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 ...

BURBANK, CA, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015— When award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Green sought to capture dynamic audio for her recent HBO Documentary, Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sound Devices will introduce its newest MixPre-D at InfoComm 2011. The MixPre-D features two studio-grade mic/line switchable inputs. At the heart of the new MixPre-D are two studio-grade mic/line ...

Buying the right camera, lens, accessory or software to suit your photography is really important. Our product reviews offer independent views with hands-on opinion and honest verdicts aimed to give ...

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 ...