MIDI & DAW
5 pin
What connector is used for MIDI?
Sine wave
What is the purest oscillator?
Omnidirectional
What polar pattern has the microphone pick up all around itself (360 degrees)?
Poor Balance. Unusual panning
Features likely of a song recorded in the 1950s
Why may you put reverb onto your tracks?
0 to 127
What is the attack in an envelope generator?
48V
What is the voltage of phantom power?
Amateur playing. Very political. Power chords.
What are the styles of Punk music?
Because this is where the song tends to have most of its 'muddiness'
Why may you use a filter on the mid range?
Command+ T
Resonance
What is the narrow boost of frequencies around the cutoff?
John Glyn
Who made recording the drum kit with 3 microphones popular?
Rough Trade Records
What was a popular record label for British Indie Music?
Loudness EQ
What is used to alter the volume of specific frequency bands and helps with perceived volume?
8 bits
How many bits is a byte?
Fairlight CMI
What sampler was made popular by Kate Bush?
Why may you use a condenser microphone?
How did direct to disc recordings work?
Panning in context of one instrument recorded with multiple microphones in a mix of many other instruments (e.g a piano in an orchestra)
Relative Panning
Patch 57 (Elijah would like this one)
Channel for Trumpet in MIDI
The two were used in Hip Hop in the 1980s
What genre was Roland TR808 and EM-U SP1200 commonly used?
This is the gap between the loudest peaks and which audio clipping begins
What is headroom?
Hanz Zimmer
Who is one of the most famous film composers, known to use Cubase for his composing?
Mastering an existing commercial track for modern standards/listening
What is the act of remastering?