Recording from home can sound every bit as polished as a pro studio if you focus on the right gear, mic placement, and workflow. From choosing the right microphone to treating your space and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Repeating golden placement of studio microphones between recording sessions can be a bit of an imprecise pain. The UK's Aston Microphones has come up with an industry first that could save precious ...

When you want to record or amplify a given sound source like a voice or a musical instrument, it is obvious to place the microphone in the near field close to the source. This sounds easy. However, ...