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Pick up heavy breathing on microphone, that’s shocking (7)

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I believe the answer is:

seismic

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'shocking' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'pick up heavy breathing on microphone' is the wordplay.
'pick up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'heavy breathing' becomes 'sies' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'microphone' becomes 'mic'.
'sies' back-to-front is 'seis'.
'seis'+'mic'='SEISMIC'

'that's' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for seismic that I've seen before include "of enormous proportions" , "Caused by an earthquake" , "Resulting from earthquakes" , "earth-shattering effects?" , "Of earth tremors" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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