Hercules Stream 100 Audio Controller for Streamers with Hercules Stream Control App Support

I was a Voicemeeter user for a while but I found it over complicated and not very useful when you are in a middle of a game as you need to pause, open the software, click on stuff... I was looking for a small device that'd help me have a visual monitoring of my volumes and let me control them without having to Alt+Tab.I saw a couple videos on other products : theylooked very engineer-oriented without any room for customization, as Voicemeeter is.Stream Control app is straight forward, very easy to use. It does what it promises to do, and you get to change icons, backgrounds, colors, etc.I recommend.

First off, I'll just jump straight to the main issue with the device. It's the software. Upon waking the computer from sleep it will often have multiple sources muted, for example System sounds, Discord, Spotify etc. You have to manually unmute them and restart the software to get it to work properly. Sometimes the brightness resets upon waking the computer from sleep as well.The device itself, when the software is working properly, is completely fine at best. The screen looks bad and the knobs don't have much resistance to them. It was fine for controlling my system volume and discord etc but with the software issues I'm going back to using the Beacn Mix.

This mixer is very well made, looks great, and feels great. However, the software makes it a very good desk ornament, as nothing works properly within the software. Ports are a premium on the back of the mixer as well, no where near as many ports as a mixer with 8 channel options should have.

There was a bit of a learning curb with this for me. It works really well for my at home set up. It is compact so it doesn’t take up a whole bunch of space. All the knobs and functions work well. This is also a lot more affordable than some others

Just received my Stream 200. And I got to say, it is everything I have looked for !The product itself is very compact. It is all USB powered. And it has an on/off screen button, finally…Concerning the software, a few gifs explain how the thing work. It is straight forward : you select an audio channel from a list (Mic, Music, Chat, Game,…), then drag and drop it on an empty track of your device. Then you assign an audio source to a channel through Windows audio settings menu and you are all set.In reality, I did not have to drag and drop anything as it was already set up when I first used it. Apart from moving my Aux channel to the first page, I kept the default configuration. I changed the background and some icons though. (If anybody at Hercules is reading this : please allow us to add personal icons directly from the library)Major asset : Creator/Audience mixes. You can separate the audio you stream from the audio you get in your headset without any sort of routing matrix. A button allows you to switch from one mix to the other. And you can actually see on the screen how loud it is playing for the chat.Only oversight : it took me a few minutes to maneuver through the mic settings. It has 4 default presets, which is cool, but when you want to shape your voice more precisely, you have to get your hands on the Compressors, EQs, Noise Gates and all. I had to do some tests and retry. In the end I got it right though.5 stars !

I just received it and my 24hr in review is as follows:I love that this has optical input so I can route my TV to this device. The many amount of inputs is up there with the GoXLR but this comes in a way more compact size and skips on Faders with knobs. By saving the space and consolidating, my desk is cleaner! I never used the right side of my GoXLR anyway. I looked at the Rodecaster Pro II and Mackie Creator DLZ but they both take up 4x the space and leave a lot of features I don't need on there (though I wish I had 4 headphones out because I currently route to a splitter (one open ear headset for FPS, one wireless closed back headset , and one speaker system). But this is small and easy to place elsewhere.The Cons: pushing the mic knob does not mute the mic. On every other input, pushing the knob is a mute function. But for some stupid reason, hercules made the mute mic button just mute the playback of your voice to the output (I believe they call this monitoring your mic). You have to set up the button below the knob to silent the Mic. What kills me and scares me is that though it is muted, it does not affect the VU Meter from going up and down as there is sound to the Mic. It looks identical on screen when the mic is hot or muted. This is a huge deal breaker for me because the GO XLR I can physically see the Fader down but on this, you only see the light extinguished from the button. This is really dumb. So yeah if you are scared of a hot mic, this might not be for you.Overall the unit feels kind of cheap, but it is a fraction of the price compared to the Rode and Mackie. I can now place my mic behind the unit with the freed up space and not have to use a boom arm that gets in the way a lot so that was the goal. I'll keep using it for a few days to see if I get used to the mute function, but man day one was just a headache to figure out why when I pushed Mute (it does show red as off on screen) but it actually isnt a mute it is just muting the playback of my voice to myself -used windows recording and discord to prove that though I pushed mute knob - it did not mute.

I thought it would be a good steam deck remplacement but hell no the software is so beta and everytime you put a custom background and icons the screen start to glitch and the unit become very unresponsive tested on 3 different computers to be sure and same result , the lcd on this device also have a real bad viewing angle for me its a no. If you feel like that's a deal compare to competitor then take a chance can't recommend this device at all .