Review 2nd Quiz

Question 1

Dopler effect

Answer 1

Pitch of something changes as it nears you or gets farther away

Question 2

What is frequency response?

Answer 2

Range of frequencies audio equipment can produce

Question 3

What is headroom?

Answer 3

Cushion in volume before distortion

Question 4

What’s a transient?

Answer 4

Sudden change in sound, especially loud volume

Question 5

What’s dynamic range?

Answer 5

Range of soft vs loud volume

Question 6

What’s a transducer?

Answer 6

Converts energy to a different form, electrical voltage

Question 7

What’s the 60-60 rule?

Answer 7

Limit listening through headphones to no more than one hour per day at levels below 60 percent of maximum volume

Question 8

Distortion

Answer 8

Appearance of a signal in the reproduced sound that was not the original sound

Question 9

Intermodulation distortion

Answer 9

When two or more frequencies occur at the same time and interact to create combination tones and dissonances unrelated to the original sounds

Question 10

Harmonic distortion

Answer 10

Occurs when the audio system introduces harmonics into a recording that were not present originally (usually happens when input and output of a sound system are nonlinear)

Question 11

Transient distortion

Answer 11

Inability of audio component to respond quickly to a rapidly changing signal (sometimes produces ringing sound)

Question 12

Loudness distortion

Answer 12

When a signal is recorded or played back at a loudness greater than the sound system can handle

Question 13

Anechoic chamber

Answer 13

Room with no reflections of any kind

Question 14

Linearity

Answer 14

Frequencies fed to a loudspeaker at a particular loudness are reproduced at the same loudness

Question 15

Sensitivity

Answer 15

The on-axis sound-pressure level a loudspeaker produces at a given distance when driven at a certain power

Question 16

Polar response

Answer 16

Indicates how a loudspeaker focuses sound at the monitoring position

Question 17

Coverage angle

Answer 17

Off-axis angle or point at which loudspeaker level is down 6 dB compared with the on-axis output level

Question 18

Polarity

Answer 18

Arrival time and volume elements of sound having to do with phasing

Question 19

Where to place speakers for the best sound?

Answer 19

Elevated, at an angle facing towards you, center speakers behind the screen, etc.

Question 20

Woofers

Answer 20

Play lows

Question 21

Tweeters

Answer 21

Play highs

Question 22

Crossover network

Answer 22

Divides the frequency spectrum between the low and high frequencies

Question 23

What does the dividing up for mids?

Answer 23

Three way and four way system loudspeakers

Question 24

What is phasing?

Answer 24

Differences in the arrival time of sound

Question 25

Far-field monitoring

Answer 25

Large loudspeaker systems that can deliver very wide frequency response at moderate to quite loud levels with relative accuracy

Question 26

Near-field monitoring

Answer 26

Reduces the audibility of control room acoustics by placing loudspeakers close to the listening position

Question 27

Circumaural headphones

Answer 27

Detects ambient noise enforce it reaches the ears and nullifies it by synthesizing the sound waves

Question 28

IEM

Answer 28

In ear monitor, used by musicians in live concerts to hear the live music and provide a high level of noise reduction for ear protection

Question 29

Nonlinear editing

Answer 29

(Digital) allows assembly of digitally sampled material in or out of sequence, taken from any part of a recording, and placed in any other part of the recording almost instantly

Question 30

Non-destructive editing

Answer 30

Changes only the pointers, not the audio data. Not having to take a blade to the tape, etc. (ex. Undo command, digital editing)

Question 31

Waveform

Answer 31

Displays the profile of a sound’s amplitude over time

Question 32

Scrubbing

Answer 32

Let’s you move the cursor using a mouse through the defined region at any speed and listen to the section being scrubbed

Question 33

Jogging

Answer 33

Facilitates an editor’s ability to navigate or skip through a clip, region, or entire project quickly and with greater ease

Question 34

Destructive editing

Answer 34

Changes the data by overwriting it

Question 35

Segue

Answer 35

The playing of two or more recordings with no live announcing in between or live announcing over the segue (analogous to the word cut in film)

Question 36

Crossfade

Answer 36

Accomplishes the same thing as the fade-out fade-in but more fluid and graceful (think radio)

Question 37

soft cut

Answer 37

When a change is brief but not quite as abrupt as a cut nor as deliberate as a dissolve (a somewhat gentler way to move from one audio cue to another)

Question 38

Zero-crossing

Answer 38

Point where the waveform crosses the centerline (zero amplitude and divides the positive and negative parts of the waveform). By using this, you avoid/minimize popping or clicking sound at the transition between two regions

Question 39

EDL

Answer 39

(Edit decision list) list generated during editing that includes all edit points of an audio segment, the nature of the transitions, duration of the edit, and cross references to other source media

Question 40

Ambience

Answer 40

Background sound, room tone, presence

Question 41

Looping

Answer 41

Section of audio that is repeated, with its start and end having no perceptible edit point

Question 42

Comping

Answer 42

Taking the best parts of each recorded track and combining them into a composite final version

Question 43

Listening fatigue

Answer 43

Reduced ability to receive or remember the nuances of sound (after editing for long periods of time)

Question 44

D.A.W.

Answer 44

Digital Audio Workstation (most dominant right now is protools)

Question 45

Foley

Answer 45

Going back (post-audio)