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predub

verb

Etymology

From pre- + dub.

  1. derived from *dʰewbʰ-✻ — “plug, peg, wedge”
  2. derived from *dub-✻ — “to hit, strike”
  3. inherited from *dubbōn✻
  4. derived from adober — “to equip with arms; adorn”
  5. inherited from dubbian — “to knight by striking with a sword, dub”
  6. inherited from dubben
  7. prefixed as predub — “pre + dub”

Definitions

  1. To mix audio tracks such as dialog, music, and sound effects as a preliminary step, which…

    To mix audio tracks such as dialog, music, and sound effects as a preliminary step, which does not include all the tracks in the final soundtrack.

    • Then you will have the purist mixer who wants it to be predubbed without anything camouflaging the material.

  2. A preliminary soundtrack produced by predubbing.

    • If your show includes a lot of effects, for example, explosions, music, sound effects, or loud noises over romantic dialogue, then your sound-effects supervisor will probably recommend a predub or prelay.
    • Once the materials arrived at the stage, a dozen recordists and mix technicians required a half an hour to load the three or four dozen tracks a predub might require.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for predub. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA