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===Positioning===
===Positioning===
When placing microphones the no.1 thing to consider is the position of the source that you are recording. Knowing the pickup pattern of your microphone, you want to be certain that the thing you want to record (i.e your voice) is in the centre of the zone that gets picked-up the easiest while ensuring that it is pointed away from any sources of background noise or reflective surfaces such as tiles or glass. A presenter must be kept at a comfortable distance from the microphone, and then processing set from that point, the human ear can very quickly get used to poor quality audio containing background artifacts or noise, but if the presenter is swaying backwards and forwards away from their sensitive microphone, this will rapidly distract the listener from the topic of conversation.
Speaking of room positioning, you want to be aware of what you voice will be bouncing off of in the room, as it can very easily go back into the microphone a second time and become distracting to listeners. You can prevent this either though personal positioning, placing the microphone in an area where the sound wave of your voice will dissipate and fragment before being picked up a second time i.e having the microphone and presenter in the middle of a room not in proximity to walls that can immediately reflect audio. Another way of preventing it is through soundproofing, this can be very simple, hanging a soft blanket on a wall on the opposite side of the microphone to the sound source can dampen reflective waves from the initial noise source, and is not difficult to do with sufficient amount of duct tape or some bed slats.
===Windshields===
===Windshields===