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New to the world of video production and unsure what gear to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three categories will get you started.

Focal’s newest Shape-series speaker boasts a host of unusual design features — which combine to make an unusually good monitor!

Headway’s portable preamps are designed to help you get the best possible sound from your acoustic instrument, whatever it may be.

Tablet-controlled mixers are nothing new — but some engineers are still wary of mixing without physical faders. Enter the DigiLive...

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New to the world of video production and unsure what gear to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three categories will get you started.

I’d like to get a mic for sound-design work. Specifically, I wish to record quiet sounds, amplify them and mangle them...


The K-Mix squeezes a mixer, an audio interface and a MIDI controller into one very tactile box.

Bus-powered audio interfaces with some additional mixing and monitoring capabilities.


New to the world of video production and unsure what gear to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three categories will get you started.

I'm writing this column in January just before setting off for the NAMM show in California, which is perhaps the highlight of...

We took HK Audio’s new mid-priced active speakers to an outdoor festival to see if they could cut the mustard.

Looking for some inspiration for your Christmas list? Check out our round-up of live sound gadgets.

Peluso's enviable reputation for building 'homages' to vintage mics looks set to continue with this tribute to Neumann's classic KM84.

New to the world of video production and unsure what gear to buy? Our guide to the five best options in three categories will get you started.

Find out how Mytek’s latest reference-level converter stacks up against the competition.

For such a simple-looking box, decked out with one knob, two buttons and no display beyond a single LED, the TC-Helicon Ditto Mic Looper is a very sophisticated piece of kit.

Born out of a successful microphone repair business, Extinct Audio’s first product is inspired by the classic Danish ribbon mics of old.