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Decibel
A decibel (dB), named by Bell labs for it's founder, Alexander Graham Bell, is a logarithmic, relative scale for measuring power or amplitude, and it is used in a wide variety of disciplines. With respect to audio, it is a measurement of loudness. Human hearing has a dynamic range of about

Ambience
Ambience is atmospheric background sound. In post production terms, ambience can be the inherent noise of a location or a sound effect sweetener meant to emulate the inherent sound of a location (i.e., wind, air conditioning, or traffic).

Ornament Sound Experiments
The 1932 film Ornament Sound Experiments, created by experimental filmmaker Oskar Fischinger, utilized the optical sound track in a very unique way. Using precise graphical icons in place of the usual waveforms in the soundtrack area of the film, a "synthesized," or "pure" sound, as