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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ditto. We call it 'atmos' here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Conclusion of a stupid brain: Dolby sells nothing, their top cinema technology