Careers
Acoustics
Mixing/Editing
Equipment
Misc.
100
What does a front of house engineer do?
Mixes a live show.
100
What does this picture depict?
Wavelength --- crest to crest or trough to trough
100
A high-pass filter does what?
Blocks the low frequencies/allows the high frequencies to pass through.
100
What is this?
A snake
100
What does fair use mean?
In certain instances (such as education), you may use copyrighted material without seeking permission from the copyright holder.
200
What does a music producer do?
They oversee the process of creating a song.
200
If someone sound proofs a room, what are they doing?
Making it so sounds don't go in or out of the space.
200
What is a decibel?
The unit for loudness (volume).
200
What type of microphone is this?
A dynamic mic
200
DAW stands for _____.
Digital Audio Workstation
300
What does a sound designer do?
They choose, create, and edit the sounds for a specific medium (theatre, video games, film, etc.)
300
If someone performs sound treatment, what are they doing?
They are changing the acoustic of the room by using materials to dampen the sound, etc.
300
Panning refers to what?
Changing the sound so that it is focused more on the left or right channels.
300
What does a condenser mic require that a dynamic mic does not?
48V of phantom power
300
The 3: 1 miking rule describes what?
When there are multiple sound sources and microphones, the mics are 3 times the distance apart from each other as they are close to the source.
400
What does a foley artist do?
They create and record sounds in a studio using various objects to sync with the visuals of a film, game, tv show, etc.
400
Amplitude measures the _____ of a wave and we interpret it as its _________.
energy, loudness (volume)
400
Gain refers to what?
The strength/sensitivity of the signal.
400
Demonstrate the standard way to coil a cable.
Over-under method.
400
An mp3 file is a _____ file and a WAV file is a ______ file.
Lossy, lossless.
500
What does a boom operator do?
Operate the boom mic when recording for film.
500
Frequency is the ____ of the wave and we interpret this as its _____.
speed, pitch
500
Compressing audio does what?
Evens out an audio's dynamics; decreases the overly loud areas and increases the overly quieter areas.
500
What is the difference between TS, TRS, and TRRS?
500
A high sample rate means what?
The digital audio file is close to the original sound. 44.1 kHz is typical.