Reminiscence (I still laugh about this one)

[OutrageProductions]

OK, so… I’m gonna tell y’all a little story from my days in a real studio.

One day in ’94, I was doing an ADR (Automated [or Additional] Dialog Replacement) session for a film project where the talent was one of the two stars from “Lethal Weapon” (DG) for a private client.

As he starts to read through the script and gets comfortable, I keep thinking “Man, this guy really needs to get a better fitting set of dentures, or this day is gonna be a nightmare”.

I scramble into the EQ… that helps but doesn’t solve the issue I’m hearing on the C12 mic. So I quickly patch in a frequency variable D-Esser. Then… daisychain another and set a different frequency.

Close, but no cigar. OK… for the first time in my career, I patch in a third D-Esser in series and finally tame the monster sibilance issue.

Finally happy, I lock sync on the U-matic ¾” video playback and start rolling.

Five hours of this.

On playback, the talent said “I don’t think that I’ve ever sounded so good. Thanks!”

And I managed to survive.

[57Gregy]

So now engineers have to keep an assortment of dentures in the studio?

[craigb]

58 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

So now engineers have to keep an assortment of dentures in the studio?

I've found this to be effective! 😁

[Bapu]

One time, at bandcamp....

[Starship Krupa]

22 hours ago, OutrageProductions said:

I patch in a third D-Esser in series and finally tame the monster sibilance issue.

Yikes. I hope there was a nice pop screen between the talent and that poor C12!