Regarding Room Tone with Alex the Audio Scientist

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Scott Jacobi

Class is back in session! I hope you learned a lot from my previous video, All About Noise Floor. Today, I've got a lesson on Room Tone, including a neat trick to save you some valuable time in the editing stage. Watch the video below closely; there will be a quiz afterward, and the first person to get all four questions correct will get an honorable mention (including a link to their ACX profile) in my next post.

Did you get all that? I hope so, because it's time for that quiz I mentioned. Leave your answers in the comments to show how much you learned.

  1. Audiobook room tone is defined as the _____ sound in your studio, and should be as close to perfect _____ as possible.

  2. Room tone has three uses in your audiobook production:

    1. __________

    2. __________

    3. __________

  3. The most effective way to utilize room tone in an efficient manner is to use your DAW's _____ or _____ feature.

  4. When using Pro Tools, the paste special feature is _____ on a Mac and _____ on a PC.

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