Ambience Match? You Might Prefer Undertone 2
Discover Undertone 2, a plugin (VST/AU/ AudioSuite) built to match the room tone between ADR and Post dialogue. It might be a cheaper and better solution for you
iZotope’s Ambience Match processor is a module inside RX Advanced that is designed to match the noise floor sound (room tone) of one recording with another.
Undertone 2 is a plugin with the same objective but with more flexibility in its operation. It also costs less and runs as a familiar plugin format in many DAWs and NLEs.
Undertone 2 is Fast and Flexible
Once you add a sample of either room tone or original dialogue into Undertone 2, in many cases it can take under one second before it’s outputting a constant bed of ambience. Here’s a two-step guide getting started with Undertone 2.
Step 1: Add Undertone 2 to a new channel in your DAW or NLE.
Step 2: Into Slot 1, load a sample of room tone or full dialogue with room tone behind it.
Step 3: There is probably no step 3. Undertone is likely now generating room tone.
Getting Undertone to work is even easier than 1, 2, 3
You can change the settings of Undertone’s granular or convolution engines to customize your room tone, and you can blend the sound of both or use just one.
To find out more about Undertone 2 in use, check out our five-minute quick-start tutorial for Undertone 2.
Ambience Match is Only Available as Part of RX
iZotope’s RX suite of audio repair tools is a legendary package for audio post and music uses, but the whole package is exactly what you have to buy in order to gain access to the Ambience Match plugin.
Since Ambience Match is only available in iZotope’s RX Advanced tier (at the time of writing this), it’s a considerable purchase decision to make. There are lots of great modules within RX, but if Ambience Match is the only one you’re interested in or need, then Undertone competes better on price.
Undertone 2 Works with More DAWs in More Formats
iZotope’s Ambience Match works as a module in RX, a larger software package, and is also installed as an AudioSuite plugin for Pro Tools when RX is installed. Undertone 2 doesn’t run as a standalone app, instead functioning only as a plugin. Undertone’s plugin formats are AudioSuite (like RX Ambience Match), plus VST, Audio Units (AU) and AAX for Pro Tools.
Undertone 2 Can Remove Dialogue Without Your Input
While Ambience Match can remove dialogue to define the ‘noise floor’ or ‘room tone’ with help from the user setting the Ambience Threshold, Undertone does this entirely automatically. Even if you import an audio file containing full dialogue on top of background ambience, the plugin will automatically select all the parts not containing dialogue and use only these to generate ambience.
Comparing Undertone 2 and Ambience Match
Undertone 2 |
Ambience Match
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| Price | €220 | €1000+ |
| AudioSuite plugin for Pro Tools? | Y | Y |
| VST3, Audio Units, AAX plugin formats | Y | |
| Standalone app | Y | |
| Comes with other modules | Y | |
| Match static ambience | Y | Y |
| Match complex ambience | Y | Y |
| Output Ambience only | Y | Y |
| Granular processing options | Y | |
| Convolution processing options | Y | |
| Remove dialogue with Ambience Threshold | Y | |
| Remove dialogue automatically | Y | |
| Comes with complex ambience presets | Y | Y |
| Can be used as a VST/AU/AAX plugin directly with… | ||
| Pro Tools | Y | Y |
| Premiere | Y | |
| Final Cut Pro | Y | |
| Da Vinci Resolve | Y | |
| Logic Pro | Y | |
| Studio One | Y | |
| Reaper | Y | |
| Audacity | Y | |
| Many more | Y |
More on Undertone 2
Our software makes it easy to generate room tone and ambience from either dedicated room tone files or recorded dialogue with ambience behind it. Perfect for ADR and other dialogue editing duties, Undertone can save audio editors time and frustration in post production.