AKG's trio of condenser microphones offer a lot of bang for your buck. Aimed at anyone setting up a home studio or recording voiceovers, they could be the new classics.

Shure has been around for 100 years and today it unveils the new KSM series of condenser microphones at NAMM, the trade show ...

NAMM 2026: A trio of new offerings in the KSM series claim to sport some ‘impossibly low’ self-noise ...

Elgato makes a ton of products for streamers, but if you wanted an Elgato-branded mic, that just wasn't a possibility...until now! Today Andy checks out the feature-packed Elgato Wave:3 mic, giving a ...

Back in 2014, audio brand Røde released an all-in-one USB condenser microphone that's still a popular choice for podcasters and streaming content creators today. Now the company has announced an ...

The entry-level C104, C114 and C151 promise to balance professional performance with user-friendly design, flexibility and sustainability ...

Fig. 1: Diagrams from Wente’s 1916 patent application show the condenser microphone in cutaway view. Diaphragm (#6), which is grounded, is stretched only 5/10000th of an inch from the backplate (#7), ...

When designing a microphone assembly the other day, I reached for an electret condenser microphone capsule without thinking. To be strictly accurate I ordered a pack of them, these small cylindrical ...

Today Andrew takes a look at the Tonor TC30 microphone, available online for just under £40. Is this one of the bargains of the year? We delve into it in our review today. 00:00 Start 00:15 ...

Mic modeling has come a long way in just a few years, and modern software plugins, to these ears, get quite close to the real deal. Universal Audio has been at the forefront of this technology for a ...

As the Internet has turned so many of us into content creators, we’ve seen the quality of webcams and microphones steadily increase to the point at which even a fairly modestly-equipped YouTuber now ...