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Audio design
12.1 Dangers
Audio editors come with a multitude of ‘toys’ that you may never need – until that day when they rescue you from certain disaster!
Remember that just because a toy is available, you do not HAVE to use it. There is no substitute for clear, interesting, relevant speech, or good music, well performed. With documentary, have faith in the power of the spoken word. One of the more depressing of my activities as a studio manager was working with producers who did not. They would ruin exciting speech by blurring it with reverberation or obscuring it with sound effects.
All the facilities available allow you to ruin recordings very easily. Audio and music technology is full of controls that set in one direction do nothing, ...
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