In this edition of the SVC Podcast, SVC Contributing Editor Bennett Liles talks with freelance TV sound engineer Erik West about doing sound for baseball games and other television sports remote broadcasts. West details the setup for his Milwaukee Brewers games and discusses the nuances of picking up crowd sounds, bat cracks, and umpires calling balls and strikes. Crew communication is also explored with talkbacks, sportscaster headsets, and prefader foldback routing.
Links of interest:
- The Shure VP-88 stereo condenser microphone Erik uses on the Brewers games
- Sennheiser HMD 25 sportscaster headsets used by announcers on the Brewers games
- The Sennheiser HMD 26 sportscaster headset with more directional microphone
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