THE WAVE:3

The latest Wave:3 USB microphone by Elgato is primarily made out of steel, measures 153mm in height, 66mm in width and 40mm in thickness and weighs a total of 585g (stand included).

Elgato has placed their logo at the top of the front steel grille (behind the grille there's a multi-layer pop filter and past that the premium condenser capsule).

Beneath the steel grill we find the multifunctional dial (from here you can tweak the input gain, adjust output volume, and crossfade between your mic and PC audio mix) and a total of 11 activity LEDs (including the ring surrounding the clickable dial).

Both the USB-C and headphones out ports are located at the lower rear end of the microphone.

Attention to detail is never a bad thing so it's nice to see that Elgato has placed their logo on the two thumbscrews which can be used to remove the microphone from its U bracket (or you can just remove the base and use the bundled boom arm adapter afterwards).

At the top of the Wave:3 we find the capacitive mute button (gently touch it to mute/unmute audio).

Worth pointing out is that the bundled stand has a free range of motion so you can rotate the microphone up to roughly 130 degrees on both the front and rear (not that you'd need to of course).

The base of the stand is not only heavy (308g) but also sits on a piece of rubber which means that the microphone will stay where you put it.

In the above pictures you can see the activity LEDs of the Wave:3 (when muted the ring around the dial turns red).