Fake Crowd Noise/Sweetening During the Pandemic Era

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

We are seeing various sports leagues pump in crowd noise for their empty arena games this year and several different wrestling promotions have started doing this to various degrees. What are your thoughts on this? I personally feel like if you can do it right and it feels natural, it can work. If not, it feels way over the top and can take me out of it. But I generally prefer it over pure silence. 

[Laces]

I'm in the same boat. "Make it make sense" as the internet says. If you have a dull roar it's fine, even welcome. But if it sounds like an Austin return Pop, it's ridiculous and distracts me.

[thegatewaydrug]

Just please no seagulls!

[nobody]

I’m personally not a fan of crowd sweetening but that’s just me. I just think if you’ve got people already in the crowd like WWE and AEW do at least have them making noise for a reason, if the crowd noise is fake what’s the point of the crowd.

I actually don’t think anyone should be using crowds at all, I think TNA is the only active company doing the right thing, no crowd, overdubbing commentary and minimal staff. It’s the safest way to do it.

[Secret Clown]

I think it's what WWE should have been doing since the beginning of not having a crowd.

Darken the ringside area so you can't see there isn't a crowd, and then pump in the fake crowd noise.

[Deleted]

Is this even a new thing?

I always wondered about the constant loud crowd roar on those old WWF TV broadcasts. Even the crowds at MSG shows didn't sound like that. The WCW crowds also sounded much more natural.

[Pooh Carlson]

Here's the problem: MLB uses crowd noise recorded for their video game. The crowd noise recorded for WWE video games is garbage and one of the most annoying things to me. Doubt it would work anywhere near as well as it does for MLB.

[camphor #BLM]

Aug 7, 2020 19:01:16 GMT -5 thegatewaydrug said:

Just please no seagulls!

Well, they ARE doing their tapings in Florida, right?

Maybe they just have the window open.