This post focuses on capturing ambience by playing back and re-recording sounds in acoustic spaces.
The idea of piping sounds into a space and retracking it isn’t new by any stretch of the imagination. Before the advent of reverb processors it was common practice to route audio to speakers in reverb chambers to achieve ambient effects. Now it seems rather quaint to do so, but there are a good number of engineers who simply don’t like using artificial ambience. And real rooms offer a very different, tangible process as opposed to the knob twiddling of ‘verb processors.
