Audio-Technica Microphones Facilitate Broadcasting of Beijing Winter Sports

The winter sports extravaganza taking place in Beijing is broadcast using more than 2.300 microphone equipment 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. Since a few 26 years, has provided innovative solutions for capturing sound during broadcasts, held biennially, and that include multiple sports disciplines held in different and varied places, over a period of two weeks, loaded with intense physical action.

Cameras are often equipped with their shotgun microphones. In Beijing, more than 700, 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, as is the case of speed skating, ice hockey and figure skating. In these cases, have immersed themselves in the ice rinks near 60 contact microphone units AT880b before they froze, and that are responsible for capturing the subtle sound produced by the competitors' skates.

Transfer tactics to the home, action and emotion curling It is a task that has been entrusted to more than 50 channels of beltpack type wireless microphone systems of the series ATW-5000 what, very often, They operate uninterruptedly until 13 daily hours, within a competitive environment that means a challenge, both in terms of temperatures, as frequency planning.

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

surface microphones U851R, finished in the special color 'winter white', 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 complete the extensive inventory delivered by Audio-Technica in the host city.

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