Theatre sound effects from front of house and behind it. Backstage in a fly house theatre there's the machinery, control room buttons and switches, doors and the room tone of the space itself. Out front sits the audience, from walla murmuring round an auditorium to crowd laughter, quiet chuckles right up to hysterics. The backstage side is off limits to the public.
A theatre scene usually needs layers. Room tone first, because an empty auditorium has a hush of its own. Then the audience settling, a Murmur that drops away as the lights go down, and laughter in the right places. Backstage is different: machinery, switches and doors, which suits a thriller behind the curtain as much as a backstage drama. Lobby and bar walla covers the interval. A school set adds impulse responses, so dialogue can be placed inside a real room.
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