lav mic

plural lav mics · alternative lav mike

1. sound engineeringClipped compound of lavalier microphone.

   A two-person team (with lav mic clipped to a chop stick and the cable taped to it) can produce quite acceptable audio.

   1987, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, volume 10, number 7, New York, NY: Foundation for Independent Video and Film, page 15

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   In most applications a really good lav mic, properly placed, will sound like a lot like a boom mic. A bad placement will sound chesty, throaty, muffled, have obvious clothing rustle, or wind noise.

   2010, Richard Patton, Sound Man: An Introduction to the Art, Science, and Business of Location Sound, Location Sound Ltd., →ISBN, page 126

   […] he sat cross-legged on the floor of the combined living room/shrine room looking nervous and haggard, a lav mic pinned to the embroidered collar of his best traditional shirt.

   2024, Ross Perlin, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues, London: Grove Press UK, →ISBN, page 154