You can record your podcast on your iPhone, but what you might not be able to do so easily is make sure that the audio sounds good. Buying a broadcast-quality microphone or a separate audio recorder ...

The built-in microphone on your laptop, smartphone, earbuds and headphones isn’t very good. Sure, it might be good enough taking calls, but if you’re podcasting, taking streaming seriously, or taking ...

External microphones used to be a gadget with a fairly niche appeal, but now that most of us are doing approximately 20 times more video chats than we used to, it’s a piece of kit you might want to ...

The Apple iPhone provides support for a microphone jack. However, unlike your computer, only one input jack exists. The headphone jack provides the only input point on the phone. Business users who ...

Sony produces Vaio computers that contain a built-in microphone, those that rely on external microphones and those that have both capabilities. Vaio computers that do not have internal microphones ...

In the old days, my laptop’s integrated microphone used to be sufficient for the few times I needed voice input. That basically amounted to a once in a blue moon FaceTime call. However, over the past ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

The camera is a core part of Google’s Pixel phones, and video is a common use case on these devices. Now, responding to user demand, Google is delivering Pixel external microphone support for the ...

All camcorders include an internal microphone, but you should never use it to capture audio for actual production. If you’re shooting a meeting or webinar, lavalier microphones will deliver better ...

Almost all commercially available microphone amplifiers draw their power from a 48V phantom power supply. If this is unavailable or unsuitable, the solution is to build a self-powered amplifier.

It's not really a mic input; it's a line input. You need some kind of external mic preamp (could be USB), or a mic with a built-in one. It's not really a mic input; it's a line input. You need some ...