Studio Environment
Name three recording environments in chapter 1 (hint:each starts with the letter "P")
What are professional, project and portable studios?
Mechnical or electrical device that changes one form of energy into another corresponding form of energy
What is a transducer?
"Fix it ____."
What is "in the mix?"
Cancellation occurs when two identical waveforms combine ____ out of phase, the result is
What is 180°?
The most common form of signal processing
What is EQ?
Optimized as a critical listening space with monitor speakers, console, computer + DAW, and outboard gear
What is the Control Room?
This polar pattern picks up signal from all directions
What is omnidirectional?
Excessive "p", "b" and "s" sounds are called ___ traps
What are vocal?
The range of human hearing
What is 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz?
Indicates ear's average sensitivity to different frequencies at various levels
What is the Fletcher Munson Curve?
Large speakers usually soffit-mounted, delivers a "clean" sound at moderate to high SPLs
What are far-field?
Certain mic designs require +48V of this...
What is phantom power?
The standard system for encoding, storing and decoding audio
What is Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)?
The recommended monitoring level
What is 75 to 90 dB SPL?
The center of the soundfield
What is the "sweet spot"?
Sends a channel signal out to a dynamics processor then returns back into the channel signal chain
What are inserts?
Bass boost in directional mics at close working ranges
What is proximity effect?
To digitally encode a desired bandwidth, the sample-rate must be at least 2X the highest frequency to be recorded.
What is The Nyquist Theorem?
For every unit of distance b/t a mic and its sound source, a nearby mic should be at least 3X that distance
What is the 3:1 Distance Rule?
Process to increase bit resolution of a recorded signal when converting from a higher to a lower bit rate
What is dither?
Electrically connected in patchbay, inserting cable into bottom row breaks connection
What is half-normalled?
Name the 3 mic designs in alphabetical order
What is Condenser, Dynamic and Ribbon?
Difference b/t the maximum operating level without distortion and average operating level of the system
What is headroom?
The overall dynamic range of human hearing
What is 140 dB?
Chamber, Church, Hall, Room, Plate,
What are types of reverb?