Audio-Technica Microphones Facilitate Broadcasting of Beijing Winter Sports

The winter sports extravaganza being held in Beijing is broadcast using more than 2,300 microphone sets. Audio-Technica.

Audio-Technica has provided its sound solutions (microphones, headphones and other associated accessories) to the host network in charge of the live broadcast of these winter sports. For some 26 years, it has provided innovative solutions for capturing sound during broadcasts, held biennially, and which include multiple sporting disciplines held in different and varied locations, over a period of two weeks, packed with intense physical action.

Cameras are often equipped with their shotgun microphones. More than 700 are in use in Beijing, most of which are stereo models BP4027 y BP4029, capable of offering a better soundscape.

An innovative use of microphones can be found in a multitude of activities that require competing on the ice, such as speed skating, ice hockey and figure skating. In these cases, about 60 units of the contact microphone have been submerged in the ice rinks. AT880b before they froze, and which are responsible for capturing the subtle sound produced by the competitors' skates.

Transfer the tactics, action and emotion of the game to the home. curling It is a task that has been assigned to more than 50 channels of belt-pack wireless microphone systems in the series ATW-5000 which, very often, operate uninterruptedly for up to 13 hours a day, within a competitive environment that represents a challenge, both in terms of temperatures and frequency planning.

Immersive audio

A classic feature of sports broadcasts is the precise capture of the ambient sound of the venue, delivered in 5.1 surround, which is based on the use of a combination of large diaphragm microphones AT4050 monkey and AT4050ST stereo, which are often hung from the top of the venues, to which has been added more recently a pair of stereo microphones BP4025, installed on a special anti-wind support, in a 4.0 configuration. In total, more than 200 of these ambient microphones have been used in the different competition venues.

surface microphones U851R, finished in the special 'winter white' color, the lapel microphones BP899 y BP898 hidden discreetly around the playing fields, and a good amount of intra-aural monitoring of the E Series and headphones Serie Mx They complete the extensive inventory delivered by Audio-Technica in the host city.

Finally, 14 prototypes of Audio-Technica 8.0 microphones are also being used, each of which has eight 12 mm diameter microphone elements. These are integrated into the immersive audio program package provided by the host station. Mixed in real time in the sports environment, they help bring the action closer and improve the sound experience offered by each sporting discipline.