.

The Razer Seiren Elite is great at what it does. But what it does is quite limited compared to its multi-polar-pattern contemporaries, several of which are priced lower.