When you’re a videographer on a budget, capturing high-quality sound is a tough proposition. Generally, camera and smartphone mics don’t cut it — ensuring your sound shines through usually means ...

RedShark Review: Sound Devices released its MixPre series of audio recorders earlier this year, with the MixPre-10 the most recent addition. Erik Vlietinck had the opportunity to try out a MixPre-6, a ...

Though ubiquitous smartphones can be useful for capturing ideas when the musical muse strikes, they're not ideal – making capable and rugged portable audio recorders a must for any gig bag.

A high performance sound recorder that's lightweight, highly compact, and won't break the bank? Sounds good to us. We take a look at the Sound Devices MixPre-3 II. Sound Devices’ MixPre-3 II is a ...

In the field, in the studio or in post, there are times when you don't need, or don't want, a big audio mixer. Maybe you'll only be working with a mono or stereo source, but you want something better ...

I keep the Fostex cassette four-track recorder I got in 1996 in my desk in my home office. I have a couple of duffle bags full of stuff I’ve taped over the last two decades, 22 and a half minutes of ...

It’s human nature to stick with a solution that works and is familiar. When a workflow is so ingrained that it’s a habit, that’s good because it allows the task to become less about the tools and more ...

Audio Director Justin Drust and his team of professionals at Red Storm Entertainment have always prided themselves on recording the clearest, most authentic sounds for their genre-defining, ...

Sound Devices, maker of petite though tough mixers and preamps for field work, has a new field mixer available. The $749 MixPre-D is a dual channel microphone/line preamp with analog and AES digital ...