Description
GoXLR is an all-in-one audio solution for streamers and online broadcasters. What would take dozens of pieces of hardware and software can now be achieved by one sleek and intuitive package. Mix your audio in real time, change your voice, playback samples on-the-fly, and engage your audience like never before.
From the manufacturer
TC Helicon GoXLR
Revolutionary Online Broadcaster Platform with 4-Channel Mixer, Motorized Faders, Sound Board and Vocal Effects
- 4-channel mixer for super-fast USB audio mixing for all your audio sources
- Customizable motorized faders with LCD scribble strips give you ultimate control
- Sound board and recorder to cue bumpers and riff on-the-fly samples
- Studio quality vocal effects used by pro musicians
- EQ, compression, de-essing and gating controls make your voice sound amazing
- Premium low-noise Midas mic preamp for professional broadcast quality
- Full RGB lighting control to fit with your customized gaming rig
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#Problem SolvedTake everything you used to know about broadcasting audio and forget it. What would take dozens of pieces of hardware and software can now be achieved by one sleek and intuitive solution. Mix your audio in real time, change your voice, use industry defining hardware and software, and engage your audience like never before. |
The Perfect Mix Every TimeGoXLR gives you control of your audio like never before. With a 4-channel mixer, you can control the volume of all your audio sources in real time so you can keep your focus where it needs to be. |
A Smooth OperatorWith customizable motorized faders, you‘ll always come back to sound the way you want it. Change the LCD scribble strips to personalize GoXLR and make it your own. |
App-SolutelyWhether you‘re a seasoned audio engineer or are brand new to audio, the GoXLR app features simple and easy-to-use controls to get you up and running quickly with advanced options for those who want more control over their sound. Use the app to control and recall all of your settings quickly and seamlessly. Officially support Windows 7, 8, 10, 11. No official Linux support. No macOS support. |
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On-The-Fly SamplesGoXLR’s sound board and recorder can be used to riff on-the-fly samples or to cue bumpers for your podcast or just for fun! |
Bring The Studio HomeUse vocal effects that pros in the industry rely on every day, including: Reverb, Echo, Pitch Shift, Morph, Robot, Megaphone and HardTune. |
Sound Better Than EverGoXLR includes an amazing suite of audio effects including equalizers, compressors, de-essers, and gating controls to make your voice sound amazing with no delay–and you don‘t need to be an audio engineer to use it. |
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Give Your Voice “The Midas Touch”GoXLR uses a premium low-noise Midas mic preamp for professional broadcast quality. |
OMG RGBMake GoXLR your own with fully customizable lighting to match your gaming rig, your game, your brand, or just you. |
Keep it G!Use the !@#?* bleep button to keep your stream G-rate with a blocking beep! Or use the “Cough” button to instantly mute yourself and avoid being …. |
Josh –
A solid device worth the pricetag!I’ve been using this mixer for about a week now. There’s a lot of good things (and a few oddities) I’d like to go over. Let’s go over it all! [Note: I use a one-PC setup to broadcast all sorts of different things and it works just fine for that configuration. It doesn’t seem overly complicated to use this for a 2-PC setup, but I don’t have any direct input on that.]AMPLIFICATION: My primary concern when buying this was “Can this make my microphone audible? Will there be any noise?” I use a Rode Procaster, a very quiet dynamic mic that requires some help to be audible. In the past, cheaper mixers have let me down. I’m happy to report that this wasn’t an issue at all with the GoXLR; I come in loud and clear with some room to spare. I don’t hear any noise unless I really crank it all the way up. My former setup was an affordable preamp/mixer combo and I did have some noise issues then. Both of those are in the closet now.MIXER/FADERS: The mixer side of the GoXLR, without a complicated mess of cables, lets you independently fade music, game, system, mic and other channels. That’s a new function for me. I’ve have had to use virtual audio cables in the past, because trying to physically separate those channels in the manner I required was not realistic on a physical mixer. This mixer simplified the routing and gave me a higher level of control over all of these volume levels. The mute buttons can be configured to do special things too rather than just globally mute; You can set it to only mute your mic in discord, or on stream. There’s only the 4 faders on the GoXLR, so If you need more than 4, you’ll have to work around the limitation. There have been a few hiccups too. For example, one reboot didn’t open the software correctly and my system channel was muted until I reopened the software.VOICE EFFECTS: The effects are the largest section on the mixer, so they’re obviously a huge selling point. I feel like this is where my priorities shifted a bit. Most of the effects on the GoXLR are things I’ve seen and used before. I like voice effects