TC-Helicon GO XLR MINI Reviews

Surprisingly good!

This is a product that is advertised for gamers. However, it is surprisingly useful even for non-gamers. The quality of the preamps and decent app makes it a very cheap all-in-one solution if you are looking for more than just an audio interface. Highly recommended!

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Amazing

This audio interface is amazing in everything, from sound quality to the visual appeal and the software, it's just great.

Good for the price

Sliders feel good, some resistance when sliding is great as I dont' accidently throw the sliders all the way up or down on accident. Construction is made of plastic, would have been better if it were metal but overall still feels sturdy.

I do get some ground loop noise through my headphones, also cannot get a clean headphone output when monitoring.

still satisfied with how easy the setup is and recommend this to all my friends.

I found a scratch on it

There is a scratch in the "Music" bar I found after setting it up. It doesn't matter on the usage but it is physically a bad thing.

Amazing

The GOXLR is honestly a game changing bit of kit for any type of content creator the total control of your audio sources at your fingertips is amazing and makes everything so simple/ clean and stylish 100% one of the best investments I've made for my setup for streaming

good

it's good but i had issue with it it's not working good with RTX 3080 OC asus Tuf Gaming i hope they make update for it

MY BEST PURCHASE EVER!

This has made my youtube videos and live stream sound so professional its unbelievable, Was the easiest thing I've ever set up and the customization on the software is so good and the software its self is very user friendly

Overall good

Very pleased with this product, running it with a Shure sm7b, Eq is simple in the software, and having physical sliders for different audiochannels like discord, music and game/system audio makes my day way easier. Buildquality of the chassis and buttons are good but the sliders are smooth but the caps of the sliders feel abit cheap.

Best streaming device.

i love it it is the best thing for your XLR mic for streaming. Great controll, good looking and very simple. Love hardwere and software!

Great

Great Shjop and item and service

Only option worth buying under $400

It works great. It's amazing how easy it is to setup. Although I wished it had one more volume slider and that the *bleep*-button was customizable; it is without a doubt the most complete usb soundcard in its price range.

Amazing mixer for the price

Decided to buy this mixer to go with my Røde Podmic and it has been amazing so far, it's powerful enough so I do not need a cloudlifter.

I like that I can play with the settings and I get to sound just like I want to, there are also a lot of videos how to use them, definitely easier than it looks. The only downside I have so far is that the mixer doesn't turn off when you shutdown your pc, so all the lights are still ON and the only fix so far is to change it to Sleep mode before shutting down your PC.

Great mixer for streaming

best mixer in the world for streaming

Really like it

easy to set up, just watch a video on youtube and its all done.

for the one that wonders if u need a cloudlifter for shure sm 7b and this go xlr, the answer goes both ways. It provides enough power so if u max it out, it will clip (arround 59 gain with no compression, is enough, keep in mind 72 is max posibile), but if u want a clean sound with no noise on background, u need a CL, because than u can lower gain on go xlr. Really like it c`ose it has EQ and Compressor and u can easely use zoom with it, to broadcast music and use ur mic, or stream with it or whatever you do. Happy holidays !!

Perfect for Broadcasters of all types!

If you're looking for a simple, feature packed interface to process your audio for a livestream, or even if you're a casual gamer. This has made things a breeze to set up. It's got everything you'd need to get what you need out of your microphone.

GoXLR is perfect

This is 1 of mine best thing i bought its very good and using it now for like 1 year still perfect sorry for bad english

Great mixer with a one aesthetic issue

I've found the GoXLR Mini to be a fantastic mixer for livestreaming on Twitch, as it gives me the ability to adjust sound levels on the fly, without having to dive into individual apps (games, Discord, Twitch alerts etc) to change volume levels. However, one thing that gets on my nerves is the fact that the sliders have printed names above them. I wish these were little LED screens so you can change text. My slider marked 'Music' for example is used for game sounds rather than music. I wish it could be changed to say 'game sounds'. But this is very minor. All in all though everything is built very well, slliders are smooth and the ability to measure volumes using the onboard LED equiliser is great. For those wanting a little more control over your streams, but don't want to spend the cash on the full sized GoXLR, then the Mini is definitely one to get.

Almost perfect, but lacking a few small things

It's a great replacement for my software processing. I used to use:

1. Voicemeeter Banana for routing my audio

2. Cantabile with Reaper plugins for microphone audio processing in real time

3. Equalizer APO for Equalization on my headphones.

4. A small AMP for my headphones

5. StreamDeck with Voicemeeter plugin for audio routing changes

I have managed to replace 4 of 5 of those things with the GoXLR mini

1. The routing table in GoXLR mini allows a lot of flexibility in routing audio to wherever I want

2. Built-in microphone processing with EQ, Noise Gate and Compression

4. Provides quite a decent amount of power and sounds quite nice. I no longer use my AMP, even though I've heard there's a way to connect it and use it together with the GoXLR.

5. StreamDeck with GoXLR plugin for easy audio routing changes

So overall, this has already been fantastic, it gives so much control at your fingertips, especially if you combine this with a StreamDeck, because it has a plugin for it where you can control either the Routing Table by itself or switch between different profiles you create in the GoXLR app itself if you want to change more than just the Routing Table.

There are several cons however:

1. Audio Routing - the routing table is great, but I would have liked to see at least one more output for speakers. We currently have Headphone Out and Line Out. That's enough for headphones and speakers if you do not have a second (streaming) PC. If you do, you have to use the Line Out for the second PC instead of speakers and then you have nowhere to connect your speakers and you can't switch to them with the press of a button any more. I feel like this is a common need for people who don't want to wear headphones 100% of the time. It's potentially doable if you have 2 GoXLRs and connect them to each other via Line In / Out and connect each via USB to each computer.

2. Very small con but microphone processing lacks a de-esser on the mini version, just because for some reason they decided to make this bus powered (i.e. usb powered) instead of having a separate brick for powering it. I am not sure why though, such a powerful and flexible device, who would complain if you had to power it separately? Just get an extension and problem solved. The de-esser would have been nice but this is a very small con.

3. Neither GoXLR version has any EQ on outputs! - this is a big con for me and I would like to see EQ on outputs, not just on the microphone in future versions of this product. There are 2 alternatives currently - if you use the Sampler channel that is detected in Windows to send your music with EQ to it. Then you use the Music channel to send your music without EQ to it. You can route the Music channel to the stream and the Sampler channel to yourself so only your music is EQed but not the stream's EQ. The 2nd alternative is to just send EQed music to your stream and then apply an equal and opposite EQ on the stream to cancel it out. So one EQ on your music with Equalizer APO and another opposite EQ in OBS to cancel it out for the stream.

4. The StreamDeck plugin keeps breaking constantly - if you are using this, make sure you find a version of stream deck and the GoXLR plugin that works for you and then make sure you do not update it! Every other update breaks the plugin and makes it unusable. It's incredibly frustrating.

Good product but lacks in a few small areas.

Build quality is okay, nothing special but solid enough.

lacks a few vital features

1) dedicated monitor headphone volume, you either dedicate and solider to headphone volume or use the software to change it.

2) software support is limited, updates and infrequent and honestly support is impossible to contact.

3) doesn't shutdown with the PC (stays lit up) unless you make some BIOS changes

positives

1) great sound

2) nothing compares on the market

3) mixer really helps to keep a 2 pc setup simple