Anyone catch the strained applause last night ...

[SHRED]

...from the old and pasty white crowd?
It was as if it was a chore for them that they dreaded.

I suspect they will get a bit livelier tonight when their oil drilling elk-skinner speaks.

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[tekisui]

1. I was streaming it, and it sounded canned.

To me it sounded like recorded applause. It would start the same way and end abruptly.

[heliarc]

7. That was because the audio was horrible...

If you were watching the RNC feed you probably noticed that the audio would drop out in between speakers. Whoever they have broadcasting audio at the RNC is an a$$-clown... they've got a gate programmed with the worst threshold ever... The gate cuts out all the clapping when it isn't loud enough. And then it sounds like everything is happening in silence. Worst audio ever.

[tekisui]

8. That explains it. It was a horrible stream, unlike the DNC's HD!

[heliarc]

9. I know...

I was REALLY impressed by the DNC's feed. Excellent coverage... no annoying commentary, no blathering pundits... great camera angles. Fantastic audio. Very top notch...

The RNC feed on the other hand is rickety and the compression artifacts are making my head hurt. How anyone can broadcast that is beyond me.

[slampoet]

12. I know why that threshhold is up real high. to cover up those who are leading the applause.

Every GOP event what we are noticing is Applause Leaders. These are people paid to clap and cheer on command. They usually sit in the front row they can lead standing ovations and at the back sides so they can keep an eye on things and also throw their weight around acoustically (also they are usually seated next to microphones). These are the people who also yell USA USA USA when ever there is a heckler or protester. They saved Bush from being heckled when he was speaking on that rubble heap with the bullhorn right after 911 and this convention is just as choreographed.

Someone didn't like the thin trickle start to "Lead Clapping" so they set the threshold on that audio gate high so that the sound of the first few lead clappers didn't make it through and only the sound of the large crowd finally joining in comes through. The effect can also sound like the speaker is standing up there pausing on purpose to signal applause on certain lines of speeches.

Also the GOP have never learned to run the crowd sounds in MONO.

It is amazingly annoying to be able to pick out where in the crowd all the Applause Leader Whores are sitting just by closing your eyes and listening to the stereo spectrum.


Good to see someone else who knows a little about sound.

[heliarc]

16. I hadn't noticed the Stereo thing

Since I listen in at work and since I'm a sound designer that means that I have the convention in one ear and the program I'm working on in the other ear... Maybe I should tell my clients that their mixes are in MONO because I'm a newswhore and politics hound. :hi:

[heliarc]

20. I forgot to mention the MIDI scoring on all the montages at the RNC

Worst MIDI tracks ever...

[marylanddem]

2. I give you & those who had stomach enough to watch him credit.

This hideous spectacle can't be over soon enough for me.

[hexola]

3. Shoulda seen the confused look on their faces when AC/DC "Thunderstruck" played!

Priceless...

[lonestarnot]

5. LOL missed that!

:rofl:

[Zech Marquis The 2nd]

4. cue cards maybe?

I bet there were people holding "clap" and "applause" signs so the old fars could at least keep up with the program :rofl:

[HughBeaumont]

6. Like someone said before . . .

. . . if this was a fight, it should have already been STOPPED due to excessive blood loss.

HOW are these polls as close as they are (and yes, I know Obama has hit 50%)????

[SHRED]

11. I think the polls are close because...

...we have a lot of closeted, and not so closeted, racists in this country.

[Kindigger]

10. Cue cards

When I managed to wake up long enough to catch part of a speech, I noticed speakers stopping at weird times. This one guy said "and.....", and I'm waiting...and what? Then suddenly, applause would start.

[slampoet]

14. See my reply above. It explains how the bad sound made the pauses happen.

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[ShortnFiery]

13. That's Ms. "Moose huntin' with Daddy" to you! LOL

Her kin shoot Bullwinkle for entertainment!?! :P

[mwb970]

15. I've never seen so many white people in one place.

The DNC crowd looked like America. This looks like a country club.

[barack the house]

17. It's more than pasty white it's a rigor mortis color . GOP vampire convetions scare me.>

As Malloy used to say "Somebody get Bufffffy"

[mucifer]

18. our first few nights had lots of the crowd talking

and not so much applause. But, when Obama spoke OMG. It will be the same way with palin.

[Mad_Dem_X]

19. I tried to watch Fred Thompson's speech

but I fell into a coma five minutes into it.