Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @11:23AM from the it's-called-an-off-switch-use-it dept.

qubezz writes "World Cup soccer fans may think a hornet's nest has infiltrated their TVs. However the buzz that is the background soundtrack of the South African-hosted games comes from tens of thousands of plastic horns called vuvuzelas, that are South Africa's version of ringing cowbells or throwing rats. It looks like the horns won't be banned anytime soon though. A savvy German hacker, 'Tube,' discovered that the horn sound can be effectively filtered out by applying a couple of digital notch filters to the audio at the frequencies the horn produces (another summary in English). Now it looks like even broadcasters like the the BBC and others are considering using such filters on their broadcasts."

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Just another reason... by sdguero · 2010-06-15 14:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

For me to NOT watch soccer. Besides the fact that it is arguably the most boring spectator sport (baseball and cricket are right in there). It's also VERY ANNOYING the way the players whine and bitch. They are worse than the euro-floppers in the NBA (btw, NBA is my second least favorite sport before soccer). On Saturday I attempted to watch a little world cup but after about 30 minutes I thought to myself "Wow, South Africans/English people are annoying as shit with those horns." and I turned off the game.