How to Find Sound Effects Online

Feb 11, 2011 | One Comment

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Soundsnap. All opinions are 100% mine. No great action movie, television series, or catchy commercial is complete without stellar sound effects. A cliffhanger moment in a box office blockbuster is often guided by the soundtrack – without it, dialogue lacks the empathy and emotion [...]

How To Optimize Sound Coming From Your Devices

Aug 18, 2010 | One Comment

I realized something last night: my iPad doesn’t have a perfect speaker setup. None of my devices do, for that matter. Unless you hold the speaker up against your ear, the sound is being pushed out in a direction other than where you need it to be. This is true of your phone, your iPad, [...]

Podcast Microphone

May 11, 2010 | No Comments

From my community, Christopher Mirah: I was wondering if you had or could get me any coupons for a usb microphone or headset. Now I am not sure exactly what kind of microphone I want to get so I was wondering if you could make any suggestions for a good one. Here is the situation [...]

Holophonic Sounds

Apr 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

Put on your headphones and check out these MP3s: Chris, Scott Lencl here (scolen3 to the chat room). I came across some pretty amazing technology I thought you would like to see, or listen to in this case. Its called holophonics, a type or binaural audio recording. Basically, two microphones placed on a dummy humans [...]

How to Get More Sound from Your iPod (without Power)

Dec 3, 2008 | 4 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There may come a time when you need to amplify your sound. Don’t turn up your speakers now, though. I’m just illustrating the difference between loud and soft for you. There will just be times when you need more. Anyone who [...]

Top 5 Tips for Buying an Audio Mic and USB Headset

Nov 28, 2007 | 34 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed On occasion, I’ve asked for your Top 5 tips and tricks. Thanks to bowler4ever for this excellent video email. Top 5 Tips for Buying A Headset: Don’t buy dirt cheap! They break too easily or too soon, they tend to not [...]