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[http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoSun/pd.html
T.O. man bugs the big game
By MICHAEL CLEMENT - Toronto Sun
Jan 30, 2000
A Toronto man will be hanging around the 50-yard line at today's Super Bowl XXXIV, watching over an invention of his that will be up a nearby 20-foot pole.
ABC-TV will be testing a microphone invented by the 32-year-old sound designer and musician that provides chilly, ultra-realistic recordings.
In the same way a hologram delivers a three-dimensional image, Mike Godfrey's microphone, which he calls the Holophone, delivers a full, three-dimensional-type sound.
"We have the first mike patent in 20 years," Godfrey said in an exclusive interview from Atlanta yesterday.
Godfrey's not nervous about today's big event and is really "looking forward" to the experience.
Anyone who has seen Oliver Stone's film Any Given Sunday has already experienced the Holophone.
"All the football sounds were ours because they could not create the excitement of the crowd by mixing," said Godfrey's father, Sheldon, 61.
Godfrey has spent "well into six figures" on the four-year-old project, his father said. "And then some," added Godfrey. Sound waves bend around the mike, like they "do around our head."
Up to now such "real" sound was captured by putting up regular mikes in various locations, and at the mixing console, trying to emulate a larger space.
His next engagement with the mike will be at the 50th NHL All-Star game at the Air Canada Centre next Sunday.
 World Fact Book (CIA]
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