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Audio frequency is how fast a sound wave vibrates, measured in hertz (Hz), where one hertz is one cycle per second. Faster vibration means higher pitch. The range a healthy human ear picks up is ...

A preamp, short for preamplifier, raises a very quiet signal to a level the rest of your equipment can work with. A microphone puts out a signal thousands of times weaker than the line level your...

Sample rate is how many times per second a converter measures an incoming analogue signal, written in kilohertz: 44.1 kHz means 44,100 measurements every second, and it sets the highest frequency...

An 820 euro sampler usually arrives with a power cable and good wishes. For one month it arrives packed. Torso Electronics is running an S4 campaign and we are in it. Every S4 bought from us come...

A DAW, short for digital audio workstation, is the software you record, edit, arrange and mix music in. Ableton Live, FL Studio, Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Reaper and Bitwig Studio are all DAWs. It is...

A groovebox is a self-contained instrument that puts sound sources, a step sequencer and a hands-on control surface in one box, so you can write, arrange and perform a whole track without a ...

Acoustic treatment changes what sound does inside your room. Soundproofing changes what leaks out of it. In a small home studio you want the first one, and you want it in this order: bass tr...

The best podcast microphone for almost everybody is a dynamic cardioid microphone that you speak into from about a hand's width away. Dynamic, because it ignores most of the room. Cardioid, ...

The best microphone for vocals is a large-diaphragm condenser if your room is quiet, and a cardioid dynamic if it isn't. That is the honest whole answer, and everything after this sentence is det...