alright, but I won’t be adjusting them on the fly ever, and that’s the purpose of most of these knobs. I’m just going to design 6 presets, maybe adjust the reverb sometimes and go. You have more fine-tuned control in the software which you then save to a preset button anyway, so having knobs for things like Gender and Pitch feels like a wasted opportunity for other controls. There are some basic things missing on the device and it aggravates me a bit that the focus was placed here instead (Headphone volume has to be on a fader too? Mic playback volume knob?? Power switch???) The effects controls that I’ve seen often on other mixers seem like a more effective way to save on space, though a bit clunkier… (Choose a number for the effect, set the power of the effect and turn it on.)SAMPLER CREATOR/PLAYER: The sampler, on the other hand, is incredible. It works like a charm. I can record myself or my discord friends on the fly and that’s something unique and powerfully fun. I actually wish this section were larger than it is because it is the most special and interesting part of the product for me! 12 Samples runs out real fast when you have lots of sound clips and new recordings being made! The software lets you randomize sound effects on buttons and create playlists of a sort. I love the features, and will probably design multiple profiles to help organize my sound bank.CUSTOMIZATION: The lighting is great. You don’t have a ton of colors on it, but you can easily make a rainbow like in my attached image. Lots of interesting settings you can do to the fader volume bars and effects knobs. You can have gradients for volume or solid, lights above and below the level can all be colored on everything. The fader can be set to a monitor or just a solid bar on each source. You can also set the icons and text above each fader, and color those too! For added flare worth mentioning, the mechanized faders roll up and down when you hit mute or switch profiles. They sync up with the software and one will control the other. It’s a real neat visual.PROS:+The built-in Pre-amp, compressor, de-esser, and equalization options are solid. This stuff alone makes the device worth around the price to me honestly, being that its all-in-one. I feel like this should be your biggest concern with an audio device, and everything else is fluff… The hardware is good and will do the job you need it to do! You probably won’t need your old pre-amp any more.+Hoo boy, that sampler!!!+Has the means to solve digital mixing problems, which is often a complicated task to solve.+Effects are fairly configurable and come with enough presets to satisfy most people.+The mute buttons are configurable and easily accessible.+Nice, large cough button that does the job well. The BLEEP button is fun, though I try not to over-use it myself!+Configurable lightshow. Very attractive to look at. Easy to set up and profile the color schemes. The customization really makes it feel like a modern device.+Everything feels nice. I like the feel of the buttons and the faders.+In general, it’s very easy to see what’s on and off, and you can configure it to be even easier if you’re concerned about that. You can set the on/off lights to anything you want, dimmed or off.+Size. It’s not tiny, but it is almost half the size of my old mixer and I’m real happy about that. I’m also happy that I use just about everything on the mixer, for a change.CONS:-You only have one port for a mic. If you want a second mic, you’re going to need… another mixer to plug into this mixer.-Only 4 faders. The software lets you control the volume of many more than 4 devices. You’ll have to pick and choose what’s important for you to fade and set the rest in software.-No headphone volume control knob means you’ll either control your headphone volume elsewhere, or set it to a fader. Seems like an odd thing to skip out on.-No volume control for mic playback at all, even in the software. Again, this seems an odd thing to skip out on. There IS a way to shut off the mic playback in the software.-No power button anywhere? I enjoy the lights when I’m awake, but not when it’s bedtime! So I find myself unplugging the device when I’m done for the day. But I make sure my computer is off too before I do that, or it causes hiccups. I hear they are implementing a sleep mode of some kind in the future, but it isn’t here at the time of this review.-Because so much of the functionality is software-driven, it’s likely to cause headaches down the road. As I said earlier, I’ve already encountered times where my system volume just isn’t on at all, and I had to mess with rebooting the software to fix it.Ultimately, what we have here is a great mixer that will consolidate all your devices into one. The mixers I’ve had before have been enormous 12-channel beasts with me only using 10% of the board, for less control than this device provides… I use nearly everything on here, and I come out sounding great. I gotta give it an ace rating for that, even if I do think they could improve on it. I do think it is missing a few minor things, and I’m working around those. For example, I’m using my keyboard’s volume control to control my headphone volume. I’m really happy that I stumbled upon this product, because there really isn’t anything out there like it, and for this price.
