World Cup Audio: Beyond the Vuvuzelas
The broadcast of the World Cup was a milestone for sports on the air. Not only was it the first sports event available around the globe in 3D, but it […] More
Recent Posts by Dan Daley, Audio Editor
Fox Sports All-Star Audio Goes Deep for 3D
Fred Aldous enjoyed some newfound freedom while mixing the discrete 5.1 audio for the MLB All-Star Game on DirecTV last week. Fox Sports’ senior audio mixer and consultant was on […] More
Audio Consoles Continue To Get Smaller, Faster, Less Costly
The biggest news in audio consoles this year has been the acquisition of Euphonix by Avid, which closed the deal on April 21. Otherwise, the field demonstrates that Moore’s Law […] More
Though Stilled, the Voice of Bob Sheppard Lives on at Yankee Stadium
Bob Sheppard’s voice has resonated through the New York Yankees’ PA system since the first game he ever announced, on April 17, 1951. The lineup that day included seven players […] More
Even With New Tools, Audio Up and Down Mixing Has Highs and Lows
Increasingly, the sound of sports broadcasts has become as fragmented as the Balkans once looked. Viewers are sometimes on a roller coaster ride that goes from a 5.1 surround experience […] More
Calrec Says Goodbye To Analog Mixing Consoles
Calrec Audio, a major supplier of audio mixing consoles for sports broadcasts, will discontinue production of analog audio consoles as of Nov. 30, 2010. The decision to stop making analog […] More
Studer Update for OnAir Consoles Boosts Summing Busses, Adds New Metering and VCA Mode
Among the functions provided in Studer’s recently released V3.2 software update for its OnAir 2500 and 3000 consoles are remote GPIO over the network, configuration backup/restore, and two new metering […] More
Taming the Wild Vuvuzela
The sound has been described as anything from “annoying” to “Satanic”; CNN described Johannesburg’s Soccer City last week as sounding like “a giant beehive.” The vuvuzela, the native horn that’s […] More
On College World Series, ESPN Aims for a Wall of Sound
It’s widely agreed that baseball’s signature sound is the “crack” of the bat. However, during the College World Series, scheduled in Omaha June 19-29/30, finding a common onomatopoeia for the […] More
Upmix Engines Stake Out a Place in Sports Broadcasting
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 […] More