Doesn't it seem odd the "truck horns" are louder when reporters asks question.

[LiberalFighter]

And isn't traffic around the WH limited. So are they really from truckers or fake from WH sound system?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. That's due to the positioning of the microphones. NT

[mr_lebowski]

6. Could additionally be different types of microphone technology ...

They might use the one type of mic at the podium, and another type to pass around, in a nutshell. Unidirectional vs. Condenser types, that sort of thing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Yeah. That too. I wasn't watching, but if this is like the last one,

Trump's standing behind a lectern. There's a small microphone on a flexible stalk right in front of him. The reporters, last time, had one microphone that they had to lean into. Trump and the reporters were several yards apart. I can easily imagine that the reporters' microphone was more likely to pick up sounds on the surrounding streets than Trump's was.

Thanks.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. I think these "horns" were a WH fabrication.

The obvious difference between the Trump and the Reporter's Mic was too different. Obviously, they want to have a backdrop of truckers who support the opening, but how would the sound be orchestrated by the truckers...they'd have no way of knowing who was speaking.

On edit....probably a different mixing to give Trump's responses clarity while making the questions hard to hear.

[2naSalit]

4. Unless they are watching on their little teevees. ...nt

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. No, that's how sound works when there are multiple microphones on a broadcast.

[DBoon]

5. The truth is boring sometimes

I was going to post something about the "truck horn" being a product of Trump's digestive system

[Yonnie3]

7. The nearest the trucks would be is on Constitution Ave.

That's about 2,000 feet. The microphones for the press could certainly pick that up. Those microphones are placed very low for some reason and would need to be turned up. They turn them off between questions and sometimes in the middle of them. The podium microphones seemed to be on all the time so he could interrupt and are not aimed at Constitution Ave. He appears to speck loudly so that the gain was not very high on those. Turning the press mics on would make the horns audible.

If active level controls (compression) was used on the press microphones it would cause them to be at high gain until they picked up the reporter and then go back to high gain when the reporter stopped speaking making the horns even more prevalent when no one was speaking.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Ty for that explanation.

[snowybirdie]

9. Any newspeople

have pictures of this supposed rally?