Developer Black Cat Systems has introduced Sound Byte – a $4.99 app for playing back sound bites on demand. According to the developers, Sound Byte was designed for: Radio, podcast and TV productions – have ads, announcements, songs and sound effects at your fingertips. Theater Productions – play any sound effect on cue. Sports Events […]

Here’s a video review of Fire 2, the latest version of the iOS field recording app.

Audiofile Engineering has updated its field recording iOS app, FIRe, to version 2. FIRe is designed to turn an iPhone or iPod touch into a professional-level portable audio recorder. Here’s what’s new in FIRe 2: Advanced editing suite with SmartEdits, Bezier fades, change gain, normalize, looping playback, regions and more Improved Transport screen with faster […]

Fostex has announced the AR-4i – an audio interface for iPhone 4 dock connector. The device offers stereo microphone inputs with AD converter that improve the audio quality of iPhone 4’s video recording, video streaming and audio recordings. Features: 3 microphone inputs with plug-in power for vertical or horizontal use. 2 x cardioid plug-in microphones […]

Guinness World Records has confirmed that The Adam Carolla Show has officially broken the record for the Most Downloaded Podcast, receiving 59,574,843 unique downloads from March 2009 to March 16, 2011. Carolla made the announcement on the Jimmy Kimmel show. This breaks the previous record held by The Ricky Gervais Show, set in February 2006. The Ricky Gervais Show […]

Retailer UniqueSquared.com put together this first look at the new Samson Meteor Mic – a USB mic that was introduced at the 2011 NAMM Show. While it’s not really an impartial review, it does a good job of demonstrating the features of the Meteor – which could be a good match for podcasters. The Meteor […]

Podcast production and hosting company RawVoice has introduced a new media-on-demand service at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters [NAB] Show in Las Vegas April 9-14. Dubbed “Cue Too,” the media-on-demand (MOD/VOD) service will allow content creators, independent film artists, bands, educators and all others who create content to sell their content online and through […]

Apple has released an update to Garageband for Mac, version 6.02, that improves overall stability and addresses a number of minor issues. Though Apple isn’t hyping this update, it’ could be an important one for Mac-based iPad users. The release brings support for opening projects imported from GarageBand for iPad – so you can start […]

Wizzard Software has announced 2010 financial results, recording a $4.1 million net loss, on revenues of $5,5 million in 2010, a drop from their $6.5 million net loss in 2009.. Wizzard notes that, in terms of net loss, this was Wizzard’s best annual performance in over 8 years. They also note that “We have a […]

Apogee Electronics has introduced the Duet 2 – the next generation of their Duet recording interface. Duet 2 features balanced outputs, independent speaker and headphone outputs, configurable touch pads and improved sound quality. Duet 2 can record from sampling rates of 44.1 to 192kHz. Highlights: Completely redesigned mic preamps and converters 4 outputs, Independent speaker […]