What Is Phantom Power, and Which Mics Actually Need It
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What Is Phantom Power, and Which Mics Actually Need It

Phantom power is 48 volts of DC electricity that your audio interface, mixer or preamp sends up the same XLR cable that carries your audio, to run a microphone that cannot power itself. It is cal...
Studio Monitor Placement, How to Set Up Your Monitors
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Studio Monitor Placement, How to Set Up Your Monitors

Studio monitor placement means putting your two monitors and your head at the three points of an equal-sided triangle, tweeters at ear height, angled about 30 degrees inward, and pulled a little ...
Condenser vs Dynamic Microphone, Which One to Choose
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Condenser vs Dynamic Microphone, Which One to Choose

The short version of condenser vs dynamic microphone comes down to one thing, sensitivity. A condenser mic is highly sensitive and detailed, so it captures air and nuance beautifully, and it need...
The Best Audio Interface, and How to Actually Choose One
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The Best Audio Interface, and How to Actually Choose One

The best audio interface is not the one with the most knobs or the biggest number on the box. It is the one with stable drivers, enough inputs for what you actually record, and a clean preamp tha...
Open-Back vs Closed-Back Headphones, Which to Choose
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Open-Back vs Closed-Back Headphones, Which to Choose

Whether you want open-back or closed-back headphones comes down to one word, and that word is air. Open-back cups let air move freely through the driver, so the sound breathes, opens up, and leak...
What Is a Synthesizer? A Plain-English Beginner's Guide
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What Is a Synthesizer? A Plain-English Beginner's Guide

A synthesizer is an instrument that builds sound from scratch, using electronics instead of strings, air, or a very patient drummer. You start with a raw electronic tone and shape it into anythin...
Active Studio Monitors, How to Choose the Right Pair
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Active Studio Monitors, How to Choose the Right Pair

Active studio monitors are speakers with the amplifier already built in, tuned by the maker to match the exact drivers inside, so you plug them straight into your interface and start mixing. That...
Closed-Back Headphones, When and Why to Use Them
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Closed-Back Headphones, When and Why to Use Them

Closed-back headphones seal the rear of the earcup shut, so they lock the outside world out and stop your sound from leaking into a microphone. That seal is the entire trick, and it is why they a...
Two notes GENOME 2.0 - New Amps, AmpNet and an iPad Version in One Package
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Two notes GENOME 2.0 - New Amps, AmpNet and an iPad Version in One Package

Two notes has made a move you rarely see on the market: the Two notes GENOME 2.0 software, valued at 129.99 euro, now comes free with the purchase of any qualifying piece of the brand's hardware. ...