Here's what I don't understand about 'microphone gate'

[Siwsan]

Lester Holt heard him just fine. Even sitting relatively close to someone using a mic, you can usually tell if it is working, or not. I am sure if Lester had noticed anything wrong, he would have spoken up.

If the people in the studio audience couldn't hear him, why didn't they speak up? I suspect his verbal projection works just as well as his psychological projection.

Did the microphone make those sniffing noises? No.

And would a better functioning mic have made ANY difference in what he said, how he said it, or in the faces he made? No.

He is just a whiny-assed cry baby.

[Lucinda]

1. Holt and Hillary - as well as millions at home heard him just fine

And Trump heard his opponent and the moderator...we know from all his interruptions, so I don't see that this changes anything.

[LiberalFighter]

2. What about the audience when they responded to certain remarks?

[duncang]

9. This they heard him no problem

If there was a difference in volume in the hall it was very little.

[C_U_L8R]

3. No one in the audience complained, during or after

I'm not buying this.

[unblock]

4. it didn't make hillary stop talking when he interrupted into it. it must have been broken.

[Siwsan]

6. See, he should have asked for the magical microphone!

What a fool he be.

[mrsv]

5. So....

the mic made him say it?

[Siwsan]

7. Apparently, in The World According to Trump.

(My apologist to John Irving)

[underpants]

8. The Connission was just appeasing Trump's campaign with their statement

That's how things work with some people. Throw a fit and you get what you want just to shut you up.

[Siwsan]

10. And I, for one, am sick and tired of the media validating this guy's psychotic behavior!

Grrrrrrrr!!

[JHB]

11. It's very simple: It's bullshit...

He blamed the sniffing on the mike, which would mean it's picking up too much.

Simultaneously, he claimed he had to get down into it because it wasn't picking up enough.


Howler Monkey gonna howl.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. yep!

[rurallib]

12. pretty clear he was heard on the TV

People are running from him like he has the plague

[PJMcK]

14. I posted this earlier on another thread

Audio can be very tricky for a number of reasons.

There are a lot of things that can affect an audio signal from the microphone, through the cables, mixer and outboard gear, into an amplifier and then sent to speakers.

In the case of Monday night's debate, each candidate had a single microphone but this would have been mixed and split into several busses or feeds. One buss would be the audio sent to the broadcast feed. Another buss would go to the speaker system in the auditorium. There were probably other feeds for other uses.

Accordingly, it's not really surprising that the television audio was fine but that there could have been something wrong in the house system. On another thread, I asked DUer brooklynite, who attended the debate, if he had any observations about the audio but I haven't received a response yet.

It's really irrelevant because the television audience heard and saw Mr. Trump just fine. Additionally, he couldn't have known about the audio problems until after the event so it wouldn't have affected his performance anyway.

[Siwsan]

15. I forgot we had one of our own, in the audience

Hopefully you will get a response.