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Editing
How Sound Works
Microphones
Mixing Boards
Misc
100
This type of editing allows you to move things around and revert back to older versions.
What is Non-linear editing or non-destructive editing?
100
Frequency is the number of cycles a vibration completes in _____________second(s)
What is one?
100
This is the most popular microphone for voice.
What is the SM58?
100
This is the first place on a mixing board where we adjust how much sound comes into the board.
What is the trim or gain?
100

Sound was first recorded onto these by Thomas Edison.

What is wax cylinders? Phonograph

200
This type of transition brings sound up from nothing or down to nothing.
What is Fade?
200
Humans can hear frequency ranges between _____ and ______.
What is 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz
200
Dynamic microphones are also know as
What is Moving Coil?
200
This is what VU stands for on a mixing board
What is Volume Units?
200
in a radio script, these items are written in all caps.
What is sounds that are not spoken?
300
This transition blends two sources
What is cross-dissolve?
300

What are three unexpected things you can do with sound?

Break things

Levitate things

Death Ray

300
Condenser microphones are also known as ______
What is Capacitor?
300

This professor at Taylor is amazing and used to play baseball, and is a great driver of vans in Portugal, and can beat up Steve if he wanted to.

Lincoln Reed

300

How does noise cancellation work (basic)

it finds the noise and cancels it with an opposite sound frequency.

400
This is a visual representation of the audio signal
What is a waveform?
400
This is when frequencies present at the same loudness level are perceived at the different levels.
What is Equal Loudness Principle?
400
This is the most common type of cable used for microphones.
What is XLR?
400
These are two things you will find on the output section of the mixing board
What are _______
400
These are transducers that convert electrical energy into acoustic energy.
What are speakers?
500

What is the keyboard shortcut to zoom in and out horizontally in Protools?

CMD Brackets ([])

500
This is the difference between Acoustics and Psychoacoustics.
What is Acoustics is how sound acts in a room, and the other is the way we perceive that sound?
500

When two microphones are close together one might experience a problem with this.

What is Phase?

500
This is the difference between "line in" and "mic in"
What is one is for microphone level and one is for items that come in softer.
500

What are 2 things to remember when designing a recording studio?

room within a room, no parallel walls, egg crates, bass traps, a/c, etc