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    From AnthonyL@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 2 19:53:39 2023
    Did anyone hear the interview with the Bank of England Governor Andrew
    Bailey on BBC News today? I could not understand a word the
    interviewer spoke due to the abysmal sound quality. The Governor came
    over fine as seen/heard on
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64487179


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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to AnthonyL on Fri Feb 3 10:35:04 2023
    Microphone on the wrong polar pattern perhaps?
    Brian

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    "AnthonyL" <[email protected]d> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    Did anyone hear the interview with the Bank of England Governor Andrew
    Bailey on BBC News today? I could not understand a word the
    interviewer spoke due to the abysmal sound quality. The Governor came
    over fine as seen/heard on
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64487179


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  • From AnthonyL@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 3 12:58:18 2023
    It sounded as if the interviewer was in an echo chamber.

    On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:35:04 -0000, "Brian Gaff" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Microphone on the wrong polar pattern perhaps?
    Brian

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    "AnthonyL" <[email protected]d> wrote in message >news:[email protected]...
    Did anyone hear the interview with the Bank of England Governor Andrew
    Bailey on BBC News today? I could not understand a word the
    interviewer spoke due to the abysmal sound quality. The Governor came
    over fine as seen/heard on
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64487179


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  • From NY@21:1/5 to AnthonyL on Fri Feb 3 14:37:02 2023
    On 03/02/2023 12:58, AnthonyL wrote:
    It sounded as if the interviewer was in an echo chamber.

    I've not heard the report, but that description tends to suggest Brian's diagnosis - if the mike is picking up reflected sound, coloured by
    reflections off the room walls, in preference to direct mouth-to-mike
    sound, it will have strange echoes. Maybe the interviewer did not have a
    mike of his own and was only being picked off the back or side of the interviewee's polar diagram.

    On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:35:04 -0000, "Brian Gaff" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Microphone on the wrong polar pattern perhaps?
    Brian

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to AnthonyL on Sat Feb 4 09:05:21 2023
    Yes if the mike was switched to something like hyper cardeoid, than most of
    the should from them would be reflected. Figure of 8 might have been
    better.
    Listening to a demo of the Blue Yeti on the internet, you could get some terrible results by the phase and delays applied to the capsules inside it.

    It Is often true that the more complex the device, the more ways there are
    to make a cock up!

    Brian

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    "AnthonyL" <[email protected]d> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    It sounded as if the interviewer was in an echo chamber.

    On Fri, 3 Feb 2023 10:35:04 -0000, "Brian Gaff" <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    Microphone on the wrong polar pattern perhaps?
    Brian

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    "AnthonyL" <[email protected]d> wrote in message >>news:[email protected]...
    Did anyone hear the interview with the Bank of England Governor Andrew
    Bailey on BBC News today? I could not understand a word the
    interviewer spoke due to the abysmal sound quality. The Governor came
    over fine as seen/heard on
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64487179


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  • From John Williamson@21:1/5 to AnthonyL on Sat Feb 4 10:01:04 2023
    On 03/02/2023 12:58, AnthonyL wrote:
    It sounded as if the interviewer was in an echo chamber.

    When I opened the link, all I got was a sound clip of the interviewee,
    and it sounded as if they were using an omnidirectional camera mounted microphone, and there were no soft furnishings in the room. Someone had
    edited out the interviewer. If there was a crew there, they need some
    training and more time to set up.

    I couldn't tell whether they were making a Zoom call or similar, but if
    so, the apparent distance of the camera from the interviewee would
    explain the room sound, especially as he did not appear to be using an
    earbud to speak and listen, but the phone's hand free speaker.

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