Grinds My Gear
Adventure Time(Code)
Organization
Basic vs Advance Mode
Just For Fun
Roles and Credits
100
This is type of file for recording that contains multiple discreet audio files, split by inputs, and allows our Post teams more options during editing.
What is a POLY wav file?
100
A media synchronization system that is designed to perfectly synchronize your audio and video recordings.
What is Timecode?
100
This is a companion app to our MixPre 6s. This app allows us to quickly see which tracks are armed to record, rename files, label tracks, record a take, and generate a digital sound report all without touching the MixPre 6s. It sadly only works on IOS.
What is the SoundDevices Wingman App
100
True or False:
You can get ISO tracks on Basic Mode with the Mix Pre 6.
False!
On Basic Mode, you will only record a LR Mix. It will be the sum of all your microphones into one audio file.
100
The credit given to someone who creates the overarching themes, characters, and/or plot of the narrative, but not the specific dialog lines.
What is a "Story By..." Credit?
100
The person responsible for mic placement. Often thought of as "The Face of Audio on Set."
What is a Boom Operator?
200
True or False:
As long as you have good ISO levels, you do not have to worry about mixing on set.
False
Your mix will be heard in your Dailies. It's often the first thing your director, producers, and editors hear from Production Audio.
200
This is the Ambient Lock-It Box. Why is it significant to THIS class?
It generates Timecode we can jam into our Mix Pre 6 and cameras for easy sync.
200
This is something we should do while setting up. It changes our Metadata from default "CH 1" to something you decide. It will help your post-production identify the ISO tracks easier.
What is Naming Tracks?
200
True or False:
ISO Tracks do not create more files in your SD card. With two microphones connected, one take will still be one singular WAV file.
True!
Poly Wav Files still look like one WAV in our computer, SD Cards, and in our Editing softwares
200
Name this movie by its PreViz Art.
What is "Inception"?
200
The person responsible for running the set, keeping production on schedule, and day to day operations.
What is an Assistant Director (A.D.)?
300
A discreet audio channel that only captures the sounds of one input. This can give your post teams more flexibility with Dialog Editing.
What is an ISO track?
300
True or False:
Since they operate the slate, it is the 2nd AC's job to provide timecode to the camera, slate, and audio recorder.
False
It is the Sound Mixer responsibility to sync timecode with all devices.
300
This is a type of art created to help the director or DP understand their shots. This art can be 2D, 3D, or sequential, and incredibly helpful for the sound department in Pre-Production.
What is PreViz?
What are Storyboards?
300
This is a new option in our Track Menu when we are in Advance Mode. It gives us volume to our ISO Track and gives volume to our inputs.
What is Gain?
300
This show famously used Fisher Booms after their Boom Operators spent most of season 1 on step ladders.
What is SuperStore
300
The person responsible for audio equipment, running cables, and gear organization on set.
What is a Sound Utility Technician?
400
This is something we should do with our Lavalier Receiver and Transmitter when we start on set or move to a new location. This option in our Receiver allows us to scan all possible banks and channels in our Radio Frequency spectrum and select the ones with the least amount of Radio Interference at that location and time.
What is "Scan New List"
400
This describes inserting Timecode to a camera, recorder, or slate. That Timecode then overwrites the original Timecode generated by the internal clock in the device.
We did this on our Mix Pre 6's in class!
What is Jamming Timecode?
400
A document created by the Sound Mixer to mark the detail in each take recorded on set. The document notes the scene, shot, and take number, as well as remarks about the particular take's sound.
What is a Sound Report?
400
What are two new text fields we can add to our Sound Report once we switch into Advance Mode?
Individual Track Notes & Channel (Input) Names
400
This director famously does not use ADR. He believes what the audience sees and hears should be as close to what happened on set.
Who is Quentin Tarantino
400
This is 100% mandatory to have on a Call Sheet for safety of the entire cast and crew. If there are multiple locations, there should be multiple listings of this.
What is the Nearest Hospital?
500
This is a method created to organize your files on and off set. You should always set up these rules for your file names to avoid confusion, save time, and allow other people on your team to identify your files easily.
What is a Naming Convention?
500
True or False:
When you sync scenes with a Timecode, you can automatically sync audio and video in Post, often with only a few clicks.
True:
Timecode was created to save time with sync and can turn a 2 hour task into a couple second task.
500
True or False:
It is inappropriate to have your contact information on a Sound Report. That info should be shared with the Director and Post Team ahead of time on set and a Sound Report should focus on the takes.
False:
A Sound Report should always include your contact information.
500
True or False:
In both Basic and Advance Mode, Phantom Power is in the same menu and same location.
False!
It is in the same menu (The Track Menu), but in Basic mode in on the one and only page. While Advance Mode moves Phantom to the new second page.
500
This is how you can tell the difference between the MixPre 6 Mark I (SFS) and the Mark II (HH).
What is the color on the metal bars in the front of the device?
500
The person responsible for capturing usable audio on set.
What is a Sound Mixer?
600
This File Format of recording provides a vast increase in the available loudness in recordings. It allows us to recover peaked (clipped/distorted) soundwaves and increase quite signals without gain hiss. 
What is 32bit?
600
Timecode counts this unit on the right most number.
What is Frames?
600
True or False:
This image shows the ideal way of setting up your ISO tracks. They should always be about 10dB louder than your LR Mix track.
False!
They should be 10dB quieter to provide a safety net where your LR Mix track could peak, but your ISO might not.
600
What is the FIRST thing I recommend to do when setting up the Mix Pre 6? Since we never know what settings a previous student had the Mix Pre in, this option brings us back to a standard setting in Basic Mode.
Set it to Factory Default by going into the Menu > Preset > Load Preset > Factory Default
600
This was a non-union movie that did really well. Some actors involved were union members and gave stage names for their credits. The union eventually caught on and the actors had to pay violation fees.
What is Evil Dead?
600
The Face of the Audio Department on set?
Who is the Boom Operator?