On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:30:41AM +0800, james wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > > So I watch telly through MythTV and apparently you can silence the terrible > > drone on the World Cup broadcasts with some simple parametric EQ filters. > > Any ideas how I'd do that on my Mythbuntu machine? Ideally without > > delving into Linux audio config file hell. (I've had enough of learning a > > completely new way to configure audio every 1.5 years. I think I've done > > that at least four times now.) > > > > http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filt > > er?skyline=true&s=i > > All lightheared jests aside, I've got a vuvuzela, it is a plastic trumpet and > the noise it makes is pretty white (broadband) so any attempt to equ it out > is > going to fail, more, or less, depending on the mic location for that TV > session and hence the spectrum of noise broadcast. > Of course you could equ out 20Hz to 10kHz <smile>
The link above and other various links says that fiddling with EQ actually works quite well. A simple plastic horn can't have (that) many frequencies. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
