In 2015, Razer joined the creator audio space (before there was much of a space to speak of) with the Razer Seiren. Since then, they have seen a massive boom in the creator market and an evolution that spans from truly amateur sound to professional-grade audio. With some upgrades to bring the Seiren series into the next generation, a sleek design and Razer’s mastery of the ecosystem, the Razer Seiren V3 Pro promises to be a worthy competitor in the audio game.
In the box, you get the Razer Seiren V3 Pro, a braided USB-C cable, a USB-C to USB-A adapter, a detachable base and the documentation. The build of the mic is decent. It has a zinc unibody, which makes for a professional looking mic and gives the body some weight. It is pretty susceptible to taking on the oils from your fingers, leaving some pretty noticeable fingerprints when handled.
On the mic, you have a capacitive mute button that looks as if it would have a little give when pressed, but it doesn’t, which is a shame because it is very easy to graze over and mute your mic without knowing. Depending on the position of your microphone, you may not even see the RGB ring on the Razer Seiren V3 Pro that would indicate that for you. You’d have to notice it on camera in that case.
The Razer Seiren V3 Pro’s biggest move was to move towards a hybrid USB/XLR model, which makes it a fantastic all around option, letting you buy it as your starter mic hooking up via USB, then graduating to an XLR audio interface down the road if you choose, or if your content requires it. Just know that, if you go with XLR, the RGB ring will not be powered and the mute button will not work. At the back of the mic, you will find a 3.5mm headphone jack for zero-latency monitoring and a wheel that can control your audio levels.
“The Razer Seiren V3 Pro’s biggest move was to move towards a hybrid USB/XLR model, which makes it a fantastic all around option…”
The detachable base on the Razer Seiren V3 Pro has really nice rubber footing for stability, but I would have loved for it to be a bit heavier so it felt more sturdy on your desk. As I always recommend mounting on an arm anyways, it isn’t the end of the world. Speaking of mounting on a boom arm, the dual threads on the attached arm should allow you to mount on most arms mic stands on the market without the need for an adapter.
The Razer Seiren V3 Pro has a 30mm capsule with a built-in shock absorber and pop filter to help provide the cleanest audio possible. The mic also provides 32-bit float, protecting you from clipping, giving you more confidence that you are providing clean audio, even if the levels are a little too high, or if they are perfectly fine, and you took to yelling in the midst of your broadcast, either from being too happy or, more likely, too unhappy with your game.
There is an on-board DSP on the Razer Seiren V3 Pro, allowing the mic to take on the bandwidth of processing your audio instead of your computer. With some computers, that little bit of processing power can be the difference between a perfect stream and dropped frames, so it’s a real life saver for many creators.
Setting up the Razer Seiren V3 Pro on your computer via the Razer Synapse app was, honestly, the best synapse experience I have had with a device from their company. Synapse gives you a whole new setup experience with a setup wizard, capturing audio and having you answer some questions about your environment, then they will provide the recommendations that you can automatically apply. From there, you can still tweak any of the settings. You are not locked in.
In Razer Synapse, you have a 8-band EQ for your Seiren V3 Pro with all kinds of presets for most scenarios, from podcasting to gaming. The software offers a de-esser to eliminate sibilance, which works quite well, and a vocal bass and vocal exciter to boost the low and high frequencies that best compliment your voice. They also offer a noise gate, compressor and limiter, and its AI noise suppression does a good job and lowering (not eliminating in extreme cases, like my AC on full) without impacting vocals.
The only special effect offered (more than some other software solutions) is a reverb, which creates excellent echo effects, letting you design the sound based on the size of the room and the intensity of the echo. You can control your stream’s audio from Razer Synapse, combining the Razer Seiren V3 Pro with other audio sources, like game, chat, music and more. It isn’t the best of the mixing softwares out there, but it is serviceable and, frankly, more than enough for most broadcast scenarios.
“Setting up the Razer Seiren V3 Pro on your computer via the Razer Synapse app was, honestly, the best synapse experience I have had with a device from their company.”
Lighting on the RGB ring on the Razer Seiren V3 Pro is also controlled via Razer Synapse, with simple lighting scenes available in any colour you choose, or more advanced scenes built with Razer Chroma Studio, where you can create whatever you wish if you have the patience and creativity.
The sound quality on the Razer Seiren V3 Pro is quite nice. The mic, whether connected to your PC directly or via an audio interface, was crisp, but honing in the settings on either Razer Synapse or whatever your options are with the interface (be it software or hardware) will be the difference in terms of how your final output sounds. In my case, both experiences, using Razer Synapse or an Elgato Wave XLR that I used as my testing audio interface for XLR connection (controlling it through Elgato’s Wave Link software), gave me great results.
At $249.99 USD, the Razer Seiren V3 Pro is $100 cheaper than the mic it resembles closest, the BEACN Mic, offering a lot of the same tools, like a 96KHz sample rate and 32-Bit float, as well as XLR connectivity, and that can definitely make it an enticing option for someone looking to get a solid starter mic, or upgrade from a less solid starter mic. But, the combination of an improved mic design and greatly improved software experience makes the Seiren V3 Pro easy to recommend, despite its few surface-level flaws.
