Studio Production: Creating Buzzers

My other half is very good with arduinos which is a technical circuit board used for many every day things.  He has offered to create us some buzzers for our show which is great! Everyone is very on board with this idea and are excited to see the end result. 

 Chris has created a mock up test of these buzzers to show how they could work:

We spoke to Sammi, who is the Sound Operator/Assistant for 'The Big Movie Quiz' and she was impressed with the buzzers but wanted them to play the sounds she had found specifically for the show rather than the two tones shown in the video above.  

 Chris said this was possible but he would have to use a different piece of kit and it may take him some time to figure out. Eventually, he managed to get it to work on a Raspberry Pi which is something he hasn't used before, and he completed the buzzers to the best standard he could given the time he had to complete them in.  

 Unfortunately, Raspberry Pi's aren't designed to deliver sound files of this scale and therefore this resulted in a very 'dirty' sound which was coming from the Raspberry Pi itself.  This meant it created a hiss that accompanied the buzzer sound effects as soon as the device was switched on.  Chris tried his best to get rid of the hiss but like I have said previously, the Raspberry Pi's aren't designed to deliver sound files.  

 Myself, Josh, Becca, Paul and Sammi attempted some ways to get around this and Josh came up with the idea of having the buzzers connect to a speaker that will only play in the sound room and not live to the studio, so that Sammi can play the correct gram when the buzzer is pressed.  This would mean that the game would still be fair and not have any guessing as to who pressed the buzzer first because the buzzers would still be working. This seemed to work well and is what we were planning on doing for the show. 

 Sadly, on the dress rehearsal I find out from Josh that Sammi has bought some lights as replacement buzzers and is using those instead.  This was a bit of a surprise as nobody knew about it until the rehearsals were about to start, but at the end of the day sound is her department so she had to do what she was more comfortable with.  

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