npr: Did you notice that weird buzzing noise during the Oscars last night? Here’s what Monkey See’s Linda Holmes had to say about it: And, most annoyingly, there were sound problems throughout, including a feedback-like buzzing and chirping on the microphones that persisted throughout the entire ceremony. How a production with this much money behind it couldn’t get working microphones on the stage of a theater that’s this fancy is hard to understand, but it’s not good when Twitter and Facebook are lighting up, not with comments about what’s happening, but with comments like, “Is everyone else hearing that buzzing noise?” Fun story: Si and I were hearing this buzzing noise the entire time, and we thought we were going completely insane until she realized it was the microphone. It’s nice to know that everyone else heard it too and we weren’t just sharing some sort of annoying auditory hallucination.

npr:

Did you notice that weird buzzing noise during the Oscars last night?

Here’s what Monkey See’s Linda Holmes had to say about it:

And, most annoyingly, there were sound problems throughout, including a feedback-like buzzing and chirping on the microphones that persisted throughout the entire ceremony. How a production with this much money behind it couldn’t get working microphones on the stage of a theater that’s this fancy is hard to understand, but it’s not good when Twitter and Facebook are lighting up, not with comments about what’s happening, but with comments like, “Is everyone else hearing that buzzing noise?”

Fun story:

Si and I were hearing this buzzing noise the entire time, and we thought we were going completely insane until she realized it was the microphone. It’s nice to know that everyone else heard it too and we weren’t just sharing some sort of annoying auditory hallucination.