When the pandemic brought the live-music industry to a complete stop in 2020, Bruce Springsteen found himself at home with a lot of free time on his hands. He decided to make good use of it by poring ...

Boom mics, those big puffballs at the end of a long pole, were once the most common method to record movie dialogue. Now small, wireless microphones are ubiquitous on film sets, and that's the domain ...