Recent Posts by Dan Daley, Audio Editor
By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 10:15 am
Upmixing engines may still be a specialty item, but they have become standard issue in sports-broadcast processing racks. The intention is to provide the most seamless discrete 5.1 surround-sound experience […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Friday, June 11, 2010 - 9:40 am
Surround processing — the automated upmixing and downmixing between mono, stereo, and 5.1 sound elements — at the high end of the scale isn’t quite at the commodity stage yet. […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Monday, June 7, 2010 - 9:35 am
When Fox Sports took over the first 14 weeks of NASCAR racing in 2001, company Chairman David Hill gave Senior Mixer/audio consultant Fred Aldous what Aldous calls a “blank sheet” […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Friday, June 4, 2010 - 9:57 am
The Arena Football League has had its ups and downs. The most recent of the latter was the suspended 2009 season following a 2008 bankruptcy after 22 seasons. But a […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 12:07 pm
The first 3D remote-production trucks hit the road within the past 12 months, from NEP’s SS3D last fall (slated to be used at the MLB All-Star Game, which will be […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 10:47 am
Three-dimensional pictures have come and gone enough over the past eight decades to qualify as the visual equivalent of a Ralph Nader presidential bid. An Academy Award-winning short in 1936 […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 1:33 pm
It’s the bottom of the ninth, and the batter hits a searing line drive up the middle. The 3D camera behind home plate records the initial travel of the ball, […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 9:33 am
“Ten times bigger than Super Bowl” is the way Henry Rousseau, coordinating technical manager for ESPN, describes the upcoming World Cup telecasts from South Africa June 11-July 11. The network […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 10:53 am
Abbott & Costello made plenty of hay with their “mudder and fodder” routine, but we can forgive the folks at Churchill Downs if they weren’t laughing last Saturday when record […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 10:41 am
When the YES Network moved into its new digs at Yankee Stadium 2.0 last year, it left a lot of baggage behind at the old facility. Most of it was […]
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