5.1 Surround Mixing

Here is how the work lines up. Five-point-one surround mixing for shoots finishing in New York is handled across the city's deepest cluster of Dolby-certified rooms. Sound Lounge in Times Square, the long-running benchmark for premium feature and series finishing, alongside Sonic Union, Heard City, Crew Cuts in Hell's Kitchen, Audio Department in Chelsea, Plush NYC, Dubway Studios in Midtown and Goldcrest Post's NY audio bays.

Here is what we have to work with. Our team books surround stages calibrated to ITU-R BS.1116 and SMPTE RP 200 with full LCRS plus dedicated subwoofer tracking, schedules sessions against the picture-lock window the production is cutting to, and lines up premix asset delivery from the dialogue, music and effects editors handling the upstream tracklay.

Here is the layout. The work runs the full span of NYC output. HBO first drama prepped at Hudson Yards, Apple TV+ series finishing in town, Amazon Studios features, indie theatrical bound for Tribeca, Sundance or Toronto, Netflix tight series, broadcast network drama through 30 Rock and the Showtime/Paramount slate, plus high-end commercial and branded-content work moving through the Madison Avenue agency cluster.

Here is how the work shapes up. Mix sessions open with a premix review pass to lock dialogue, music and effects stems against the timeline, then move into spatial design — center-channel anchoring for dialogue, lateral spread for music and ambient effects, surround placement for off-screen action and site-level texture, and dedicated LFE management for impact and low-end weight. Re-recording mixers monitor across many playback contexts — calibrated theatrical pin, near-field reference and consumer-grade fold-down — so the mix translates from cinema to streaming home theater without artifact.

Here is how it adds up. We deliver to each major spec the city ships to: ATSC A/85 for US broadcast at -24 LKFS, EBU R128 for European broadcast at -23 LUFS, Netflix at -27 LKFS, Amazon, Apple TV+ and Disney+ platform targets, plus theatrical DCP at -27 LKFS reference. Final masters have the full 5.1 PrintMaster, separated DM&E and M&E stems for global versioning, frame-accurate cue sheets and downmixed stereo Lt/Rt and LoRo deliverables. Dolby Atmos upgrades are routed through Atmos-certified rooms at Sound Lounge or Sonic Union when the theatrical or premium home release supports object-based delivery.