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Joseph S. Wisniewski writes that "green noise" is marketed by producers of ambient sound effects recordings as "the background noise of the world". It simulates the spectra of natural settings, without human-made noises. It is similar to pink noise, but has more energy in the area of 500 Hz. [20]
The mixed re-recording was created by students who played the sound of the word "laurel" while re-recording the playback amid background noise in the room. [4] The audio clip of the main word "laurel" originated in 2007 from a recording of opera singer Jay Aubrey Jones, [5] who spoke the word "laurel" [6] as one of 200,000 reference pronunciations produced and published by vocabulary.com in 2007.
That is, if the sound wave pattern of "blue noise" were translated into light waves, the resulting light would be blue, and so on. Can we get a reference on that? Brown noise, for instance, was not named for the color, and the colors listed do not actually correspond with the actual color spectrum. — Omegatron 04:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Background noise is an important concept in setting noise levels. Background noises include environmental noises such as water waves, traffic noise, alarms, extraneous speech, bioacoustic noise from animals, and electrical noise from devices such as refrigerators, air conditioning, power supplies, and motors. The prevention or reduction of ...
Image noise is random variation of brightness or color information in images, and is usually an aspect of electronic noise. It can be produced by the image sensor and circuitry of a scanner or digital camera. Image noise can also originate in film grain and in the unavoidable shot noise of an ideal photon detector. Image noise is an undesirable ...
Occupational noise is the amount of acoustic energy received by an employee's auditory system when they are working in the industry. Occupational noise, or industrial noise, is often a term used in occupational safety and health, as sustained exposure can cause permanent hearing damage.
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Environmental noise is an accumulation of noise pollution that occurs outside. This noise can be caused by transport, industrial, and recreational activities. [1] Noise is frequently described as 'unwanted sound'. Within this context, environmental noise is generally present in some form in all areas of human, animal, or environmental activity.