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Audio By Video Vocab
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Subjects
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performing-arts
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Safety Take (an additional recording done as an acceptable backup)
Lo-Z
Ambient Miking
Pre emphasis
ST
2. 500 Ohms or less
Lo-Z
Lift
Mixer
Listen Circuits
3. Could mean anything. Most commonly used to describe the ADR process or that of duplication
Clip
Mixer
Dub
Signal to Error Ratio
4. A system of recording a 60Hz tone - used for syncing on a 1/4 inch tape - developed by Nagra
Doppler Effect
Barrier Miking
Pilot Tone
Preview
5. A condition of Zero - or (original position for an automation control)
Null
Crosstalk
MDM
Mixer
6. In stereo - This is the breakthough between channels measured as separation between the wanted sounds of the desired channel and the unwanted sounds from the second channel. (OR - bleed across multiple channels)
Crosstalk
Ambient Sound
Critical Distance
Ambient Miking
7. 500 Ohms or less
Assemble Edit
Margin
Ambient Field
Lo-Z
8. Could mean anything. Most commonly used to describe the ADR process or that of duplication
Margin
Dub
Pre emphasis
NAB
9. The level difference between the signal and the noise and distortion caused by converting analog audio signals into digital audio and then back into analog.
Signal to Error Ratio
ST
Preview
Lo-Z
10. A studio that specializes in assembly of pre-recorded material such as music - VO - and dialogue
NYBBLE
Cascade
Production Studio
Pilot Tone
11. I don't know! Go do your own research! No - really....
Blending
Mixer
Crosstalk
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
12. A studio that specializes in assembly of pre-recorded material such as music - VO - and dialogue
Load
ST
Production Studio
Mixer
13. Placing a microphone in the reverberant field
Ambient Miking
Lo-Z
Clip
Pre emphasis
14. Modular Digital Multitrack: A multitrack digital recorder with (usually) 8 tracks that can be run in sunchronization with other machines (of the same type) to attain more tracks. ADAT brand recorders are an example
Cascade
MDM
AD
Signal to Error Ratio
15. (Headroom) The amount of dB between the highest peak level of the program and the overload point (clip point)
Stinger
NYBBLE
Mixer
Margin
16. Pressure zone miking
Signal to Error Ratio
Offset
Lift
Barrier Miking
17. A signal in disc recording that is earlier than the signal being recorded. It allows the operator to 'listen in' in order to anticipate amplitude changes and adjust.
Null
Preview
Slate
Stinger
18. Duh! The signal level exceeds the processing capacity of the signal chain components
Clip
Cascade
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Production Studio
19. National Association of Broadcasters -
Dropout
Offset
NAB
Blending
20. A very short absence of signal in magnetic recording usually caused by dirt or defects in the magnetic coating of tapes and discs or any very short loss to an audio signal.
Ambient Miking
Dropout
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Stinger
21. Time data in the MIDI signal that advances one step each 1/24 of a beat and can be used to sync two sequencer together
Midi Clock
NYBBLE
Doppler Effect
Critical Distance
22. Rerecording the audio. The picture stays the same.
Slate
Audio Dub
Offset
Ambient Field
23. Narrowing the Stereo image to match the image and/or increase the mono-compatibility
Blending
Dub
MDM
Offset
24. A type of solo circuit that allows listening to a channel before the fader of after (solo)
Dub
AD
Listen Circuits
Pilot Tone
25. Physical slap-board used to sync location recording. A voice recording at the beginning of a master tape (or recording) to identify the run and take
Signal to Error Ratio
Slate
Doppler Effect
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
26. Time data in the MIDI signal that advances one step each 1/24 of a beat and can be used to sync two sequencer together
Ambient Miking
Dub
Offset
Midi Clock
27. Duh! The signal level exceeds the processing capacity of the signal chain components
AD
Clip
Assemble Edit
Cascade
28. A factor of human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on the human perception of sound than does amplitude
Lift
Dropout
Precedence effect
Null
29. (reverberant field)
Ambient Field
Cascade
Dropout
Production Studio
30. A system of recording a 60Hz tone - used for syncing on a 1/4 inch tape - developed by Nagra
Pilot Tone
Audio Dub
Midi Clock
AD
31. In stereo - This is the breakthough between channels measured as separation between the wanted sounds of the desired channel and the unwanted sounds from the second channel. (OR - bleed across multiple channels)
Critical Distance
Pre emphasis
NAB
Crosstalk
32. Using the MIDI cable to transfer digital
MIDI sample Dump
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Dub
ST
33. Natural background audio representative of the given recording environment. (Recorded as over-rolling)
Production Studio
Dub
Crosstalk
Ambient Sound
34. I don't know! Go do your own research! No - really....
Critical Distance
Mixer
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
NAB
35. One half byte - 4 information bits
Stinger
NYBBLE
ST
Lift
36. EQ - Boost gain
Pilot Tone
Lift
Blending
Cascade
37. One half byte - 4 information bits
Ambient Miking
Lift
NYBBLE
Preview
38. The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume
Critical Distance
Preview
Crosstalk
Clip
39. A type of solo circuit that allows listening to a channel before the fader of after (solo)
Midi Clock
Blending
MDM
Listen Circuits
40. To copy the diital data off a storage medium in the RAM of a computer
Critical Distance
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Offset
Load
41. Natural background audio representative of the given recording environment. (Recorded as over-rolling)
Ambient Field
AD
Slate
Ambient Sound
42. Modular Digital Multitrack: A multitrack digital recorder with (usually) 8 tracks that can be run in sunchronization with other machines (of the same type) to attain more tracks. ADAT brand recorders are an example
ST
MDM
AD
Ambient Sound
43. A factor of human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on the human perception of sound than does amplitude
ST
Precedence effect
Crosstalk
Dub
44. Placing a microphone in the reverberant field
Blending
Ambient Miking
NYBBLE
Cascade
45. To set and interconnect two mixers so that the stereo mixing buss(es) are linked
Dub
Signal to Error Ratio
Barrier Miking
Cascade
46. National Association of Broadcasters -
Precedence effect
NAB
Pilot Tone
Crosstalk
47. A signal in disc recording that is earlier than the signal being recorded. It allows the operator to 'listen in' in order to anticipate amplitude changes and adjust.
Offset
ST
Preview
NAB
48. Physical slap-board used to sync location recording. A voice recording at the beginning of a master tape (or recording) to identify the run and take
Production Studio
Cascade
Slate
Stinger
49. A boosting of high frequencies during the recording process to keep the signal above the noise at high frequencies
Production Studio
Load
Pre emphasis
Preview
50. Using the MIDI cable to transfer digital
MDM
Lift
MDM
MIDI sample Dump