Little old ladies with umbrellas
Posted on Apr 28 2010
Years ago, film sound guru, Larry Blake, wrote a series of pieces for Mix magazine that became a film sound glossary. It had your standard fare – ADR, layback, room tone, worldize, et al. It also had some fun ones that only insiders use.
Well, a brief search unearthed an online version of the glossary, and I send you there post haste ( sorry about the pun).
Read through and see if you can find the answer to binky, spoach, and the title of this post. Enjoy.
And I’d like to add a few of my own my own:
- Reunmute - Refers to a sound or track that the director had you put in, remove, and put back in again.
- Snarf – to download something from the Web as in “Just snarf the file I put on the FTP server.”
- Wiggly-Woggly – Something or anything that doesn’t quite sound right.
What about you? Do you have any special terms you use when doing sound work?
3 Comments
This list is great. I liked “all-digital – An advertising claim used frequently in the ’80s. Now considered meaningless and rude”. I sat back to think, and yes “rude” it probably would be to list ‘all-digital’.
And, “11 The highest number that can be found silk-screened on electric guitars and guitar amplifiers.”…”But, mine goes to 11″
Funny. Universal Audio had a plug-in called Nigel, but the knobs didn’t go to 11 (which I thought was weird!)
And in Joe Jackson’s memoir he talks about how one club owner would go around and turn the band’s guitar amps down to four and tell them they could play no louder than that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_4_(Joe_Jackson_album)
Thanks for posting!
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