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Podcasts are getting a lot of popular attention lately. Maybe you have an idea for the next big hit. Use our guide to find your voice, create your podcast, and get it heard.

Audio quality via a Bluetooth device can be a great mystery, partly because Bluetooth only mandates in its basic audio standard, A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), a low-quality audio encoding algorithm. An audio encoder takes a data stream

APPLE HAS INTRODUCED AirPods Max, its first over–ear headphones, at $549. There are top–quality rivals available for much less but, in addition to promising premium acoustic performance, AirPods Max offers features you won’t find on most non–Apple he

Start building your home studio Paulette Wooten - Unsplash In 2010, The Gorillaz released an album recorded entirely on the singer's iPad. Like them, professional and amateur musicians and producers can write, produce, and release music from anywhere

01 Before you record a note, there are several things to check when recording guitars. For acoustics, worn out strings might give you a deader sound while strings that have not been worn in might sound too bright, so take these into consideration. Wi

LUNA is Universal Audio’s surprising new DAW outing. It transforms UA’s interfaces into fully integrated production systems, using its integrated DSP to create an analogue-style (Mac only) DAW centred around latency-free processing. LUNA offers preci

Samsung rolled out the Galaxy Buds last year to some success, offering a solid alternative to Apple’s AirPods for less money. They work well enough that Samsung saw little reason to change much for its new model, the Galaxy Buds+. These true wireless

A more compact model of Blue’s classic Yeti mic, this is a great starter microphone for anyone who is looking to break into streaming or podcasting. A shiny spherical mic with a magnetic base, the Meteorite is feature-light but not too expensive, and

For serious live streaming, you need the right gear. David Nield/Popular Science Live video game streams online attract hundreds of thousands of viewers, drawn in by the skill and personality of the presenters, the quality of the games, or both. Anyo

At $50, I already thought Monoprice’s TrueWireless Earphones were very good. That’s why I was so surprised by its slightly more expensive earbuds, the $70 TrueWireless Plus. The two pairs of earbuds look identical: They’re exactly the same size and s

There are many reasons why you need to work with audio files. Perhaps you’re considering setting up a podcast, to distribute recordings of talks, lectures, presentations or sermons. You might want to give your website a bit more panache by adding som

Vocoders aren’t hard to come by in modern studios, no matter what you think of them. Many synths these days come with vocoders built in, and, of course, there are countless plugins out there that’ll do the job perfectly well too. But if you want the

When people pose the old question about whether a tree falling in an empty forest makes a sound, they presuppose that none of the other plants in the forest are listening in. Plants, supposedly, are silent and unhearing. They don’t make noises, unles

You might call Zoom’s new H8 a handheld recorder, but it’s actually rather more than that. Offering an app-based workflow, it can be used not only for making field recordings, but also as a multitrack recording device and podcasting studio. With a he

Achieving room-filling, high-quality sound in a hotel room is difficult enough. Getting it in a cavernous ballroom is even more problematic. Yet, over the past few years at AXPONA, RMAF, and most recently at the February 2020 FLAX (Florida Audio Expo

IN 2019, 62 MILLION AMERICANS TUNED IN TO PODCASTS weekly, a number that’s growing. You too can capture some of those ears. But no matter how good your banter is, audiences won’t subscribe if your audio is full of static or your voice echoes like you

There’s never been a better time to be a working musician and home recordist. Interest and development are at an all-time high, and a whole host of high-quality equipment is well within reach. It’s also easier than ever to feel lost in a sea of new g

Rode’s VideoMic NTG sees two worlds collide — namely, the VideoMic family of utilitarian tools for videographers, and the NTG line of broadcast-style shotgun microphones aimed at audio professionals. The result is a versatile supercardioid self-power

As a musician, you should treat your voice with the same care as your guitar, whether you’re a leader singer or just contributing the odd backup harmony. And it’s especially easy to overlook good technique when you’ve got two jobs to do at once. Voic

You will need to practise good housekeeping and resource management on your iOS device, just like you do on your computer – perhaps even more so. Whereas computers can be upgraded with more RAM, faster hard drives and sometimes even new CPUs, iOS dev

Starting with this issue of The Shed, I am thrilled to begin a new series of articles on restoring and upcycling vintage technology appliances. Before getting stuck into our first project, I will explain the methodology I follow when working on a vin

Much of aviation changes slowly, if at all. After all, the most popular models in today’s fleet were built 40 or more years ago. It was nearly twice that long ago that the regulatory framework that governs light aviation was riveted in place. But tha

Interview: Allon Silove Whether its mixing Adele, Green Day and Black Sabbath, engineering for The Red Hot Chili Peppers or working with producers like Rick Rubin, Andrew Scheps’ work has always stood out for being powerful and bold. Scheps isn’t afr

The phenomenal growth of podcasting has largely gone under the radar. Yet recent news that music-streaming platform Spotify has signed Joe Rogan, the comedian, MMA commentator and podcaster, to an exclusive deal which – depending on which figures you

Audio quality via a Bluetooth device can be a great mystery, partly because Bluetooth only mandates in its basic audio standard, A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), a low-quality audio encoding algorithm. An audio encoder takes a data stream

The modular construction of P-90s and PAF-style humbuckers makes it easy to experiment with them. Filter’Trons are much the same, and the magnet and screw swaps I covered previously will work with them too. Just ensure you have the right fillister-he

> You might call Zoom’s new H8 a handheld recorder, but it’s actually rather more than that. Offering an app-based workflow, it can be used not only for making field recordings, but also as a multitrack recording device and podcasting studio. With a