RAMBLOR wrote:
sudikoff wrote:
Yes. The students are literally right behind the announcers. It’s the tightest squeeze of almost any arena I’ve ever broadcasted in. The commentator mics pick up the noise.
I have zero clue what a “gate” is when it comes to a headset mic and I’ve been broadcasting for over 15 years lol.
National networks usually tape microphones down to the floor facing the court and on the baskets etc so those aren’t for crowd noise. If anything they just have slightly more expensive headset mics that filter out the noise better.
If you listen to our radio broadcast from last night, it’s just my mic and CT’s mic and you hear the crowd loud and clear. And we use top of the line Sennheiser headsets which have been the industry standard for a while.
A gate just means no signal under a certain volume threshold gets passed -- so once the commentator stops talking, nothing comes through that mic. It might not be used in sports broadcasting typically, but to solve LUC's particular problem, might be an option? Of course, then it would sound weird to have no ambient/crowd noise coming through, hence the idea for the dedicated mic for that.
The national broadcasts' mics pointed at the floor makes sense, but no doubt they are picking up plenty of crowd noise in the process -- we can all hear the night and day differences in the broadcasts. They function as the ambient mics generally, right? I'm proposing LUC emulate that to some degree to solve their particular problem that people are complaining about -- I haven't noticed it happening on national broadcasts.
I eagerly await the donation
Edit to add: But in all seriousness, with the new A10 TV deal announced a few weeks ago, there appears to be a carve out for school productions. Hard to know for sure, but it could be a cash infusion dedicated for in-house productions to use.
So while it might be tough to get a fix this season (only 2 of the final 5 home games are in-house productions), it could be something for next year that can get fixed.
While I have you all, tune in tonight for the women’s game vs. St. Joe’s!
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