# What exactly is that reverb noise you hear during televised baseball games? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 23, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015 "2003-10-23T01:12:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrSarcasticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MrSarcasticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSarcasticus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/1 "2003-10-23T01:12:09Z")
It only happens once in a while, and usually right after a pitch is thrown. What IS that? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/2 "2003-10-23T01:14:27Z")
Can you provide a more detailed description of this “reverb noise?” Are you talking about the PA announcements in the stadium that get picked up by the TV mics? ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/3 "2003-10-23T01:52:51Z")
They put microphones in the bases, so sometimes you hear the runner go back. That noise? ---
**Author:** ![cleops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2acd7d/32.png) [@cleops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleops)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/4 "2003-10-23T01:56:37Z")
Yeah, good question. I remember watching the Series several years ago on TV and being really irritated by it. It was as if they were trying to give extra sound to the ball when it was pitched, or caught by the catcher, so as to make the viewing experience more exciting?? I don’t watch TV much anymore, so am no longer irritated. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/5 "2003-10-23T01:58:41Z")
You may also be hearing a lot of the noises that Fox uses with its graphics. ---
**Author:** ![pilot141](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e0b2c6/32.png) [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/6 "2003-10-23T03:32:47Z")
Yeah, Fox has been using a reverb sound whenever they put the score overlay at the top of the screen or when they take it away. If they show a replay of a pitch they sometimes play it when they go back to the live feed. It sounds vaguely familiar…like opening a door in DOOM or something. ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-is-that-reverb-noise-you-hear-during-televised-baseball-games/209015/7 "2003-10-23T06:21:38Z")
I have heard that annoying sound as well. It is very familiar to me as well. It sounds a lot like the “Maximize Window” sound of a windows 98 sound scheme that came with my old computer(or was it the “error sound”?). Anyway, as others have already said, they put it on to alert you to a new graphic.