AEW Piping In Crowd Noise Confirmed?
Dave Meltzer shed some light on whether AEW have been using piped-in crowd noise.
AEW have been piping in crowd noise on their recent programming.
That's according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Dave Meltzer, with the veteran reporter's recent response to a fan on Twitter seemingly confirming Tony Khan's company relying on additional sound being added into the mix by the time Rampage arrives on TNT each Friday.
The question which provoked Dave's notable response consisted of a fan tweeting out:
"Does AEW add sound? When watching the tag title match on Rampage there were a ton of loud "Swerve's House" chants, but no one in the ringside section was Chanting. In fact they looked completely dead for the whole match, but the sound didn't match."
Sure enough, Meltzer would respond with a typically short and sweet quote-tweet answer of, "On Fridays they do".
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Advertisement— Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) August 21, 2022
It's not exactly a secret that AEW's major rival in WWE haven't been shy about adding in a little artificial additional noise/crowd reaction to their programming in recent times in order to make certain segments sound hotter than they actually are in real-life, or even paper over an unexpectedly negative response to a performer deemed as a babyface within the promotion's walls.
News of AEW now apparently doing something similar may come as something of a shock to some All Elite die-hards, mind.
But with Rampage very much losing its status as can't-miss wrestling television over the last few months, and most crowds feeling a touch exhausted in the wake of having their minds blown by an episode of Dynamite in the lead-up to a typical Rampage taping on the same night, you can't exactly blame TK for trying to add some extra electricity to his product in the production truck.