CTPR 242 Fall '11 - Week 13 - RerecordingMixing...

Re-recording Mixing
-
Done on a mix stage, which is set-up like a movie
theatre: The mixers should hear the material in the
same conditions an audience will.
-
Also commonly called “dubbing.” (Mix stage
sometimes called “dub stage.”)

Dub Stage

Re-recording Mixing
-
The re-recording mixers adjust the level, equalization,
and panning of every sound supplied to them by the
sound editors.
-
They also perform additional processes, including
adding reverberation, noise removal, etc.

The Mixing Hourglass

The Mixing Hourglass
-
On the mix stage, we start with all the individual units
of sound, organized in tracks in ProTools.
-
We usually only deal with one type of sound at once
in what is called a pre-mix : We’ll only deal with the
dialogue in the dialogue pre-mix, only the
backgrounds in the backgrounds pre-mix, and so on.
-
The number of pre-mixes depends on the complexity
of the sound track.

The Mixing Hourglass
-
Next, the pre-mixes are combined into a final mix . But
even in the final mix, three stems are delivered
separately:
-
D, M, and E – dialogue, music, and effects
-
Must deliver these separately for foreign delivery.
-
After the final mix, there is the print mastering phase;
we will look at that next week.

I. Mixing Processes
1.
Level domain processes
a)
Level setting
b)
Compression
c)
Limiting
2.
Frequency domain processes
a)
Filters
I.
High pass
II.
Low Pass
III.
Band Pass
IV.
Notch
b)
Equalization
3.
Time domain processes
a)
Reverberation
b)
Pitch Shifter
c)
DDL

I. Mixing Processes
1.
Level domain processes
a.) level setting
-
the most fundamental job of the mixer is to set
the level of every sound that is heard.
-
The faders are therefore the biggest controls on
the mixing surface; also called pots (short for
potentiometers)

I. Mixing Processes
a.) level setting

I. Mixing Processes
a.) level setting
- On the mixing
console, 0 dB
means unity gain :
input = output. At
unity gain, the
sound is played at
the same level as
input.

I. Mixing Processes
1.