File Formats
This is the most common file format for music, it is compressed and lossy
What is MP3
This microphone is typically lower quality, but can take more of a beating because it's internals are magnetic.
What is a dynamic microphone?
This describes the tone of the notes played in a specific song.
What is Key.
Before distortion became a desirable thing in music, people would hear distortion on accident because of this feature of condenser mics and tube amps.
What is Clipping/Peaking
When exporting a song to disk in garage band, you must click on this word at the top of the screen.
What is Share.
We watched a video in class featuring this famous musician, but the video did not feature any of their music.
Who is Snoop Dogg?
This is a very uncommon file format for music that is often only used by Apple.
What is M4A
This microphone has higher quality sound but is more fragile because it's internals are thin sheets of metal.
What is a compression microphone (or ribbon)?
This describes the speed of the beat for any given song, usually measured in Beats Per Minute (BPM)
What is Tempo?
Jackie Brenston recorded the song Rocket 88 with an iconic distorted guitar part because this happened to his electric guitar amp.
What is, it fell out of their van and broke?
When trying to mess with the sound level of individual tracks, and to create crossfades you must press this letter to bring up Automation controls.
What is the letter A?
This movie we watched in class was considered the big break for the band Radiohead in the year 1995 because of its use of their song Fake Plastic Trees.
What is Clueless?
This file format is named after the vibrations in the air that we call sound, it is uncompressed and lossless.
What is WAV?
This cable is mostly used for instruments and speakers which only need to receive a mono signal. (your answer must include the specific style of the cable)
What is a TS Quarter Inch Cable?
This is what we call a transition where one part of the sound goes down as the other part of a song is coming up.
What is a Cross Fade
Link Wray recorded Rumble by doing this ON PURPOSE to his electric guitar amp
What is stabbing it with a pencil?
This Hot Key combination will allow you to split the Track at the playhead, essentially cutting one part of the song from another.
What are CMD + T.
This film we watched in class featured the extensive use of music and mixtapes to communicate the feelings of the characters.
What is Perks of Being a Wallflower?
This file format caused the streaming revolution by making audio files small enough to transfer over the internet.
What is MP3?
This cable is mostly used for microphones, not because it sends a better signal, but because of it's locking hardware and thicker cable that ensures it doesn't fall out of the microphone or getting damaged easily.
What is an XLR cable?
All sound is made up of these moving through the air.
What are vibrations.
This small box was the first pedal that could recreate the sound of distortion without damaging an amp.
What is a Fuzz Box?
When trying to match tempo and pitch you must do this online and change the settings on GarageBand BEFORE clicking "match tempo and pitch."
What is find the correct tempo and pitch of the original song?
Though we didn't view this movie in class, we did see multiple clips of this cult classic known for it's midnight screenings.
What is Rocky Horror Picture Show?
This was the most popular MP3 player not because of it's high quality but because of it's sleek white style that was a precursor to the modern cell phone.
What is an iPod?
This cable is the precursor to the AUX cable you know today, though it looks like it's younger cousin, it actually sends the same quality signal as an XLR. (your answer must include the specific type of cable, and the format)
This is what happens when vibrations in a room cause other objects to vibrate and add to the overall tone of the sounds in a room.
What is Reverb?
This was the first company to create a amplifier capable of overdrive distortion. They are based out of Fullerton, CA.
What is Fender
You can bring up controls to change the tempo of a song by pressing these 3 hotkeys.
What is, CMD + SHIFT + T
This is the name of Mr. Jackson's band, which was featured in the Favorite Song Slide example at the beginning of the Quarter.
What is Attic Wolves?