Introducing ambience control: you decide how much of the room your listeners hear

Every great recording happens somewhere. A café, a stage, a living room, a busy conference floor. Until now, editing tools have treated that "somewhere" as noise: something to clean up or strip out.

Starting today, Nomono Studio Cloud treats the room as part of your mix. With ambience control, you set exactly how much of it your listeners hear.

The room, on its own track

Every Sound Capsule has a Space Recorder: a dedicated 8-capsule ambisonic microphone that captures the room while each speaker's Nomono microphone captures their voice. Now, when you open a Sound Capsule recording in the episode editor tool (or multitrack viewer) in Nomono Studio Cloud, that room sound appears as its own track, right next to your speakers.

Turn it up to put listeners in the room with you. Turn it down for a close, studio-style sound. Or find your own balance somewhere in between.

Recorded, not reconstructed

Other tools try to pull background sound out of your voice track with AI. The result is an estimate of what the room sounded like. The Sound Capsule records the room directly, so you get the real thing to work with. No other podcast system records the room as its own track.

Made for video podcasts

Fully enhanced audio can sound like a vocal booth, even when the picture shows a café or a stage. Viewers notice the mismatch. With the ambience track, you can match what your audience hears to what they see.

How to use it

1. Open a Sound Capsule recording with Edit in Episode.
2. Double-click the clip, or click the layer icon, to see every track.
3. Find the ambience track and adjust its level with the volume slider, or add volume points to change it over time.

The ambience track is available for Sound Capsule recordings uploaded on or after 1 August 2026.

Part of per-track editing

Ambience control builds on per-track editing, which we launched on 17 September. For every recording, you can:

• See every track. Each speaker's track takes the color of their Nomono microphone, and the mix view highlights the active speaker.
• Adjust levels. Use a volume slider, or add volume points to shape levels over time.
• Mute and solo. Pull a track out of the mix, or listen to one track on its own.

Tracks stay locked together, so you can't cut, trim, or move a single track on its own. That's by design: the Space Recorder also picks up your speakers' voices, so keeping everything aligned keeps your recording in sync and protects its quality.

Free on every plan

Ambience control is available now on all Nomono Studio plans, including the Free plan. No audio engineer required.