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