
Broadcast Production Engineer Tom Holmes chose ANR-B for Adaptive Real-time Noise Reduction on the live TV broadcast. We sat down with Tom after the GRAMMYs and got his thoughts on using ANR-B during the broadcast.

ANR-B on the rack at the GRAMMY Awards in 2010
How did you incorporate ANR-B into your set up?
I inserted it on the Dialog bus of a Calrec Alpha console. For the show, I used it set in Adaptive mode. It did a great job of both losing the fan noise from all the LED screens and VARI*LITEs, as well as help with the room's reverb tails coming back into the mic. I could have pushed it farther and reduced more noise, but I didn't really want to make the dialog sound out of context with the room's size.
How did the other engineers react to having the new box in the production suite?
During rehearsals, I had a loop of someone at the podium set up to playback thru the ANR-B. Whenever a new person would come into the control room, I would give them headphones, and show them the ANR-B reduction knob. Every single person had the same reaction, which was to drop their jaw in disbelief. That was pretty fun to demo for people.
Would you use it again?
All in all, it worked very well for me at the GRAMMYs, and I hope to be able to use it on all my shows in the future.

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