Being an independent musician gives you the freedom to create your own music. However, the problem lies with its quality. Musical talent isn’t enough when producing new songs. If you’re inexperienced ...

If you are new to the industry or know a budding audio professional who’s looking for a specific direction, broadcast engineer and radio producer Ann Charles has only good things to say about the ...

We explore what really matters when it comes to audio technology – and how it can create a truly authentic listening ...

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At a warehouse in Irving Park, a group of teenage boys and young men between the ages of 14 and 20 sat on couches in a recording studio Wednesday afternoon, taking turns freestyling over a loud beat ...

Ryan Ordway, in the foreground, accompanies a student musician (not seen) during hands-on training on sound equipment during the past weekend’s first program of his newly established Let’s Record ME ...

The Byrds are so synonymous with that quintessentially mid-1960s, jangly folk-rock sound that it’s hard to imagine a world in which the players didn’t already have that style locked in. But as Roger ...

I've been a contributing editor for PCMag since 2011. Before that, I was PCMag's lead audio analyst from 2006 to 2011. Even though I'm a freelancer now, PCMag has been my home for well over a decade, ...