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2022.07.01 – 0547 – Listen Out For These Common Microphone Muck-Ups
AUDIO TROUBLESHOOTING
Basic studio sound problems
Do not touch the mic when you are speaking. Although you may be able to get away with moving a mic arm while on air, touching the stand, or mic itself (easily to do when wearing a lapel mic) will invariably result in a loud sound being broadcast or recorded. The sound is usually reduced with the use of a ‘shock mount’ the ‘cat’s cradle’ of strings that hold the mic in suspension and position and absorbs any movement that it feels. But the rule of thumb: set it and forget it.
[1] In 2016 this BBC Breakfast presenter forgot to wear his microphone https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/1780291/blunder-on-bbc-breakfast-as-presenter-forgets-to-wear-his-microphone/
[2] In 2010 the then UK PM Gordon Brown was caught on mic calling Rochdale pensioner Gillian Duffy "bigoted", when he didn’t realise his microphone had been left attached and ‘live’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEReCN9gO14
[3] As David Cameron announced his resignation date as British Prime Minister in 2016, he walked away from the podium singing a song before walking inside number 10 Downing Street, forgetting his mic was still on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gz6mZYxS0A
[4] And this TV host in New Zealand left his microphone on while taking a toilet break and it was broadcast live on TV. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3759338/Wee-having-technical-problems-moment-breakfast-host-heard-urinating-live-TV-forgot-mic-leaving-air-presenter-looking-awkward.html
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