I just create a stereo mix using a Calrec console by taking the output of the six groups and sending them to a stereo buss to create a pure stereo mix. Some audio mixers create a downmix by taking a 5.1 mix and running it through a Dolby DP563, and route that all around. Monitoring in the truck is in stereo, since that’s still what the majority of people are listening to.
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All we’re told is that they want to broadcast in Surround Sound we end up figuring out for ourselves how to get it done! Television trucks have to have a stereo program throughout. Kirkpatrick: The problem currently is that nobody has come up with the definitive way to do Surround Sound. TVT: What are the main issues confronting audio engineers who have to present both surround and stereo mixes in real time? This July I mixed the tennis Hall of Fame event in Newport, R.I.
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Kirkpatrick: I freelance and work a variety of sports events, golf, mostly at ABC, and college football, plus figure skating, two Super Bowls, and the “Wide World of Sports.” I worked on golf for Fox this summer, and for the last four or five years had done a lot of work in London mixing gymnastics and ski events for the Olympics. I was a rock ’n roll mixer for 10 years before I got into sports audio. I work for CBS on one of their Sunday afternoon NFL games they take about six months of my time. I mix boxing for Showtime, have done five Olympics, and two Super Bowls. This will be my 21st year working with the NFL.
Phil Adler Adler: I’ve been mixing live television sports events since 1988, for CBS, Fox and other networks. TV Technology: What kind of sports events are you working on these days? Joining Adler were Fred Aldous, senior mixer and audio consultant for Fox Sports, the recipient of 23 Emmy Awards and a recent inductee into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame four-time Emmy-winner Dana Kirkpatrick and Paul Zerang, audio engineer for the Chicago Blackhawks NHL team. TV Technology recently spoke with a panel of highly experienced sports audio broadcast engineers about the challenges they face and the developing trends in the industry. Oh, and turn on your laptop and start working on it at the same time! Now listen to what the director, standing on your right, has to say while the producer talking in your ear is making comments. “Turn on your favorite show, then turn on a couple of radios and dial in two different talk radio stations make sure to put them off to the left and right, or behind you, then bring both up in volume close to the TV show you’re watching. “Sit in front of your television,” said Phil Adler, a longtime broadcast mixer whose credits include five Olympics and a pair of Super Bowls.
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