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Remote Radio Broadcast Solutions for Sports & Live EventsAaron Read : WEOS & WHWS
Making your broadcast sound like the pros…or BETTER: the pros and cons!
Universal Truths
More options, better quality Less reliability, more confusion You need: Backups! Backups!
Backups! Backups! Backups! Never rely entirely what
Comrex Access / Tieline iMix G3 or Commander G3 / Telos Zephyr Z/IP / AudioTX STL-IP / Musicam Suprima / APT Worldcast / AEQ Phoenix Mobile / Marti Digital Cellcast
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Laptops & Skype
Latest Skype codecs = near CD quality. Delay is much reduced.
A netbook is light, portable & $300. Skype is free. Just add a 3G network card. Theoretically – Skype on a smartphone works, too!
Some stations use laptops with webcasts (WinMedia Enc) and time their breaks carefully back to the studio (b/c of delay)
Major advantage w/ campus I.T. security!
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More on laptops
A $250 headset (i.e. AT BPHS-1) and a Shure X2B XLR-to-USB adapter makes a great external mixer substitute for one-man sportscasting.
If you need an external mixer, Conex FJ700 is good. Old Comrex Buddy on eBay? Cheap Behringer with outboard headphone amp?
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Barix Boxes
Somewhat uniqueDedicated H/W stream mp3Fairly cheap (< $500 pair)Great for point-to-point on
campus
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Other methods: ISDNIntegrated Systems Digital Network
Uses special digital phone linesMature, reliable, high-quality but
old and being phased outCommonly used by NPRExpensive ($3k - $5k pair)
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Marti RPU: Remote Pickup Unit Requires a special license, may
be hard to get in metro areas. ~30w FM xmitter @ 450MHz Line-of-sight, zero-delay, one-
way audio Mature, reliable, simple …but
expensive
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Fiber Optic solutions
Good for campus connectionsCD quality audio, near-zero delayVERY reliable, supported by I.T.Expensive ($3k per xceiver pair)
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Going Old School: plain POTS
On a budget?Need dirt-simple tech?Don’t care about audio quality?POTS can be for you!
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Plain POTS – tips & tricks
Test ahead of time Work with campus I.T. Get a good coupler/hybrid
JK Audio, Conex, CircuitwerksLook into a Bluetooth-based coupler
to a cellphone (Conex, JK Audio) or a handset hybrid (works with any office phone, not just POTS)
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Number one problem!
AUDIO LEVELS OVERLOADING! Sportscasters get excited, shout, distort,
can’t understand a thing. Invest in a limiter on the headsets
Rolls CL151Behringer MDX2600Presonus COMP16
Even just a -10 or -20dB in-line pad helps!
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Few other things…
Crowd mic = always goodRef mic = good (for some sports)Live Stats – pros / consBuddy System (PBP + Color Comm)Halftime shows – don’t play music
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WEOS/WHWS Case Study
Couldn’t reliably get in-studio engineers Connected a spare Burk ARC-16 remote
control to our Logitek Numix/Remora mix board system
Sportscasters put themselves on-air using cellphone!
Use a netbook with Soundbyte to play intro/outros, underwriting, promos, etc
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Soundbyte (Audio Playback) BlackCatSystems.com One-touch playback of
specific cuts or one cut from a playlist.
Little buggy at times, but overall very easy to use and powerful
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Tools in the Toolbox WEOS does ~ 175 live events/spots every year. Often two at once
(WEOS & WHWS) So we have SEVERAL tools at our disposal. Comrex Access: Boswell Field, Cozzens Field, McCooey Field, Bristol Gym,
lectures @ Albright Auditorium, live concerts from The Smith, and many sports games on the road.
Comrex Vector: McCooey Field, many sports games on the road. Fiber: (via old Comrex Buddy Mixer) Boswell Field, Bristol Gym. Fiber: STL, also incoming RPU feeds from the RX antennas. Barix Boxes: lectures @ Geneva Room, City Council meetings, lectures @ MPR
in Student Center. Telos Xstream ISDN: Geneva City Ice Rink, The Smith Opera House. Marti RPU: commencement, random remotes (Congressman’s speech),