Masters Darts

[TonyV]

I'm not a massive darts fat, just watch on and off. My gripe is there obviously is not anybody in the arena apart from the players, officials and cameramen. Why does tv have fake crowd noise, at a constant level, when crowd would be silent when the players are throwing?

[Buenchico]

I'd guess that whichever production company that makes the programme for ITV4 simply hasn't got (or can't afford) a sound engineer with the expertise of Adam Peri and his colleagues, who put in the all the hard work behind the crowd effects used in football coverage:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/sport/article/artificial-crowd-noises

Without the services of such as specialist, the production company has had to choose between near silence or general crowd noise and would seem to have decided that the latter is the better of the two options.

[Unsureme]

You haven't been to many Darts nights,Tony,it is pandemonium.

[THECORBYLOON]

In the darts programmes I've seen, there's always noise when the players are throwing.

[Buenchico]

^^^ The professional game is obviously played very differently then from the way that the amateurs played in my local pub when I lived on the edge of Sheffield. I often arrived at the pub, on a freezing cold night, and/or in pouring rain, to find my entry barred by a guy with his back to the door. If I tried to ease it open, he'd turn round and mouth '"Game on!" to me through the glass, making it clear that he'd be committing a hanging offence if he allowed me to open the door.

It wasn't much better if I was already in the pub when a darts match started. Conversation, even at the very quietest of levels, was strictly prohibited in the bar when a darts match was being played; it was all taken extremely seriously!

What was annoying though, was that most of the guys actually playing darts were utter rubbish at it! I often had to wait outside, in the pouring rain, for ages while the two players finally got down to both needing double one - and then having to wait a good deal longer until one of them actually managed to score it!

[Unsureme]

It is Chris,believe me,you just had to watch The Darts Premier League on Sky,everybody drinking.(When Fans were allowed in,off course).

[Unsureme]

*of course*.

[margarettom]

There is constant crowd noise in PDC darts normally. They are just trying to recreate that atmosphere. Very enjoyable tournament and a great winner in Johnny Clayton. Such a nice man.