Microphone and audio for Windows · Early access
Level Hound: Any mic, studio sound, live
Level Hound turns any microphone into a studio on Windows: an AI producer that levels and cleans your voice live, real-time voice effects on your own GPU, a soundboard with hotkeys, and per-app routing for your mic and speakers, so you sound finished on every call, stream and recording.
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What Level Hound does
- AI producer. Listens as you speak and adjusts gain, EQ, compression and noise suppression so every take sounds finished.
- Soundboard and hotkeys. Play clips into your mic on a keypress, plus a global mute hotkey, profiles and a tray icon.
- Per-app routing. Choose which apps hear the processed mic, through the Level Hound Mic device. In the current early-access release that device runs on VB-CABLE, VB-Audio's donationware virtual audio cable, which you install once.
- Voice changer on your own GPU. Real-time voice models run locally. Nothing is sent to the cloud.
- Speakers and mixer. Route any app through output modes for calls, games and music, with a per-app mixer, ducking you can hear on your own headphones, and echo cancellation on speakers.
- Built not to break. Puts your default mic and routes back after a Windows update, reboot or sleep; a sound check that finds the cause of crackle and dropouts; and a warning when Discord, Windows enhancements or NVIDIA Broadcast are cleaning your voice on top of it.
- For streams and podcasts. Replay buffer, record every source on its own track, a Stream mic and a Chat mic with automatic mix-minus, up to four co-host mics, a Stream Deck plugin, OBS scene rules and a local API.
- Game mode and anti-cheat safe mode. Steps back automatically when a full-screen game starts, shows what it costs in CPU, GPU and memory, and keeps its own driver out of the way while protected games run.
Who it's for
Anyone on Windows who talks into a microphone and wants to sound finished without a rack of hardware: remote workers on calls all day, streamers, podcasters and gamers. It works with any mic, and it is free.
Questions people ask
Does Level Hound work with any microphone?
Yes. It sits between your microphone and every app on your PC, so any USB or XLR-via-interface mic works.
Do I need a virtual audio cable to use Level Hound?
Yes, one. In the current early-access release, Level Hound Mic runs on VB-CABLE, a donationware virtual audio cable driver from VB-Audio that you install once; Level Hound finds it and plays your processed voice into it. Routing other apps' sound through Level Hound Speakers needs VB-Audio's second cable pack, VB-CABLE A+B.
How much does Level Hound cost?
Level Hound is free. There is no subscription, nothing renews and there is no account to create.
Does the voice changer send my audio to the cloud?
No. Real-time voice models run on your own GPU; nothing is sent to the cloud.
Will it fight with Discord or NVIDIA Broadcast?
Level Hound spots other apps cleaning your voice on top of it and tells you which one to turn off, so your voice isn't processed twice.
Is it safe with anti-cheat?
There is an anti-cheat safe mode that keeps Level Hound's own driver out of the way while protected games run, and a game compatibility list on the site.
Is Level Hound available now?
It is in early access on Windows; see levelhound.org for the current release.
Guides
- How to make any microphone sound good on Windows (gain, noise, routing and the apps that fight each other) — A practical setup for calls, streams and recordings on Windows: fixing low or clipping gain, cleaning up noise without the robot voice, routing your mic per app, and stopping Discord, Windows and NVIDIA from processing your voice twice.
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Level Hound is made by Quill Hound. Details on this page come from levelhound.org, which is the authoritative description of the product and its pricing.