Handling Noise of Microphones

If you’re recording audio from a microphone and you have the mic in your hand and you’re moving it around, for instance to interview people while walking around on the floor of a trade show, the noise of your hand handling the mic will be audible in the recording to some extent.

Some mic’s have low handling noise, which means the handling sound won’t come through in the recording so much.

Other mic’s pick up lots of handling noise making the recorded audio sound terrible or even unusable.

If you’re ever planning on handling a mic while recording, make sure to do some tests beforehand to make yourself fully aware of the handling noise (or lack thereof) that will be present in any recordings.

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