Sound Waves & Acoustics
This is the most basic form of a sound wave. Typically creating perfect notes.
What is a sine wave?
All condenser and some ribbon microphones need this.
What is phantom power?
A type of speaker system that is often able to be suspended in the air. Most commonly found at venues.
What is line array speakers?
This keyboard shortcut will quickly save a session on pro tools.
What is CMD S?
A type of effect that allows you to manipulate amplitude of certain frequencies.
What is EQ?
This measurement is used by finding cycles per second. Typically measured in Hertz
What is frequency?
What is ribbon, dynamic, and condenser?
The name of the audio console most found at concert production. The same console consistently used in class.
What is the Midas M32?
This windowed dialog box is used to properly connect an interface with Pro Tools.
What is the playback engine?
Analog consoles use these for routing time based effects.
What is aux?
There are three other simple sound waves other than a sine wave. Typically used for synthesizers.
What is triangle, saw tooth, and square waves?
This type of miking technique is used from 1 inch to 1 foot from the sound source.
What is close miking technique?
A type of engineer that is found on stage. Usually mixes for the musicians.
Pro Tools offers users to be able to capture multiple takes and saves each one for later use.
What is a playlist?
This device connects multiple pieces of equipment to each other to make processing more available.
What is a patch bay?
Scientist were able to determine the speed of which sound travels in a room that is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is 1130 feet per second?
This type of miking technique involves two microphones. A matched pair of large diaphragm condensers that create a 90 degree angle and typically has bi-directional polar patterns.
What is the blumlein technique?
Digital consoles use multiple ways to send signal to a bus.
What is sends on fader, bus send rotaries, and bus send page?
The type of track that a time based effect would be applied to.
What is an Aux track?
This piece of equipment is able to carry miniature versions of typical rack equipment. We have 2 at the school.
What is a lunch box?
Typically found in corners of the room these triangular types of acoustic treatments help with a certain range of frequencies.
What is low frequency?
The six different polar patterns that a microphone may have.
What is cardioid, super cardioid, hyper cardioid, omnidirectional, bi-directional, and sub cardioid?
What is AES50?
Changing this will help with latency when recording.
What is the buffer size?
Both the SSL and API console have this built into the master fader.
What is bus compression?