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“ While everyone else was shouting into a cardboard megaphone, he was shouting into many microphones. And believe it or not the image has stuck in modern leaders.

There is not one Prime Minister, President, King or major leader who uses only one lectern microphone. It’s not because of redundancy issues. The dual SM57 setup has been THE lectern microphone setup for US Presidents since Nixon. The reason is not redundancy, it’s because two is better than one. Two looks more official, because if you just had one, why not hide a lapel mic on his tie clip and join the technology of the 90s? It’s because it’s psychological.

The same is true with talk show hosts. Larry King doesn’t use that RCA77 that sits on his desk, it’s a prop to make him look official because if he had some Chinese microphone sitting there he’d look like an idiot with thick glasses. ”