What do they do?

[datafeist]

Hi,

I am totally newbe in television etc. I was wondering about what postproduction workers do in fact (when they work for television) ?
Do they add reverb and effect to conversations & sounds etc...or am totally wrong?

Thanks

[tom_lowe]

Originally Posted by datafeist

Hi,

I am totally newbe in television etc. I was wondering about what postproduction workers do in fact (when they work for television) ?
Do they add reverb and effect to conversations & sounds etc...or am totally wrong?

Thanks

Sound post production or post production in general? That's a VERY broad question. There are different jobs within sound post, and different titles for the same/similar job. Although it's more aimed at film, filmsound.org is a good place to start.

TV and film terminology is often slightly different, as is UK and US terminology.

[philper]

Heck, I add reverb all day long, to everything. A job comes in, on goes a scoop of 'verb, and it's good to go. The rest of the day I practice my Oscar acceptance speech.

Philip Perkins

[Big Andy]

Originally Posted by philper

heck, i add reverb all day long, to everything. A job comes in, on goes a scoop of 'verb, and it's good to go. The rest of the day i practice my oscar acceptance speech.

Philip perkins

hahahahaha!

[danijel]

Originally Posted by philper

Heck, I add reverb all day long, to everything. A job comes in, on goes a scoop of 'verb, and it's good to go.

Of course, this is a simplified explanation - besides multiple layers of reverb, you will often add echo, flutter, some slapback (if it's an outdoor scene), room resonances, and even jitter, if the director demands so.

[tom_lowe]

Originally Posted by danijel

Of course, this is a simplified explanation - besides multiple layers of reverb, you will often add echo, flutter, some slapback (if it's an outdoor scene), room resonances, and even jitter, if the director demands so.

If only it was that easy!

[eastwestaudio]

Originally Posted by tom_lowe

If only it was that easy!

then we'd all be out of a job...

-greg-

[Jfriah]

Originally Posted by philper

Heck, I add reverb all day long, to everything. A job comes in, on goes a scoop of 'verb, and it's good to go. The rest of the day I practice my Oscar acceptance speech.

Philip Perkins

DAMN you, Philip! I spend portions of my day trying to ELIMINATE reverb on dialogue!!!

Jeff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_post_production

http://filmsound.org/AudiopostFAQ/audiopostfaq.htm

And, datafeist, I gotta ask: where did you get the idea "that" is what we do? Hey, just askin'.

[ggegan]

Originally Posted by philper

Heck, I add reverb all day long, to everything. A job comes in, on goes a scoop of 'verb, and it's good to go. The rest of the day I practice my Oscar acceptance speech.

Philip Perkins

You mean to say you don't even slap a joystick on it and spin it around the room? And you call yourself a professional? I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you!

[Henchman]

Don't forget to add the distortion too to give it that cool sound

[Timwaldvogel]

Distortion and a grainable synthisizer. And flange.... And phase.... And 21 aux eq tracks. Simple as pie !! ;-)

[georgia]

Don't forget wiggle.... I wiggle dialogue around all day with and without reverb...
sometimes it's quite an effect to wiggle dialogue. why add verb, wow and flutter, and spend all that time when you can just wiggle it out of sync so everyone notices a slight sync problem and completely misses the fact that the reverb is all screwed up.



cheers
geo

[Peter Morrison]

As Georgia's assistant I get coffee, All day, all night.

Hot Coffee, Cold Coffee, Coffee with milk, coffee with sugar, coffee with more coffee.

Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee… sometimes I even just get sounds of coffee…

Peter

[PoxyMusic]

I'm glad nobody is mentioning dithering. NSFW.

[Kuba_Pietrzak]

I have several buttons in front of me. Some of them has weird descriptions:

PLAY
RECORD
STOP
REW
FF
and the strangest:
TALKBACK


And I use them all day long.


Kuba

[nucelar]

Tweak buttons till LEQ-A=-27 dBFS

[Henchman]

Originally Posted by PoxyMusic

I'm glad nobody is mentioning dithering. NSFW.

I'm dithering.

[PoxyMusic]

Originally Posted by Henchman

I'm dithering.

There are better websites than this for those shenanigans.

For example:
SONOSAX

[Brent Hahn]

Originally Posted by Henchman

Don't forget to add the distortion too to give it that cool sound

Don't you mean "color"?

[Henchman]

Or on proper English "colour"
:-)

[Jfriah]

Originally Posted by PoxyMusic

I'm glad nobody is mentioning dithering. NSFW.

Personally, I find taking the location audio that is recorded DIGITALLY (and, GOOD, right?) and dithering to 8 bits to get that nice HISSSSSSSSSS missing from the 100% clean location recordings we get these days; then that usually gives me enough work running various noise reduction plugins because I wanna have something to do all day and it's just not the 'same' as the clean location on its own... misses the artifacting if you just run clean dia.

And I have another knob I usually turn far far to the left.
'SUCK'

Jeff