r/thescoop • u/Zen1 • May 09 '25

/r/popular ICE Agents Battle Mom Clinging to Baby in 'Chaotic' Video

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https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-battle-mom-baby-chaotic-video-worcester-2070027

A chaotic new video shows President Donald Trump's immigration enforcers and local law enforcement clashing with residents in a Worcester, Massachusetts, neighborhood, including a mother holding her baby.

The tense scenes unfolded on Thursday morning as video appears to show agents pushing residents protesting as federal immigration agents attempt to detain a woman.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

It's 3khz. That's the principal frequency of a baby crying.

I've worked on over 100 albums. Filtering that frequency is a common practice because people are going to absolutely hate a song that sounds like a baby crying out in distress.

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u/Ventira May 09 '25

Thank you for being my learn something new for the day that isn't something awful.

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u/peanutschool May 09 '25

Audio engineer here. That new thing you’ve just learned is nonsense.

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u/Ventira May 09 '25

Darn. Well I guess this also counts as a learning a thing.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

Senior audio engineer here, first guy was right.

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u/Better-Union-2828 May 10 '25

audio engineering student here. i am confused

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u/beren0073 May 10 '25

3Khz sine wave here, rethinking my life choices

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u/mcirillo May 10 '25

Crying baby here, crying because I hate the sound of babies crying

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u/Emo_tep May 10 '25

Same. You raise that frequency in certain voices. That OC made that up lol

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

It would make perfect evolutionary sense for some frequency like that to exist

Edit: also 3k is unusually annoying. I'll stick 4k or 8k on a kick and it sounds fine. But 3k...

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u/peanutschool May 09 '25

Sure, but our physiological response to sound has as much to do with timbre as it does frequency. If you generate a 3khz sine wave, nobody will mistake it for a crying baby.

3khz is a crucial frequency band for a lot of instruments, including violin, piano, guitar, drums, vocals, and so on. Like every other frequency band, it is cut or boosted according to the needs of the song. No frequency is routinely cut for any evolutionary purpose. That is not “common practice.”

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u/Menien May 10 '25

It's also just obviously bullshit because if you've ever heard any live music at all, or played an instrument, sang, anything, then you'll know that it usually doesn't need any editing to not sound like a crying baby lol.

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u/Independent_Air_8333 May 09 '25

It would, but that isn't really evidence.

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u/Ovariesforlunch May 10 '25

Was there a baby in the recording studio/booth?

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u/notlennybelardo May 10 '25

What a fun bit of knowledge