Sound for Film and Television, 3rd Edition

Chapter 12

Mixing

INTRODUCTION

The process of mixing soundtracks together has slightly different terminology applied to it depending on the field of use. In film work, mixing is called rerecording or dubbing. In television production, the words mixing or sweetening are more commonly employed to name the process.

The term rerecording is perhaps the most self-defining of these terms. The term mixing, on the other hand, can be applied to a wide variety of tasks, from live sound mixing at concerts, to combining the tracks of a multitrack recording into fewer tracks for release of a music compact disc, to making adjustments in level in transferring one two-track master to another. Rerecording is a more limited term, meaning taking something already ...