When it comes to home recording, an audio interface is an essential tool. The digital intermediary between your laptop and the rest of your studio—your microphones, MIDI keyboards, DI boxes, mixers ...

Professional video interfaces are undergoing a change, in part due to the age of the initial digital systems, and also because of the emergence of high-performance interconnects for consumer use.

In Signal Chain Basics #34, we covered some of today's commonly used digital audio interfaces, from chip-to-chip I 2 S™ (Inter IC Sound) to system-to-system interfaces such as S/PDIF and AES/EBU.

Today’s video producers are now able to leverage new technologies that can really help with the live streaming production—especially on-location. By utilizing what are commonly called “podcast mixers, ...