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 ...

In-ear headphones present a great wired option for audiophiles who aren't keep on the bulk of over-ear headphones, and these ...

Balanced interfaces are ubiquitous in professional audio systems due to their ability to reject common-mode hum and noise. They are especially important in long-distance connections where each end has ...

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 ...

While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But over the last ...

Philips offers some good quality and technologically advanced headphones in varying budgets, from affordable to high end. Explore some of the best Philips headphones here, some with active noise ...

If you see a problem in the digital audio eye pattern, one thing to investigate is the interconnect cable. Are you using ordinary audio cable? For digital audio, regular analog audio cable doesn't go ...

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The Edifier W820NB are an affordable pair of headphones. Let’s see if they’re still worth your money. There are the cheap store-helf headphones that you get just to funnel sound into your ears. There ...

It really doesn't sound like it would work well. Recording a full, electric band in the studio, all playing together live with no overdubs, using a single microphone. But so goes the premise for ...