High-quality professional equipment is not always necessary for effective ADR, as certain lower-quality microphones can better replicate the natural, imperfect environment of a film set.

“it's important to remember it's not about the best, highest quality equipment that you could possibly get, especially when you're doing ADR because you didn't you might have had good equipment, but you didn't have a controlled environment when you're recording it on set.”

The addition of poor-quality ADR audio to a film can be jarring and negatively impact the viewer's experience.

“It's not even like it's bad audio. It's just like jarring when the there's nothing happening when a person's talking, but you're like, "Did we just teleport? Did we time travel? What happened?" It's a water log in my ear.”