I don’t work in a sound recording space, but I know this because I had to do a voice recording for a project in middle school.
The recording picked up some extraneous noise in between a couple sentences, so I opened Audacity, took the noisy chunk, and deleted it outright so that there was empty space. It sounded very weird for some reason… so I simply recorded over the gap with me doing nothing, as if I were in between sentences. It worked! And I had no idea why…
Granted, this was less ‘room tone’ than ‘white noise from the amount of gain on my shitty mic’, but same concept.
As someone who has done plenty of sound recordist work, it’s known as ‘room tone.’
Also, I feel seen because I’ve had to explain that so many times. Even to people who really should know.
Ditto. We call it ‘atmos’ here.
Conclusion of a stupid brain: Dolby sells nothing, their top cinema technology
I don’t work in a sound recording space, but I know this because I had to do a voice recording for a project in middle school.
The recording picked up some extraneous noise in between a couple sentences, so I opened Audacity, took the noisy chunk, and deleted it outright so that there was empty space. It sounded very weird for some reason… so I simply recorded over the gap with me doing nothing, as if I were in between sentences. It worked! And I had no idea why…
Granted, this was less ‘room tone’ than ‘white noise from the amount of gain on my shitty mic’, but same concept.