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The Bass Geek
15Jun/105

Vuvuzela Noise Reduction!

I'm not a huge soccer fan - I watched parts of a couple games last weekend (even walked into a club just before the USA scored their goal, prompting patrons to ask me to re-enter every five minutes or so), and my playing experience involved an older coach telling a much younger me to stand close to the goal and kick the ball hard if it came to me (a surprising effective strategy). However, it's indicative of the power that soccer holds over the rest of the world that, in the span of a week, Waves has introduced an audio plug-in specifically designed to remove the sound of the plastic horns that fill the stadiums for World Cup games. And it's available for both Pro Tools TDM and native applications. Although it's designed for broadcasters carrying the games, there's nothing holding back the enterprising audio engineer from routing their TV audio through their rig and ridding themselves of the sound of angry bees. Personally, I didn't find it that annoying during the broadcasts, but maybe they were already using it on ESPN.

Only $150! Get on it!

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  1. ESPN is mixing down the background noise specifically to mitigiate the vuvuzela buzzing. I also don’t mind it. I welcome a different part of the world celebrating sport differently than we do.

  2. Lame – I wanna hear more! I want the techno remix!

  3. Lifehacker just posted some EQ instructions for the folks who don’t want to pay for the Waves plug-in . . .

    http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filter

  4. Someone please stop the horns! I tried to give the World Cup a chance, but I’d even turn off the Superbowl if there was the same annoying background noise.

  5. The Vuvuzela, just when you though kazoos were the most annoying “musical instruments”


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