Having one of the best microphones can instantly upgrade you from barely audible to professional and pristine-sounding. Sure, your favorite laptop’s built-in mic might be just fine for quick calls, ...

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Your station's studio, with its suspended microphones and sublime acoustics, is on lockdown. You've read how NPR correspondents create makeshift studios and report from home. Now you have your own ...

Audio is a unique discipline (practice) in the M&E world because sound operators and technicians are required across all aspects of production and distribution. Sound practitioners and technicians ...

The Universal Audio SD-1 is a versatile, durable dynamic microphone offering natural sound for various applications from a trusted name in music tech, though it requires substantial preamp gain to ...

USB microphones may well be a dime a dozen these days, and for the most part, they can sound quite well after several auditory tweaks, but few are backed by a legendary group of PC sound professionals ...

Panasonic has announced the DMW-DMS1, a microphone designed to attach to the digital hotshoe on recent Lumix cameras. It ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his laptop. Upon searching, he was faced ...

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