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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)
ST
Barrier Miking
Critical Distance
Signal to Error Ratio
2. 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
Preview
Load
Barrier Miking
Slate
3. Pressure zone miking
Barrier Miking
NAB
Slate
Margin
4. Assistant Director (No Analog to Digital here!)
Lo-Z
Pre emphasis
Clip
AD
5. A studio that specializes in assembly of pre-recorded material such as music - VO - and dialogue
Production Studio
Ambient Miking
Signal to Error Ratio
Slate
6. The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume
Doppler Effect
Signal to Error Ratio
Lo-Z
Critical Distance
7. Recording video and/or audio in sequence immediately following previous material
Ambient Miking
Assemble Edit
Dropout
ST
8. A studio that specializes in assembly of pre-recorded material such as music - VO - and dialogue
Dropout
Production Studio
Lift
Blending
9. Could mean anything. Most commonly used to describe the ADR process or that of duplication
Signal to Error Ratio
Dub
Signal to Error Ratio
Lift
10. Mix Engineer
Null
Crosstalk
Mixer
Offset
11. 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
Dropout
MIDI sample Dump
Margin
12. Pressure zone miking
Barrier Miking
Pre emphasis
Offset
Lift
13. The change in frequency if a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.
Preview
Mixer
Doppler Effect
Assemble Edit
14. A condition of Zero - or (original position for an automation control)
Critical Distance
Mixer
Listen Circuits
Null
15. Narrowing the Stereo image to match the image and/or increase the mono-compatibility
Production Studio
Listen Circuits
Blending
Audio Dub
16. Safety Take (an additional recording done as an acceptable backup)
Blending
Stinger
ST
Midi Clock
17. 500 Ohms or less
Clip
Lo-Z
Production Studio
Blending
18. To copy the diital data off a storage medium in the RAM of a computer
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Audio Dub
Load
Ambient Miking
19. A single extension cord. Most often referred to a single 'hot' extension that is left lying around for occassional use. (Grip/Lighting)
Offset
Stinger
Ambient Field
Critical Distance
20. The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume
Signal to Error Ratio
Critical Distance
Slate
Ambient Miking
21. National Association of Broadcasters -
Ambient Field
NAB
Load
Crosstalk
22. A factor of human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on the human perception of sound than does amplitude
Offset
Precedence effect
Dropout
Midi Clock
23. To set and interconnect two mixers so that the stereo mixing buss(es) are linked
Ambient Sound
MDM
Lo-Z
Cascade
24. 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)
Clip
Midi Clock
Assemble Edit
Crosstalk
25. A type of solo circuit that allows listening to a channel before the fader of after (solo)
Listen Circuits
Dropout
Signal to Error Ratio
ST
26. Rerecording the audio. The picture stays the same.
Pilot Tone
NAB
Margin
Audio Dub
27. I don't know! Go do your own research! No - really....
Offset
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
MDM
Audio Dub
28. EQ - Boost gain
Dub
Dropout
Lift
AD
29. 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.
Critical Distance
Slate
Dropout
Ambient Miking
30. National Association of Broadcasters -
Mixer
Stinger
NAB
Clip
31. 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
Assemble Edit
Slate
NYBBLE
Crosstalk
32. 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
Lift
MIDI sample Dump
MDM
Offset
33. Using the MIDI cable to transfer digital
Midi Clock
Production Studio
MIDI sample Dump
Dub
34. A condition of Zero - or (original position for an automation control)
NAB
Null
MDM
Precedence effect
35. The change in frequency if a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.
Doppler Effect
Preview
Production Studio
Audio Dub
36. A system of recording a 60Hz tone - used for syncing on a 1/4 inch tape - developed by Nagra
MIDI sample Dump
Pilot Tone
Ambient Sound
Assemble Edit
37. The SMPTE time that will trigger a transport to begin - or the amount of position difference needed to get two sources to synchronize
Dropout
Offset
Midi Clock
Lift
38. Rerecording the audio. The picture stays the same.
Signal to Error Ratio
Audio Dub
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Mixer
39. A single extension cord. Most often referred to a single 'hot' extension that is left lying around for occassional use. (Grip/Lighting)
Precedence effect
Stinger
Pilot Tone
Dropout
40. A factor of human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on the human perception of sound than does amplitude
Mixer
Precedence effect
Barrier Miking
Lo-Z
41. 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.
Dub
Blending
Pilot Tone
Signal to Error Ratio
42. (Headroom) The amount of dB between the highest peak level of the program and the overload point (clip point)
Pre emphasis
Clip
Load
Margin
43. 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
MDM
AD
Doppler Effect
Ambient Field
44. Narrowing the Stereo image to match the image and/or increase the mono-compatibility
Dub
ST
Listen Circuits
Blending
45. 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 Sound
Midi Clock
NAB
Load
46. (reverberant field)
Dub
Pre emphasis
Barrier Miking
Ambient Field
47. A system of recording a 60Hz tone - used for syncing on a 1/4 inch tape - developed by Nagra
Load
Offset
Clip
Pilot Tone
48. Using the MIDI cable to transfer digital
Listen Circuits
Barrier Miking
MIDI sample Dump
Cascade
49. 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.
Listen Circuits
Assemble Edit
Offset
Dropout
50. Mix Engineer
Precedence effect
Signal to Error Ratio
Mixer
Null