You might be surprised to hear just how much rustle etc there is before post production. Noise gates etc are used to lower the noise level. And it's also why they don't generally 'brighten' personal mics on drama enough - that brings up the generally HF sounds of rustle.
After complains about inaudiblity on Happy Valley recently, they did re-mix later episodes. And up came the rustle.
Just miss out the Euro part of the diary ;-) massive production
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Hairline certianly does. The cheek ones are a bit variable, sensitive to distance from mouth and cheek and to my ears a bit too "close". The problems with mics clipped to onto the chest area are getting to much sound of the chest resonace (males in particular), rustles from the clothing, muffled if hidden, and as the person turns their head the quality changing, they are also too close.
Clipped on mics are "OK" for some value of "OK. Do a comparison between a clip-on and even a 416 in boom at 3' and the boom will produces a nice, natural, open, clear, sound.
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