Now I'm ready to record, podcast and sound better on calls. Photo: David Snow/Cult of Mac After finally incorporating a proper pair of speakers into my evolving MacBook Pro setup in late 2024 — ...

Mackie's Blackjack works equally well with iOS and Mac. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you want to listen to music on your Mac, you either suffer its built-in speakers, or you plug a speaker ...

When Rode began offering gaming-specific audio equipment at the end of last year, two of the three products the company announced, the XDM-100 and XCM-50, repurposed existing designs. Its newest Rode ...

I've been recording my own music for a long time. And I'm on a more or less constant quest to find the best audio interface—that secret sauce that's going to level up my home studio (okay, it's a ...

MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different ...

Featuring all the basic connectivity you need, this streamlined 2x2 USB-C interface is one of the smallest we’ve tested. By Julian Vittorio Published Sep 8, 2022 3:00 PM EDT We may earn revenue from ...

From misused monitoring to phase disasters, here are 9 music-making lessons learned the hard way When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

What do you get when you combine high-quality microphone preamps, digital signal processing, on-the-fly controls, with multichannel mixing and cram all of that into a small, desktop interface? You get ...

I don’t like to spend more money than I have to, and when it comes to audio gear, I’m usually willing to buy stuff that’s a few years old in order to save some cash. That’s one of the reasons I was so ...