Definitions
Number of waves per second
What is fre.quency?
Volume
What is the musical equivalent of amplitude?
The lowest pitch in the series.
What is the fundamental?
The musical equivalent for freqency
The audio tool used to work with frequencies.
What is graphic EQ?
Energy or power of a sound wave.
What is amplitude?
Decibels
What is amplitude measured in?
French for tone color.
What is timbre?
How frequency is measured
What is hertz?
The audio tool used to make dynamics more consistent.
What is compression?
Physical distance of a sound wave.
What is wavelength?
The audio tool used to limit, or compress, a sound wave.
What is compression?
Used to desribe the quality of sound that we hear.
What is tone quality?
The high point of a sound wave.
What is a compression, or crest?
The worst possible shape for a musical space.
What is a rectangle?
One pitch is amplified or louder in a room; louder than others and usually caused by reflective room dimensions
What is a standing wave?
The term used to describe volume in music.
What is dynamic range?
The musical interval between the fundamental and the second overtone
What is an octave?
20 Hz - 20 kHz
What is the approximate range of human hearing?
The tool used to eliminate standing waves.
What is a sound trap?
All of the frequencies that combine to create the sound that we hear.
What is the harmonic series/overtone series?
The term used to label two identical sound waves that amplify each other to make the sound louder.
What are in-phase sound waves?
How the harmonic series is mathematically determined.
What is doubling the frequency?
1 kHz - 4 kHz
What is the approximate range of the human speakng voice?
The sound wave is silent if this is done perfectly.
What is out of phase?