[During this month, I've been doing weekly reports about “Secrets for Great Film Sound“, a new webinar series hosted by David Sonnenschein and Ric Viers] The last week we finished the webinar series, discussing a lot of things regarding the final mix Ric started giving a lot of advices and overall overview of mixing. He talked about how to focus the audience with the mix and … [Read more...]
Erik Aadahl Special: Editing for the Mix
When it comes to preparing sound effects for a mix, there are lots of ways to approach things; I don't claim this to be the end-all methodology. For this article, I'll be slanting discussion towards sound effects, regretfully leaving out music and dialogue. I'll be covering two avenues of mixing: traditional mixes and Icon mixes. OVERVIEW The art of mixing is the art of … [Read more...]