The first time Riley Jay Davis heard a snippet of Tank and the Bangas’ “DM Pretty,” they didn’t relate to the song. Featured Video “This boy be in my DMs—say I’m pretty,” sings Tarriona “Tank” Ball ...

Your computer's multimedia experience loses a dimension when distortion overtakes your sound and makes audio content unbearable to listen to. When noise affects all of your computer's audio output, ...

We all know what distortion sounds like. We’ve heard it in heavy metal tunes, cheap iPod docks and the crummy speakers at Taco Bell drive-thrus. And we’ve all read distortion specs on things like ...

Monsieur Fourier did an amazing thing when he figured out how to move between time and frequency domains. Scopes are inherently time-domain instruments, so let's see how much our eyes can tell us ...

If you attend a lot of virtual meetings, microphones that don’t work properly can degrade your experience. Therefore, in this article, we present some of the simplest solutions to fix Microphones that ...

Just how much distortion -- and the favored type of distortion, analog or digital -- varies from listener to listener, and that's where the story gets complicated. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve ...

Some iPods exhibit a "static" noise -- audible through headphones -- when the iPod is accessing its hard drive. (In general, the better the headphones, the more apparent the static. The issue is ...

Sylvio is a compelling look at how audio is a vital piece of excellent horror. In it, you’ll be playing as an audio recordist who specializes in capturing ghostly voices. Being chased by phantoms is ...

Thank goodness for 16-year-old nephews who alert their uncles to techno-psychedelic bands that like to play in art museums and — as in Seattle on Wednesday — underground nightclubs. The band in ...