There was no miking, and not everyone could carry a tune.

And, although the players are first-rate, the miking had undermined the performance.

Pianos are not always ideally quiet, though the miking may be a factor.

There are still some tasteless moments, and the miking is nearly unbearable at first.

The miking of the huge cast amplifies the problem.

With the imperfect miking, vocal niceties were even less of an issue.

Unfortunately, the miking of the singers on opening night was distractingly uneven.

Whatever its virtues, minimal miking is no panacea.

Even the too-close miking, normally obtrusive, adds to the electrifying effect.

The ultra-close miking adds to the electrifying effect of a riveting concert performance from 1982.

The most distracting element was the atrocious miking.

In ambient or distant miking, a microphone - typically a sensitive one - is placed at some distance from the sound source.

With minimal miking, the object is to capture as closely as possible the natural ambiance of the hall.

Depending on the closeness of the miking, such recordings may have a stronger ambient effect than studio performances.

The miking of players, coaches and officials has never been like the National Security Agency listening in on private telephone conversations.

The miking and mixing seemed wildly uneven, with the trumpets brutally prominent, the strings sometimes lost.

Language: We've received literally hundreds of complaints regarding the miking of players and foul language.

Paul and Ford also used the now-ubiquitous recording technique known as close miking, where the microphone is less than six inches from the singer's mouth.

Another plus is that you aren't aware of any voice amplification or obvious miking, except to catch the tap-tap-taps of the dancers.

The intensive miking of performers not only has the distancing effect of homogenizing and displacing voices.

But while amplification may have entered the concert tradition of flamenco, the miking seemed needlessly aggressive for this intimate hall.

But the miking on Friday was excessive, and clumsily done, and undercut the impact of many of the songs.

Besides, even the most ardent advocates of minimal miking admit that the method has limitations and does not lend itself to all kinds of music.

This pickup pattern - known as minimal miking - more closely resembles what a listener would experience at a concert at some distance from the stage.

Yet a great many musically discerning listeners still prefer unmanipulated sound and have eagerly welcomed the rising fashion of minimal miking.

Many a times mikes go off in the middle of the program.

It's one of those little mikes they have on television.

Now it s mikes turn for the big red book.

Maybe we need to come up with some ear mikes or something.

Mary, be sure to check the mikes in that room.

"Would you say it around the corner at the television mikes?"

Mikes of America celebrates the most popular name in the country.

So the second morning we all went out again only this time wearing radio mikes as well.

"She's too light, give me another five mikes," said the same voice.

She could feel the long distance mikes trained on them.

So, yes, come for the voices, even through the mikes.

The fat man took her up onto a small platform, with mikes.

Rifle mikes are a hell of a lot better than they used to be.

"My voice is so powerful when I become emotional that they have to turn down the mikes," he said.

"What, you turned off your hidden mikes for this interview?"

Mikes Castle and park, which dates back to around 1500.

The wires and mikes could not be invisible, she told herself.

There were shoutings, also brought in by the outside mikes.

"Just so you know, the cameras and the mikes are off," he said.

Her name was Robin, and she tipped me off to the other open mikes around town.

This made it hard for them to reach the mikes and hold their scripts.

"Some open mikes are like support groups for the black sheep of every family.

It's alright it can hear both of you, there's two mikes look.

He was wearing throat mikes under a high military collar.

She moved to Toronto in 1996, and quickly became a fixture at the city's open mikes.

But there were the guards, who might well be miked.

Several players were miked for the game on a voluntary basis.

There's two phone lines in this joint, and the one for the computer is miked.

"For the first time in the village the choral society was miked!"

The first-base coach is miked but has nothing to say.

"Who's to say if the players are acting out what they're thinking about a referee who is miked?"

On my guitar, they had me miked with about seven mics.

What never seems to be missing is her singing, which has been miked to exploding volume.

Suited and miked and taking the floor, the strong are saying plenty.

The strings, few in number and miked from close above, gave a fair impression of an early recording.

They were miked up and ready to act.

The locker room, the players, the coaches and maybe even the cheerleaders will be miked.

For visual effect they were "miked" by the sound crew, just as a real amplifier would be.

It was miked very, very close up; you hear his lips come away from the cigarette.

He miked three floors of the building, as well as the stairway.

Miked from above, he mumbled something inaudible to an actress playing a prostitute.

Their music and the dancers' taps are heavily miked.

This far north on Broadway, there ought to be a law against actors shouting while they are miked.

"The thing is, I don't like to be miked," he said.

Torre has since been miked several more times, without incident.

And the orchestra is miked so intrusively that the singers were often unintelligible.

He once miked a cactus and played it.

The effects, amplifiers, cabinets, and miking processes can be changed to any combination.

And it certainly should not be miked.

Today, try staging a Broadway show without miking.