When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Back in my college days when PortaPaks were all the rage, one of the most helpful and practical ...

A few summers of my misspent youth found me working at an outdoor concert venue on the local crew. The local crew helps the show’s technicians — don’t call them roadies; they hate that — put up the ...

If you work in the professional audio field, you need to use balanced lines for long signal runs to prevent hum and noise pick-up. This Balanced/Unbalanced Converter is really two projects in one. It ...

Balanced (differential) audio is carried as a differential signal on two wires, with no ground reference. This offers high common mode noise rejection. Unbalanced (single ended) signals are carried by ...

Iconic movie sound effects, your favorite songs, and ambient background noises are created through the art of audio mixing. From lo-fi to hi-fi and everything in between, here’s the lowdown on the ...

Podcast mixing — in fact, mixing audio stories of any kind — can be tedious. It's the part of the production process where you create balance, consistency, and clarity with all of the audio elements ...

In discussing the characteristics and performance of various interconnect systems; two points should be kept in mind. Balance is defined in terms of the impedance of the two signal conductors with ...

Mixing audio for a venue is a well-documented practice. At its most basic level, it requires microphones, prerecorded audio sources, a soundboard, loudspeakers, and, most importantly, a skilled ...

The versatile audio interface features balanced XLR inputs with phantom power, unbalanced instrument inputs, MIDI I/O, a built-in MEMS microphone and both balanced and unbalanced audio outputs The ...

So you just put the finishing touches on your new song’s final mix. You test it out in your AirPods, and it sounds phenomenal. But later in the day, you listen again in your car, and all the levels ...

In Part 1 of this series on audio fundamentals (“Let’s Talk About Some Basics of Audio for Radio”), we discussed audio problems and how to handle audio transformers. Most of today’s studios don’t need ...