ABSTRACT
Recorded sound cues slowly crept onto the stage, but it wasn't until the 1950s, when movie directors began directing stage plays, that recorded sound cues became more the norm. Not only that, but movie sound began to improve and raised the bar for what people expected to hear. Theatrical sound was all foley in the beginning. Foley is the art of making sound effects live with objects. It is a very honest way of adding sound to a play and it is still used today on stage and screen. The stage manager would tell the electrician, who was hired to put the board in, that this is the mark sound technician put the knobs at, and when the director's in the house, sound technician put them up or down a little bit —and that was sound. In the world of theatrical sound, and especially theatrical mixing, Western metaphor could not be more accurate.
