Ambience

Overview

The Ambience module helps you match the room tone and noise floor of your Reference profile to your Apply To profile.

Module

The Ambience module includes the following controls:

Ambience Module Controls
Control Description
Power Button Bypasses the Ambience processing.
Trim Sets the level of synthesized Ambience processing.
Listen Auditions only the matched ambient noise being applied.

Advanced View

The Advanced view displays a spectrogram of the ambient noise and room tone.

Ambience Advanced view spectrogram

DO NOT LEARN AMBIENCE ON FADES

We recommend not saving Snapshots or Reference profiles from audio that contains fades within the selection. Clips learned with fades may result in inconsistent detection of the noise floor due to dithering, which varies based on the Pro Tools session’s bit depth.
If you’re running a session with a bit depth of 16, the dither added by a fade will be enough to affect the detection algorithm. The problem is less pronounced at bit depths of 24 or 32.