Despite 22-Minute Glitch, World Series Gets Big Sound
At 8:18 p.m. in Kansas City on Tuesday, in the audio compartment of NEP’s EN2 truck, Fox Sports A1 Joe Carpenter was waiting for the bottom of the fourth inning […] More
Recent Posts by Dan Daley, Audio Editor
Fox, ESPN Add Sonic Wrinkles to Postseason Play
We’re barely through the first two rounds of postseason baseball, and we’ve already seen a few new wrinkles in its audio. Both Fox Sports and ESPN have placed microphones on […] More
Countdown to the AES Show
When the Audio Engineering Society’s annual conference and expo takes place Oct. 29-Nov. 1 at New York City’s Jacob Javits Center, SVG will be there, covering the show’s expanded broadcast […] More
Tech Focus: Audio Monitoring, Part 2
Monitor-product options for mobile broadcast grew over the past year, in terms of both brands and models, underscoring the fact that, while the physics of the limited space available in […] More
Tech Focus: Audio Monitoring, Part 1
Change is creeping into the remote-production truck. For instance, the front-line vehicles of broadcast’s army are tentatively beginning to incorporate digital-audio networking into the signal flow on trucks, mainly on […] More
Tech Focus: Audio Monitoring, Part 2 — A Broad Range of Options
Monitor-product options for mobile broadcast grew over the past year, in terms of both brands and models, underscoring the fact that, while the physics of the limited space available in […] More
Tech Focus: Audio Monitoring, Part 1 — Production Trucks See Small Changes
Change is creeping into the remote-production truck. For instance, the front-line vehicles of broadcast’s army are tentatively beginning to incorporate digital-audio networking into the signal flow on trucks, mainly on […] More
In-Venue Audio Takes the Spotlight
On the field or on the air, sound remains the third dimension to the sports experience. While broadcast sound is on the verge of entering its next format era, with […] More
Football Sound: ‘Continue Doing What We’ve Been Doing’
The broadcast sound for NFL games has reached a kind of plateau. Networks and their A1s have taken the combination of 5.1 surround and unprecedented access to on-field audio — […] More
Live from the US Open: Audio Gets Streamlined and Organized
Audio for this year’s US Open tennis championships represented another step in moving sound deeper into a networked configuration. Where last year’s main form of audio transport around the courts […] More