audio media

Question 1

live or recorded audio sent through radio waves to reach a wide audience.

Answer 1

Radio broadcast -

Question 2

vocal and/or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form,
harmony, and expression of emotion.

Answer 2

Music

Question 3

recording of an interview, meeting, or any sound from the environment.

Answer 3

Sound recording

Question 4

any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect
in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.

Answer 4

Sound clips/effects

Question 5

• a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be
  downloaded from a website to a media player or computer.

Answer 5

Audio Podcast -

Question 6

magnetic tape on which sound can be recorded.

Answer 6

Tape

Question 7

a plastic-fabricated, circular medium for recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, and
computer data.

Answer 7

CD

Question 8

an external flash drive, small enough to carry on a key ring, that can be used with any
computer that has a USB port

Answer 8

USB drive

Question 9

is a small storage medium used to store data
such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable, or remote computing devices.

Answer 9

Memory Card -

Question 10

• secondary storage devices for storing audio files.

Answer 10

Computer hard drive

Question 11

websites or file repositories for retrieving audio files, and more precisely the files are
stored in some datacenter full of servers that is connected to the Internet.

Answer 11

Internet/Cloud -

Question 12

a common format for consumer audio, as well as a standard of digital
audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio players

Answer 12

MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer 3) -

Question 13

an audio coding standard for lossy digital
audio compression.

Answer 13

M4A/AAC (MPEG-4 Audio/Advanced Audio Coding)

Question 14

is a Microsoft audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs. It has become
a standard file format for game sounds, among others.

Answer 14

WAV

Question 15

is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft
and used with Windows Media Player

Answer 15

WMA (Windows Media Audio)

Question 16

the combination, balance and control of multiple sound elements.

Answer 16

Mixing

Question 17

• Time control. Editing. Order of events: linear, non-linear, or multi-linear.

Answer 17

Pace

Question 18

• How you get from one segment or element to another.

Answer 18

Transitions

Question 19

one element stops, the next begins (“cut” in film).

Answer 19

Segue

Question 20

one element fades out, the next fades in, and they overlap on the way.

Answer 20

Cross-fade -

Question 21

First element fades to inaudible before the second element begins.

Answer 21

V-Fade -

Question 22

• V-Fade with some silence between elements and effects.

Answer 22

• Fade to Black

Question 23

• Using left and right channel for depth.

Answer 23

Stereo Imaging