dubdown

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The process of remixing audio tracks to use fewer tracks.

   • In this application, the loudspeaker monitor is the standard by which recordings are judged—from initial microphone placement, through mixing and dubdown, to final mastering.
   • Full bandwidth digitally recorded images don't pick up random analog noise during dubdown, but they can add "quantizing noise" (detectable rings separating areas of different luminance intensities).
2. 2

   The result of a dubdown.

   • You certainly should have the final dubdowns of your playbacks from the sixteen track to the three-stripe 35mm.
   • It's true that “Barnyard” only exists as a poor second generation copy, a dubdown to mono recorded onto one track of an otherwise blank 8-track/one inch tape.

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