audioguru

I think that Lavalier mics (tie clip ones) also sound bad.
They pickup the very loud lower frequency sounds of vowels directly through the chest but they are too far away from the mouth to properly pickup very high frequency important sounds of speech.

A local TV station used tie clip mics for interviews for many years and the voices were hard to understand. Maybe the mics were upside-down.
Then they replaced the tie-clip mics with mics that are worn on the head with a boom mic directly in front of the mouth and the voices became crisp and clear.

Haven't you seen people talk on the phone with the handset transmitter under their chin?
Have you heard how bad it sounds?

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Nigel Goodwin

You see lots of people on UK TV with tie clip mikes, and the audio quality is fine - perhaps it depends on the quality of the mikes, and the people fitting them?.

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I made recordings of myself talking straight forward while wearing a high quality tie clip mic, then pointing my mouth down toward the mic.
There was a huge difference in the clarity of my speech.

An audio compressor (as used on radio and TV) makes a tie clip mic sound worse because it compresses the extra loud vowel sounds that come through the chest then the gain is too low for the following muffled low level high frequency sounds.

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I found your story very funny.

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