• Atmos

    Noun

    noun form

    1. Plural of en
    2. (sound production)
      • 2009, Steve Dawkins and Ian Wynd, Video Production, Putting Theory into Practice, Palgrave Macmillan, , unpaged:Wherever possible, it is best to record your sound effects in the location as they will contain the right atmos for the location.
      • 2010 June 25, Richard Ayoade (actor), Graham Linehan (writer, director), “Jen The Fredo”, IT Crowd, series 4, episode 1, FremantleMedia:Maurice Moss: Compiling a playlist for a role-playing game I'm hosting. Important to get the right atmos.
      • 2011, Richard J. Hand and Mary Traynor, The Radio Drama Handbook, Audio Drama in Context and Practice, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, , page 143:Similarly, in radio drama there is an audio backdrop, usually called ‘atmos’ (short for atmosphere). The atmos suggests the location of the drama.
      • 2012, Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer, The Lotus War, volume 1, Macmillan, , page 22: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.

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