Bixby wrote:
Applause is hard to capture very well. Often times the microphones capturing the applause are a far distance from the rest of the capture electronics, and depending on the equipment you're using, that distance can have a pretty severe affect on the quick transients that make up applause audio. Then take that and put it in what really is a badly compressed audio stream - which it undoubtedly is, and you get mush. Because of the transients and broadband nature of applause, any lossy codec has a hard time encoding it. By the time it reaches the end consumer, the audio and video have undoubtedly gone through several rounds of codecs (encode/decode), which further aggravates the issue.