Every deck shooter will lose at least one camera and multiple microphones every season.” So now we have mikes pretty much unprotected, and we have to replace quite a few. The crews’ lavalier mikes are protected, but with the stationary mikes, “our teams at one point were covering them with condoms. “But you can’t enclose a microphone behind glass,” says Watson. The stationary cameras are behind waterproof protective glass. And he’s always available via satellite phone. Morrell provides the crew instructions on the equipment, including a waterproof “Cliff’s Notes version” of the gear for handling emergencies. The show uses four microphones in the wheelhouse, two on deck and three worn by deckhands. Audio supervisor Mike Morrell spends weeks prepping the fishers on the sound equipment because there isn’t room for him on the boats. The series chronicles a fleet of six boats as they hunt for crab in the Bering Sea. Preparation is also crucial to the sound of “Deadliest Catch” but for different reasons. And when the episode features the contestants’ arrival at a particular spot, a separate crew sometimes sets up only seconds ahead of their appearance. If a contestant loses a body mike, the boom needs to gather all the sound until the contestant can be remiked during a lull in the action, says Ursulak, who’s taped every episode since the series’ 2001 start.Ĭompetitors choose their own route to a target location, so the below-the-line team can’t rehearse. The boom mike picks up ambient sounds and dialogue with anyone encountered. The below-the-line duo run with the contestants, relying on the equipment on their backs, with no access to backup gear. Every contestant wears a wireless microphone, and the sound person also carries a boom mike.
“Amazing Race” centers on 11 teams in reality each two-person team consists of four people traveling as a unit: the two contestants plus a camera person and a sound person assigned to each pair.
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