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