The SteelSeries Alias Pro kit is our favorite microphone setup for streaming, and it's down to $237 this Prime Day
SteelSeries Alias Pro kit |Cardioid mic + Stream mixer | $329.99 $237.49 at Amazon for Prime members (save $92.50)
Setting up microphones, mixers and preamps for streaming is traditionally a fiddly affair, but this kit makes things very straightforward. What you get here is a great mic, and a very handy mixer/preamp combo with configurable buttons that works with SteelSeries Sonar suite for easy input/output switching and more. Add in a boom arm, and you have everything you need for superb vocal audio.
As someone that's spent a good portion of my life tangled up in XLR cables, I'll be the first to tell you that setting up audio gear can be a fiddly endeavour. If you're not inclined to get down and dirty with all the intricacies of a pro audio setup—yet still fancy capturing quality sound for streaming, podcasts and more—then this SteelSeries kit makes things about as painless as they can be.
Currently available at a touch over $237 for Amazon Prime Members (and $250 for those without a membership) as part of the Prime Day sales, the SteelSeries Alias Pro kit has almost everything you need to get going. For much less fuss than you might expect, too.
I reviewed the Alias Pro kit at the start of this year, and came away very impressed with the package as a whole. The pill-shaped microphone, unlike the regular SteelSeries Alias, ditches internal amplification for an XLR port, through which it links to a very compact Stream Mixer that acts as both a preamp and a streaming controller.
On the front of that little unit are two RGB-lit soft-touch configurable buttons for things like muting and input switching, along with a dedicated gain dial and a much larger configurable dial for all sorts of uses. This can all be adjusted to your hearts content in SteelSeries' Sonar audio suite, and it's that integration that really makes things as simple as they can be here.
Once the mic's been hooked up and the Stream Mixer connected, Sonar performs a small miracle, auto-detecting your
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