Effortle Transparency - Paul Lane from ESPN on their ISA 40 MkIIs

I am the Senior Sound Engineer at ESPN in the UK and I manage a busy audio department of 3 studios which are operational up to twice a day (effectively giving us 6 studios). Most of our work is track-laying, mixing and recording voice-overs for programs and promos for our 3 ESPN channels (ESPN Live, ESPN America and ESPN Classic) throughout EMEA. Our Live channel hosts Barclays Premier Football, the FA Cup, AVIVA Premiership Rugby, the Scottish Premier League, UFC, Seria A, Bundesliga, the UEFA Europa League, World Rally and Darts to name a few. Our America channel shows all-American sports including the NFL, MLB and NHL to name just a few 3 letter acronyms, and Classic shows all those nostalgic moments in sporting history that cannot be found anywhere else.

I recently designed and built 2 new London-based audio suites for ESPN with help from some of the best sound specialists in the country (Whitemark for acoustic design, Absolute CAD for wiring, AKA for bespoke desk design and Scrub HHB, the ProTools specialists, who helped configure the systems). We run ProTools 10 HD with the 24 channel D Command ES desks, a vast array of plug-ins including the Post bundle from Sony Oxford Sonnox, Waves Platinum, Audioease and Nugens loudness monitoring, and PMC Speakers and Neumann U87 Mics.

When I began designing the audio suites I needed to start from the bottom up. Starting with our creative departments and their specific workflows in mind I had to make sure that not only did they have well acoustically designed rooms with all the necessary equipment with which to work, but also to equip my sound designers with the necessary tools to draw inspiration and create promos and programs that are well designed and mixed.

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