LPT: If you’re about to speak at an event and someone hands you a microphone, hold it three to six inches from your mouth.
LPT: If you're about to speak at an event and someone hands you a microphone, hold it three to six inches from your mouth. I was performing at a wedding last weekend, and for what feels like the thousandth time in my career the big, emotional speech of the evening was almost ruined because the bride's father was holding the microphone by his stomach. The attendees started to get fidgety, a couple of folks in the back yelled "We can't hear you!" and the sound enginee...