mike stew

English

Noun

mike stew (uncountable)

  1. Unpleasant background noise generated from the sound of a microphone.
    • 1950, Dore Schary, Case History of a Movie, page 139:
      But the tin ear of the mike picks up all sounds, without selection, in an indiscriminate hodge-podge which sound men call "mike stew."
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