One of the most popular uses of digital recording is capturing people talking. Of course, most people aren't that good at talking extemporaneously on command, and you usually need to help them along somewhat. Fundamentally, that is what most interviews are: helping someone talk about something intelligently and with some structure. Since most people who record are asked to do...

Why put an iPod on your waistband when you can sport a bulbous red guitar effect instead? The pioneering digital kidney bean of tone now comes in a battery-powered version called the Pocket Pod. Five inches wide yet loaded with 300 digital effect presets and a guitar tuner, the Pocket Pod retails for around $129....

I guess I've been reading Make too long, but when I wanted to hear Internet radio in the spare room the other day, I quickly devised this wacky solution: The Apple AirPort Express receives the Wi-Fi music signal from iTunes, converts it to analog, and then injects it into the old boombox through a car cassette adapter. The belt raises...

Podcast producer Daniel Steinberg has a unique audio editing technique: he uses a Wacom pen controller in one hand and a Countour Design Shuttle controller in the other. I asked him to write a tutorial on his system, which obviously works well because he cranks out a huge amount of high-quality material. We hope to have it online soon. In...

Soundsnap.com launched yesterday with 30,000 free audio samples. As far as I can make out, the sounds are both free to download and royalty-free, so you can use them in your own commercial music productions. Like the popular Freesound Project, the Soundsnap site has audio and waveform previews, so you can see quickly if you're getting an individual drum hit...

Despite plunging CD sales and a sour stock performance, Warner Music Group chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr. displayed strong optimism during an interview last Wednesday. "This decline is steeper than we expected, but in some ways it means we'll get to the bottom faster -- and after that there's growth," Bronfman said during a discussion on CNBC. That's one way of...

Keep this in your back pocket... You reset the iPhone by holding down the top power button and the Home button for about 6 seconds or until you see the Apple logo....

This was news to me, so I assume it'll be news to others. I've been living, teeth clenched, with the noisy audio output on my G5 Mac since I bought it a few years ago. Apparently the knowledge of how the quiet the durn thing down has been around since 2003, but I'd never found it, despite a few "I...

Christopher Penn from the Financial Aid Podcast has just released a tool to easily generate an iPhone-compatible page for your podcast. It is called the Financial Aid Podcast Podcaster iPhone Kit, and it is a free download.

Who should see this hugely entertaining and educational web video ASAP: Everyone who likes sound Everyone who likes fire Every high school science teacher in the world Who should avoid it (or at least keep quiet about it afterwards): Stoners Thanks to Brendan Stead of Harman and Project Bar-B-Q for the tip....