Did you know that most of the dialog that you hear in a movie was not recorded at the time when the scene was actually being shot? A lot of the actors' lines were rerecorded in a studio in order to get better sound quality, or sometimes a better performance. This process is called Automated Dialog Replacement, or ADR. The trick is for the actor to be able to recreate the emotion from the scene and make it sound as natural as possible. Here is a clip showing the ADR process on the film "King Kong".Real ADR is done through a process called looping, where a short scene is played over and over and the actor performs his/her lines repeatedly until he/she gets them just right. It is the mixing engineer's responsibility to make the recording sound as believable as possible in the scene. Think about it...if the scene takes place in the middle of, say, an empty parking lot,
are the voices going to sound the same as they do inside a padded vocal booth? 
Of course not! So, the engineer has to figure out how he/she can match the sound of the actor's voice to the place being shown on the screen. This is done by making decisions in the recording process (microphone choice and placement) and in the mix afterward (using reverb, EQ, pitch adjustment, and other FX to make it sound like the character is in the actual setting on screen).Today, we're going to do a little bit of our own ADR...
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