I’m an AV guy....
What happened was that the gain was up pretty high to pick up Trumps voice due to the distance of his mouth from the microphone due to his height. The angle was such that is was picking up his nasal sounds when he breathed .
The Tech turned the gain down to eliminate the nasal sounds which in turn decreased the volume pickup.
I noticed the nasal sounds went away after the adjustment but so did the depth and fullness of Trumps voice.
The tech should have adjusted the equalizer down at the high frequencies and he could have eliminated the nasal sounds without decreasing the gain.
“What happened was that the gain was up pretty high to pick up Trumps voice due to the distance of his mouth from the microphone due to his height. “
Agree. Fail on sound tech’s part, he should have adjusted the mic for his height.
And they both had on wireless lavs, mix tech could have mixed in a little lav (but not too much because of phase problems between lectern mic and lav).