Best plugin to create warm vintage silence?

[martinjuenke]

I recently worked a lot with the concept of Negative Space (known from the photography world) in my tracks. It seems to me that this is a perfect concept to conform with the strategy Less is More. But psycho-acoustic research states that digital emptyness is perceived as cold and unsettling. Therefore I see the need for warm vintage emptyness ala silence.
What would the best suited plugin to create such a task?

[ThoughtExperiment]

Bit early for April Fools Day isn't it?

[concealed identity]

You really need hardware for this, all of the plugins I've used for silence have too much aliasing.

[billinder33]

To properly replicate analog silence, you need run at 32-bit/192khz and vary the gain by adjusting each sample manually. It's the only way...

[El°HYM]

https://goodhertz.com/good-dither/

[funky lime]

People sometimes use room tone for this. Put a mic somewhere quiet (ideally the room you want your music to be in, but it's kinda whatever), and just record a few minutes of "silence." Then put that underneath your music.

Or more easily, you could use the noise feature of a tape or vinyl emulation plugin. Or just generate some really quiet white/pink/brown/whatever noise and use that. Actually, listening to some records from the 60s/70s, sometimes it's not even that quiet.

[osiris]

I know movies do this to make sound consistent, I've done this with an audio track (put white noise)and didn't like the results. I think what you want is air.

[Tubeman]

To properly replicate analog silence, you need run at 32-bit/192khz and vary the gain by adjusting each sample manually. It's the only way...

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[mcbpete]

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https://vimeo.com/904415866

[HOTF]

Buy the most expensive vintage analog synth you can find. Record some audio and than delete it. Even if the sound is gone there is still some analog warmth residue. It lingers like radioactivity.

[ugo]

I think in visual art terms when doing sound design and music too.

I agree with what other’s have said. Instead of pure silence, look into emulating or sampling ambient room noise. In real life our environment is never completely silent, inside or outside. Consider what environment you imagine your music is taking place in. Is any equipment lightly buzzing? Anyone else breathing/moving in the room? Any appliances in an adjacent room? What is the weather and traffic like outside?

As Osiris mentioned - this can be a big issue when working on location for a movie/video, then finding you have to re-record a line in post. If you just cut the line from the original recording and drop in the new one it will likely sound jarring and obvious because the new dialog was recorded in a more quiet and controlled environment. You can’t always drop in just any background noise either because it has to match whatever was audible at the original location. The best approach is to always record some ambient room noise while still on location, so you have something that will blend well if needed later.

[El°HYM]

[VitaminD]

clearly the solution is this plugin.

[cryophonik]

You really need hardware for this, all of the plugins I've used for silence have too much aliasing.

Yeah, for vintage silence, you want complete alienation, not aliasing. A lot of people get these concepts confused, understandably so.

[El°HYM]