Episode 38- The Sound of Sport
If Dennis Baxter and Bill Whiston are doing their job right, you probably don’t notice that they’re doing their job. But they are so good at doing their job, that you probably don’t even know that their job exists at all. They are sound designers for televised sporting events. Their job is to draw the audience into the action and make sports sound as exciting as possible, and this doesn’t mean they put a bunch of microphones on the field. It sometimes means they fake it.
I had no idea this was a thing. On first blush, I feel like I want my sound “pure” and this is a cheat. Of course “enhancements” happen all the time in visual media. Magazines, billboards and advertisements with their persistent photo retouching. Heck, nearly all professional food photography is staged (that is, fake). So why not sound.
Still.
I can’t help but feel a little betrayed.
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