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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. (Headroom) The amount of dB between the highest peak level of the program and the overload point (clip point)
Preview
MIDI sample Dump
Margin
Midi Clock
2. A factor of human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on the human perception of sound than does amplitude
Null
Assemble Edit
Ambient Field
Precedence effect
3. Pressure zone miking
Barrier Miking
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Preview
4. 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
Offset
Listen Circuits
Lift
5. (reverberant field)
Listen Circuits
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Barrier Miking
Ambient Field
6. The change in frequency if a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.
Doppler Effect
MIDI sample Dump
Load
NYBBLE
7. A boosting of high frequencies during the recording process to keep the signal above the noise at high frequencies
Assemble Edit
Dropout
Pre emphasis
ST
8. Safety Take (an additional recording done as an acceptable backup)
Barrier Miking
AD
Midi Clock
ST
9. (Headroom) The amount of dB between the highest peak level of the program and the overload point (clip point)
Margin
Slate
Ambient Miking
Dub
10. 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
Mixer
Margin
AD
11. 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
MDM
Margin
Ambient Sound
12. EQ - Boost gain
ST
Lift
MIDI sample Dump
Critical Distance
13. A single extension cord. Most often referred to a single 'hot' extension that is left lying around for occassional use. (Grip/Lighting)
Null
Stinger
Signal to Error Ratio
Doppler Effect
14. 500 Ohms or less
Barrier Miking
Lo-Z
Precedence effect
MDM
15. 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
Lo-Z
Audio Dub
MDM
16. One half byte - 4 information bits
Signal to Error Ratio
Load
Pre emphasis
NYBBLE
17. Rerecording the audio. The picture stays the same.
Slate
Audio Dub
Ambient Miking
MDM
18. The change in frequency if a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave.
Pilot Tone
MDM
Barrier Miking
Doppler Effect
19. 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 Field
Margin
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
20. 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
Listen Circuits
Pre emphasis
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
21. The SMPTE time that will trigger a transport to begin - or the amount of position difference needed to get two sources to synchronize
Lo-Z
ST
NAB
Offset
22. Natural background audio representative of the given recording environment. (Recorded as over-rolling)
Ambient Sound
Clip
NAB
Lo-Z
23. 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
Margin
Barrier Miking
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
24. EQ - Boost gain
Margin
Cascade
Lift
MDM
25. Recording video and/or audio in sequence immediately following previous material
Clip
Stinger
Assemble Edit
Ambient Field
26. Placing a microphone in the reverberant field
Precedence effect
Ambient Miking
Dropout
Midi Clock
27. A type of solo circuit that allows listening to a channel before the fader of after (solo)
Dropout
MIDI sample Dump
Listen Circuits
Doppler Effect
28. Safety Take (an additional recording done as an acceptable backup)
Ambient Sound
Barrier Miking
ST
MIDI sample Dump
29. Duh! The signal level exceeds the processing capacity of the signal chain components
Stinger
Clip
ST
NAB
30. A condition of Zero - or (original position for an automation control)
AD
Null
Midi Clock
Lift
31. The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume
Ambient Sound
Offset
Critical Distance
Load
32. Assistant Director (No Analog to Digital here!)
AD
Slate
Mixer
Signal to Error Ratio
33. The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume
Pre emphasis
Critical Distance
NYBBLE
Signal to Error Ratio
34. To copy the diital data off a storage medium in the RAM of a computer
Lift
Pre emphasis
Load
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
35. A boosting of high frequencies during the recording process to keep the signal above the noise at high frequencies
Pre emphasis
Critical Distance
Ambient Field
Barrier Miking
36. Mix Engineer
Null
Listen Circuits
Mixer
Lo-Z
37. Could mean anything. Most commonly used to describe the ADR process or that of duplication
Pilot Tone
Cascade
Blending
Dub
38. The SMPTE time that will trigger a transport to begin - or the amount of position difference needed to get two sources to synchronize
Offset
Clip
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Barrier Miking
39. Assistant Director (No Analog to Digital here!)
Dropout
AD
MDM
Slate
40. A factor of human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on the human perception of sound than does amplitude
Precedence effect
Offset
Crosstalk
Margin
41. A condition of Zero - or (original position for an automation control)
Null
Lo-Z
Assemble Edit
Barrier Miking
42. A system of recording a 60Hz tone - used for syncing on a 1/4 inch tape - developed by Nagra
Pilot Tone
Doppler Effect
Precedence effect
Production Studio
43. 500 Ohms or less
Preview
MIDI clock w/Song Pointer (FSK)
Lo-Z
Ambient Sound
44. Narrowing the Stereo image to match the image and/or increase the mono-compatibility
ST
Blending
Dropout
MIDI sample Dump
45. Duh! The signal level exceeds the processing capacity of the signal chain components
Pre emphasis
Clip
Production Studio
Pre emphasis
46. Rerecording the audio. The picture stays the same.
Dub
Audio Dub
Mixer
Precedence effect
47. 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.
NYBBLE
Pre emphasis
Barrier Miking
Signal to Error Ratio
48. Using the MIDI cable to transfer digital
Lo-Z
Preview
MIDI sample Dump
Pilot Tone
49. Natural background audio representative of the given recording environment. (Recorded as over-rolling)
Ambient Sound
NYBBLE
Margin
Blending
50. National Association of Broadcasters -
Preview
Signal to Error Ratio
Stinger
NAB