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Hollyland BlogMakersHow To Fix Audio Not Working on Discord Stream Are you having any sort of Discord stream audio problems? Don’t worry, we’ve got you. We know that getting your audio right is important for a smooth streaming experience, whether as a beginner…

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Use a Portable Microphone (Setup, Placement, and Pro Tips) Introduction Clear audio keeps audiences engaged with your recorded content. A portable mic makes capturing professional-sounding audio much easier.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Set Up Streaming on PS5 for Beginners In 5 Minutes Streaming games on PS5 has become a traditional day-to-day activity for gamers, especially the professional ones.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow To Start Live Streaming Games On PC: The Best Guide For OBS & Streamlabs Setup Introduction Struggling with how to livestream games on your PC? This PC game streaming setup guide explains how to choose your streaming software, platforms, and gear.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Do Live Game Streaming on YouTube Using OBS and Hollyland LARK M3 YouTube Live is one of the most popular streaming channels for games and other media-related content. YouTube works like TikTok and Twitch, although it has more benefits than them.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow a Brazilian Production Team Uses Hollyland for FPV and Live Productions User Profile Jonathan Bastos, also known as Jonh FPV, is a Brazilian filmmaker and professional FPV drone pilot.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Sing Karaoke: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Actually Sound Good Karaoke is not a singing competition. It is a social performance, and those are very different things.

Hollyland BlogMakersVox Pop Microphone Guide: How to Choose the Right Mic for Street Interviews Vox pops are one of the most engaging formats in video production, but they are also one of the easiest to get wrong.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Start Streaming Games on TikTok: A Complete Beginner’s Guide with OBS and Hollyland LARK M3 Streaming games on TikTok is different from streaming on Twitch or YouTube. TikTok users most times have their phones on hands, so they expect to see something engaging as they scroll.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow To Livestream Games on Facebook: An Eleven-Step Guide Want to livestream games on Facebook but don’t know where to start? This guide breaks down everything you need to know, from checking your PC requirements and choosing the right streaming software to…

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Set Up OBS for Game Streaming: A Clear Step-by-Step Guide Game streaming is not just about setting up a computer and hitting the “start” button. There are processes that need to be followed adequately, especially when using a streaming app.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Start an ASMR YouTube Channel: A Practical Beginner’s Guide Starting an ASMR YouTube channel is not just about recording relaxing sounds. The real challenge is building a channel that tells viewers, in a few seconds, what they will get, why they should…

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Fix a Wireless Microphone Not Working (Troubleshooting Guide) A wireless mic failing during recording can quickly stress creators. The situation becomes even more stressful when cameras start rolling.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Do Karaoke at Home: A Step-by-Step Setup Guide So you want to do karaoke at home — but the idea of buying a bulky karaoke machine, running cables across the living room, or spending hundreds on equipment you’ll only use occasionally doesn’t…

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Do a Vox Pop: A Step-by-Step Guide for Cleaner, More Compelling Street Interviews A well-executed vox pop can do in 90 seconds what a five-minute explainer cannot: let real people carry your story.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Record Music at Home: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Recording music at home is easier than ever these days. Still, beginners often freeze before pressing record. The problem usually is not how much the gear costs.

Hollyland BlogMakersWhat Is an Interface in Music Recording? A Beginner’s Complete Guide If you have just bought a microphone and discovered it won’t plug into your laptop, you’ve already found the problem an audio interface solves.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Record a Video on Your Dell Laptop (Built-In Tools, No Downloads Needed) Whether you want to record yourself on camera or capture what’s happening on your screen, your Dell laptop already has everything you need.

Hollyland BlogMakersWhy Does My Singing Sound Bad on Recording? (Causes and Fixes) You sang every note, and it felt pretty solid. Then playback starts, and suddenly your voice sounds like someone else. That “wait, is that actually me?” moment happens to countless home singers.

Hollyland BlogMakersMono vs Stereo Recording: Key Differences and When to Use Each When you first open a recording app or set up an audio interface, one of the first choices you face is whether to record in mono or stereo.

Hollyland BlogMakersAnalog vs Digital Audio Recording: Key Differences, Sound Quality, and How to Choose For decades, analog versus digital audio has fueled studio debates. Musicians still compare tape machines with modern DAW recording setups.

Hollyland BlogMakersMicrophone Placement for Recording Saxophone: Positions, Distances, and Pro Tips Sax recordings can sound disappointing even with a great microphone. Most of the time, the microphone placement causes the actual recording problems.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow to Record Voice on Chromebook: 3 Methods That Actually Work Need to record your voice on a Chromebook but cannot find where to start? ChromeOS keeps its recording options surprisingly out of sight.

Hollyland BlogMakersHow Do I Record Myself Playing Video Games? A Beginner’s Complete Setup Guide So you are a gamer who wants to share your wins and gaming journey. But you are still unsure how to record your gameplay. Maybe you want your videos to show more than just gameplay.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo