He he, thanks guys, it sure is fun in there! Even though we're just doing a voice mix (on top of music and effects track) of a childrens movie, it's massive! I mean, working with TV audio on your normal stereo set up in a treated room can be fun but sitting in a full blown cinema with a huge console and a cinema PA to mix on is something else! I can only imagine how the makers of those massive special effects movies are feeling.
Thanks for the offer of an assistant, but I do have one there already. See, here's the cool thing; The place I work, recording and treating audio have hired this studio to do a cinema mix. We usually take those projects out of the house for mix to get extra ears, a better room than we have here (mostly "normal" sized studios) and to mix without having to pretend we're in a cinema because we'll actually be in one. So there's a guy there doing most of the button pushing and stuff. I did the recordings and edits before we took it over to these guys. so I sit in a chair or the client couch with a cup of tea or food or something, instructing him to how I want this to sound. And I get to ask him to try different things and play with reverbs, delays and so forth.
This maybe a childs movie but it's no childs play involved. We've used a myriad of reverbs and effects, but no special effects on the voices - we recorded them silly instead. The project is huge just for the voices! There's a cast of ~30 actors and most of them are doing just one character. We've treated all the voices individually with EQ and compressing as well as automating this throughout the movie to match the voice throughout and to break through the M&E track - which gets busy at times.
The best part, the guy
doing all the work is my assistant helping me out is one of the best in Scandinavia in sound for movies. If you watch a Norwegian movie from the past 6-7 years that were launched overseas, he has more than likely been the one mixing the sound. He's got some serious skills so I'm learning a lot. Best part, he's really easy to work with as well.
Here's some more pictures:
Sorry about the poor quality photos and the weird proportions - they were taken with an iPhone and I suck at adjusting the image size
But you should get an impression