The Importance of a Surrounding Microphone in Tennis

The way tennis used to be covered was to actually have what was called an apple and biscuit microphone. When I first joined outside broadcasts they were still doing mono. That's now evolved into a surround technique where you have not only the crowd and the players in front of you but the crowd also goes all the way around the back of you. It's like actually being there. The dynamic range, the difference between the quietest noise and the loudest noise doesn't have to keep you on your toes. If you've got the court mix on a fader and you take that fader down in anticipation of it getting very loud on the court and you do it ahead of time you ruin