Let’s say you’ve coughed up a hundred or so pounds to see your favourite artist. You probably already know that the singer will use a backing track (though you might be surprised to hear what’s actually playing in their ears). But how can you tell if your beloved belter is singing live versus mouthing along to the tunes in the background? Recently, TikTokker and music producer @littlebrookstudio shared how you can tell if a singer is performing live in a music video ― and two of them apply to concerts, too. It starts with the mic“The first, and the most glaringly obvious to any audio professional, is how the mic sounds,” the producer said. “The vast majority of live performances you see will be recorded on a microphone like this,” he said, lifting up a microphone with a black handle and a silver, globe-shaped head ― it’s the type of microphone most of us think of when we imagine the object. This is a live dynamic mic.But then, he lifted a more remote control-shaped mic up, stating that that “is