CHAPTER EIGHT

Handheld Microphones

HANDHELD MICROPHONES

The dynamic handheld mic, you’ve seen them thousands of times but might not know it. Rock stars screaming into them, flinging them around by the cord, smashed, and bashed. The dynamic microphone has been around for a long time and many, like the Shure SM58, are pretty much indestructible!

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One of Roger Daltrey’s microphones! Yes, my friends, I got to touch it!

The dynamic microphones we use for TV are basically the same mic, except they’re shaped differently to be more visually appealing. TV handheld microphones have longer bodies so talent can keep their hand further out of the shot. The ...

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