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Drawbacks of using a wireless mic

Drawbacks of using a wireless mic

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Drawbacks of using a wireless mic

- Now Cheryl, before we get into some of the specific drawbacks of wireless lav systems, let's just talk about one or two drawbacks of just lavs in general. Now the biggest one that i see happening, and I've experienced this in my own production work, is clothes rustling. - It's the bane of any audio post mixer, is the clothes rustling. There's not a lot that you can do to control it, except for you can tape on the skin away from any clothes. As a sound location person you can also bring fabric softener, so that if the clothes haven't been laundered or if they're heavy starch you can probably soften it up a little bit. - But it's an issue, right? - It's a big issue. - It's something you run into. I think that the other thing that I find sort of in general about lavs, not wireless lavs in particular, but just lavs in general, is that they do suffer a little bit from the proximity effect, right? Because they're kind of positioned or anchored right there on your body-- - Right there. -…

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