With Coronavirus forcing isolation, we are seeing a huge uptick in the number of remote interviews and broadcasts from home on TV. But please, people, do not use the cheap mic on your laptop and expect to have a good interview! I’ve seen many of these interviews where the boomy echo of the room is picked up by a mic attached to a laptop with an acoustically reflective screen and a built in fan. It’s like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. The latest I saw (not to get political) was from a Trump campaign social media expert criticizing the Biden campaign for taking so long to do online broadcasts, but Biden at least had enough setup to use real mics instead of a laptop mic as that guy was doing. 🙁
I need to do a longer post about acoustic and video setups at home and why some things are just never going to give a good experience.
Watching the SNL virtual show tonight. The cast members are each doing skits from their homes. But I almost yelled at Colin Jost to “get a microphone!” So much echo in his house. And what was with the laughing during the “Donald Trump” interview? Sounded like someone on the call forgot to mute their mic.