dubdown

dubdown

English

Etymology

dub +‎ down

Noun

dubdown (countable and uncountable, plural dubdowns)

1. (music) The process of remixing audio tracks to use fewer tracks.
   • 1971, Exclusively Yours - Volume 24, page 59:

     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.

   • 1983, International Television:

     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).

2. (music) The result of a dubdown.
   • 1980, Milton Lustig, Music editing for motion pictures, page 78:

     You certainly should have the final dubdowns of your playbacks from the sixteen track to the three-stripe 35mm.

   • 2012, Todd Van Buskirk, Purple Chick, →ISBN, page 272:

     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.