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14 S U M M E R 2 0 1 8 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y However, on the Fox Studios lot in Century City, CA, the talented engineers of 20th Century Fox Post addressed these difficulties with a custom-built ADR mixing solution. It makes the changing landscape of expectations and requests of an ADR session incredibly streamlined, quick, and easy. "The beauty of this panel is that, in today's ADR environment, clients all work differently and the panel definitely gives us the flexibility to cater to each one," explains David Betancourt, an ADR mixer and operator of the Fox ADR Console. Since ADR mixing requires a considerable amount of flexibility and responsiveness from the hardware in a "live" situation, all while negotiating the very delicate environment of talent, producers, directors, and sound supervisors, each trying to achieve extremely specific technical as well as creative goals. To achieve the changing demands of the project, it is not uncommon to have to build and modify aux sends, split outputs, and balance multiple mixes on the fly. Standard mixing consoles are configured to fit the bill, but require knowledge of signal flow within the room and facility, as well as functionality of the specific board's capabilities. It can be cumbersome and time-consuming, sometimes impossible, to find a way to monitor and proof all the incarnations of the mix that are requested. Creators Marc Gebauer and Derek Casari on the Marge Simpson Stage with their Fox ADR Console. The Fox ADR Console fashioned within an SSL Duality. by Karol Urban CAS MPSE The Fox ADR Console