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