If there's one thing to know about sound recording and audio production, it's that there's a lot of different terminology and industry phrases to get your head around. One you might have come across ...

In YouTube influencer Madilyn Bailey’s acoustic cover of Adele’s “Love in the Dark,” the powerhouse singer wields perfect mic placement—she stays close enough for detail but far enough to avoid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's certainly true that some of these virtual drums/drummers sound awesome, and offer a mind-boggling choice of sounds and ...

Mic placement is more than a simple decision of “which side of the speaker?”—it is the first, most intimate dialogue between the musician and the engineer that shapes a track’s sonic identity. From ...

The tried and true favorite snare microphone, for several years, has been the Shure SM57. The most common method of mic placement on the snare drum is the “top” and “bottom” approach. Within most ...

A wireless microphone can sound excellent and still produce poor audio if the levels are set badly. Push the signal too hard and loud words distort. Set it too low and the voice becomes weak, forcing ...

Keeping the microphone "off-axis" or at an angle to the speaker is crucial for many microphone to avoid plosives: the popping Ps and hard consonant Cs and Ks. Place the microphone roughly at 45 ...