White noise: when to use?

[Tracey Lee]

When you are taking out breaths and lip smacks from a piece of audio, do you ever put in white noise so it masks the slight change in sound from the mic's self noise?

 

[Steve House]

When you are taking out breaths and lip smacks from a piece of audio, do you ever put in white noise so it masks the slight change in sound from the mic's self noise?

No, use room tone. White noise is random hiss, totally different from room tone.

 

[dre83]

You put setnoise (an ambiance recorder on the place of set)

 

[dre83]

No, use room tone. White noise is random hiss, totally different from room tone.

Answered at the same moment... Room tone is another word for it.