Fake crowd sound effects...

[davids]

They've done it for years here at the Mestalla through speakers in the top open terrace, very odd effect.

 

[chrismpw]

I can live without the commentary but the lack of noise felt like pre season or a park game . Weird

If most of what you watch is park football then a crowd is weird! All the chanting and shouting and booing together - I'm not a fan of to he honest.
Then again the worst thing about a church service (when I used to go) was always people muttering the same thing together. I hate it - it's like you're being programmed by the herd!

 

[arch stanton]

Last time I watched a match on tv (cant remember as I've never had sky) I turned the volume off to get rid of the commentator mainly - crowd went too obviously - it was bliss.
I found my own things to see and be impressed by and my own things to see and dislike without anyone telling me how to feel, whether to enjoy it or not.
At the end of an enjoyable match I turned the volume up to hear the commentator lamenting how it had been a miserable game.

Like canned laughter in a comedy - i don't need to be told when something is funny. I just don't get the need for the inevitably irritating soundtrack.

I've long said that id like an option for no commentators but just crows noise (real crowd obviously). Often commentators haven't played the game to any level, and the ex pro summarisers are just walking talking cliches,.

 

[helpimonfire]

Will we have a virtual Park End starting to empty 10 mins before the game ends?

 

[daza_1973]

Virtual - 'this is operation Goodison exercise' on 30 minutes and the announcer tell the cardboard cut-outs in the lower Gwladys Street to please sit down....
And finally the attendance announced in grams per square metre...

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

I’m not convinced. It’s just sound. The reason why crowds making sound works is because it’s reactive. Players running upfield to goal, crowd noise rises, players get a boost.

Just playing a constant drone will be pointless. Might as well play the ‘NOW Vuvuzela’ out of the speakers. Would rather hear the players and at least get an insight into how they’re thinking and how they play the game. (Not that I’ll watch these games mind)

If you're not going to watch then what's the problem?

 

[degsy]

Nah,
Bring in the ice hockey organ music while were at it

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

Hmm, sky supplying the crowd noise, so we know where they're getting the noise for the derby from then, we'll be subjected to that dirge before it and everything.

does seem fine in the Aussie rugby though & i was almost convinced tere was a full stand on the camera side.

 

[tommye]

This whole crock of cack is being manufactured for one reason and one reason only.

Money.


It ain't proper footy and until us lot of miserable barstewards are back screaming and shouting like feral dogs at every decision, then it never will be. No matter how hard they try to tell us it is.


#Swerve

 

[jaycee]

Id love some one to sneak in and put a porn soundtrack one

 

[DOMNOLAN]

If the crowd noise will be reactive as some people have said, do you reckon we could rig it up to play the most loud jarring and disorientating noise whenever the opposition have the ball? Could get in those spotlight speaker things and point them directly at the players to put them off?
I don’t see why this wouldn’t be allowed

 

[NathDogg]

False noise. False games.
False season.

Sums it up perfectly - it's all false and fake, and fits in perfectly with the false/* title when the slabbers eventually "win" it.
Load of shoite.

 

[brieverton]

It's better than nothing, though watching a game from the perspective where you are not a neutral observer may be different.

Just watching the Bundesliga yesterday, I felt there was a noticeable difference in my overall concentration and enjoyment level of the Union Berlin vs. Schalke game (with fake crowd noise) than Bremen vs. Wolfsburg (without).

 

[trueblue84]

I’m not convinced. It’s just sound. The reason why crowds making sound works is because it’s reactive. Players running upfield to goal, crowd noise rises, players get a boost.

Just playing a constant drone will be pointless. Might as well play the ‘NOW Vuvuzela’ out of the speakers. Would rather hear the players and at least get an insight into how they’re thinking and how they play the game. (Not that I’ll watch these games mind)

They're footballers... I think you'd be disappointed.

 

[blue61]

Id love some one to sneak in and put a porn soundtrack one

"And Everton make a substitution with number 69 Ben Dover coming off."