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How do we measure the level of sound?

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Decibel

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The human hearing responds to a broad range?

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Frequencies

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What is the standard ratio band for professional analysis EQ?

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31 band EQ

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What is the range of the human audio spectrum?

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20Hz – 20,000Hz

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How many octave bands are in the above audio spectrum?

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11octave bands

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What do we often talk about frequencies as?

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Ratios

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What do we define average threshold of human hearing?

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1kHz – 0dB SPL

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What dB scale is the threshold of pain?

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120-130dB

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What does logarithmic scales express?

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Loudness in non linear as a compact form as decibels

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Can decibel measure voltage?

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Yes

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What are critical bands?

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The smallest frequency difference between two signals or partials such that each can still be heard separately.

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What are the three sections of the ear?

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Outa, Middle, Inner

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What the other name for the outa ear?

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Pinna

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When sound focuses into the ear canal what is the level of db boost?

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5 to 6dB boost

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What’s the function of the tympanic membrane?

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The tympanic membrane converts acoustic pressure variations from the outside world into mechanical vibrations in the middle ear.

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What are three auditory ossicles of the middle ear?

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Malleus, Incus, Stapes

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The inner ear consists of the snail-like structure what is its name?

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Cochlea

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What is the function of the cochlea?

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The function of the cochlea is to convert mechanical
vibrations into nerve firings to be processed eventually by the brain.

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Which way do we recognise sound in the cochlea?

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High frequency to Low frequency

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What’s the medium frequency in the cochlea?

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1.5kHz or 1,500 Hz

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What does the basilar membrane do?

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The basilar membrane is responsible for carrying out a frequency analysis of input sounds.

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What does MIDI stand for?

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface

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What does MIDI Do?

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A communications language that lets synthesizers, computers, keyboards, controllers and other devices talk to each other.

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What a three ports of MIDI?

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MIDI in, MIDI out, MIDI thru

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What is another connectivity with todays hardware devices?
USB (Universal Series Bus)
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Name four various MIDI messages?
Note on, Note off, controller change, pitch bend
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MIDI cable carries how many logical channels?
16
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What is a MIDI Network?
A MIDI network is a combination of hardware and software that provides interconnectivity between a group of MIDI devices, such as synthesizers, controllers, and sequencers
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How many bits per second of a MIDI data rate?
31250 bits per second
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9. Can MIDI handle 1500 messages per second?
Yes
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Name two types of MIDI bytes in a message?
Status, Data
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What’s the meaning of a control or controller?
An instrument that controls other, (keyboard controller, etc.) Physical controls (foot pedal etc.) MIDI control change messages [volume controller etc)
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What are the four types of MIDI messages?
Channel Messages/System Exclusive Messages/System Common Messages/System Real-Time Messages
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What’s a synthesizer?
A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that uses one or more sound generators to create waveforms which are then processed and combined in order to generate musical sounds
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What’s the application of a sequencer?
A music sequencer is an application or a device to record and playback musical information / notation
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What’s a sampler device?
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument which plays back recordings (or “samples") that are loaded or recorded onto it to perform or compose music
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What is General MIDI?
General MIDI or GM is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages.
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Name one non musical application that MIDI could be used for?
Special effects, Lighting etc
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What is a transducer?
A transducer is a device that coverts energy from one form to another. Usually a transducer converts a signal in one form of energy to a signal in another. Types of transducers you’ll be using are microphones and loudspeakers
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Does a microphone have a transducer?
Yes
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. What is amplification of sound?
Amplification of sound involves input and output transducers (usually a microphone and loudspeaker).
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What kind of devices would you find a vacuum tube?
Guitar Amplification, Some hammond organs, HIFI, certain recording equipment, microphones, old vinyl amplification etc
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What a the four ways of storing the electrical signals of captured sound?
Vinyl, Magnetic Tape, Compact Disk, Digital Recording
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. What are the four components of recording to vinyl?
Cylinder, Needle, Diaphragm, Horn
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Vinyl records revolve at?
33 or 45rpm
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What kind of cut into a vinyl LP would produce 4 tracks of 300Hz?
Vertical
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What type of recording machine produces AC bias?
Tape Recording Machine
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How many heads did a tape recording machine have
3- Erase head, record head, playback head
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What are three most common microphone types?
Dynamic, Condenser, Ribbon
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Which microphone type would be best for a live performance?
A dynamic microphone
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Name two disadvantages with a condenser microphone?
Expensive, May pop and crack closed miked (fragile)
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Name two microphone directivity?
Omnidirectional, cardioid
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Name four parts of a dynamic speaker?
Suspension, cone, magnet, diaphragm
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Name the three parts of a three-way speaker?
High frequency driver, Mid frequency driver, Low mid/Low frequency driver
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What is binaural hearing?
Binaural hearing gives a sense of localization of the sound source
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. What’s non linear gain?
Overdriving an amplifier occurs when the amp is supplied with an input signal that takes it outside its linear region
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. Name one of the limitations of amplification?
Limited output voltage, current, and power levels. This will mean that a given amplifier can’t output signals above a particular level.
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What does SNR stand for?
Signal to Noise Ratio
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. What does Panning on mixing desk do?
Changes the placement of the signal
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What are the 5 digital representations of sound?
Sampling, AD/CA DAC, Sampling rate, Quantization, Resolution
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What is a sample rate?
The numbers of samples per second is the sample rate
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What does ADC and DAC stand for?
Analogue to Digital Converter/Digital to Analogue Converter
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When does aliasing or foldover occur?
Aliasing or Foldover occurs if you try to digitise a signal higher than the Nyquist frequency?
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What is the common sample rate for CD audio?
44.1kHz
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What does the sample rate need to be to achieve the Nyquist frequency?
The sampling rate must be at least twice as high as the highest frequency to be reproduced
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What is quantization?
Is assigning binary values to analog inputs
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How many bits are in CD audio
16 bit
68
Name one process of a computers memory and storage?
RAM or CPU
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What is dithering?
Introduces random noise into the signal to spread out the effects of quantization distortion replacing it with 1b noise and making it much less noticeable
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True or False – Digital Clipping produces a good unity range?
False
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What would +4dBu level be in digital (full scale)?
-20dbFS
72
A perceived doubling of the apparent volume is an increase of approximately: +
+10dB
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An average perceptible halving of the volume of a sound is a change in level of
-10dB
74
Name three uncompressed file formats?
WAV, AIFF, CAF
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What is the most popular lossy compressed file to send by email?
MP3
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Name three advantages to digital?
Wider Dynamic Range, Better reproduction, Time Efficient
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Name one disadvantage?
Clipping
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Can a clipped recording be restored?
No, re-record

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