[opendtv] Re: No Commentary on Fox/NASCAR Broadcast
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:49:46 -0700
When you had this problem were you perhaps monitoring the tape playback as
mono audio or using an audio system with a center channel? Sounds much like
a stereo phasing issue where left/right channels are 180 out of phase
somewhere. In a typical stereo sports production, announcer audio is
normally L/R mono (center channel) therefore, when the stereo mix is
monitored on a mono audio system, the announcer audio is canceled while the
stereo stuff comes through.
If I' m off base, please ignore!
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Subject: [opendtv] No Commentary on Fox/NASCAR Broadcast
I am having a consistent audio problems with my recordings of the NASCAR
races broadcast on FOX. Because I didn't watch the OTA signal live, I don't
know if it is in the recording or if it was live. I did watch a brief amount
on cable at a friend's house (while waiting for the Indy 500 rain delay) and
the commentary was consistent.
The symptoms are these: the audio is fine for all commentary and
commercials until the drop of the green flag. When the race starts, all I
get is natural sound, the audio of the race cars, and short blips of
commentary. Commercials run fine with the proper audio. The audio for the
racing action switches based on the visual (i.e., an in-car cam has in-car
audio, a track shot has the audio with the cars zooming by, etc.). However,
every once in a while, you hear a short bleep and there is some commentary
and a second later it goes back to natural sound without commentary. This
happens the entire length of the race up to the post race when everything is
good again.
I am guessing that my VCR is stuck on recording SAP and that this isn't
happening on the regular broadcast (I checked my VCR and it says it is
recording the standard stereo broadcast.) I can't imagine this happening on
multiple races without fixing it. I am guessing that the feed to the SAP is
some aux channel on a router that is switching based some other control
signal and that the natural audio is mixed on a separate console than the
commentary or final output is mixed on. Does FOX (or whoever is producing
audio) know that this is going out? Does this audio go with some special
feature? Does anyone know an engineer working on the NASCAR live trucks?
Dan Grimes
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