Dave Rahardja (he/him) on Nostr: I’m irrationally annoyed by people who hold hand-held microphones at their waist or ...

I’m irrationally annoyed by people who hold hand-held microphones at their waist or chest level…just holding it there, pointing it approximately at the sky…instead of pointing it at their mouths and maintaining a constant distance. I’m so annoyed by this that I sometimes close videos just because the speaker does this.

I understand that some modern mics (especially those lapel-style box microphones that influencers inexplicably prefer to hold in their hands) have an array of directional mics and they do noise cancellation and beam steering and blah blah so the audio is just as good or whatever, but I just can’t stand it.

The only thing that annoys me more is when people _gesture_ with their mics. Tell me you have no idea how sound recording works, why don’t you. Where’s that Close button?

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