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?

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    11·
    20 days ago

    IDK why but it it annoys the hell out of me, especially given that those kind of mics are meant to be worn on your shirt.

    If you’re going to make a career out of media, you should at least know how to use your equipment properly. It’s unprofessional and almost as annoying as starting your video out with “hey guys”.

    Take a 101 course on A/V and radio communications at your local community college before you begin broadcasting is all I’m saying. Put in the bare minimum effort before you try to go attracting millions of viewers.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      20 days ago

      That was a great watch, but I think it’s actually more simple than that. Content creators want to focus on their content. If it is now considered acceptable to have a mic on camera, hiding it is one less thing they have to deal with while shooting.

      I do find it extremely odd to hold a lav mic though. Maybe that’s the only mic they own. I donno.

    • Swordgeek@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      20 days ago

      That was a pretty wild ride! Despite an hour of in-depth discussion, it really seems to come down to an affectation.

  • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz
    10·
    21 days ago

    It started with the Rode Go mics which for $200 you get 2 mics and a receiver with some crazy good noise rejection and gain control. 40 hr battery life and easy to work with. There’s now several copies from dji and the like that are even cheaper.

    YouTubers didn’t mind the blocky look as it let them get great quantity sound in not ideal locations, without messing with traditional lapel mics(boxy clips, cables and tape). The closer you can get to the mic the more background noise you can deal with.

    It then became a trend. Just as Rode have come out with a new version that’s 1/3rd the size

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      This. Any time you’re not sitting at a desk/studio you need some kind of mic. And these new wireless mics work well. Now people are opting to not buy/use the big studio mics because the wireless ones work good enough and go anywhere.

    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      19 days ago

      YouTubers didn’t mind the blocky look as it let them get great quantity sound in not ideal locations, without messing with traditional lapel mics(boxy clips, cables and tape).

      Except most of the youtubers holding mics are doing that exact thing - except, instead of actually clipping the lavalier mics to their shirt they hold them up by the clip. Which is extremely dumb when you think about it.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    20 days ago

    I watch clips where people can be heard super-clearly on lowly clip-on mics.

    There is no reason to hold it in your hand. You’re not Bob Barker.

    Compare with the vapid influencerati trash holding their phones like pizza slices and shouting into them and turning the sound uploke they’re on some reality trash show. Telling them that they’re absolutely using it wrongly, that engineers have tuned the mic and speakers for a completely different orientation, is just lost. So I make fun of them.

  • ace_garp@lemmy.world
    3·
    21 days ago

    The original tiny-mic legend, Nat’s What I Reckon reviewing the overpriced-boatshow.

    He grabs anything kicking around, for a mic-holder. (Find the one where he uses a sprig of rosemary as the mic-holder)

    • Swordgeek@lemmy.caOP
      2·
      20 days ago

      OK, before asking this question, I was merely baffled. Now after this video, I hate holding tiny mics, hate tiktok and youtube content creators, and hate everything about the internet more than ever before.

  • MuttMutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 days ago

    No clue. Not really a social person. I can say that for every day there will likely be a new trend starting and an old one dying.

    My content rarely has me showing up in it and even then microphones tend to not work very well at 60 feet under water. Then again that gives me an idea, I can take a fake fish under water with an attached fake mic and do a voice over later on for some fun…