Recording Chain
What is the Sound Source?
The unit that is used to measure Frequency
What are Cycles Per Second (CPS)?
*Also known as Hertz
The number of repeated events within a specific time period, or the rate at which a device or signal repeats a cycle of positive and negative amplitude. *It is the also the determining factor on pitch.
What is Frequency?
This device amplifies and routs sound to be recorded
What is a Mixing Console?
The speed at which a passage of music is or should be played.
What is Tempo?
Sound added by the environment where the recording is being made
What is room sound?
SPL is an acronym for:
What is Sound Pressure Level?
An area that has greater than normal barometric (atmospheric) pressure
What is Compression?
What is a Microphone?
The character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.
What is Timbre?
This makes the signal bigger so it will be loud enough to hear
What is an Amplifier?
Sound Waves are also referred to as:
What are Pressure Waves?
The distance of the waveform above and below the centerline. Essentially, this is a measurement of “how much” of something there is.
What is Amplitude?
Converts the sound from Analog to Digital information
What is the Digital Interface?
*Also known as the D/A converter
A note having the time value of two half notes or four quarter notes, represented by a ring with no stem. It is the longest note now in common use
What is a Whole Note?
These receive sound and with your brain process it so you can hear the sound. It is a transducer that converts from acoustic to electric energy
What is the Ear?
The ability to see, hear or become aware of something through the senses.
What is Perception?
The substance through which sound waves propagate (most commonly Air)
What is the Medium?
This transducer is also a storage device. It converts electric to magnetic energy. The process is reversed when the data is retrieved, converting magnetic back to electric.
What is a Hard Drive?
MIDI means this:
A device that changes energy from one form to another
What is a transducer?
The average of all the Peak-Amplitude Values in the waveform.
What is Root Mean Square (RMS)?
An area that has less than normal barometric (atmospheric) pressure
What is Rarefaction?
Sound added by the room where the recording is heard
What is Room Sound?
In dry air travels at 343 m / s or 767.269 MPH
What is the Speed of Sound?