Just in the last few months, it seems like everyone who is doing content creation on youtube (etc.) is holding a tiny mic up, in the frame of the camera.
I get that mics are needed, but a good desk mic or a headset or whatever else you might imagine is just as good acoustically, and far less distracting. And they were all in use up until a few months ago.
Is this just a fashion trend?
They often still have the expensive microphone, but use an unplugged tiny microphone just for the aesthetics.
I’m a big fan of not an engineer, who just uses random objects
not the only person I’ve seen do it, but the first that comes to mind
I have to imagine this is the case for a decent chunk of people with those tiny mics, right? Sometimes the audio quality of the talker sounds way better than I would expect from essentially a lapel microphone, and there’s just a regular microphone out of frame.
Not going to lie the tiny mics are a pet peeve of mine like many others in this thread, but I can’t explain it well as to why haha.
I don’t know if this is true but the absurdity is hilarious to me so I’m choosing to believe you.
I have seen a few you tubers jokingly show that it was disconnected. Because yes, at some point even that became a meme. But I couldn’t find an example off the top of my head.
So make a new business of selling empty tiny mics… No wires, no circuits… But 20% cheaper
It may work out…
The fad has passed. Now the trend is using random objects as microphones.
There was a time that this was something we made fun of. Now this is the goal
Is that Al ? (This “l” is an “L”, as in AL)
No it’s Garth, though his last name starts with Al.