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dubdown en · NOUN

Etymology

From dub + down.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of remixing audio tracks to use fewer tracks.
   • Full bandwidth digitally recorded images don't pick up random analog noise during dubdown, but they can add "quantizing noise" (detectable rings separating areas of different luminance intensities). 1983, International Television:
   • In this application, the loudspeaker monitor is the standard by which recordings are judged—from initial microphone placement, through mixing and dubdown, to final mastering. 1971, Exclusively Yours - Volume 24, page 59:
2. (countable, uncountable) The result of a dubdown.
   • You certainly should have the final dubdowns of your playbacks from the sixteen track to the three-stripe 35mm. 1980, Milton Lustig, Music editing for motion pictures, page 78:
   • It's true that “Barnyard” only exists as a poor second generation copy, a dubdown to mono recorded onto one track of an otherwise blank 8-track/one inch tape. 2012, Todd Van Buskirk, Purple Chick, →ISBN, page 272:

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