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Treadstone is an American action-drama television series based on The Bourne Identity film franchise. Our task was to make this broadcast hour-long TV show sound like a movie. The majority of the re-recording mix took place at Warner Bros. on Stage 12 with dialogue mixer Matt Vowles CAS and FX mixer Lisle Engle CAS, alongside supervising sound editor Mace Matiosian. Here, Matt, Lisle, and Mace share their experiences mixing a lot of show in a little bit of time. Re-Recording Mixer Matt Vowles CAS on Dialogue & Music Mixing The first episode was mixed at Roundabout in Burbank. The producers were still in London at this point, so we had to mix according to their time zone. This meant very early starts on playback days. Thankfully, by episode two, the producers had flown back to Los Angeles and a more normal schedule continued from that point on. Budapest, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Greece, India, Africa, Taiwan, South Korea, and Colombia were the locations used in the show, meaning a vast production crew all over the globe. This also meant the usual challenges of location sound and inevitable ADR. Although Treadstone was a huge show, Lisle and I pre- dubbed simultaneously on the same stage. With the show's feature style, we still worked with a TV budget— we had three days per episode to complete the mix. I pre-dub dialogue, ADR, group, and music working on headphones and linked to the projector picture while Lisle would pre-dub FX, backgrounds, and Foley using the stage monitoring and the Pro Tools video. It's a workflow and system that we have used since we started working together four years ago and, for us, it C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I S U M M E R 2 0 2 0 35