WGN HD Sox Audio

[JKBurger]

Isn't anyone paying attention? The crowd mic is overwhelming Hawk & Steve.
John

 

[w9wi]

Isn't anyone paying attention? The crowd mic is overwhelming Hawk & Steve.
John

Are you sure there isn't a problem with your audio settings?

If you have surround selected on your cable box/satellite receiver/digital TV, what you'll get out of the first pair of audio jacks/speakers are the left & right front surround channels. These will indeed contain crowd noise -- usually the announcers are there too, but mixed WAY down.

The actual announcer audio will be on the second pair, but if you don't have a surround system, you won't hear it.

We get a lot of complaints like this, for programs where we KNOW there's nothing wrong on our end. (we were listening to the same program)

You may only notice it on baseball games because it's very possible those are the only programs you're watching that have surround sound.

It's not *impossible* there's something wrong at WGN, but I'd be surprised.

 

[JKBurger]

Isn't anyone paying attention? The crowd mic is overwhelming Hawk & Steve.
John

Are you sure there isn't a problem with your audio settings?

If you have surround selected on your cable box/satellite receiver/digital TV, what you'll get out of the first pair of audio jacks/speakers are the left & right front surround channels. These will indeed contain crowd noise -- usually the announcers are there too, but mixed WAY down.

The actual announcer audio will be on the second pair, but if you don't have a surround system, you won't hear it.

We get a lot of complaints like this, for programs where we KNOW there's nothing wrong on our end. (we were listening to the same program)

You may only notice it on baseball games because it's very possible those are the only programs you're watching that have surround sound.

It's not *impossible* there's something wrong at WGN, but I'd be surprised.

We watched three games, each from a different channel, and only the WGN game had the trashy audio. I checked the settings, of course, and they were OK. I did notice that whenever there was a vioce over a graphic that consumed a good portion of the screen that the audio balance was as it should have been, Hawk dominant, crowd in the background. I don't know if that's significant. We watch quite a few games on WGN, being displaced Chicagoans, and this was the first time we noticed anything like this. I'm not TV engineer, and I don't even play one on the radio, but I do know my way around audio, and this was not a settings issue. We'll see how the next broadcast sounds.
John

 

[JKBurger]

Isn't anyone paying attention? The crowd mic is overwhelming Hawk & Steve.
John

Are you sure there isn't a problem with your audio settings?

If you have surround selected on your cable box/satellite receiver/digital TV, what you'll get out of the first pair of audio jacks/speakers are the left & right front surround channels. These will indeed contain crowd noise -- usually the announcers are there too, but mixed WAY down.

The actual announcer audio will be on the second pair, but if you don't have a surround system, you won't hear it.

We get a lot of complaints like this, for programs where we KNOW there's nothing wrong on our end. (we were listening to the same program)

You may only notice it on baseball games because it's very possible those are the only programs you're watching that have surround sound.

It's not *impossible* there's something wrong at WGN, but I'd be surprised.

OK, watching the Cubs game now, and the issue is clearly the WGN HD surround mix. I can adjust for it, but none of the other surround sources we watch require adjustment. I guess I won't worry about it any more since the only thing I'll watch on WGN after baseball is over an ocassional News @ 9. Thanks for responding.
John

 

[w9wi]

We watched three games, each from a different channel, and only the WGN game had the trashy audio. I checked the settings, of course, and they were OK. I did notice that whenever there was a vioce over a graphic that consumed a good portion of the screen that the audio balance was as it should have been, Hawk dominant, crowd in the background. I don't know if that's significant. We watch quite a few games on WGN, being displaced Chicagoans, and this was the first time we noticed anything like this. I'm not TV engineer, and I don't even play one on the radio, but I do know my way around audio, and this was not a settings issue. We'll see how the next broadcast sounds.

From your description, this is exactly what's going on: you're hearing the left & right front surround channels but not the dialog channel.

There is some possibility the games you were watching on other channels weren't in surround. (though usually sports are the first thing to be produced in surround)

I assure you it's almost certainly a settings issue, but possibly in Chicago, or at your cable system. (I'm with an OTA station & don't know whether the channels are split at the cable headend, or if they just pass a pre-encoded stream off the satellite)

 

[KeithE4]

Isn't anyone paying attention? The crowd mic is overwhelming Hawk & Steve.
John

You can't hear Hawk and you're complaining about it? ;D