We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Audio recording was once limited to just a few inventive people creating content, but more people than ever are now recording their own audio ...

Microphones are transducers, meaning they convert sound waves from the environment into electrical signals that devices can interpret and reproduce. And just as musical instruments differ in their ...

I'm old enough to remember when plug-and-play USB microphones were rubbish. Your alternative, however, was the murky, audio nerd-inhabited world of XLR, which required the use of a separate interface ...

You can see the rationale here: Rode’s XLR-based PodMic has been a staple of spoken-word recordings for half a decade now, delivering incredible value microphones for streaming for under $100 / £100.