Freddy Gerngross

Freddy Gerngross is a musician, educator, writer, and audio nerd based in Brooklyn, NY. A writer of reviews, guides, and announcements for the Pro Audio division at B&H, his other bylines can be found at Wirecutter and elsewhere. He can be found throughout Brooklyn and Queens shredding bass and synths for psych-rock, dream-pop, and hip-hop outfits, tearing up jam sessions, and reading surrealist novels in the park.

Latest Articles

Eight Tube Microphones That Won’t Empty Your Bank Account

5 days ago

With their history and pedigree, tube microphones have built a reputation for being the delicate, rare, and expensive stuff only the wealthy or most prestigious of recording studios can afford to have in their arsenal. While that was true in the past (and still is for some tube mics…

Tube Microphones

Studio Recording

SSL Announces the SSL 1: Their Answer to Solo Audio Interfaces

1 week ago

Solid State Logic has announced the new SSL 1, a compact and affordable audio interface with the same form factor as the powerful and popular SSL 2+. The new SSL 1 promises to be perfect for those with small home studios doing personal projects to those wanting to…

Audio Interfaces

Home Studio

Allen & Heath Introduced the Updated SQ+ Mixing Console Lineup

Allen & Heath Introduce the Updated SQ+ Mixing Console Lineup

2 weeks ago

Allen & Heath announced an updated lineup of their SQ series of digital mixers with the all-new SQ5+,…

Audio Mixers

Mixing Consoles

Wireless Microphones for Every Occasion

1 month ago

Wireless microphones are an incredibly popular and convenient solution to many of the problems that come with traditional wired setups: they require far less cabling, and that means fewer issues with shorted wiring, lowered chances of cable-related tripping, and a higher number on the “Days Since Last Incident” sign. While they can be a bit more difficult to onboard, once the system is up and…

Microphones

Wireless Audio Systems

Live Sound Part 2: Passive Speakers and Pro Rigging

1 month ago

Now that we’ve discussed the basic gear you need to put on a live show, lets look at the specific kind of gear and knowledge you’d need to set up a professional event at a large venue, stadium, or arena. Whether you want to gain more knowledge in pro live sound or you’re just curious, you’re in the right place! If you’re a beginner or want more context for this article, go ahead and check out the…

Live Sound

Event Audio

A Guide to Building Your PA System

1 month ago

The PA system is the linchpin of any venue or event space, whether it’s the hottest new night club, this weekend’s big house party, or the screening of the next indie film sensation. It’s integral to the experience of social activity—and because music and sound deserve to be clear, coherent, and exhilarating, the PA system needs to serve up the goods by being powerful, reliable, and properly…

PA Systems

Live Sound: What You Need to Put on a Show – Basements, Backyard, and DIY

1 month ago

When it comes to putting on a live show, knowing the specific gear to get and how to use it can be a daunting prospect. There are tons of different microphones, speaker systems, monitoring setups, and mixer environments, all of which are suited for different types of performance settings. And that's not even including power distribution, cabling, and other miscellaneous equipment you'll need to…

Live Sound

Event Audio

Hands-On Review: Sonos Play

1 month ago

As a new product that caters to an underrepresented segment of the home/portable speaker market, the release of the somehow simultaneously big and small Sonos Play looks to represent the culmination of Sonos’s reconciliatory pilgrimage. During the development…

Portable Speakers

Wireless Home Speakers

A Guide to Classic Studio Gear: 10 Studio Legend Reverbs and Effects Processors

1 month ago

Realistic artificial reverbs and other time-based processors are commonplace in today’s music technology, so it’s easy to overlook how much of a technical marvel it was when reverberation could be divorced from the physical location of a performance, and how quickly it transformed recorded music. From Bill Putnam’s reamping technique using physical echo chambers, to the Brobdingnagian 600-pound…

Effects Processors

Reverbs

Studio Recording

10 Music and Audio Gift Ideas Mom and Dad Will Love

1 month ago

With the days we've chosen to honor our parental units quickly approaching, it can be tough to find a gift that isn't just the same old stuff as last year. While grilling utensils or a bath kit can be the stereotypical and affordable solution, these 10 audio gift ideas can seriously impress your forbears—even if your parents aren't music lovers. For Vinyl Lovers: Audio-Technica Sound Burger and…

Mother's Day

Father's Day

Audio Routing and Signal Flow 101

1 month ago

Like anything worth creating, solidifying the process of a project is key to success. Often, the ambitious work of aspiring music producers can get bogged down from a lack of organization. Projects can bloat into dozens of unnamed tracks processed with reckless abandon, and audio and MIDI clips get chopped and sliced into a charcuturie board of chaotic (un)organization. For the fever-pitched…

Audio Routing

Audio Cables

Cables & Adapters

Mackie Announces the ThumpV4 PA System with New and Improved DSP Features

1 month ago

Mackie is releasing the next evolution of their Thump PA systems with the new ThumpV4 lineup, updated with their new SoundCheck DSP system, which promises to deliver better flexibility and convenience with even more instant processing settings that designed to cater to…

Loudspeakers

Subwoofers

More than the Music: How DPA Microphones Advance Science, Medicine, and Gaming

1 month ago

Since its founding in 1992, DPA Microphones has gained a prestigious reputation in the audio industry for their mics' exceptional quality, crystalline transparency, and rugged and reliable build quality. And while DPA's microphones have found their way onto the stage with Beyonce, onto the sets of Game of Thrones, and into the concert halls of the world's greatest orchestras, what's perhaps most…

Microphones

Sennheiser Adds the New Closed-Back HD 480 PROs to the Headphone Family

1 month ago

Sennheiser has unveiled the new HD 480 Pro professional recording and monitoring headphones, positioned as their highest tier closed-back pro-audio headphones for monitoring, music production, and mixing (not to be confused with the iconic open-back HD 600 series and audiophile reference-monitoring HD 800 series…

Headphones

Studio Recording