Vuvezela

[pichon64]

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm an American.

Do all World Cup events have those stupid horns, or is it just for South Africa? Will they be back in 2012, heralding the end of the world in droning b-flat?

The correct spelling is 'vuvuzela' and those stupid horns are only on this World Cup. There are real people using them, but the 90% of the sound comes from the stadiums' PA. Is a recorded hell.

 

[Beats]

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm an American.

Do all World Cup events have those stupid horns, or is it just for South Africa? Will they be back in 2012, heralding the end of the world in droning b-flat?

It's just a South African thing.

 

[Blebleman]

 

[Juanmatron]

 

[Kwartel]

The real Vuvuzelas are quite awsome 'cause you can play real songs on it. But these plastic crap thingies are like hell. I must say most of the people in the stadiums stopped and now it isn't that anoying anymore...

 

[Blebleman]

I don't watch soccer that much, but that buzzing really annoyed me, and I've noticed that you can kill the sound with an equalizer.

If your TV or sound system has one, I've found that toning down the 1KHz frequency stopped the buzz.

Enjoy, soccer fans!

 

[Veho]

Various technical measures have been proposed to reduce the impact of the vuvuzela sound on the clarity of commentary audio. The instrument produces notes around the 235Hz (mostly) and 465Hz frequencies and filtering these frequencies out might limit the noise in broadcasts.
[...]
...lowering the frequencies 235Hz, 466Hz, 932Hz and 1862Hz.

Band-stop filter at the base frequency and its harmonics. Since vuvuzela are usually 2 feet long, their frequency is usually uniform. Simple filtering can get rid of most of them.

But you know what this means, right? Someone's gonna make a vuvuzela organ. Mark my words.

 

[George Dawes]

I love the vuvuzelas, gives the game a proper atmosphere. Imagine a british world cup? Everyone sat around, miserable, bored, looking like they are waiting to die.

 

[Veho]

Vuvuzela rules. Any experience can only be improved by adding oversized rabid bumblebees.

Click here.

Srsly.

 

[scrtmstr]

Vuvuzela rules. Any experience can only be improved by adding oversized rabid bumblebees.

Click here.

Srsly.

I think i'm glad my soundcard is broken

 

[ProtoKun7]

I had that open while I was checking some threads...now it's shut I feel incomplete...

 

[jonesman99]

Vuvuzela rules. Any experience can only be improved by adding oversized rabid bumblebees.

Click here.

Srsly.

ok nevermind, i want it to stop now.

 

[.Darky]

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ, motherfucker.

They sohuld ban those things. >_>

 

[zuron7]

I hate those shitty Vuvuzelas.I have to always watch any match on mute if I want to watch it.
I was surprised to hear that those Vuvuzelas emit a noise of 100 DB.

 

[shakirmoledina]

i think they were worried about the crowd hence making some more noise would increase the excitement in the game and promote africans to win their games