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Trad Aarrgh!
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 12 June 2010 - 8:27pm.
I"m sorry, but as traditions go the vuvuzela is rubbish.
David Hepworth got it spot on on his blog.
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Head.
Officially. Fucking. Melted. I hate them.
Read what David Hepworth had to say on his blog...
he makes some really good points.
They are a pain in the arse.
I shall.
But not before I work on that opening riff from "Many of Horror" by Biffy Clyro. What a great tune. I'm going to bring it to the next band meeting!
Almost as crap a tradition
as England starting crap at World Cups then getting a bit better and then taking crap penalties and coming home to be called crap by crap tabloids
agreed
although I think us watching the match may become used to it in time. The big problem is for others in the house who hear this really annoying background noise all the time. At least, that's what I have been told.
Anyway, glad to hear some drums drowning it out tonight but we still miss the crowd reactions to the play which is a bit sad.
Just a thought, the drone seems to be at one pitch so shouldn't it be easy to filter out using some electronic wizardry?
Escape
Four games in (I missed the Greece v South Korea) I think I've managed to blank out the noise and I think BBC & ITV have "turned them down" a bit to help but it's the knee jerk crowd noises I miss, like the cries of handball. I don't miss the Great Escape theme though!
Trust a German to do it with complete efficiency
http://www.surfpoeten.de/tube/vuvuzela_filter
Vuvuzela
Sounds like a fucking bluebottle trapped in a jam jar.
Mind you, took the mind off the crap football this evening.
imagine being there
a bit worse than chatting and texting at gigs, I'd wager
It is great
It is a punk moment. You watch, in a few years time your be saying "yeah I remember that tournament, what a great noise"
Not bothered by it.
Certainly prefer it to the verbal inanities falling out of Messrs Shearer, Tilsey, Townsend, Hawtry (sorry Lawrenson) et al...especially al.
It's better than nothing
Or worse still the bloody Great Escape band. It sounds like atmosphere to me. Which I like at a football match.
'The Great Escape' is extremely tedious...
granted. But the vuvuzela is tediouser.
All noises from football matches on TV
are tedious. That's why I only watch it with beer to drink and someone (even the cat - actually, especially the cat) to blather on to about the ref, the players, Clive Bloody Tyldesley (Bloody is his real middle name by the way), ITV's coverage, the BBC's infatuation with Lineker et al.
Left the sound turned on for the England match.
I may well be insane before the end of the tournament.Just when one thinks that the worst thing about it is the Vuvuzela or the endlessly repeated renditions of The Great Escape or the inane commentary or the irritating pundits one's then subjected to the deflating sight of yet another lacklustre shoddy England performance.
Will be listening to some tunes whilst watching for the rest of the cup.A little Baaba Maal should do nicely.
I hate that bloody droning noise
But enough about Mick McCarthy. The vuvuzelas are ok, and you'll get all nostalgic for them in years to come.
They are ruining the World Cup for me.
It should be part of the bidding process for future World Cups:
"Do you have any traditional instruments that are played during the
match that could totally destroy any pleasure for the viewer?".
A bit pissed off actually.
What about these guys
leading the chanting instead:
It really is making it unwatchable
I've developed tinnitus. I'm not even a football fan, but I thought I'd give the World Cup a go once more, and now I wish I hadn't.
Just a suggestion
Perhaps everyone going to Wimbledon this year should turn up with kazoos.
Oh. Dear.
Amazon are now selling Vuvuzelas with attached England flag :-(
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vuvuzela-Fanhorn-with-England-Flag/dp/B001AQSTRY...
South Africa ponders vuvuzela ban
"France captain Patrice Evra has already blamed the noise generated by the vuvuzelas, which has been likened to the drone of thousands of bees, for his side's poor showing in their opening group game against Uruguay, which finished goalless. He said: "We can't sleep at night because of the vuvuzelas. People start playing them from 6am." "
Hooray! It really is making the tournament unwatchable.
There may be salvation ahead
http://worldcup.football365.com/story/0,27111,18484_6204308,00.html
News
I feel nothing but unconditional love for the vuvuzela, but in the spirit of international brotherhood engendered by The World Cup, I thought it would be churlish not to share the news that some clever German fellow has invented a Vuvuzela filter.
I'm not sure how it works (the page is in German), although judging from the two embedded players at the foot of the entry it does the job.
*hem hem* *points upwards*
Anyway, I hope we're all following the best Twitterer EVER: http://www.twitter.com/thevuvuzelahorn
And here's a suitably delicate ode to the vuvuzela:
Vuvuzela filter
He recorded some sound from his television and used that as a reference to pull out the main frequencies that the vuvuzela sounds inhabit. He did this using Logic Express software, and used several EQs at once to get the effect. It's entirely possible to do using just one multiband EQ or one of those filters designed to remove electrical buzzing sounds adjusted to use the fundamental frequency of the vuvuzela.
I haven't yet found a way to do this without having to run all the sound from your television through a computer or very expensive hardware though.
The broadcast companies could do it, but I'd imagine there's all kinds of reasons not to as well (it makes all the other sounds comparatively thin-sounding).