SCOREBOARD SOUND

摘要

The sound of Toronto Raptors hustling down the basketball court or Toronto Maple Leafs players checking the opponents into the boards have been amplified in an innovative way that utilizes beam capturing microphones. The Toronto arena was the first in the world to install an innovative new technology into the massive Scoreboard hanging over the playing surface to better capture the sounds of the game. Those sounds are pumped into the Scotia Club with the potential for distribution to suites throughout the arena to provide additional genuine game atmosphere for fans. Led by Westbury National, one of Canada's largest professional audio-visual integration and full-service event production companies, and SFM, a leading Canadian product distributor and provider of customized AV solutions, the original plan was to install Shure shotgun microphones. While the shotgun microphones provided great sound, the challenge was that once they were installed, getting 42 feet into the air to reach them on the Scoreboard and adjust them to switch between basketball and hockey games was just not feasible.