In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Lots of 'probables' there, Iain. Don't hypothesise on things you know
little about. Adding and matching acoustics is a major part of drama
dubbing, and a decent suite will have every device known to man...

With equipment short-term rental being so cheap these
days, any special requirements are just a phone call away.
It doesn't make good economic sense for any commercial
company to own every device known to man.

Yet again you've shown no understanding of my work. Dubbing these days has
to be a fast process. It's the very last stage of the programme
production. Any facility needed must be available there and then - time is
too precious to be hanging around waiting for a delivered by a hire
company. Obviously very different from the things you have any experience
of.

For actual studio or location recording you may well rely on hired
equipment since it's more likely you can anticipate the need or not.
Dubbing is a different discipline.

But maybe in the case of facilities built with the tax
payers' money, anything goes:-)

Thought you've mentioned doing lots of work for what amounts to be
government subsidised - in other countries?

No matter - I'm referring to commercial operations. In one such - perhaps
following your peculiar notions - they didn't provide a DigiBeta in the
dubbing suite (for a prog mastered on that). Saying it could be hired in
as necessary. After the first month's statement from the hire company, a
permanent one appeared by magic.

But as David has already pointed out, the effects we
are talking about here have nothing to do with matching
or adding an acoustic. They are artificial effects
pure and simple. I even used the word contrived.

It would be a very confident person who said no particular acoustic
existed in real life. If you'd ever tried matching real acoustics as you
do in dubbing, you'd realise just how varied they are.

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