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@prof, well said.

While working early in my career as an editor (network television), I dealt with similar issues, e.g. matching room tone from edit to edit.

It requires careful listening and attention to detail. 

Those who don’t do it for a living have no idea.

Yes tvad.  It's a "they don't know what they don't know" scenario.

There's a whole lot more to understanding the characteristics of sound than believing Miles' trumpet sounds more burnished when you put your cables on a riser.

In Finance and Econ it’s called survivor theory …the survivors color the long run data. Dead men tell no tales. When Bitcoin corrects, the big losers….well you get the idea. Same for negatives in audio… Wonder how many cheap Schuman generators are out there…humming away… the dopamine hit…long gone…..

"Those who don’t do it for a living have no idea."

This job seems rewarding yet simultaneously stress/anxiety provoking. 
Charles 

charles1dad,


Just per your comment: Yeah, it is. Creatively can be very satisfying.


However, in the movie business as a sound designer/editor, my work is last in line. A sound mix is generally set in stone, far in advance, as all sorts of productions are competing for studio time, and everyone has their hard airing (for TV) or release date deadlines, and the mix is the last big creative process, then it’s sent off.


Basically that means that EVERYONE else in all the jobs leading up to the sound edit can stretch or fudge time. So it can be "well the writing took longer...or the production...or the editing...or the visual effects" etc.Everyone can be "late" to some degree. Not me. There is a single, hard mix date we have to have everything ready for, the productions costing millions of dollars, mix time hundreds of thousands.
Being late is career suicide. (With the rare exception that picture changes necessitate "flying in" sounds to the mix). Therefore, in 30 years I have never been late.

Every time I talk I hire a contractor who changes schedule on me, or "things take longer" I shake my head. What a position to be in.



So, yeah, it can be awfully stressful at times. Right now I have to finish 7 movies before Christmas!!!