Suggestion For Fox Sports (12 Viewers)

[twostep]

When it comes to audio at NHRA national events, find out what this guy is using and put it to work. Give your viewers a chance to experience what a 340mph, nitro fueled race engine really sounds like, not that muffled crap that makes your average riding lawn mower sound badass. There isn't a reason why you can't in my opinion.

Another margarita mixer, Prock tuned, putting on a show with some seriously good cacklin'; gets intense at 2:15. 10.000hp engine driving the mixing unit through a 5/8" fan belt. LOL

 

[aakar]

The flag, the fire in the pipes, the Nitro, the menu....
Does NFL or MLB have this?

 

[ch streetcars]

This is what we use to see in the pits at night at a National event years ago, regularly. Throttle wacks, Cars firing up all night, it almost surpassed the days racing. Crews relaxed and great interaction between fans and teams. Some people with the means became involved in sponsorship of a car by this interaction. Could this excitement ever come back?

 

[mick]

i love this thread

 

[mick]

when megarita is running in the zoo, i find myself thinking, 'i live 364 days, 23 hours, and 55 minutes a year just for this'

 

[TSK]

The advantage in the video is that the mic on the camera is close to the engine. There isn’t much other ambient noise.
But that engine is merely idling and doesn’t overpower the mic like two blown fuel cars going WOT simultaneously, which probably leads into serious distortion.
If you want better volume than the TV speakers, get a good sound bar and crank it up. Just make sure it’s got a mute button for when the talking heads are flapping their gums.

 

[Billy]

I'm alwasy trying to position myself at the dragstrip where I CAN hear the announcers because I always feel like I could learn something new, despite having attended national events for the past 42 years. These days, I need help identifying whose Super Comp dragster is whose because all these weird graphics on the dragsters aren't distinctive enough for me to memorize whose car is which!

 

[aakar]

The advantage in the video is that the mic on the camera is close to the engine. There isn’t much other ambient noise.
But that engine is merely idling and doesn’t overpower the mic like two blown fuel cars going WOT simultaneously, which probably leads into serious distortion.
If you want better volume than the TV speakers, get a good sound bar and crank it up. Just make sure it’s got a mute button for when the talking heads are flapping their gums.

And yet everybody now gets awesome sound ( Clay, Rob, Monday Morning Racer etc etc), everybody but NHRA who in 2026 are still stuck in the blab zone.
Use of a sound bar or high end audio system is prohibitive, as the blab is @ max volume and car audio is in the background