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UC Davis. edu. edu. edu. find out more at 21st century dot ucdd ucdd u. this is 99% invisible I'm r Morris. 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 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 that doesn't mean that they throw a bunch of microphones

on the field. This is Dennis Baxter, sound designer of the Olympics.

There's some sports that she just cannot capture the natural sound.

Cross-country skiing,

biathlon is another one because of the size of the course.

And this has been further complicated

because as the camera lenses have gone up 110, 120, 130, 140 to one, these cameras are able to see a half

a kilometer, maybe a kilometer down the course.

Now how do you replicate that sound?

Essentially if you got cameras that are that far apart from each other, you're putting 20 or 30 microphones to fill

as the athletes are coming to you, which is not practical.

I am not a purist whatsoever in sound production.

I truly believe that whatever the tool takes to deliver a high quality entertaining soundscape,

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