Let’s buy a microphone for Walter Moss

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Walter Moss from the Wall Street Journal is one of the most influential technology journalists, and a while back he started a blog, the Mossblog. Currently he is obviously at CES, where he and his team post written and video blogs. Here is today’s offering:

Ouch!

Given his professional, technical background, I am truly surprised at the poor technical quality of the video. I am not even going to start about the camerawork, or utter lack of white balancing; in a reportage the sound is obviously most important. And in this video, sorry to say, the sound sucks. It sucks bad. To help Walter and the Wall Street Journal, I thus suggest that we equip him with some proper gear. I would suggest to equip Walter with

• a Sennheiser MD 46 mike to pick up the interviewee’s words without too much background noise
• a wireless lavaliere microphone to wear
• a manual for the camera, outlining how to set the sound level

Let’s do it

To do this, I need your help.

If you would like to help technology writer Walter Moss to present his work in a technical acceptable way, please write in a comment and pledge how much you will donate. And spread the word. Once $200 are pledged, I will get in touch with Sennheiser and see if they could help out on the missing amount.