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