Thankfully, some enterprising individual backstage made certain that Lakoda Rayne's microphones were turned down, but there was no disguising how shaky Chris Rene sounded and Rachel Crow pretty much shouted her lines.
Take out anything that is boring, shaky, or sounds bad.
As the poem unfolds, though, the phrase "like Beatrice and Benedick" starts to sound shakier and shakier, an analogy asserted nervously by Beatrice as her Benedick drifts into abstraction.
On the phone, Pepper sounded shaky as she told me, "I'm barely keeping my head above water right now.
OK, the footage was a little shaky and the sound wasn't perfect, but once filed to YouTube and embedded in our site (via John in his bedroom), Enter4entertainment.com managed to compile a fairly hefty instant rich-media blog of what was happening at the #xfactor launch.
The details of today's deal sound shaky at best.
So think of something funny and you're not going to sound shaky," says Nelson, who is also a BBC Radio 4 and World Service science presenter.
This is why my recollection of the inspired South Park mash-up that Rush opens "Tom Sawyer" with is of me holding my iPhone above my head, only to later discover that the picture was beyond shaky and the sound quality so awful it wasn't worth reliving, or even keeping.
Russ was old and sounded shaky when Coster-Mullen interviewed him over the phone, and he refused to answer basic questions about the size of the project's nuclear stockpile, or to say how many nuclear weapons he had manufactured.
A more challenging piece in three parts sounded shaky at first try.
