History Origins
This music technology invention improved on the phonograph and has a famous music award named after it
What is a gramophone?
This method of recording allowed tracks to have sound come from the left or right side of a mix!
What is stereo recording?
This tool lowers the volume of a region over time.
What is the fade (out) tool?
This tool allows you to hear sounds from the left or right side of a mix
What is panning?
This piece of technology (NOT a DAW) allows you to record and sample found sounds
What is a sampler?
This cylinder of paper uses well-placed incisions to allow a player piano to hit keys in time by itself!
What is a piano roll?
This technique used tape recording creatively to allow a song to be created by stitching together independently recorded sounds
What is multitrack recording?
This tool allows you to cut a region in half
What is the split tool?
What is automation?
This piece of technology creates sound by converting an electric signal into membrane vibrations (the opposite process of a microphone)
What is an amplifier?
This music technology sent sine waves to a speaker via antenna, allowing a performer to create sound without touching an instrument
What is a theremin?
This invention made listening to music a portable experience for the first time!
What is the cassette player?
This tool makes small pitch transpositions in a recording to match the pitches one would hear on a piano or keyboard.
What is auto-tune?
The first step in mixing: changing the relative volumes of each track you have created
What is setting your levels?
The DAW that is considered the industry standard, though others, including FL Studio, are used frequently at the professional level.
What is Pro Tools?
This music technology invention automated piano performances, allowing the instrument to play by itself!
What is a player piano?
This invention uses a strip covered in ferric oxide dust and an electromagnetic current to collect sound!
What is tape recording?
What is pitch change?
The audio effect of a sound fading over time; you hear more of this effect in a cave or cathedral compared to a closed room
What is reverb(eration)?
What is a sequencer?
This invention by Thomas Edison allowed people to record and play back sound for the first time
What is a phonograph?
This invention improved on the gramophone to allow discs to hold a whole 22 minutes of music!
What is the long playing (LP) record?
This word describes a raise or lowering of pitch in a given recording
What is (voice) transposition?
A direct copy of a given sound happen at a fainter volume over time (synonym of echo)
What is delay?
The make and model of the professional industry quality microphones we will use in class
What is AKG C414?