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