--- title: "How to remove vuvuzela sounds in World Cup 2010" description: "Türkçe filtreleme açıklamalarını bu sayfada bulabilirsiniz. FIFA World Cup 2010 would be great, if only those horrible vuvuzelas were not there. If you have a Mac, using the magnificent Audio Hijack Pro application by…" date: 2010-06-14 tags: ["FIFA 2010", "Remove", "Vuvuzela"] canonical: https://keremerkan.dev/posts/how-to-remove-vuvuzela-sounds-in-world-cup-2010/ --- Türkçe filtreleme açıklamalarını [bu sayfada](http://keremerkan.dev/posts/2010-dunya-kupasinda-vuvuzela-sesini-filtrelemek/) bulabilirsiniz. FIFA World Cup 2010 would be great, if only those horrible vuvuzelas were not there. If you have a Mac, using the magnificent [Audio Hijack Pro](http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/) application by [Rogue Amoeba](http://www.rogueamoeba.com/), you can now filter out the vuvuzela sounds. **UPDATE:** I have come across a much simpler and nearly perfect solution. A free Audio Unit plug-in called [VuvuX](http://www.vuvux.com/) by Prosoniq which is created just to remove vuvuzela sounds. To use it, follow these steps: 1. Connect the line-out of your TV to your Mac's line in. 2. Select **Default System Input** in Audio Hijack Pro. 3. Click on **Input** tab and be sure that **Built-in Input: Line In** is selected. Now, start hijacking the sound by clicking **Hijack**. 4. Download [this file](http://www.sonicworx.com/sonicWORX/Files/ProsoniqVuvuX.zip) from Sonicworx site, unzip and mount the dmg file. 5. Copy Vuvux.component file to `~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components` folder of your Mac. 6. If Audio Hijack Pro is running, restart it. 7. Select the **Effects** tab, and add a **VuvuX** effect. You can add **VuvuX** by clicking on one of the squares and selecting **AudioUnit Effect** > **Prosoniq** > **VuvuX**. Default settings were successful enough for me, so I did not change anything after adding the effect. But you can change its settings clicking on **Editor** button. If you somehow cannot use **VuvuX**, these are my former settings to remove the vuvuzela sound. 1. Connect the line-out of your TV to your Mac's line in. 2. Select **Default System Input** in Audio Hijack Pro. 3. Click on **Input** tab and be sure that **Built-in Input: Line In** is selected. Now, start hijacking the sound by clicking **Hijack**. 4. Select the **Effects** tab, and add 5 **AUParametricEQ** effects as shown in figure 1. You can add **AUParametricEQ** by clicking on one of the squares and selecting **AudioUnit Effect** > **Apple** > **AUParametricEQ**. 5. Click the **Editor** button of the leftmost **AUParametricEQ** to open its editor. On the editor window, click on the yellow dot and a conversation balloon like pop up will be shown. Click on the number to the right of **Freq** and enter 233 Hz. After that, click on the number to the right of **Gain** and enter -20.0 dB. Lastly, click on the number to the right of **Q** and enter 19. Close the window. 6. For the second **AUParametricEQ** object, enter the following: Freq: 466 Hz, Gain: -20 dB, Q: 17 (figure 2). 7. For the third **AUParametricEQ** object, enter the following: Freq: 932 Hz, Gain: -20 dB, Q: 17 (figure 3). 8. For the fourth **AUParametricEQ** object, enter the following: Freq: 1864 Hz, Gain: -20 dB, Q: 18 (figure 4). 9. For the fifth **AUParametricEQ** object, enter the following: Freq: 3728 Hz, Gain: -13 dB, Q: 20 (figure 5). You will notice that the vuvuzela sounds have dramatically decreased. Perfect! No more bee hives in your living room! If you can only change the values by dragging the yellow dot, and not by clicking the numbers, you can [click here](/downloads/fxpresets.zip) and download the zip file containing the fxpreset files for each **AUParametricEQ** object, which you can load in the editor window. You can see the effect in the following links (the cause of the clicks and skips in the example sounds is that, I was hijacking the sound of a network streaming program here, which was skipping, not the line in of the computer): [Before filtering](/downloads/before.mp3) [After filtering](/downloads/after.mp3) PS: You can find the spectrum analysis I did using [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), with a vuvuzela sound sample, from one of the matches in the gallery below. Also, [this page](http://www.surfpoeten.de/tube/vuvuzela_filter) (in German) has helped a lot in confirming the exact frequency spectrum of the vuvuzelas. ![Main Window](../../assets/images/eq1.jpg) ![Parametric EQ 1](../../assets/images/eq2.jpg) ![Parametric EQ 2](../../assets/images/eq3.jpg) ![Parametric EQ 3](../../assets/images/eq4.jpg) ![Parametric EQ 4](../../assets/images/eq5.jpg) ![Parametric EQ 5](../../assets/images/eq6.jpg) ![Audacity Vuvuzela Spectrum Analysis](../../assets/images/audacity_analysis.jpg)