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A USB microphone has the entire recording chain built into its body and plugs straight into your computer. An XLR microphone is only the microphone. The preamp and the converter live outside...

A sampler is an instrument that records a sound, stores it, and plays it back at any pitch you ask for — from a pad, a key, or a sequencer step. That is the entire definition. A synthesizer build...

FM synthesis is a way of making sound where one wave modulates the frequency of another, and the wobble between them creates brand new tones. FM stands for frequency modulation, the same idea as ...

Subtractive synthesis is the art of starting with a bright, harmonically rich sound and carving away the parts you do not want with a filter. You begin loud and busy, then subtract. That is the w...

To connect a microphone to a computer you have two routes. Plug a USB microphone straight into a USB port, or run an XLR microphone into an audio interface that then connects by USB. That is the ...

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 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 ...

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 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...