A microphone that picks up sound from the front of the unit. Also called a "unidirectional" mic, the term cardioid comes from "kardia," which means heart in Greek. The cardioid mic pattern loosely ...

Liz Jones (@KUOWLiz), a reporter with KUOW, contacted us with an idea after the Which Mic Should I Use? post published. She recommended we get the input of various reporters in the field to hear about ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his laptop. Upon searching, he was faced ...

Shure introduced UniPlex, its new 5mm subminiature cardioid lavalier microphone engineered to be the ideal, discrete solution for speaking applications where rejection of stage noise, an audience, or ...

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Production audio is like fish stored in the refrigerator. The best audio is like fresh fish; you don't notice it's there. But bad audio, like three day-old fish, makes its presence known by creating a ...

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NZXT has made a name for itself with PC cases and CPU coolers, but the company has been branching out to peripherals recently, and the Capsule Mini is proof it should continue doing so. The NZXT ...