Sonic Labs’ Nick Batt takes a look at the Samson Go Mic USB Microphone – an inexpensive, but good quality USB-powered microphone that could be a good option for podcasters. Features of the Samson Go Mic: Plug & play MAC and PC compatibility USB interface for high-resolution, digital audio streaming Custom design clips to a […]

Awaiting Inspiration has published an article that describes how to create a DIY iphone call recorder: I’ve wanted a way to record phone calls to and from my iPhone since I’ve had it but hadn’t really looked into solutions until a couple of weeks ago. What I really wanted was a native iPhone app that […]

A common problem of indie podcasts is excessive or unwanted background noise and room sounds. Several companies have responded by marketing mini vocal booths that are portable and help block out unwanted sounds. Instructables has published a tutorial on building a DIY portable mini vocal booth: The DIY Portable Mini Vocal Booth is ideal for […]

TiVo has announced the addition of hundreds of new free Web videos available directly to TiVo Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL subscribers. In addition to these new channels, any video podcast provider can now publish video content to TiVo DVRs using industry-standard Really Simple Syndication (RSS) and H.264 video. Hundreds of new podcast […]

Olympus has announced a new portable audio recorder, the LS-11, a follow-up to their LS-10 handheld audio recorder. The LS-11 can record 24-bit/96kHz stereo WAVs, as well as MP3 and WMA format files. It’s got the same on-board microphones as the LS-10, as well as rear-mounted speakers for auditioning recorded material. New features include 8GB […]

Sony has introduced a new portable audio recorder, the PCM-M10 Linear PCM Recorder. The PCM-M10 is designed to be small and rugged, but offer an extensive range of features, including: dedicated transport buttons; a five-second pre-record buffer; WAV and MP3 format record and play; USB port for easy upload/downloads; Digital Pitch Control; a MicroSD/Memory Stick […]

iPod accessory vendor ThoughOut has introduced an iPhone tripod adapter designed to help you make the most of the iPhone 3GS’s new video capabilities: Our new PED3-TriPhone and PED3-TriPhone-FORM is a rotating iPhone tripod mount and holder that makes great use of the new video features as well as the still camera and the slew […]

Audio gear maker Samson today released its latest digital recorder, the Zoom R16. The recorder offers 16-track playback and simultaneous recording of up to eight tracks, using Secure Digital (SD) memory. Samson representatives are promoting the Zoom R16 as “three production tools in one device“: a multi-track recorder, an audio interface and a control surface. […]

Audio gear manufacturer Behringer is giving away a PodcaStudio gear kit in a Twitter-based contest: To help you on your way to new media domination, Behringer is doing another Twitter giveaway.  This time, we are giving away an amazing PODCASTUDIO Firewire Kit that includes a professional 8-input 2-bus mixer, a professional large-diaphragm studio condenser microphone, […]

Livescribe, creators of the Pulse smartpen, have announced a tool that turns your handwritten notes and audio recordings into Flash videos, called “pencasts,” that you can embed within any Web site or blog. Publishing multimedia from your smartpen is a bizarre application of some bizarre technology, but it’s also some geeky ubiquitous computing fun! Here’s […]