Sweetening (show business)
Sweetening is a sound design practice in which additional audio and effects are used to enhance audio already recorded.
In the case of a music performance or recording, sweetening may refer to the process of adding instruments in post-production such as those found on "
Simon and Garfunkel. The original acoustic version of the song features just their vocals with one guitar. Producers at Columbia Records, however, felt that it needed a little spicing up to be a commercial hit, and so without the consent of the artists, they added drums, electric bass and electric guitar.[1]
In
laugh track
. An obvious sign of this is that the laughter is more or less identical in volume or magnitude, regardless of how extreme the joke is. Sweetening can also be used in a similar manner for other reactions.
See also
References
Literature
- Simons, David (2004). Studio Stories - How the Great New York Records Were Made. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. Cf. pp.94-97.
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