Handheld portable recorders with XY microphone configurations are great for tight stereo imaging but if you want to capture a wider ambient sound then an AB configuration would probably be better.

Smartphone videos from concerts used to have squawking soundtracks of distortion and formless bass. Scour YouTube for videos of gigs from five or six years ago and you’d do well to even identify the ...

The company describes it as a powerful yet compact 4-channel field recorder and mixer, suitable for film production and video journalism, as well as field recordists and sound designers. The FR-AV4 ...

No matter how convenient and omnipresent your smartphone may be, and no matter how powerful and clever the apps upon it become, when it comes to the quality and convenience demanded by audio pros, ...