Any mic. Studio sound, live.
Level Hound sits between your microphone and every app on your PC. An AI producer levels, cleans and shapes your voice as you talk, and you get voice effects, a soundboard and per-app routing on top, so you sound finished on every call, stream and recording.
Level Hound is a free microphone mixer and voice processing app for Windows 10 and 11, for streamers, podcasters, gamers and anyone on calls all day. It takes any microphone (USB, XLR through an interface, or a headset), cleans and levels your voice live, and sends the result to Discord, OBS, Zoom and other apps as a virtual microphone called Level Hound Mic. It costs nothing: there is no subscription and no account.
What it 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. Discord, OBS and Zoom pick Level Hound Mic like any other microphone. How to set it up.
Voice changer
Real-time voice models running on your own GPU. 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.
Phone remote
An optional remote on your phone, over your own Wi-Fi, for mute, levels and modes.
Updates itself
Signed updates install quietly in the background. No admin prompt. Pick stable or beta, and roll back with one click.
Built not to break
Fixes itself
When a Windows update, a reboot or sleep changes your default mic, renames a device or drops a route, Level Hound puts it back and tells you what it fixed.
Sound check
Finds the cause of crackle and dropouts, like mismatched sample rates, a late audio thread or the power plan, and explains the fix in plain English.
No double processing
Spots Discord, Windows enhancements, NVIDIA Broadcast and other apps cleaning your voice on top of Level Hound, and tells you which one to turn off.
Game mode
Steps back automatically when a full-screen game starts, and shows exactly what it costs in CPU, GPU and memory.
Anti-cheat safe mode
Keeps its own driver out of the way while protected games run. See the compatibility list.
Your settings, backed up
Versioned backups of every setting, restored automatically if a file is ever damaged. A clean uninstall puts Windows back the way it was.
For streams, calls and podcasts
Replay buffer
Always holds the last minute in memory. One key saves it, or drops what you just said straight onto the soundboard.
Record everything
One button records your mic, desktop and each app on its own track, plus a VOD mix with the music taken out.
Several virtual mics
A Stream mic and a Chat mic, each with its own mix. Mix-minus is automatic, so callers never hear themselves back.
Ducking you can hear
Music and games dip when you talk, a call comes in or a sound plays, on your headphones too, not just on stream.
Hear yourself, fast
Low-latency monitoring of your processed voice, voice changer included, with the actual delay shown.
Co-hosts in one room
Up to four extra mics with an automatic mixer that brings up whoever is talking and holds back the bleed.
Calls that sound right
Echo cancellation on speakers, quiet and loud callers evened out, and a fix for Bluetooth headsets stuck in call mode.
Type to speak
Type a line and it goes out in your current voice, voice changer included. Handy for a sore throat or a sleeping house.
Stream Deck, OBS and scripts
A Stream Deck plugin, OBS scene rules and a local API with a command-line tool for everything else.
No catches
Any mic, any GPU
USB, XLR or headset. The voice changer runs on NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics.
No account
Nothing to sign in to and no subscription. Your voice is processed on your PC and never uploaded.
No voice cap
Load any voice model you have. There's no free tier with six voices.
Guides: Route one mic to Discord and OBS · Virtual audio cable setup · Level Hound vs Voicemeeter · Make any mic sound good on Windows
Requirements
- Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
- Any microphone: USB, XLR through an interface, or a headset
- A DirectX 12 GPU (NVIDIA, AMD or Intel) for the neural voice changer
- VB-CABLE, VB-Audio's donationware virtual audio cable, for Level Hound Mic (the installer points you to it)
Questions and answers
What is Level Hound?
Level Hound is a Windows app that sits between your microphone and the apps that use it. An AI producer adjusts gain, EQ, compression and noise suppression as you speak, and the processed voice reaches other apps through a virtual microphone called Level Hound Mic. It also includes a soundboard, real-time voice effects, per-app routing and a mixer for your speakers.
Who is Level Hound for?
Level Hound is for people on Windows who talk into a microphone and want to sound finished without buying audio hardware: streamers, podcasters, gamers on Discord and remote workers on calls. It works with any microphone, including USB mics, XLR mics through an interface and headsets.
How much does Level Hound cost?
Level Hound is free. There is no subscription, nothing renews and there is no account to create.
How do I route my mic to Discord and OBS with Level Hound?
Pick your real microphone in Level Hound's Audio setup screen, then choose Level Hound Mic as the input device in Discord, OBS, Zoom or any other app. Every app that listens to Level Hound Mic hears the same processed voice. The Test everything button plays a chime and records three seconds of your voice so you can confirm it works. Step-by-step guide.
Do I need a virtual audio cable to use Level Hound?
Yes, one, and Level Hound sets it up with you. 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, shows it as Level Hound Mic 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 virtual audio cables work.
How is Level Hound different from virtual audio mixers like Voicemeeter or SteelSeries Sonar?
Voicemeeter and SteelSeries Sonar are virtual audio mixers: you route apps and devices to channels and adjust the mix and EQ yourself. Level Hound also routes and mixes, but its AI producer sets gain, EQ, compression and noise suppression for you while you talk, and it adds a soundboard, a voice changer that runs on your own GPU and self-repair after Windows updates. Voicemeeter offers more manual routing, with up to eight inputs and eight outputs in its Potato edition. Level Hound vs Voicemeeter.
Does Level Hound upload my voice?
No. Level Hound processes your voice on your own PC and never uploads it, and the voice changer runs on your own GPU. There is no account, and the app has no analytics, ads or tracking. If you add your own Claude API key for the AI producer's cloud features, it sends settings and audio measurements to Anthropic, never audio.
Does Level Hound work with games that use anti-cheat?
Level Hound's audio processing runs as a normal Windows app and does not involve anti-cheat. Its anti-cheat safe mode keeps Level Hound's own driver out of the path while protected games run. The compatibility list on levelhound.org covers each anti-cheat system and says plainly that the entries have not yet been verified with real games. Game compatibility.
How do I install or remove Level Hound?
Download the installer from levelhound.org and run it on Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). Updates install in the background, and you can roll back to an earlier version. To remove it, use Settings, then Remove Level Hound; a clean uninstall puts your Windows audio settings back the way they were.