Don't rely on the wimpy microphone built into your phone or laptop. Here's how to find the best USB (and XLR with USB) mics ...

The Blue Yeti lineup of microphones are wonderful picks for someone first getting into an audio-focused hobby. Be it you’re ...

Elgato makes a ton of products for streamers, but if you wanted an Elgato-branded mic, that just wasn't a possibility...until ...

A USB microphone can dramatically improve the quality of the sounds you record, and it usually requires nothing more than a single connection to your computer. The 512 Audio Tempest is our pick ...

Before you try the solutions below, you can do the following, and after each task see if your USB microphone is now working normally on your PC without issues: The Audio service running in ...

Don't rely on the wimpy microphone built into your phone or laptop. Here's how to find the best USB (and XLR with USB) mics for gaming, podcasting, and recording music, including our top-tested picks.

[Andy] notes that MEMS microphones are very delicate and ... to make the sound clearer before sending it through to a computer by the USB audio device descriptor. Once the components are chosen ...

Luckily, someone had already figured out how to read out a microphone and present a USB device to a PC, so all that was needed was to put all the bits together into a convenient form factor.