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