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Room-tone tail

Definition

The natural reverberation that follows a sound event in an enclosed space. Each room has a characteristic decay time and spectral shape. A splice at the wrong point in a reverberation tail truncates the tail, producing an unnatural silence that is visible on a spectrogram.

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