Amazonian –
So close to perfect but falls short on a few key featuresFirstly, this device is amazing just for the ability to map different sound sources to the sliders. Right now, I have it set up so that I have a slider for my speakers, a separate slider each to control the system volume, music/browser, and discord. And the options are pretty much limitless when it comes to what you want to map to which slider and all the colors are customizable. It’s amazing, and even if you aren’t a streamer, would be super useful all by itself. The mini would be great for non-streamers just for this feature.That said, I’ve found that the software side is where things fall a bit short.The worst, is just the bugs. The first time I tried to install the software, it bugged out and couldn’t “find” my goxlr, which was plugged in via standard USB-A. It finally corrected itself after I tried a few different USB ports.The second major bug I’ve noticed, is that if I switch to the “sleep” profile before turning off my computer, suddenly my speaker volume and mic playback volume shoots to MAX and I get an extremely loud feedback loop between my mic and speakers for a good second or two. It’s rare, but it happens. And just for context, I don’t have my mic routed to my speakers in either my main profile, or the sleep profile, so there’s no reason this should happen. Just absolute silliness and they need to fix this.AND MY BIGGEST ISSUE… while we are talking about the sleep mode/sleep profile… switching to this profile is REQUIRED if you want to turn of the LED’s while your pc is off, unless you want to unplug the GoXLR each time you turn off your pc. This is a HUGE pet peeve of mine… if your device has LED’s, add a dang off switch. A lot of people’s pcs are in their bedroom.Super simple that you’d think for how long this thing has been out, they would’ve solved it by now. They’ve had a “feature request” for auto switching to sleep mode on PC shutdown for a while in their discord now, but so far it hasn’t happened. If they finally implement that, my biggest gripe with this device would be solved.If they ever fix these bugs this would be a 5 star device, no questions asked, but as of now I would wait on this, join the discord, and see if they update this. Haven’t seen a single update since I got this device over a month ago, hopefully they are working on this.
BK –
Great combo for preamp, mixing, eq, compressor, noise gateAfter a year of experience, I have edited my review to share my observations, and why I still would justify buying the GO XLR mini over the other options I tried (like Blue Yeti X with Logitech G-Hub or Voicemeeter or M-Audio or MOTU M2).-The preamp is loud and has a superior tone compared to other preamps I have used. I don’t have a great voice, and this makes me sound good on any mic, which says a lot. It’s full, warm, and balanced and retains a lot of coloration and character in my recordings. The noise is not loud at all. I’ve had quieter self noise on the MOTU M2, but it makes my voice sound a tad muffled. I find the GOXLR Midas preamps have the best balance and sound quality.-EQ, compressor, noise gate, and mix: The EQ, compressor, and noise gate is just minimum customization for pre-processing. It allows for just enough, but it felt limited. In a sense, it’s better that way because if I just customize minimally, I can avoid over-processing and sounding unnatural. It also means that it’s a little easy to over-process if settings are too high.-EQ works great. I found that my settings with different mics are fairly consistent with my surroundings and my voice. Was able to tame some of the annoying clicks, sibilance, room reverb, boom/rumble a tad while retaining the high/mids/lows I need. The GOXLR mini only has 6 frequencies to EQ, so it does feel a tad limited, but at least can do the minimum I require. The normal GOXLR has more options (but bigger and more expensive).-The compressor is so strong it’s too easy to screw it up. I had my attack too low and release too high with not enough make-up gain for the longest time that sometimes it produced a pumping noise. I found out that the attack and release has to be closer to the lower middle end, with a tad higher make-up gain for best results. For low compression, I found 2.5:1 works quite naturally. For higher compression, 4:1 works best overall. Just real sweet without distracting booms.-The noise gate settings are strong, but if slightly adjusted, works great without sounding distracting or taking away from my voice. It’s so strong in fact that I leave it in the minimum settings and it does a great job. Any higher will ruin the quality.-Mixing: Sometimes I have music streaming from my phone in the background. It’s cool to adjust once in awhile for effect. Usually keep it at 35%.-Live monitoring/Playback: The preamp hiss is so loud, I had to buy a 3.5mm filter to get more accurate live monitoring/playback. And it can get LOUD. If not careful, the live monitoring can get so loud it can create an echo or feedback on the mic, or worse yet, hurt my ears. Gotta keep it turned down. Gotta have the filter to cut down the hissing noise. Just to be clear, the hiss is not recorded.-Interface/Menu/Sliders: The software menu isn’t too confusing. It can be used to customize LED settings or save other mic profiles. Using the sliders is fairly straightforward. I find the soft buttons of the mute and bleep to be pleasing to the touch. The Go XLR menu interface is great because it’s not a resource hog, but rather a control center with minimum resource drain because the actual processing is done onboard the Go XLR mini itself, which also makes for smoother output.-Build: It feels sturdy but like all interfaces, it’s a bit clunky and can be awkward to place on a desk. The GOXLR mini is just slightly bigger than the other 2 audio interfaces I used.For $200, the GOXLR is a better deal than all other audio interface and processor combos. High quality audio and pre-processing all in one package.The ONLY issue some people may have with it that I can think of, is that there is only 1 mic XLR input. If you want to podcast with multiple people on one device, this would be a hard no.For my usage scenario: 10/10 – I do not need any other device.
