The Quiet Set
There is a fourth voice on the boom and only the sound mixer can hear it.
On a closed night shoot, the production sound mixer keeps finding a voice buried in takes that were recorded in a silent room. Nobody will let him stop rolling.
Cast & digital humans
On screen: the sound mixer at the cart
Voice print: dry precise baritone
SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe and voice locked across every take
On screen: the lead actor on the mark
Voice print: controlled alto
SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free
On screen: the first AD calling the roll
Voice print: carrying voice, stage-wide
SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free
Sound design — every person, action and object
- Idris Vale — We rolled sound. Nobody said action.Cart lav, -23 LUFS, mixer chain audible
- Noor Barrow — There's a fourth voice on the boom.Headphone-monitored print, band-limited
- • Stage silence at RT60 0.25s, unnervingly dead
- • Lamp ballast overhead
- • Distant lot traffic through the elephant door
- • Crew breathing near the camera
No score until episode four; the first cue is the on-set room tone pitched up two octaves
Mix- • 5.1 and binaural stereo folds rendered from one bed
- • Dialogue -23 LUFS, trailer master -14 LUFS, true peak -1 dBTP
- • Every element is placed from its on-screen position and tracked as the camera moves
- • There is a fourth voice buried at -48 LUFS in every take — audible only on the mixer's headphone stem
- • No library loops on visible actions — each hit is cut to the frame it happens on
