Audio Glossary

Post-Production.

12 terms

ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement)
The process of re-recording dialogue in a controlled studio environment to replace unusable production sound. The act…
Ambience
The natural background sound of an environment — room tone, air conditioning hum, distant traffic. In mixing, ambienc…
Automation
The recording of parameter changes over time within a DAW — volume, panning, plugin settings — that play back exactly…
Dialogue (Post-Production)
Recorded speech in film, television, or other audiovisual content. Dialogue editing and mixing is a specialized disci…
Foley
The reproduction of everyday sound effects added to film, television, and other media in post-production. Named after…
M&E (Music & Effects)
A version of a film or television mix that contains all audio except dialogue — music, sound effects, Foley, and ambi…
Post-Production
The stage of audio production that occurs after principal recording, encompassing editing, dialogue cleaning, sound d…
Room Tone
A recording of the ambient sound of a specific location with no dialogue or intentional sound, capturing only the nat…
Sound Design
The creative discipline of creating, manipulating, and arranging audio elements to serve a narrative, aesthetic, or f…
Spectral Editing
The visual and surgical editing of audio in the frequency domain, allowing specific frequencies at specific moments i…
Stems
Grouped submixes exported as individual audio files from a mix session. Common stems include drums, bass, music, dial…
Walla
Background voices or crowd ambience used in film and television post-production to create the sense of people in an e…

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