Cameron Hiatt –
Fantastic overallI really like this product. It has allowed me to separate my audio tracks for streaming very well. The software interface for doing so is well designed and easy to use. But it can be a bit daunting to set up the first time. I used Herris Heller’s setup video to help me figure it out which was great.There are some issues though I ran into that showed the support for it is pretty lack luster, they have a discord for support but they don’t seem to want to help you very much. But I was able to figure out the issue myself and have helped people with the same issue find the solution. The issue was a crackling pop pretty often with it and I discovered it was because my motherboard usb port was dropping power to it in mere milliseconds causing the popping noise. It wouldnt reboot or anything but the power delivery was faulty. Updating my motherboard’s BIOS fixed this issue. Apparently it stemmed from a greater issue they had with AMD motherboard usb ports, so if you have that issue, update your motherboard BIOS to the latest version and you should be good to go.I love the ability to customize the look of it and how nice it fits on my desk. Honestly perfect for my needs as I was looking for a device that could use my XLR mic and allow me to separate out my audio tracks on my PC for streaming and gaming. If you want something simple like that, highly recommend.Previously I used Shure’s xlr to usb adapter and that sucked compared to this. Very happy with my purchase.
Cormac O’Mahony –
I have to admit, this is a GREAT interface!I originally got this mixer/interface because the interface I had before couldn’t power an sm7b. But after playing around with it for about a month, I can safely say that this met my expectations!The individual faders are AMAZING for volume management for separate audio streams. whether I’m in a discord call, listening to spotify, watching a youtube video, etc., this mixer can control each part by itself, instead of controlling every application at the same time!Like I said before, the interface I had before (arturia minifuse 1) couldn’t power a shure sm7b, and I didn’t want to shell out another 150 bucks for a cloudlifter. And I can very much say that the goxlr mini can power an sm7b, with a lot of headroom to spare. The eq, limiters, and compression also really help, especially for dynamic mics like the shure. and for both the mixer/interface itself, you can apply different profiles to tune your sound for whatever you like.And also, if you’re a music producer, I noticed that you can plug an electric guitar into the front mic input, which can make for some really nice integration into your music. It’s also funny to mess around with people in discord calls as well.Overall, I’d give the goxlr mini a 9 out of 10, and for the price I got it for, it has even more value than any other mixer on the market. Thx tc helicon. 🙂
Brian –
WorksInitial Review (will edit if something changes)You DO NOT need a Cloudlifter with the GOXLR (Regular or mini) with the SM7B, sounds great out of the box, with the only thing manually changed being the gain so you can actually hear the mic.My only annoyance is the lack of routing options in the GOXLR app, I was hoping to fully replace Voicemeeter Potato with the GOXLR and at an initial glance, I don’t seem to fully be able to move my channels over as cleanly as I would want, but I will update this review if I find a solution.I noticed that my “Chat” and “Music” audio channels were actually switched around (the audio slider for “music” would instead adjust “chat” etc), and searching on reddit brought up people with the same issue – if you go into the GOXLR app’s “Mixer” tab and select the channel (say Channel 2, which would be the “Chat” slider on the physical device) and make sure the “Source” is correctly set (to “Chat”, in this case) and so on.Another annoyance comes from not being able to use bluetooth headphones as a part of the GOXLR app’s “Headphones” channel, giving a quick look finds some work arounds but this aspect isn’t out of the box simple, so far.
