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Nov 19
32m 21s

Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of W...

DALLAS TAYLOR
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In movie musicals, the vocals are almost never recorded live on-set. Instead, the actors pre-record their songs, then lip sync to those recordings while filming. But on Wicked, they threw out the rulebook, and recorded all of the lead vocals live. In this episode, Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes reveals how they pulled off this audio feat. From cleverly d ... Show More
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