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This Portable Sound Camera Shows You Where It’s Loud
Trying to pinpoint what exactly in your car is making that weird ticking noise can drive anyone to madness. As sensitive as our ears are, they’re not always as great at precisely locating where a sound is coming from. Thankfully you have four other senses to help, particularly your sight, which this unique SeeSV-S205 acoustic imager lets you use to actually see sound.
RC Mic Tanks Rearrange Studio Setups With Tactical Precision
To better their ability to perfect a mix, sound engineers sit at a giant board outside of a recording studio where it’s whisper quiet. And to avoid having to keep running in and out of a studio to perfect their mic placement, someone’s slapped a microphone on a remote controlled RC toy tank that promises to make a sound engineer’s job a heck of a lot easier.
Tascam’s New Mics Remind Us To Hold Off On Buying iPhone Accessories
With Apple expected to reveal the next generation iPhone at next week’s event, now is not a good time for manufacturers to announce accessories that could be obsolete in a matter of days. But Tascam didn’t get that memo and so has graced us with a couple of new iPhone mics that you probably shouldn’t buy.
Blue Microphones Tiki Review: The Perfect Little USB Microphone For Video Chat
No matter the computer, its built-in microphone is a piece of junk. But at just 65 grams, the Blue Microphone Tiki might be the first USB mic designed well enough to be used by anyone. Your mama just figured out how to use Skype — if you call her with this plugged in, will she actually be able to understand what you’re saying?
The Pulse Surface Controller Makes The World Your Instrument
Forget about using keys, buttons, knobs or pads on a MIDI device. With the Pulse Surface Controller, you create sounds by banging on your desk, computer, or anything, really.
Blue’s Hot iOS Studio Mic Will Make Your Sorry Skills Sound Good
Plenty of iOS and USB mics claim to capture rich “studio sound”. Most of them suck. Blue Microphones’ new Spark Digital is different, and you can tell just by looking at it.
World’s Smallest Mic Makes Wearing A Wire A Lot Safer
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world’s smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just half a millimetre on each side.
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