Sennheiser EW-DP helps "Extreme Challenge Treasure Tour: Harmony Village Season" to improve the quality of outdoor radio
Shanghai, May 20, 2024 – "Extreme Challenge Treasure Tour" is an outdoor reality show created by Dragon TV that is loved by audiences. Now, this show has ushered in the fourth season of "Extreme Challenge Treasure Tour: Harmony Village Season", which deeply shows the beautiful scenery and customs of China's countryside, and has been highly recognized and loved by the audience. However, its complex outdoor shooting scene also presented many challenges for audio system design. To this end, the program team selected a 40-channel Sennheiser EW-DP all-digital UHF wireless microphone system, which not only ensures clear and stable sound recording, but also sets a new benchmark for the audio system design of outdoor reality shows.
In the program "Extreme Challenge Treasure Tour: Harmony Village Season", the film crew visited many villages, from quiet villages in the valley to ancient villages surrounded by mountains, and their footprints were all over the country. The beautiful scenery, the bustling crowd and the interesting interaction between the guests in these scenes made the show exciting, but also brought many challenges to the on-site radio work.
As the audio team leader of "Extreme Challenge Treasure Tour: Harmony Village Season", Xu Mengyu is responsible for the sound recording of the whole season, including vocals, live ambient sound and sound reinforcement. After more than a month of comparative testing, Xu Mengyu finally chose the 40-channel EW-DP all-digital UHF wireless microphone system, which escorted the program recording with its excellent sound quality and stability.
After more than a month of comparative testing, Xu Mengyu, the audio team leader, finally chose the 40-channel EW-DP all-digital UHF wireless microphone system to escort the program recording with its excellent sound quality and stability.
Outdoor reality shows are often recorded in beautiful scenery and crowds. How to capture clear and stable sound in such an environment is undoubtedly a great test of the performance of audio equipment. The first brand that Xu Mengyu thought of was Sennheiser.
The Sennheiser EW 112P G4 is the audio device he uses most often in his work, and he appreciates the sound quality, operability and reliability. After learning about and trying Sennheiser's new EW-DP, Xu Mengyu was even more impressed by its excellent performance and excellent performance. He shared: "We put the EW-DP to the limit and it performed amazingly, in the same Sennheiser quality as ever. After that, the whole recording process was smooth, and the sound quality of the EW-DP was clear and stable, the reliability was strong, and the user experience was very good. ”
As a member of the EW-D family, the EW-DP inherits the technical advantages of the series. With equidistant distribution and automatic frequency coordination, the EW-DP's receiver is able to quickly find the optimal free frequency and synchronize it with the transmitter via Bluetooth, greatly simplifying the photographer's operation. Xu Mengyu said: "EW-DP can automatically preset more than 90 frequency points according to the usage scenario. In the intense and high-intensity shooting scene, when I need to change the frequency on the fly, the EW-DP is intuitive and simple to operate, which saves me a lot of valuable time and energy. ”
There are many sources of interference in outdoor shooting locations, and frequency interruptions or sound loss are often caused by various signal interference, which is another major challenge for the audio team, and it also puts forward extremely high requirements for the anti-interference ability of audio equipment. As an all-digital UHF wireless microphone system, Xu Mengyu was impressed by the outstanding anti-interference performance of EW-DP: "The stability of EW-DP is too strong! It's almost unaffected by outside signal interference, so I don't have to worry about whether there is interference from telecom towers on site. ”
Xu Mengyu: "The whole recording process was very smooth, the sound quality of the EW-DP is clear and stable, the reliability is strong, and the user experience is very good. ”
In addition, outdoor program recording has extremely high requirements for the security of audio materials, so program teams often record multiple backup audio tracks at the same time. At the same time, the on-site executive director needs to monitor the shooting of the guests in real time. In response to these practical needs, Xu Mengyu's team designed a radio system for the program as "one transmitter and four receivers", that is, one EW-DP SK transmitter is paired with four EW-DP EK receivers.
The EW-DP EK receiver has an innovative magnetic stacking system, the first EK receiver is mounted on the main camera of the guest via a magnetic mounting plate, which is easy to disassemble and stable. The second and third receivers are mounted on two soundDevices688 recorders and are used to record backup audio files. Xu Mengyu also specially modified the antenna of one of the receivers to Sennheiser ADP UHF passive directional antenna to further enhance the signal reception range to better ensure the stability of the signal in extremely complex environments. The fourth receiver is used to perform the director's monitoring and recording of the guests.
Xu Mengyu converted one of the receiver antennas for recording backup audio tracks to Sennheiser ADP UHF passive directional antennas to further enhance the signal reception range to better ensure the stability of the signal in extremely complex environments.
Reality TV shows are characterized by realism, so photographers are often unable to follow guests up close, which requires radio equipment that is not only reliable and durable, but also easy to operate and has excellent information visualization to allow photographers to monitor equipment usage in real time.
"The user-friendly control design of the EW-DP is very suitable for program recording, all operations are controlled by the receiver, and the transmitter only has two internal buttons, which effectively avoids the accidental touch of the guests," Xu Mengyu praised, "The powerful visual design of the EW-DP has brought great convenience to our work. The receiver's OLED display is facing the photographer, so we can know the exact operating time of the battery at all times, and we don't have to rely on experience to make estimates as before, which gives us a strong support for unexpected situations. It's an experience like never before, and it's so important for outdoor reality show recording! ”
"There is no doubt about the performance of the EW-DP. In the process of use, its flexibility also makes our audio system design work easier," Xu Mengyu praised.
Recently, Xu Mengyu and his team are in full swing to prepare for the start of filming of the next show. He also looks forward to continuing to rely on the Sennheiser EW-DP wireless digital microphone system to bring the audience another exciting audiovisual feast.
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