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