Elgato Voice Focus

What Elgato Voice Focus is

Elgato Voice Focus is an audio effect for improving microphone sound in streaming, recording, video meetings, editing, music production, and podcasting. It targets background noise, room reverb, and echo while preserving vocal warmth and detail. Elgato says its models rebuild missing vocal frequencies, and a single slider lets you adjust the effect from light processing to full processing.

The standalone plugin is available as VST3 for Windows and AU for macOS. It works in software that hosts those effect formats, including streaming applications, video editors, and DAWs. Named use cases include OBS Studio, Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, Logic, Pro Tools, FL Studio, and Audacity. For Zoom, Teams, and Slack, you route the processed microphone audio through Wave Link; those apps do not host the plugin directly. Voice Focus processes your microphone signal, not audio from other call participants.

Elgato says processing happens on-device in real time, without sending audio to the cloud, recording it, or using it to train models. The standalone lifetime license costs 49.99 USD as a one-time purchase and allows three activations. Voice Focus is also included free with Wave Link for listed Wave devices.

Who it suits

Voice Focus suits streamers, podcasters, musicians, video editors, and people who want to improve their microphone sound in meetings. It fits Windows and macOS users whose software hosts VST3 or AU effects, or who can route microphone audio through Wave Link for calls.

Limits

The standalone license costs 49.99 USD as a one-time purchase and permits three total activations. Voice Focus processes only your own microphone signal; for Zoom, Teams, and Slack, the audio must be routed through Wave Link.

Getting started

1. Open Elgato’s Voice Focus product page.
2. Choose the standalone VST3/AU plugin, or use Voice Focus included with Wave Link for listed Wave devices.
3. Install or open a Windows app that hosts VST3, or a macOS app that hosts AU.
4. For Zoom, Teams, or Slack, route your processed microphone audio through Wave Link.
5. Adjust the processing with the single slider.

Verdict

Choose Voice Focus if you want to process your own microphone in streaming, recording, editing, music, or podcast software that hosts VST3 or AU effects. For calls in Zoom, Teams, or Slack, processed audio must be routed through Wave Link; the plugin does not clean other participants’ audio.