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How Dialog Should Sound! (Basic Film Audio Design)

Mark Edward Lewis demonstrates practical equalisation for film dialogue using the tools built into DaVinci Resolve, which puts the whole technique inside software the viewer already has for free.

This Guy Edits · 12 min · Intermediate · SND · Sound & Music · 2020

What you take away

Most amateur dialogue is fixed by subtraction — cutting the frequencies that are fighting the voice, rather than boosting the voice.

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