Musical Instruments

Choose the best piano for you. Here are some pros and cons about acoustic and digital pianos to help get you started making this important decision.

Recording decent audio for video production is arguably the most difficult aspect of the video making process. The Zoom H5 with its quality and ease of use just made this process a whole lot friendlier.

IK Multimedia makes a number of well-respected products for the pro-audio market, but has struck a chord, in a big way, by creating simple devices and apps for the iOS platform.    Their “i” line of hardware products allow musicians and music lovers to create, record and produce music on their iOS device in a way that is not intimidating, but also gives access to deep features.   They’ve come out with two new iOS products this year: the iRig Mic HD and the iRing.

The SM7dB mic features an active preamp and other improvements which make this a great choice for content creators with home studios.

Technically, live streaming can be tricky. The BEACN Mic and the BEACN Mix are designed for content creators looking to mix audio on the fly.

The show hasn’t even started and already the air around the Anaheim Convention center is electric! Artists, vendors, press and distributors are all converging on Anaheim to attend the biggest music-gear convention in the world. NAMM 2014 is shaping up to be a monster of a show and Best Buy Canada is here to cover it all.

Imagine mixing music professionally right in your bedroom. The Kali Audio IN-UNF studio monitors are ultra-nearfield—designed for desk-based mixing.

The Yamaha P-115B is a great choice to consider in the ever popular sub-$1,000 digital piano market. It has all the essential features, very good sound and comes in a convenient footprint for those looking to acquire a piano, but not the size and inconvenience.

The trip to NAMM this year was packed! I thought I’d write a post of some things that personally caught my eye in a head-scratching way. My francophone counterpart, Marc-Andre and I walked dozens of kilometers over the past four days.    Here’s a few of the things that made me go hmmm …   (including the 24 string bass guitar shown here!)

Ideal for simple podcast production, Shure's MVX2UI is a single channel audio interface that connects any XLR microphone to a USB-C port on your device.