Audio-Technica's microphone makes it easy to broadcast Beijing's winter sports

The great spectacle of winter sports that is being held in Beijing is broadcast using more than 2.300 microphone equipment Audio-Technica.

Audio-Technica has contributed 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 years 26 years, has provided innovative solutions for sound capture during broadcasts, held biennially, and which include multiple sports disciplines held in different and varied locations, over a two-week period, loaded with intense physical action.

Cameras are often equipped with their cannon microphones. In Beijing more than 700, most of which are stereo models BP4027 and BP4029, able to offer a better soundscape.

An innovative use of microphones can be found in a multitude of activities that require competition on ice, as is the case with speed skating, ice hockey and figure skating. In these cases, have been submerged 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 skates of the competitors.

Move tactics home, action and emotion of the curling it is a task that has been entrusted to more than 50 channels of series pouch-type wireless microphone systems ATW-5000 What, very often, work uninterruptedly up to 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 on top of enclosures, to which a pair of stereo microphones has been added more recently BP4025, installed on a special anti-wind bracket, in a configuration 4.0. In total, more than 200 of these ambient microphones in the different competition venues.

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

last, are also being used 14 microphone prototypes 8.0 by Audio-Technica, each of which has eight microphonic elements of 12 mm diameter. These are integrated into the package of immersive audio programs supplied by the host station.. Mixed in real time in the sports environment, contribute to bring the action closer and improve the sound experience offered by each sports discipline.

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