Wherever possible, it is best to record your sound effects in the location as they will contain the right atmos for the location.

Maurice Moss: Compiling a playlist for a role-playing game I'm hosting. Important to get the right atmos.

Similarly, in radio drama there is an audio backdrop, usually called ‘atmos’ (short for atmosphere). The atmos suggests the location of the drama.

Like all its brethren, the Lotusman was encased head to foot in a brass atmos-suit, studded with fixtures and gears and spinning clockwork, shielding it from the pollution the rest of the populace breathed daily.

Atmos

Meaning

Noun

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