Spanish broadcaster Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) is joining the speaker lineup for SVG Europe Audio’s annual Sports Audio Summit, which is being held on 19 November in London.
Gabriel Solsona Sagrado, RTVE network specialist, is set to distil field-proven practices at RTVE to align multi-microphone arrays in sports to a common reference, preventing comb-filtering, preserving transients, and improving downmix and Atmos translation.
In a new session on the programme titled, ‘Sound coherence and time alignment: Impact, intelligibility and translation in live sports’, Solsona Sagrado will discuss how alignment is central to IP and remote and immersive workflows, as it directly affects speech clarity, crowd energy and platform consistency.
Sponsored by Audio-Technica, the full-day event which is taking place at Kings Place, Kings Cross, London, will consist of panels and presentations from the top people working in live sports broadcasting sound across Europe, and will include plenty of time for networking.
The keynote – ‘Powder and ice: Looking ahead to the sound of Milano Cortina’ – will see Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) sound design and audio manager, Nuno Duarte and Karl Malone, NBC Sports and Olympics senior director of audio engineering, each present on their audio plans for the Winter Olympics, before sitting down with independent consultant, Roger Charlesworth for a discussion on the challenges they are set to face.
We will also hear from Alex Rybalko, Riot Games senior manager of broadcast engineering, in ‘Follow the sun: Riot Games on its evolution of esports audio’. Rybalko will talk about how the esports pioneer’s new Project Stryker remote broadcast centre (RBC) in Seattle, US – which joins the first RBC in Dublin, Ireland – is revolutionising esports audio production.
In ‘Production virtualisation for audio in outside broadcast’ we will hear from Alex Judd, Sky Sports technical specialist, alongside Pam Barnes, Cloudbass’ head of audio, talking about the audio on new hybrid production models and designing flexible trucks for the broadcaster’s Premier League contract.
Additionally, looking at the European live sports broadcast community, in ‘Another brick in the wall: Students in audio’, we will hear from Felix Krückels, Professor at the University of Darmstadt, recent graduate Robyn Filman, Ren Neave, a University of Salford undergraduate, and Ethan Grimwood, a sound assistant at Cloudbass. The panel will explore how the new generation of audio engineers and guarantees that are out there are looking at audio in live sports production, from what interests them, to what they hope to gain from a career in this area.
More speakers will be announced soon!
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