DFL: The Bundesliga, the world's first league to use automated audio mixing

"Bundesliga the world’s first league to use automated audio mixing. In use with all Bundesliga matches since the beginning of the current season. Sportcast (DFL subsidiary) and Lawo, an established provider of professional broadcasting products, are launching new audio production - sound mixed on the basis of the players’ tracking data, making it even more realistic. Live tracking data on the players is used to set the correct input levels for the microphones used to record what is going on in the field," said the German professional football league on 02/11/2017.

"Using the existing microphones, their positions on the edge of the field and their directional characteristics, the system determines which microphone can best capture what is happening on the field at any given time and automatically sends the necessary commands to the mixing console. The sound engineer sitting in the broadcast van can use the automated mixing of the field microphones in the overall mix and thus has more leeway for enhancing the aesthetics of the broadcast sound during the match," explained the DFL.

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