With Elgato's new Wave Next devices out in the wild, you may be wondering why you would want to have all your voice processing baked in. Isn't it better to have more options later? What if something wasn't quite right and now you can't fix it? Here are the pros and cons.

You may have noticed that I haven't published a let's play video in a while. You're not imagining things and no, it's not a quirk of the algorithm. So let's talk about why.

There is a lot of bad advise on the internet, so I thought I'd use some of my video and audio production background to offer something useful. I'm not trying to call anyone out, but a lot of myths have been circulating for so long that people truly believe them and don't even know they are giving bad advice. So if you are new to this audio production thing, I'm here to tell you that a) you're probably overthinking it and b) throwing money at the problem will not solve it.