Recordings made outside of professional-grade recording studios may contain varying degrees of background noise or sounds:
- An air conditioner in the background
- Line-level fuzz from your recording interface
- Your neighbor's baby screaming (again)
Room tone uses artificial intelligence to recognize the background sound in a speech recording, then creates a similar noise profile. When you room tone is enabled, this noise profile is added to any gap clips in your composition. This helps smoothly cover up any abrupt silences, making them blend seamlessly with your recording's background noise.
Room tone is on by default
By default, room tone is active on all new projects. You can change this in your App Settings, or adjust the settings for a single project.
Preparing your file
Room tone analyzes the first 30 seconds of a media file for non-speech audio to create a sound profile. To ensure the best results, we recommend the following:
- Recording at least 15 seconds of silence before speaking so that room tone can create an accurate profile.
- If you're importing a pre-recorded file, make sure your recording does not contain music during the first 30 seconds of the track.
Applying and adjusting room tone to a clip
- Add a gap clip - click and drag a word in the wordbar wherever you want to create some space.
- Select the gap clip in the Timeline.
- Click
...in the Audio section of the Properties Panel. - In the Advanced audio window, you can add or delete the room tone, mute the tone, or change its volume.