Sound travels in waves. When you listen to music or any sound on your speakers, sound travels through air in waves from the sound source to your ears. But what exactly are these sound waves? How...

When I first started working as a speaker designer, many of the engineers where I worked referred to speakers as transducers. In fact, many of the senior speaker design engineers called themselves...

Speaker total harmonic distortion is a speaker specification that can tell us a lot about the quality of a speaker driver build. It is a fundamental tool of speaker design and...

My first microphone purchase ever was a pair of pencil mics. It might seem strange to go for pencil microphones first, however, these are excellent microphones for musical instrument recording and...

Picking a microphone for recording or any live sound application can be daunting if you are new to the world of microphones. There are different microphone types, designed for different live sound...

If you’re an engineer or sound technician, then you know that microphone placement is a key factor in achieving the best sound quality for voice recordings. But how do you know where to place your...