I thought I was done with this series about audio basics. However, reader Eric Smith wrote in and asked if I would write about matching signal levels between equipment and sources, and not just ...

Thanks to the ability of digital audio to be perfectly copied, transmitted, and carried in small packages, we may be surrounded by more music and human-made audio programming than at any other time in ...

A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better microphone than the one built into his laptop. Upon searching, he was faced ...

The future of audio is digital and the quality produced by digital audio is of great importance to broadcasters, producers, live venues and the listening audience. Digital audio can be prone to ...

Iconic movie sound effects, your favorite songs, and ambient background noises are created through the art of audio mixing. From lo-fi to hi-fi and everything in between, here’s the lowdown on the ...

JFETs are, almost invariably, depletion mode devices, which means that there will be some drain current at a zero-applied gate-source potential. This current will decrease in a fairly linear manner as ...

When you get outside and into the real world, stray current, ground loops and other gremlins creep into the audio system. The best way to ground equipment and avoid ground loops is by employing a star ...