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Audio for TV Series ordinary and an exceptional sound mixer, Earle thought for a second, replied,“The end result,” and then laughed. “If you actually hear something that sticks out, that’s something that you can fix,” he says.“It all has to blend and play, so that you don’t realize you’re being manipulated, al- though, really, in essence, you always are being manipulated — by the score, by the dialogue, the picture.The key to great mixing is to not stand out.” HAWAII FIVE-O For Warner Bros.’ Andy D'Addario, tech- Hawaii Five-O: Warner’s Andy D’Addario says the show is very layered with more tracks than a standard TV show. another scene; and all of that is pulled along by a great music score by Robert Duncan.” Glee usually shoots in only four locations, while the production mixing on Castle tends to be more challenging because they go wherever the story takes them — a ware- house district in New York, a soap opera stage, the side of the freeway, etc.“We do the mix on ICONs, and I have a great dia- logue chain that helps me clean things up, and then I use the Cedar DNS noise sup- pressor to help clean the dialogue, but the EQs on the ICON are pretty good.” When asked the difference between an nology has opened up a world of options while presenting its own unique challenges. As the re-recording mixer working on dia- logue and music for Hawaii Five-0 (sound ef- fects are handled by Ezra Dweck), D'Addario thinks big — big, as in theatrical. “You could take this sound and play it in a motion picture theater,” says D'Addario, who comes from the movie side of the business, with credits including Wedding Crashers and the Rush Hour films, among others. “I give a very theatrical approach to television, so we put in a lot more detail, we're more layered, running many more tracks than your stan- Joel Beckerman’s NYC-based Man Made Music (www.manmademusic.com) contin- ues its musical partnership with Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, providing sonic creations that can be heard through- out Season 7. This season, in addition to original compositions for the entire series, along with underground rockers Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s iconic theme song, the No Reservations team also integrated Man Made Music’s music cat- alog, The Ledge, into the musical mix.