Best Microphone For Streaming In 2025

4th April 2025

The Best Microphone For Streaming In 2025

The Best Microphone For Streaming For Every Budget

For streamers, one of the most important tools you need for a high-quality stream is a stream microphone. Your viewers being able to hear your voice clearly and concisely whilst you are gaming or producing content is essential to the watchability of your stream.

A few things to consider when choosing a stream microphone is your environment, how much noise it has naturally that you may need to block out or reduce, what content you will be streaming, where you will be streaming, your setup for your stream, and what features you would like to see included.

We show you some of the available choices for streaming microphones for Twitch, YouTube, Kick and other major platforms.

Blue Yeti

The Logitech Yeti USB Microphone is one of the most popular microphones used by streamers and broadcasters. A long time favorite and regarded as a high quality streaming, podcasting and gaming microphone.

The Yeti uses the Logitech GHUB, an easy and user friendly software that you can download straight to your pc, and offers a simplistic plug in and play style via USB.

On the mic itself, you will find mute and gain controls, as well as a headphone output. The Yeti has a choice of multiple pickup styles to suit the recording style that you need for your use, and the Blue VO!CE features.

The award winning Yeti mic comes in a few different colors and ranges from $70 - $170USD depending on the generation you choose.

Blue Snowball

Another offering from Logitech is the Blue Snowball Ice. Regarded by many in the streaming community as a fantastic starter microphone due to its ease of use and quick setup, as well as great quality.

It comes with an adjustable stand and is Discord certified to guarantee high quality output whether you are in chat or on stream.

There are no additional pickup styles, but it features cardioid included as a base capture. and is also instant setup via USB.

The Blue Snowball comes in a couple of different colors and is priced at an affordable $49.99USD.

Elgato Wave:3

The Elgato Wave:3 is created for content creators and streamers, and creates a bridge between easy to use USB microphone and premium broadcast level hardware to create a plug in and play, professional microphone with elite audio quality from their partnership with Lewitt Audio.

It comes with a premium condenser and cardioid patterns, as well as a huge amount of input, output and quality controls.

The Wave Link mixer not only allows for multiple levels of control over volumes and gains, it also comes with Clipguard to ensure your sounds are level no matter your voice volume. This is great for in post editing. Wave Link can also download a huge amount of filters and more via the marketplace.

For those who use Streamdeck, the Wave:3 comes with full compatibility.

The Elgato Wave:3 comes in black and white, and starts at $149.99USD.

HyperX QuadCast

The Hyperx QuadCast is the brightest design featured here, as it comes with built in RGB lighting in bright red.

The microphone is tailor made for creators and streamers, especially those who are overzealous and passionate with their content - it has an anti-vibration shock mount. For those times that you celebrate your hardest, or have accidental bumps against your desk.

It comes with the quad polar patterns to fit your recording needs that are accessible on the mic itself, and it's tap to mute sensor has an LED indicator. There is also a pop filter for speech control and additional controls for gain at the bottom of the microphone.

The HyperX QuadCast is certified by Teamspeak and Discord, and ranges from $149.99 - $199.99USD - depending on the version and color.

RØDE XCM-50

The RØDE XCM-50 is an ultra compact microphone that is created specifically for gaming and streaming.

This microphone is able to be highly personalized so that your unique voice shines through on stream. With an internal pop filter, noise gate, and compressor that includes the specially created (and uniquely named) APHEX Aural Exciter and Big Bottom. Using their Unify software, you can continue to tweak sound settings to suit your environment and sound.

Get ready for stream in minutes by plugging in via USB, and setting up with the included stand.

The RØDE XCM-50 ranges from $50 - $150USD depending where you purchase from. Their main website will give you retailer options.




Shure MV6

Shure have taken features from their SM7 and MV7 series, and created the Shure MV6, a USB microphone that is ready for streaming and gaming.

The MV6 is born from the design of their previous generations that were trusted by vocalists and broadcasters. It includes voice isolation technology so that your voice can be heard crisply and clearly above gameplay and other content, without overshadowing it.

Have a habit of not sitting still or changing your position whilst streaming? The MV6 comes with auto level mode, which adjusts to your distance from the microphone up to 18 inches. It also utilizes a Digital Popper Stopper to eliminate harsh sounds and background noise.

The Shure MV7 comes with the usual tap to mute, USB plug in and easy setup, and starts at $149.00USD.

SteelSeries Alias Pro

The SteelSeries Alias Pro is a professional, studio grade XLR microphone for streamers, content creators, gamers and podcasters. It includes a triple sized capsule which outpaces most other microphones in terms of vocal range capture.

To emphasize it's "for the streamers" approach, the Alias Pro supports a dual PC setup as well as a multitude of stream setups.

It comes with an XLR mixer which offers highly customizable features, all the way down to the RGBs. There is also a huge amount of settings in the software, which is compatible with Sonar for Streamers, including assigning app channels, effects, devices and more.

There are a bunch of extra accessories you can buy including stands and boom arms.

The SteelSeries Alias Pro prices at $329.99USD.

AKG Ara

The AKG Ara is another USB plug in and play microphone, specifically a condenser microphone, created for creators, gamers and musicians.

It comes with two capsule modes to suit your environment and professional grade converters to ensure crystal clear speech and instrument recording.

The Ara includes Ableton Live 11 audio software which is an innovative toolkit for those looking to record and edit their audio projects.

Volume, modes and mute are available to adjust from the mic itself, and you have multiple options of stands for desktop, mounts and boom arms.

One of the most interesting designs for a microphone featured here, it has a mashup of vintage and modern feels.

The AKG Ara is currently on sale for $45.00USD, it's usual price starting at $109.00USD.

Which is the best microphone for streaming?

Blue Yeti: For those looking for a mic that is great quality, stands the test of time, and is generally a popular choice amongst gaming streamers.

Blue Snowball: For those who are still looking for that brand loyalty and the popular choice among streamers, but have a lower budget. A great choice for those starting to stream.

Elgato Wave:3: For those looking for a slightly more premium microphone for broadcasting, and those who use Streamdeck.

HyperX QuadCast: For those who enjoy RGB peripherals, and possibly a great choice for those who tend to be a bit flamboyant when gaming as it includes the anti-vibration shock mount.

RØDE XCM-50: For those who are looking for a microphone that can be set to highly personalized specifications.

Shure MV6: For those who move around a lot when streaming and who primarily create gaming content.

SteelSeries Alias Pro: For those who don't mind a more complicated setup and are looking for a premium cost microphone that has elevated quality.

AKG Ara: For those who create several different types of content, especially those who include music in their remit.

TLDR;

And with that, we have gone through some of the great choices out there for streaming microphones! There are many out there, but these cover the bases in terms of affordability, and different environments and content types. Just keep in mind what you are streaming and what your budget is and you can't go wrong.

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