Video: Microphone Fellatio

Nothing's shocking — except phantom power. [via BuzzFeed]

[#1 posted by ZoopyFunk , November 20, 2008 12:39 PM]

No money shot?

[#2 posted by Skep , November 20, 2008 12:43 PM]

:-|

I dunno. A little short and skinny shotgun mic. Perhaps an RE-20 kick drum mic (one of the industry standard talk radio mics) would be more interesting...

http://www.electrovoice.com/products/91.html

[#3 posted by TJ S , November 20, 2008 12:47 PM]

Joel, we need a post about your dead PC please! Have you tried a different power supply?

[#4 posted by Gary61 , November 20, 2008 12:53 PM]

swallow the buzz.

[#5 posted by pork musket , November 20, 2008 12:54 PM]

I want to have a conversation with this girl

[#6 posted by The Life Of Bryan , November 20, 2008 1:02 PM]

She needs something that looks just like a Telefunken U-47.

[#7 posted by The Lizardman , November 20, 2008 1:14 PM]

Lux Interior did it better with a full vocal mic decades ago

[#8 posted by Rajio , November 20, 2008 1:23 PM]

Wow that went down on us pretty fast.

(err, im talking about youtube taking down the video. no pun intended)

[#9 posted by clueless in brooklyn , November 20, 2008 1:34 PM]

One word: Faster!

[#10 posted by mrballistic , November 20, 2008 1:51 PM]

they should drop 2/3 frames and put in yakety sax in the background.

[#11 posted by MajorD , November 20, 2008 2:05 PM]

I might be just a little bit in love.

[#12 posted by Chrs , November 20, 2008 2:11 PM]

This is one where you're even more than usually guaranteed that the YouTube comments thread is going to be terrible.

Kind of fun to look at them, though, because you can't really blame the commenters this time. It's a woman going down on a microphone, after all.

[#13 posted by godisafiction , November 20, 2008 2:36 PM]

Aww, from your "shocking" comment I was on the edge of my seat waiting for her to jump suddenly backwards as a jolt of electricity unexpectedly zapped her tonsils. Alas, its just undergrad art school style performance art.

[#14 posted by PoisonedV , November 20, 2008 2:36 PM]

They call this garbage 'art'?
I guess any seemingly-pointless thing even slightly out of the ordinary is now art.

[#15 posted by technogeek , November 20, 2008 2:48 PM]

Well, we always did refer to the foam windscreens as "mike condoms"... (And actually, it's been pointed out that a condom is not a wholly unreasonable way to try to protect a mike on a rainy day.)

[#16 posted by Brad S. , November 20, 2008 3:53 PM]

@15

Douglas Adams told a great story about trying to find a condom for a microphone in "Last Chance To See." They were looking to lower a mike into the Yangtze River to record dolphins. It's definitely worth a read.

B

[#17 posted by nehpetsE , November 20, 2008 3:56 PM]

cradle the balls cradle the balls!!!

http://www.tubegold.pl/video/b3IX4y7d5_s/

[#18 posted by g.park , November 20, 2008 3:56 PM]

@14-

All artists, art students, and art appreciators, please report to poisondev to be told what art really is.

[#19 posted by kaosmonkey , November 20, 2008 4:23 PM]

@13

ditto. so very sad.

[#20 posted by Mister Staal , November 20, 2008 4:35 PM]

I'll stay out of the debate as to whether or not this is art. That said, I'm rather envious of that bit of Sennheiser hardware she's gulping down which, BTW, is generally battery powered rather than using phantom power.

And yes. An RE-20 would be more impressive. Much more impressive. But hey, art or not, impressive or not, it was still pretty sexy from this audio dork's point of view.

[#21 posted by cherry shiva , November 20, 2008 4:39 PM]

hope she didn't blow an amp

[#22 posted by Gainclone , November 20, 2008 6:03 PM]

As an audio engineer, I can readily say this was one of the most awkwardly, fantastically sexy things I've ever seen.

[#23 posted by technogeek , November 20, 2008 6:50 PM]

I should add: As an occasional sound tech for amateur musicians, I've been very used to having to alternate between "The mike is your friend. Stand closer to it" and "Not _that_ good a friend; back off just a bit."

[#24 posted by technogeek , November 20, 2008 6:52 PM]

One other quick observation: Note that unlike all the geeks watching her enviously, _she_ has sense enough to wear earplugs while she's doing this!

[#25 posted by airship , November 21, 2008 7:16 AM]

As her father, I have to say I couldn't be more proud.

[#26 posted by EricT , November 21, 2008 9:21 AM]

"they should drop 2/3 frames and put in yakety sax in the background."

Great now I got to clean the coffee i spit all over my Keyboard and Monitor

[#27 posted by snackcake , November 21, 2008 10:38 AM]

Michael McDonald has been doing this for years...

[#28 posted by Halloween Jack , November 21, 2008 1:31 PM]

I've been known to make similar sounds during similar acts.

[#29 posted by OM , November 21, 2008 5:29 PM]

Sigh...I'm getting ysdlecix in my old age. When I first read that headline, I thought it said Microsoft Fellatio, and wondered if it was a new kind of sex sim :-P

[#30 posted by Milo Minderbender , November 22, 2008 7:37 AM]

Ultimately, all art is for the grant money. Just ask Michaelangelo.

What is she doing to that mic, by the way? Is it tasty? Are they fighting?

[#31 posted by mrsomuch , November 22, 2008 1:19 PM]

I can has Happy ending?

oop. there we go...

/gets coat

[#32 posted by StudioRobot , November 22, 2008 5:16 PM]

@6 - all im saying is that if she were deep throating a U47 while im stuck tracking vox with an SM7, i would cry.

[#33 posted by FoetusNail , November 23, 2008 2:32 AM]

She's hot and gets a lot of points for the slow, sensual, and serious nature of her work, but she missed an opportunity to make some music. By controlling volume and using some ring modulation or phase shifting with a little flanging and echo or reverb for rhythm, while rocking her crotch on a wah-wah or pitch bend pedal, some real possibilities for a sonic experience would arise, a screaming atonal climax.