Re: selecting a microphone (and then straying off topic)

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Microphone technique is also critical. If the microphone is too close to 
your mouth, your breathing will mess up the sound, anbdebrythng 
wllsoundlkethis. If voices or music are too far from the mike, or if the 
room has nothing but bare walls, the result will be indistinct, or 
perhaps sound like you are in a barrel. If there is ambient noise, 
you'll pick that up unless your mike is directional.

Oh, and if you're recording an upright piano, the mike must be behind 
the piano, about two feet away, toward the treble end.

If you give a hand-held microphone to a good public speaker who has 
always relied on his Theatrical Projection Voice, there is a good chance 
he'll crowd into it or wave it about. A lapel mike would be far better.

Radio announcers are trained (or "highly trained" as Rush L. calls 
himself) to avoid popping Ps or hissing Ss, which is one result of 
crowding the mike.

Very, very side note: In radio scripts, at one time, the word announcer 
was abbreviated thusly:

   ANCR: Blah blah blah... and now our Star.

   STAR: Good evening, genties and ladlemen, and members of the audio 
radiance... blah blah...


ANCR was apparently pronounced "anchor" and now we have News Anchors.
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