mike stew

noun

mike stew

noun

1

Unpleasant background noise generated from the sound of a microphone.

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

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