Audio Reviews

When you’re operating a boompole to capture dialog for a video or film production indoors, it’s often best not to use a shotgun microphone. The kind of microphone that you want to use is a small diaphragm condenser with either a hypercardioid or a supercardioid pick-up pattern. More specifically, there are only a handful...

We spend a few minutes checking out the second generation of Korg's portable nanoSERIES: the nanoPAD2, the nanoKEY2, and the nanoKONTROL 2.

The ONE USB interface brings Apogee quality audio and a built in condenser mic to Mac platforms at a great price point.

This hybrid hardware/software drum machine offers great drum sounds while the controller makes programming and performing easy and fun.

Featuring audio resolution rates up to 24bit/192kHz and both USB and XLR outputs, the Yeti Pro Microphone is versatile and sounds great.

These solid, low latency interfaces offer Focusrite mic preamps and a useful software package for a great value.

The VRM Box from Focusrite is a unique USB computer audio interface that’s solely dedicated to headphone monitoring. It enables you to listen to mixes on your computer with 15 different sets of emulated studio monitors, featuring everything from Genelec 1031A’s and Yamaha NS10’s to the built-in speakers on a flat-panel television.

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With XLR inputs, solid mic preamps, and optional AGC disabling, the DXA-SLR allows you to use quality microphones with your DSLR camera.

You can always go with roses, assorted chocolates and a greeting card, but a bit of imagination can’t hurt when it comes to making Valentine’s Day memorable. Here are a bunch of gift-giving ideas for her, for him and for the kids.

The M-Audio Axiom 25 features two-octave keyboard, encoder knobs, Mixer and Instrument modes, a Zone feature and Direct Link software.

Olympus knows a thing or two about making portable recorders, and its new LS-100 has the distinction of being the highest-quality model the company has ever produced. It features an excellent-sounding pair of built-in stereo condenser microphones, as well as a pair of XLR combo inputs.

Røde is the undisputed leader in on-camera microphone technology, and its new Stereo VideoMic Pro is the most lightweight, compact and superior sounding camera-mountable stereo microphone the company has ever built.

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