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#4 An insight to mixing audio for a wrestling show!

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Hi Friends, A few years ago, I was asked to be the A1 for a wrestling show to be shot in India! For those who don't know what an A1 is, in the USA, the Chief Audio Engineer on a television show is called the A1. This wrestling show was to be telecast on a General Entertainment Channel in India and the Director of the show as well as many of the wrestlers were coming over from the USA. I had never mixed a wrestling show in my life! I imagined there would be two or three commentators, some in-ring announcers and the wrestlers fighting it out in the ring. In fact, the primary mics would be just the hand mikes with the in-ring announcers. But how wrong was I to think that this was going to be simple! Very soon, I found myself sending e-mails left, right and center to people in the USA who wanted to make sure that everything is done according to the way they do things out there. I was briefed in great detail about how they normally do such shows back in the US. I learned that...

#3 From SHANTI to The Kapil Sharma Show!

Hi Friends, Before I continue with my post today, I just thought I should clarify once again, that in this blog, I am posting my personal views and comments. I just want to share my experiences of the past 33 years with my readers. Today, I want to write about the evolution of sound in the television industry in Mumbai … purely from my point of view. I started working in Mumbai in the field of audio from 1986 onwards, but serious work for television began in 1994. My friends Dileep Subramaniam and Inderjit Neogi asked me if I would be interested in working along with them on a daily soap. I said yes and started working as a freelancer on UTV’s daily soap SHANTI, sometime in 1994. This was India’s first daily soap and telecast on Doordarshan. It made Mandira Bedi a household name! We used to shoot 6 days a week. Since Dileep and Neogi were established freelance recordists and also had many other projects going on simultaneously, they would ask me to go on the shoot of SHANTI whenever t...

#2 Prepping multiple wireless mics for a television shoot.

Hi Friends, This is my second blog! Got a few comments for my first one! Many thanks to all those who commented. Before I continue, I just thought I should clarify that in my blog, I am posting my personal views and comments. I could be completely wrong about some technical aspect I may write about... please do correct me if you think so. My blog is aimed more towards students who have just passed out from an Institute and are trying to make a career in the Film or Television Industry in the field of Sound Recording and Sound Engineering. I just want to share my experiences of the past 33 years with my readers. Based on the feedback that I received for my first blog, I have decided to write a little bit more about wireless lapel mics. It is not uncommon to have 10 to 15 Sennheiser G3 wireless lapel mics on a television multicam show. So how do I go about setting them up for the actual shoot? No two television shows are the same. Each show is different, but whether it a tel...