Conceal the rest of the cable inside the talent’s clothing, taping the cable to clothing a few times to prevent the lavalier from being pulled by the cable.

The cable will usually exit at the beltline for a sitting subject, and out of the skirt or pants leg for a standing subject. Rigging a lavalier mic is an excellent time to get to know your talent better.

If the subject is likely to turn their head more to one side while speaking, that’s the side the lavalier goes on.

If you do need to conceal the mic under talent’s clothing, the goal is to eliminate contact noise—caused by clothing rubbing against itself, the mic or cable.

First, choose a quiet costume—silk and synthetic fabrics are noisier than cotton or wool. Ask the talent to move as they will be during the shot, lean close to them and listen for audible clothing noise. Anti-static sprays, dry silicon spray lubricants, water or alcohol may help reduce clothing noise (but be careful of staining the CEO’s $4,000 Armani). You can conceal a lavalier by taping it to your talent’s chest under their shirt, fixing it underneath a collar, inside the neck band of sweatshirts and T-shirts, or in her (or his) décolletage using gaffer tape or professional medical/surgical tape.

You can conceal the lavalier microphone better if you remove the clip and use a little tape.

You could also use a shotgun

- ALWAYS record some setnoise, this is the sound of a room (or outside) where the scene has taken place, WITHOUT anyone moving or talking… Record this for 3 – 4 minutes, NOT LESS !

OK, and now I hear the question “well… 30seconds is enough, no ?”.. OK, record 30 seconds, reloop it and listen, you will here a constantly repeating “thing”, which can not be cut out, because there is another repeating thing. When recording 3 minutes you mostly have covered a scene and sounds are not “looped” attentionaly.

- use 2 booms, or lavaliers. Lavaliers can be very good and very helpfull when used as it should be. Hiding lavaliers is the most dificult thing in audio.. and I mean hiding and not hearing clothes sounds, scratching sound. Undercovers from Rycote are very helpfull. Other things that can be very helpfull for lavaliers are: medical tape (all kinds), under cover small stuff things specialy for lavaliers.

Bether is to use 2 booms actualy, indeed producers over there, you will have to pay another shadowmaker :-p But the result will be much bether !