Production
A document that will provide the correct names of cities, real people, brands, technical jargon, character voices, and foreign phrases to avoid giving a cold read
Prep Script
A three pinned cord used to connect audio equipment
XLR Cable
Engineer
A method of recording that entails rolling back a short way into a recording, playing and then punching into record at a set point. The opposite of open recording
Punch and Roll
The level of the noise below the audio signal in decibels (dB). Generally considered to be the audible level of background noise in a recording, where no narration is taking place sometimes known as 'RT' or Roomtone
Noise Floor
The Final running time of the completed recording (including credits) as opposed to the amount of time taken to record, edit, process and upload the completed audiobook usually determining how the narrator is paid
Finished Hours
A sound engineering device that prepares a microphone signal to be processed by other equipment.
Pre-Amplifier
This person listens to your recorded audio to check it against the written manuscript for accuracy
Proofer
A graphic line in the timeline that represents the position, or frame, of the material that is currently being accessed.
Playhead
A term related to dynamic range expressed in decibels (dB), as the difference between the typical operating level, and the maximum operating level in an audio system usually set at -3db for audiobooks sometimes know as Headroom
Peak Volume
Unprocessed recorded audio, and the first state of your audio files before the editing/quality control pass (QC pass) sometimes called initial recordings
Raw Audio
This device is an essential component of computer based audio production transforming analog signals into digital signals sometimes called a 'converter'
Interface
These are two roles: The person who is hired to produce the work and the person who has done the hiring and will listen to that recorded work for approval Sometimes know as a Producer or sometimes a Rights Holder [RH]
Talent and Client
This device affects the dynamic range of audio making the louder and quieter parts closer to each other in level.
Compressor
a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears. Commonly know as 'headphones'
Cans
The amount of time that you are hired to work for or the amount of time that you spend recording in your booth is know as a _________
Session
typically used in a recording studio to reduce or eliminate popping sounds caused by the mechanical impact of fast-moving air on the diaphragm know as plosives
Pop (filter, screen or shield)
The person responsible for removing all distractions (such as mouth noise, heavy breaths, stomach noises, studio noises, clicks, bumps and thumps) so that the listener experiences no impediments to the absorption of the material
Editor
From the analog era when the track count had a hard limit on tape machines. Today it usually means writing the final mix of your song to a mono or stereo audio file.
Bounce or Bouncing Audio
Being asked to turn up or down 'the juice' or 'the gain' means to add remove
Volume
The act of re-rerecording the errors you've made or have been marked on a CRX sheet and to be inserted into the original audio files.
Pickups
Provides basic protection from mechanically transmitted noise. This can originate as floor vibrations or as "finger" and other handling noise on boom poles.
Shock Mount
The person who processes and preparers the source audio from which all copies will be produced by affecting the dynamic range through limiting, equalizing, and filtering. Sometimes referred to as a 'Post Pro'
Mastering Engineer
A piece of software modeled after outboard effects to add or enhance audio-related functionality in a computer program
Plugins
is an interaction in which a user drags a cursor or playhead across a segment of a waveform to hear it away to quickly navigate through an audio file, and is a common feature of modern digital audio workstations and other audio editing software.
Scrubbing