2023.09.11 – 0984 – The Diction-ary of Voice – D Part 2

Dry audio – a voice recording without any music underneath (which would be a ‘mixed’ recording)

Dry mouth – literally having little saliva in one’s mouth, making talking difficult

Dub – to make a copy of an audio or video recording

Dub - to re-record audio and sync it to a video which shows someone talking and whose sound is muted. Dubbing is used to re-record a translated soundtrack in another language for different markets and also to replace the original spoken word recording in the original language and by the original actor, to replace audio that was poorly recorded on set (or due to a technical problem, late script change, remove a swear-word for a different audience and so on). The spoken word of any dub must sync with the mouth movements of the original performance. Although this is difficult for a translated script, the timings of each line must certainly be as close as possible to the original

Duration – the length of time it will take (or has taken) for a programme element such as a script, to run

Dynamic - audio that has wide variations between the quiet bits and the loud bits. See ‘Microdynamics’ and ‘Macrodynamics’

Dynamic microphone – a mic which incorporates a diaphragm-type device which records sound by vibrating a magnet to create an electrical signal, when sound waves are detected, but which are less sensitive to higher frequencies. See ‘Condenser’

Dynamic range - the ratio between the maximum and minimum sound levels in a recording. This ratio is usually expressed in decibels as the difference between the loudest possible undistorted level, and the level of the noise floor

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Early out – ending a programme or item earlier than originally expected “We come out in 1 minute, but there’s an early out in 20 seconds…”

Edit – cutting down an audio piece for content or duration reasons

Edit - to produce an audio piece, weaving a narrative from multiple interviews and other audio elements

Editor – in a newsroom, the manager of a team of reporters who’s responsible for deciding what stories goes to air and how, and for giving feedback

Editor - the person who assembles a show from raw material, who works to a producer

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