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How do you produce foley, ADR, and sound effects such as footsteps?

We can handle the sound effects needs of virtually any production using the resources of my existing sound effects libraries as well as sound creation hardware to make sounds that do not yet exist. Chances are that most of the ordinary things humans do, such as clothing sounds, chair sounds, doors, creaks, and so on, are already in the system and timeline ready.

In house live footstep foley is performed here for common surfaces, as well as clothing and other sounds may be recorded live on our stage, but more esoteric surfaces or shoe types are performed -- yes, performed -- digitally from the master keyboard. 

Every kind of footstep surface is online in the library, whether it's wood, carpet, concrete, stone, metal, dirt, grass, mud, sand, leaves, or snow, with different shoe types for each surface, barefoot steps, shuffles, jumping, stairsteps, and running steps. Digital footstep techniques are proprietary and highly customized at Command Post. 

Foley is performed using automated loop recording. Dialogue may be rerecorded on the stage in the same way, with or without beeps. Later the ADR may be edited and matched to original production characteristics.