lav mike

plural lav mikes

1. alternativesound engineeringAlternative form of lav mic.

   Bring with you one or more of your own wireless lav mikes and your own portable mixer.

   2011, Stuart Sweetow, Corporate Video Production: Beyond the Board Room (and Out of the Bored Room), Burlington, MA: Focal Press, →ISBN, page 228

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   Another trick is to run the cord carefully from a lav mike down the inside of a person's shirt and down their pants leg so that all the tugging occurs at their ankle rather than at the mike end of the wire.

   2003, Peter Utz, Introduction to Audio, Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, →ISBN, page 37

   Once you set the lav mike clipped on and transmitting, the goal should be allowing the interview subject to relax enough to give thoughtful answers.

   2012, Tim Gordon, Feeding the Beast: an Insider's Guide to Local TV News, →ISBN, page 145