Many times when mixing a project I’m confronted with a classic problem. The location audio does not match the studio audio. One famous example is with dialogue replacement. The dialogue that was replaced sounds significantly different than the original. Let’s look at an example I constantly deal with: two people talking in a car. The acoustic quality inside a car is usually based on … Continue reading ““Re-creating Space for Dialogue Replacement: Matching Location Audio” by Bryant Falk”

Most articles that deal with production sound recording for video and film tend to cover microphones and recording/mixing techniques. I am not going to cover audio from the Sound Mixer’s perspective, but rather from the contributions of other departments. Why should other departments care about improving audio? After all, except for editing, the sound is … Continue reading ““Production Design for Dialogue Recording: How Other Departments Can Help the Sound Dept. Improve the Quality of Recorded Dialogue” by Fred Ginsburg C.A.S. Ph.D. MBKS”

Sound Designing & How To Think About Sound Four-Step Strategy by Mark Kerins “Sound designer” first came to prominence as a film crew credit in the 1970s. If today it retains a bit of political baggage in the hierarchical film industry (thanks to inconsistent application, especially in comparison to job descriptions like “supervising sound editor”), … Continue reading ““Sound Designing & How To Think About Sound: Four-Step Strategy” by Mark Kerins”