Handheld portable recorders with XY microphone configurations are great for tight stereo imaging but if you want to capture a wider ambient sound then an AB configuration would probably be better.

The company describes it as a powerful yet compact 4-channel field recorder and mixer, suitable for film production and video journalism, as well as field recordists and sound designers. The FR-AV4 ...

Smartphone videos from concerts used to have squawking soundtracks of distortion and formless bass. Scour YouTube for videos of gigs from five or six years ago and you’d do well to even identify the ...

Recording audio on a budget — meaning with few crew and limited equipment — can be a challenge. For interviews I like using lavaliers — life is much easier not having to deal with cables. A good ...

It might have a retro look, but Tascam says that its new Studio Bridge is designed to solve a thoroughly modern problem: to connect the analogue and digital recording worlds. What we have here is a 24 ...

TASCAM has launched the DR-60D audio recording solution dedicated for on-set filmmakers and videographers using DSLR cameras. The DR-60D is a brand new 4-track solid-state recorder. The device will ...

No matter how convenient and omnipresent your smartphone may be, and no matter how powerful and clever the apps upon it become, when it comes to the quality and convenience demanded by audio pros, ...

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Tascam has announced the release of its new Audio File Manager software. The free software is a file browser that displays the waveform of a file in a selected library, with additional features.

Audio recording formats and techniques have come a long way since the gramophone. By the early 20th century, we were able to record sound on magnetic tape, which became the standard up through the ...