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