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