The Positioning of Your Guests Headset Microphone

If your guest is wearing a traditional headset (which sits on their head like headphones and has a microphone on a little boom arm coming off one ear) there are a couple things to be aware of.

When sound checking them, make sure that their nose breath doesn’t overwhelm the mic with breath noise. Have them breath out of their nose and if you hear nasty wind noise on the mic then have them move the mic up or down about 1 inch, then test it again until you don’t hear that nose wind noise.

Once the microphone is positioned properly you have to tell your guest to NOT touch or move the microphone AT ALL. Don’t touch it, don’t move it. Because if they do, the mic will make noises which will be difficult to remove later, and in addition the new, different placement of the mic will sound very different than it did before they moved it, and it will take some effort in post-production to match the various levels and tones, etc.

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