Category: Techniques and Products

While standing next to my screaming espresso machine during a morning Zoom call, I realized just how hard it is to find the best noise cancelling microphone earbuds that actually isolate your voice...

For the past month, my daily commute on the screeching subway and endless back-to-back Zoom calls in bustling coffee shops became the ultimate trial by fire to find the best noise cancelling earbuds...

For the past three months, I’ve been putting a variety of condensers and dynamics through their paces in my sound-treated basement tracking space, capturing everything from intimate acoustic...

I spent three weeks talking myself hoarse in my un-treated home office to find the absolute best microphones for voice recording, quickly realizing how easily a cheap internal preamp can ruin an...

After spending three months shouting into diaphragms in my untreated basement studio while my neighbor's lawnmower roared outside, I’ve finally mapped out the absolute best microphones for...

While walking down a windy, traffic-heavy metropolitan avenue last month, I noticed that most so-called "studio-quality" mobile accessories failed to block out even basic background rumble. To find...