If you are new to sound design, you tend to underestimate the importance of good room acoustics. You might go out of your way to get an excellent microphone and some studio monitor headphones, only to end up fairly disappointed in your results. That’s because the acoustics of a room contribute to sound distortion as …
Not long ago, wireless headphones weren’t worth the cost of the plastic shell. The problem wasn’t that they couldn’t be well made. The problem was the wireless technology of the day. Before True Wireless Stereo (TWS), you could only get audio in mono, and bitrates were limited. You could enjoy an audiobook or a podcast …
For most of the history of battery-powered devices, you needed a wire to charge them. Want to charge your camera, cell phone, or laptop? You plug it in. What else would you do? But corded charging has a few distinct disadvantages. First off, it used to require you to use multiple chargers for multiple devices. …
Playing Xbox with your friends is one of the most enjoyable modern activities. Xbox controllers are wonderful devices in their own right, featuring responsive buttons and an audio hookup jack that you can use to send your voice over the Internet and communicate with your buddies. This jack lets you connect a microphone and/or headset …
If you’re old enough to remember Polaroid cameras, they probably bring back a lot of good memories. Not too long ago, they were a fixture of parties and other social gatherings. You snapped a picture, and it popped out of the bottom of the camera. Instead of taking film to a store kiosk and waiting …