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title: Audio Post-Production
description: Audio post-production is the process of editing, mixing, and mastering sound for film, television, and digital media. Learners will understand how to synchronize audio to video, design sound effects, edit dialogue, and deliver industry-standard audio files.
category: music-audio
subcategory: audio-engineering
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/audio-post-production
---

# Audio Post-Production

Audio post-production is the process of editing, mixing, and mastering sound for film, television, and digital media. Learners will understand how to synchronize audio to video, design sound effects, edit dialogue, and deliver industry-standard audio files.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Websites • 1 Papers

## Podcasts

### 1. Tonebenders Podcast

**Author:** Timothy Muirhead

Long-running interview podcast with film, TV and game sound teams. Supervisors, dialogue editors, Foley artists and re-recording mixers explain the workflows, tools and creative decisions behind specific productions, across more than 380 episodes since 2012. Best free window into how current productions are edited and mixed.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://tonebenderspodcast.com/

## Papers

### 1. EBU Tech 3343: Practical Guidelines for EBU R 128 (Loudness)

The EBU's practical companion to the R 128 loudness standard. It explains the move from peak to loudness normalisation, programme loudness, loudness range and true-peak metering, and how to mix and deliver for each genre and platform. Teaches application rather than the bare normative R 128 text.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/tech3343

## Websites

### 1. soundonsound.com

Sound On Sound is a long-running audio recording magazine and website. It publishes in-depth tutorials, gear reviews, and practical how-to articles on recording, mixing, mastering, microphone technique, DAWs, plugins, and studio setup.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://soundonsound.com

**Tags:** websites, music-performing-arts, audio-engineering

### 2. mixonline.com

Mixonline.com is the online home of Mix Magazine, a professional audio trade publication. It features news, reviews, feature stories, and buying guides about mixing consoles, studio and live sound gear, and audio production technology.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://mixonline.com

**Tags:** websites, music-performing-arts, audio-engineering

## Books

### 1. The Sound Effects Bible

**Author:** Ric Viers

Field and studio guide to recording, editing and designing sound effects, written by a veteran sound effects recordist. Covers microphones, recorders, field technique, Foley and library organization, so readers can capture clean, usable effects for film, games and video.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932907483?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, music-performing-arts, audio-engineering

### 2. Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound

**Author:** David Lewis Yewdall

Working reference on film sound from a supervising sound editor's perspective, spanning production recording, dialogue editing, ADR, Foley, sound design and the final mix. Readers learn how a feature's soundtrack is planned, built and delivered through the post-production pipeline.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0240808657?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, music-performing-arts, audio-engineering

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