ADR & dialogue

ADR and dialogue recording, to picture

Re-record the lines the location ruined. An acoustically treated room near Chichester with picture on a 55-inch screen, EdiPrompt streamers, Source-Connect Pro for directors anywhere, and an engineer who works to picture. For film, TV, animation, games and audio drama.

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In short: Granary Digital records ADR and dialogue near Chichester, West Sussex: re-records to picture on a 55-inch screen with EdiPrompt streamers, animation and game voice sessions, and audio drama, run by an engineer in an acoustically treated room. Directors can run the session remotely over Source-Connect Pro with transport sync. Quoted per production.

A line re-performed until it disappears.

The location ruined the line. The studio saves it.

Every production has them: the perfect take under a flight path, the script line legal changed in the edit, the mumble that survived every pass until the grade. Fixing dialogue means a treated room, picture playback, a decent microphone matched to the location sound, and someone running the session who works to timecode rather than vibes.

That room is fifteen minutes from Chichester rather than a day rate and a train to Soho. Sessions are engineer-run, takes are logged against your script, and files leave organised for your dubbing mixer, or our own editor conforms them if you would rather hand the whole problem over.

What records to picture here

ADR & re-records

Replacement lines for film and TV, performed to the scene on the 55-inch panel until they sit invisibly.

Animation voice

Character sessions and pickups, recorded wild or to animatic, logged per line for the pipeline.

Game dialogue

Batch VO, barks and narration against string IDs, with consistent takes across long sessions.

Audio drama & fiction podcasts

Cast sessions in a treated room with an engineer, for the growing scripted-audio scene.

Documentary narration

Narrators recorded to the locked cut, with a director line open for notes from wherever the edit lives.

Dubbing & localisation

Foreign-language versions recorded to picture with your translation partner's scripts and specs.

Built for the fix

The room and the chain. Shure broadcast microphones through a Dante-networked digital desk, recorded straight into the DAW with an engineer on the desk. The room is double-insulated and acoustically foam-tiled throughout, so what reaches the file is the voice and nothing else.

You do not have to be in the room. We run directed sessions on Source-Connect Pro, the standard agencies and post houses use, and on Cleanfeed, Riverside and Zoom where a browser link is easier for everyone. A director, client or producer anywhere can hear every take as it happens and redirect on the spot, over a proper mix-minus feed so they are heard and you never hear yourself. Your end is recorded locally at full quality, so the file never depends on the connection.

Acoustically treated room, broadcast microphones, engineer on every session
Sanken COS-11D lavalier microphones, for matching lines that were recorded on a lav
Reaper as standard, and a separate Pro Tools and Logic rig when your post house wants the session in their format
55-inch panel for picture, with streamers, counters and the line overlaid by EdiPrompt, and cues logged in EdiCue
Source-Connect Pro for remote directors, editors and language supervisors (spec below)
Takes delivered to the spec below, or conformed by our in-house editor
Fifteen minutes from Chichester, 15 parking spaces, about two hours from London

Picture, delivery and security

Picture: plays from the DAW timeline, locked to timecode at the project frame rate (23.976, 24, 25 or 29.97 fps), with timecode burnt in and EdiPrompt streamers over it
Files: 48 kHz, 24-bit Broadcast WAV, or your project's sample rate, timestamped to picture timecode and named by cue and take, with a take log
Sessions: a Pro Tools session or AAF on request, from the Pro Tools rig
Transfer: a private link that expires, or your own transfer system
Security: we sign your NDA before picture is sent, phones stay out of the room while unreleased picture is up, and picture and takes are kept for 30 days for pick-ups, then deleted unless you ask us to keep them

Source-Connect Pro: the spec

Edition: Source-Connect Pro from Source Elements, the studio edition rather than Standard
Codec: Fraunhofer AAC-ELD v2 at up to 256 kbps per channel, mono or stereo
Remote Transport Sync: send and receive. We can drive your timeline, or you can drive ours from your own Pro licence, so both ends run locked to the same timecode
Timecode reference: MTC or LTC output
Auto-Restore: any audio dropped on the line is fetched again once the take ends and patched into the recording
Auto-Replace: the whole take swapped for full-resolution uncompressed PCM after it is recorded, so the delivered file never went through the codec
MIDI: all MIDI data sent and received, not only notes
At your end: AAX, AU and VST3 plug-ins for Pro Tools, Nuendo, Cubase and Logic
The line: fibre, around 500 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up

How a session runs when the director is somewhere else, from the line check to the files: how remote ADR works here.

Quoted per production. Send the line count and the deadline via contact, or add dialogue days to a booking with our sound & post team.

Ready when you are

Availability and a firm quote, usually same day. No pressure, no hard sell.

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A storm scene, re-voiced to picture.

Questions we get asked

What is ADR?

Automated dialogue replacement: re-recording lines in a studio when the location sound is unusable, the script changed after the shoot, or a broadcast version needs cleaner language. The actor performs to picture until the new line sits naturally in the scene.

How do sessions run?

Your picture plays back on the 55-inch screen, the engineer records takes against it, and you leave with organised, labelled files for your dubbing mixer, or our editor can conform them for you. Directors who cannot attend join the session live on Source-Connect Pro, with transport sync locking your timeline to ours, or on Cleanfeed, Riverside or Zoom if that is easier, hearing every take through a mix-minus feed as it is recorded.

Can a post house run the session remotely?

Yes. With Source-Connect Pro at your end, your timeline can drive ours over Remote Transport Sync, or our engineer runs the loops while you listen and give notes. The takes are recorded here at full resolution either way, and you can pull the uncompressed audio with Auto-Replace.

What do you deliver?

48 kHz, 24-bit Broadcast WAV files, or your project's sample rate, timestamped to picture timecode and named by cue and take, with a take log. A Pro Tools session or AAF is available on request, and our editor can conform the chosen takes to picture if you would rather hand the whole job over.

Can you record animation and game dialogue?

Yes. Character sessions, batch lines and barks record the same way, with takes logged against your script or string IDs so the files drop into your pipeline.

What does it cost?

Quoted per production, like our rain rig, because session length and edit needs vary so much. Tell us the line count, the deliverables and the deadline and you will have a number, usually the same day.

Is it really an ADR stage?

It is an acoustically treated recording room with picture playback and an engineer, fifteen minutes from Chichester. Productions that would otherwise drive dialogue to London use it for exactly that reason, and we are straightforward about what it is.

granary.digital · 01243 884993 · studio@granary.digital · The Old Grainstore, Adsdean, Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 9DN · Prices exclude VAT unless marked inc VAT