VibeEngine (Windows, macOS)

Although the AVerMedia Live Streamer Mic 350 can be used as a regular USB microphone, you can also dive into the VibeEngine app, available for Windows and macOS, to access various settings and effects and fine-tune its performance. The app also includes a microphone test feature, as well as effect monitoring, where you can hear what your voice will sound like with chosen filters applied. The mic effect monitoring should be used only as a quick preview of the changes made; since the sound picked up by the capsules has to be processed in VibeEngine first, you'll hear it with a slight but noticeable delay, which is way too distracting to be used permanently.

The central part of the interface offers the microphone gain and microphone/system monitoring sliders, as well as buttons to quickly activate or deactivate various effects. The effects are then further configured via the hamburger menu on the left side of the interface, which opens four separate sections: Scenario, Noise Reduction, Voice Effect, and Voice Changer.


The Scenario menu offers four different sound profiles: Chat, Podcast, Singing, and Instrument. Their names are self-explanatory. In the microphone performance section of this review, you can learn about the audible differences between them, and which ones are worth using.


Through three separate tabs of the Noise Reduction menu, you can toggle echo cancellation, AI Noise Reduction, noise gate, and de-esser. Noise gate and de-esser can be finely tuned, which is essential to make them work with various voice timbres. Should you use them or not depends entirely on your exact use-case scenario. If you're sitting in a quiet room and don't have an excessively sibilant voice, neither will do much for you. If your surroundings are such that the microphone "opens" when it shouldn't, then the noise gate will help you with that. These are just ordinary microphone filters, placed within the VibeEngine app, so that you can apply them "at the source," instead of having to fiddle with the same filters in the streaming/recording/VoIP software you're using.


The same can be said for Reverb, Compressor, and Limiter, found within the Voice Effect section of the VibeEngine app. Every decent streaming and recording software offers these filters in its audio settings, but VibeEngine lets us apply them system-wide. There are some more interesting effects to be found here, too, such as pitch and echo control. Finally, there's an EQ section, with four factory-adjusted profiles (Brighter and Bassy, Mid-Range Boost, Deep Bass Boost, and Presence), and an elaborate 15-band graphic equalizer, where we can adjust various frequencies of the recording voice on a +12/-24 dB scale.


The Voice Changer section has 12 voice effects of varying degrees of quality. These can be used if you want to mess with your buddies or opponents in voice chat-enabled games, but the fun factor eventually wears out (unless you base your entire business model on it, as some successful streamers do). To get access to all 12 effects, you have to register with AVerMedia and log into your personal account, which is a strange (and weirdly effective) way to collect our email addresses.


An entirely separate part of the VibeEngine is the so-called Mixer Mode, activated by clicking on the corresponding toggle at the top of the interface. The Mixer Mode is what you would get with a modern audio interface – essentially a software solution that adds a bunch of virtual sound cards to your system and lets you organize audio inputs and outputs to best suit your needs. This is where you'll be able to separate the sounds you hear in your headphones from those audible to your audience, and do other advanced stuff. VST plugins are supported for all virtual inputs, and you can apply all of the aforementioned filters and effects to the AVerMedia Live Streamer Mic 350 microphone input. If none of this means anything to you, don't worry – you don't have to use the Mixer Mode at all and still reap all of the benefits of the AM350 microphone.

Live Streamer (Android, iOS)

AVerMedia also offers the Live Streamer app, which you can use when connecting the AVerMedia Live Streamer Mic 350 to an Android or iOS mobile device. You can either use the mobile device (and the microphone) to stream to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, or any custom RTMP server directly, or you can stream the captured sound to OBS by using the SRT protocol.