And that’s where I find that sometimes folks get a little too heavy handed with the effects mics, and you bury the voices of the announcers, and that’s what people tune in for.
#SOUNDGYM VS QUIZTONES TV#
With TV sports, the biggest thing we hear complaints about is that people can’t hear the talent over the effects. In terms of mixing, that’s really all I’m doing for live sports – we call it following the puck – I’m chasing the on-field play that the director and producer are calling, and I’m just trying to capture that. The mixing part is really the same: you’re pushing faders up and down to make things louder and softer, depending on what the band wants. For me, adding that element is a big difference. It’s all point to point, and I have 60 or 70 channels of comms. But on the shows that I do, for example the curling broadcasts for the national networks here in Canada, I’m using a 264-channel matrix intercom system. When you’re dealing with live bands, there might be four channels: stage, production, audio, and lights, for example. But when you use an RTS matrix-based intercom, it adds an entire new level of expertise and knowledge that most live audio engineers haven’t been exposed to. I’m talking about RTS intercoms, not ClearCom, which are just two-way communications, party lines and so forth. What are some of the similarities and differences between mixing a band live on stage and doing a live broadcast mix?Īndrew Stoakley: I think the biggest thing is comms. Michael Lawrence: Your job is broadcast audio, but a lot of what you’re doing is live. He’s currently the production show mixer for the Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts, and I recently had the opportunity to chat with him about his work as a broadcast mixer and the unique challenges of the job.
Talking with broadcast mixer Andrew Stoakley about the craft.Īndrew Stoakley is a television audio production mixer with 25 years of experience in remote mobile work, mixing a wide range of sports broadcasts (MLB, NHL, NBA, NFL, CFL, MLS, curling and many others) along the way.
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