Getting ADR to sound just right question

thartley

thartley

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Ok, so this may be pretty basic to most of you around here, but its something I've been wondering about. While the audio in many of the fest entries was excellent, some of the ADR sounded a bit off. I'm not talking about syncing, I'm talking about something else, and I dont know the proper term. But its like, if you have a scene in the wide open spaces, but the ADR comes out sounding like he/she was in a soundbooth, very clear and too distinct...is that something you fix in a mixing process? How do you get ADR to match up to the tonal quality you would expect to hear given the conditions of your particular scene?
 
First, you try to use the same mic that was used on production if you are are trying to match a few lines. Second, you get a really good re-recording mixer that knows what they are doing. I don't think I've ever seen (or heard) a looped line that I didn't know was looped. To me it's always painfully obvious, no matter how hard you try in post, but the majority of people out there seem to not notice.
 
You have to mix it with the "room tone", the environment it's supposed to be in. Not easy.

Even less easy, but I'd try if I had the proper equipment, is using Acoustic Mirror impulses with Sound Forge. It will change the envelope of the newly recorded sound to match what it would have done if recorded "live".

That'd make it easier to mix with the environment than a flat recording, I'd think.
 
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