The Audio Checklist by Freelance A1, Andrew Stoakley
Over the course of interviewing, recording and editing my podcast series, ‘Idle Hands: Conversations with Television Broadcast Mixers’, there were several trends that emerged over my twenty conversations, but the main one that was talked about the most was that audio people are creatures of habit.
Talking with all the amazing mixers, it is clear that audio people like structure and processes. Maybe it’s the way our brains are wired, maybe it’s how we view complex signal flow, or maybe, just maybe we’re a little bit anal-retentive. I am…guilty as charged!