{"id":122644,"date":"2017-08-03T12:35:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/?p=122644"},"modified":"2017-08-03T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:35:02","slug":"atlanta-braves-new-suntrust-park-utilizes-digicos-s21-digital-mixing-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/2017\/08\/03\/atlanta-braves-new-suntrust-park-utilizes-digicos-s21-digital-mixing-console\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves\u2019 New SunTrust Park Utilizes DiGiCo\u2019s S21 Digital Mixing Console"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Atlanta Braves played their\u00a0first game in their new home, SunTrust Park, on April 14<\/span><\/span> against the\u00a0San Diego Padres, they were doing it in baseball\u2019s new advanced stadium. The $622 million, 41,419-seat capacity facility’s\u00a0sound is routed, around the venue and out\u00a0through the Braves\u2019 135-station regional radio network, operated by\u00a0Dickey Broadcasting Company (DBC).\u00a0Gary Kline<\/strong>, principal at Kline Consulting Group, says baseball fans\u00a0are expecting more comprehensive and immersive experiences, both at\u00a0the ballpark and while listening to games on the radio.<\/p>\n

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As part of his\u00a0mission to help his client, DBC, create a new radio broadcasting\u00a0facility at SunTrust Park, Kilne was also tasked with getting\u00a0customized audio feeds around the stadium itself. For instance, a\u00a0broadcast feed had to be routed to key back-of-house areas, including\u00a0the luxury suites, including the Infiniti Club area, and to other\u00a0areas under the stadium\u2019s control, such as elevators.<\/p>\n

However, this feed would need to be stripped of the effects audio that\u00a0is woven into the main broadcast feed, since those at the stadium\u00a0would already be immersed in crowd sounds and baseball effects such as\u00a0bat cracks. Those \u201csounds of the game\u201d were being picked up by\u00a0microphones strategically placed by Kline and the top-notch Braves\u00a0in-house broadcast team for the main radio feed. Then, another version\u00a0of that feed\u2014essentially a mix-minus\u2014needed to be made that would let\u00a0the broadcast announcers hear the local vocal mix created on-site\u00a0while mixing the radio IFB (commercials, imaging, etc.) and producer
\ntalkback into the mix.<\/p>\n

To best accomplish all this, Kline specified the installation of a\u00a0DiGiCo S21 digital audio console. \u201cThe S21 effortlessly creates this special headphone mix for the announcers,\u201d says Kline. \u201cIt makes sure\u00a0that their vocals fed to the station do not feed back to them, as the\u00a0small amount of transport latency would be disconcerting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cWe collect uncompressed audio from a wide range of sources throughout\u00a0the stadium, from the effects mics near home plate to a direct feed\u00a0from the front-of-house console for the singing of the national anthem\u00a0before each game,\u201d says Kline. \u201cWe also have a standard connection\u00a0to the home team TV truck, so, if we want, we can integrate their\u00a0ambient and crowd feeds into our special total effects mix. The S21 is\u00a0critical for this: collecting all of the audio from sources all over\u00a0the stadium, then letting the operator organize it into the custom\u00a0feeds needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, some need the radio broadcast feed with the commercial\u00a0already integrated, which means that it\u2019s coming back from the radio\u00a0studio, where they\u2019ve inserted the commercials into the feed we had\u00a0already sent them. It can get pretty complicated. Before this, they\u00a0would have to use outboard mixers and summing amps; now, the S21 can\u00a0handle it all, letting the operator build exactly the mixes each\u00a0person needs in their headphones and headsets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kline says the S21\u2019s ability to build an array of mixes has been\u00a0crucial to making SunTrust Park\u2019s new radio broadcast infrastructure\u00a0work, but that the console\u2019s other features are just as valuable. He\u00a0cites the desk\u2019s excellent dynamics and EQ, \u201cThey\u2019re EQing out the\u00a0lows from the effects audio to keep it clear and punchy, without\u00a0losing any of the tonality.\u201d<\/p>\n

And DiGiCo\u2019s seamless integration with\u00a0Waves processing is also being\u00a0leveraged at the Park: radio A1s are able to send effects and ambience\u00a0channels to the Waves servers with a DTS Neural Surround plug-in thatlets them group all of those channels separately. \u201cThat gives them a\u00a0master-fader effects mix for the surround mix, for radios than can
\ndecode the DTS Neural Surround encoded content,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

But, at the end of the day, it\u2019s the sound that sells the S21 as much\u00a0as its features and functionality. \u201cIt just sounds amazing,\u201d says
\nKline. \u201cThe separation between channels in stereo and surround is\u00a0incredible and really contributes to the sense of being there for
\nlisteners. The S21 has been a big part of making the broadcast and\u00a0house audio aspects of SunTrust Park work to their maximum potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the Atlanta Braves played their\u00a0first game in their new home, SunTrust Park, on April 14 against the\u00a0San Diego Padres, they were doing it in baseball\u2019s new advanced stadium. The […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":122645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6009,12526,8331],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122659,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122644\/revisions\/122659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}