hackaday reader john young writes: This is a beautiful hack. Australian grad student Scott Mitchell turned a (pedigreed, as it turns out) sixties desk lamp into a parabolic microphone, a la Francis ...

External microphones used to be a gadget with a fairly niche appeal, but now that most of us are doing approximately 20 times more video chats than we used to, it’s a piece of kit you might want to ...

One of the most important pieces of equipment you can invest in for your work from home setup is your microphone. Whether you need a good quality mic for video content creation, Zoom meetings, or ...

Elgato knows what its customers want—and perhaps more importantly, what they need. Coming from the days of simply offering capture cards and effective ways to stream games, Elgato has recently been ...

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The EPOS B20 is a great first stab at a streaming microphone and is one of the most elegant desk microphones around that just so happens to sound great, with the multiple pickup patterns supporting ...

Audio purists like to give USB mics a bad rap. The all-in-one design that connects directly to your computer is often seen as inferior to an XLR mic connected through a dedicated audio interface. But ...

Streamers are spoiled for choice when it comes to gaming and podcast microphones, but some of ’em almost demand a sound engineering degree to get the best possible recording quality. There’s no need ...

SteelSeries announced its new line of Alias desktop mics today. While SteelSeries is best known for its gaming headsets, the SteelSeries Alias and Alias Pro mark its first foray into the mic space.

In the world of desktop audio for podcasting, streaming, and otherwise recording purposes, Blue has long held the crown without fail by way of its Yeti line. There just hasn’t been a mic that offered ...

Given the right connector, you can connect just about any type of microphone to your PC. Traditional computer microphones plug into your sound card's microphone or line-in input. However, many ...