David Martinez –
If this was like 60 bucks, I’d Love it!First off, this product does what it’s meant to do and works well with my Shure SM7B without using a cloudlifter. People say settings reset after restarting PC, remember to save your profile again when you set everything up, save both the User Profile and the Mic Profile which have an asterisk (*) when it has not been saved. If you messed around with the sliders, when you restart your pc they will not stay where you left them and will reset to the way they are on the saved profile, so you have to move it to where that is to unlock the slider. Only way to pair these with a dac and amp stack for your headphones is removing the dac and connecting the go xlr to just the amp with a 3.5mm lineout to the analog line in. Like I stated before if this was like 60 bucks I’d love it. I’d honestly just go with something better like a Scarlett Solo and avoid these headaches.
BFordLancer –
BEST SOUNDBOARD FOR GAMING YOUTUBERSBest soundboard in the game. I’m a gaming YouTuber with over 1,000,000 subscribers and I swear by this soundboard. I have two for both my setups. It’s 10000000% worth it over the ‘mini version.
ThraceFulton –
Amazingly Useful Streaming MixerI’ve been streaming on Twitch for a little over 1 year. Up until now I’ve been using a condenser mic with a basic XLR interface connected to my single-PC setup, and it’s served me well. Around the time GoXLR was announced I had been putting together a wishlist of audio gear purchases, include a multi-channel mixer and voice changer, like many of my streamer friends recommended. I was looking for a way to gain more discreet (read: physical) control over my audio sources and inputs, as well as boost the quality of my audio chain with more powerful EQ, compression, gate, etc. (previously had used filters in OBS). Budget of dollars and desk space were limited.The GoXLR has answered ALL of those needs and exceeded my expectations in many other ways.Not only did it allow me to upgrade to a dynamic mic (the gain-hungry Shure SM7B) to help mitigate my untreated room reflections and background noise, but it has been an incredible upgrade to the control I have over my streams audio. I believe they say it has over 70db of gain in the preamps, which sound amazing and have very little noise (even when set to the 57db of gain I use for the SM7B).This mixer is supposed to be optimized for a streaming setup, and it shows in the specific features they included, as well as the arrangement of what is physical vs what is software controlled. You can fine-tune to your heart’s content, but will always have the most important settings close-at-hand with a fader, knob, or button. It’s really that simple. (insert “even a caveman can do it” meme here)With a single XLR input, this really is a mixer that gives up some advanced features in favor of allowing a single user to gain basic access to things many consider “extra” like voice changing and sampling along with the mixer. You’d have to spend well over $1000 to get all of these features in a collection of other devices, and not all of them will play well together, or even come close to fitting in the footprint the GoXLR (fits next to my streamdeck behind my keyboard).So will an advanced audio engineer find the device worthwhile? Probably not. Podcasts and multi-person streams will find other devices more appropriate for multi-track recording (currently not possible on the GoXLR) and more expandable. But for a streamer looking for that next step beyond the “basic” standard steup and more control over audio, I can’t imagine a better tool. I also have trouble imagining ever needing to graduate beyond it, as it will work even with a 2-PC stream rig extremely well, as evidenced by the plethora who use it that way.The voice changer is great, lots of store-able presets and fine-tuning. The sampler is amazingly powerful and was totally unexpected – being able to sample any source coming through the mixer at a single touch is so useful and fun. You can be a radio DJ with prepped sounds or even grab them live – it’s so easy!Setup was a breeze – 5min to get rolling, hours of fun messing with all the features making voices and samples. I have very little background in audio production so I needed to look up one or two things in the TC Helicon YouTube tutorials to get it set how I liked in the mic chain (compressor/gate settings). Software seems like it will continue to improve as they patch it and add more features, tooltips, and fix minor bugs (which are few).The TC Helicon staff on their Twitter and Discord are amazingly helpful, as is the community of users. Any technical difficulties (there can be many different ones with audio setups in Windows) are quick to be addressed, but I’ve not had any major ones. As they develop more materials around the product I imagine the initial user experience will get even better, as it should. Right now someone with zero audio experience may need some help, but the resources are there if you look for them.One final note: Do yourself a favor and install EarTrumpet to help keep Windows from messing with your source routing – this is great even if you don’t use the GoXLR, but it’s the perfect companion to their app.All-in-all, a great tool at a great price with tons of features and controls. Good software with tons of potential for further improvement. The ideal “next step” from basic XLR interfaces to total stream audio control!
Feliponjr –
I love this thingI love the go XLR mini so easy to adjust the sound on my pc even tho I don’t stream it’s so convenient to have this