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What is represented graphically in a sound wave? |
Air pressure |
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What are the fancy words for high and low air pressure? |
Condensation and rarefaction, respectively |
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What does the baseline of a wave represent? |
Normal air pressure |
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What is the crest? |
The peak of the wave |
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What is the trough? |
The bottom of the wave |
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What is the amplitude? |
Height of the wave from the baseline |
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What does amplitude correspond directly to? |
Loudness |
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What is a wavelength? |
The length from one crest to another |
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What is a cycle? |
From the baseline of a wave entrance to another |
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What is frequency, essentially? |
Cycles per second |
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The higher the frequency, the higher the _______ and the more ____ __ ________ |
The higher the frequency, the higher the pitch and the more cycles per second |
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Frequency is measured in |
Hz |
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Human hearing comprises of what hz |
20Hz-20,000Hz (20kHz) |
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What 3 variables have the most bearing on the characteristics sound takes? |
Material, resonance, and size |
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What is timbre? |
How the sound comes together |
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What is the fletcher-munson curve/loudness effect? |
Our hearing is designed to hear more in the centre of our spectrum - 1,000 to 4,000 Hz, other sounds are quieter. |
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Amplitude is measured in... |
Decibels |
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What is SPL? |
Sound pressure level |
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What is metering? |
Measurement of decibels relating to a scale |
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What db is a gunshot? |
145 db |
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What dB is a pindrop? |
10dB |
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What is dBU |
The analogue scale for decibels |
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What is dBFS? |
decibels full scale (up to 0, the extent without distortion) |
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Mono is? |
1 speaker |
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Stereo is? |
2 SPEAKERS |
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Equal voltage to L and R speakers mean there is... |
A phantom centre, when it sounds as though it is coming from a centre |
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What would you record in stereo vs mono? |
Ambience in stereo, everything else is mono |
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Name the Studio Signal flow! |
Source>Mic>Preamp>AD converter>DAW>DA Converter>Monitors |
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Is XLR balanced? |
Yes |
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What is a balanced cable? |
2 conductors and a shield/ground (red, blue and silver), these run 2 sound waves in phase, eliminating extra sound |
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Are 1/4 inch cables balanced? |
Yes and no! |
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What are RCA cables? |
Cables with stereo feeds, left and right, unbalanced |
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What are TT cables? |
Tiny Telephone cables for Pathbays |
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Input is to gain as output is to? |
Volume |
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WHAT ARE THE 3 TYPES OF SOUND INPUT FOR MIXING? |
Mic, Line, and Instrument |
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What is headroom? |
Setting gain to a level so that it doesn't clip accidentally |
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Name the recording chain for a single system? |
Source > Mic > Preamp > Line level input > Recording media |
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Name the recording chain for a double system |
Sources > Mics > Preamp/Mixer > Audio recorder > Timecode generator/slate/etc > Headphones |
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What is jamming? |
Taking timecodes and making them mesh |
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What are wild lines? |
Lines recorded w/o video for sync |
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What are IFB Lines? |
Interruptible foldback, sound that goes to cues, directors, etc |
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What is EDL? |
Edit decision list |
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What are the 4 kinds of distribution encoding? |
DT, DOLBY, ATMOS, SDDS |
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What does DME stand for? |
Dialogue, Music, Effects |
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Always include what with your audio editing? |
Handles~ |
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What is sibilance? |
Ss and Ts and Ps |
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wHAT IS ffoa? |
fIRST FRAME OF ACTION |
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What is checkerboarding? |
The coloured bars TV thing |
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What is incident/direct sound? |
The sound we try to record |
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What is reflected/indirect sound? |
Perceived reverb from the room |
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What is source to reverb ratio? |
A good one has more source than reverb |
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Another word for dry is |
Anechoic |
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What makes a dry environment? |
Soft surfaces, many angles, e.g. curtain |
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What is another word for wet? |
Reverberant |
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What makes a wet environment? |
Echo, delay, diffusion, hard surfaces |
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What are the three types of mics? |
Condenser, dynamic, ribbon |
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What is a condenser mic also called? |
Capacitor mic |
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What is a condenser mic for? |
Voices |
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What are the two types of condenser mics? |
Large and small diaphragm |
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What is a dynamic mic for? |
Live sound - it is durable |
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What is on the inside of a dynamic mic? |
A moving coil |
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What is the use of a ribbon mic |
Its ribbon makes it delicate but vintage-y, silky |
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Name 6 pickup/polar patterns |
cardioid, hypercardioid, figure 8, super cardioid, omnidirectional, shotgun mic |
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What is frequency response? |
How a frequency may respond to certain settings |
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What is a flat frequency response? |
It is not sympathetic to any frequency in particular |
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Tailored frequency response does what? |
Accentuates certain frequencies |
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What is pad? |
In-mic decrease of gain |
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What is roll off? |
In-mic rolling off the bass frequency |
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What is the 3:1 rule with multiple mics? |
At 3x distance the sound that the farther mic captures has been reduced enough so that phase ancellations will not cause a comb filtering effect in excess of 1 db |
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What is Production FX? |
Sound captured on set that works |
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What are the 3 types of foley? |
Moves/cloths, steps/feet, props/spot fx/specifics |
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What is walla/loop? |
Actors in a group doing dialogue |
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Phantom centre is used for what? |
Dialogue and nothing else (some exceptions) |
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What is signal flow? |
Moving from link to another in a recording chain |
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What is a source? |
Generic term used for anything that makes sound |
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What is a mic preamp? |
Used to raise the gain of a source so it's loud enough for recording |
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AD Converter is what? |
Converts electricity into binary code so that audio is usable in computer software |
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What is DAW? |
Digital audio workstation |
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What is a DA converter? |
Converts binary code back into electricity |
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What is a power amp?
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Required to raise a signal to a volume that is listenable but not needed if using powered speakers |
