The natural "noise" of a room, set or location where dialog is recorded for the production shoot. Used by film or dialog editors as a "bed" to form a continuous tone through a particular scene. Not to be confused with ambience, which can be sound effects and/or reverberation, added when the dialog is mixed.
The background noise in a room without people speaking or music playing.
Usually refers to the audio characteristic of the film set or location. Sound engineers will sometimes record the 'silence' of a space to capture its tone.
A sound recording (sometimes made upon completion of a scene) to record existing noise at the location. Also called "wild track".
The ambient sound present in a room recorded during original taping and used during editing to add needed intervals of "silence" between edits. It is important in maintaining the audio atmosphere existing at a location.
The sound of the background in an interior location. You should always record room tone in every different setup so that when you edit the audio in a scene, you have some background material to work with for when you remove undesired noises.
Different set s and locations have different audio characteristics. A sound recordist will typically make a recording of the natural ambient "silence" in a set/location for the sound editor, who will use it as a reference point, or for when silence is required. Fictional Movie(s): Living in Oblivion (1995)
the natural background noise of an enclosed environment; in film-making the room tone is recorded so that the film editor can cover all pauses in conversation with matching background noise; see also buzz track.
Room Tone (other terms are Presence or Atmosphere) is a location´s "aural fingerprint" -- nonspecific sounds on the upper end (somewhere between 2000 and 8000 Hz).
