Today I walkthrough, explain, test and review the Elgato WaveXLR. This thing essentially turns any XLR mic into a Wave3. This has 75dB of gain for your microphone (so yes it can drive the Shure SM7b), it has a digital mixer to mix multiple digital sound sources, and also has a clipboard feature to ensure you don’t distort your analog to digital converters. Regarding the A/D converters it is 24-bit 48/96kHz, which is great.

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00:00 - Intro / Pricing / Disclosure
00:30 - Signal Chain for Testing
00:56 - What’s in the Box
01:13 - Build Quality
01:48 - Walkthrough of Features
04:05 - Specifications
04:53 - Shure SM7b Mic Test (No Cloudlifter or Fethead)
06:00 - Clipguard Test
06:49 - Low-cut / High Pass Filter Test
07:45 - Interface Mute Test
08:35 - Preamp Gain Noise Test
09:30 - Latency Test
10:23 - Software Walkthrough
14:49 - Pros & Cons
17:57 - Recommendation
20:59 - Outro