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| The Scientific study of the human perception of sound |
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| What is the Basilar Membrane? |
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| Membrane inside the cohlea that contains the hairs used to translate sounds into neural energy |
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| What would you find in the middle ear? |
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| Ossicles, and the Stapedius Musscle |
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| What are the three bones that make up the ossicles? |
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| Malleus, Icus, and Stapes |
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| What is the Stapedius Reflex? |
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| When exposed to loud sounds for an extended period of time, the stapedius muscle restricts the movement of the ossicles to prevent hearing damage |
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| What are the parts of the inner ear? |
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| The Cochlea, The Oval Window, and the Basilar Membrane |
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| What are the three main cues with regards to the basics of Psychoacoustics? |
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| What attribute of auditory sensation can be ordered on a musical scale? |
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| How many octaves make up the human hearing range? |
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| Which octave range is known to contain the fundamental, lower harmonics, and overtones of most sound sources? |
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| Which octave range is said to give sounds a "tinny" sound? |
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| Properly emphasized, the lower parts of this octave range can improve speech intelligibility. |
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| Octave 8 is known as the ____________. |
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| What is the difference between intensity and loudness? |
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| Intensity is the strength of a sound wave, where loudness is a human perception of intensity |
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| The shorter the sound, the _______ it must be to be heard. |
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| What are the four static cues for human localization? |
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| Interaural Time Difference, Interaural Intensity Difference, Pinnae Response, and Shoulder Echo |
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| Which static cue is most effective when the frequency content of a sound is 270-500Hz? |
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| Interaural Time Difference |
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| Which sound source determines both azimuth and zenith? |
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| What are the four dynamic cues for localization? |
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| Head Motion, Vision, Early Echo Response, and Reverb |
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| What are the three maincues for determining distance? |
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| Intensity of sound source, Ratio of direct to reverberant sound, Amount of high frequency content |
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| Define Head Related Transfer Functions. |
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| Algorhythms that simulate the filtering effects of our pinnae, head, and upper torso |
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| What term descibes the crowding of wavefronts around a moving sound source? |
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| If the authorization on your Doppler Plug In expired, ow could you simulate the doppler effect? |
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| If a place a fade in on the left channel and a fade out on the right channel, what psychoacoustice phenomenon have i taken advantage of? |
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| The blending of aoll recorded elements into a continous soundtrack |
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| Music and Effects, Dialogue taken out for foreign language markets |
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| What is the only place you would most likely find audio on a digital recording stage? |
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| What would you find on either end of the console on a re recording stage? |
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| What term describes the blending of source material into smaller stereo submixes? |
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| When creating predubs, what factors come into play regarding which material will go where? |
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| Combine Like Tracks, and Combine Tracks with similar frequency content |
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| How many channels would panned dialogue and walla be sent to in a DTS system? |
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| How many channels would panned foley be sent to in a DTS system? |
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| Which channel would you send all principle dialogue to? |
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| How many channels would panned Small FX be sent to in a DTS system? |
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| How many channels would panned Large FX be sent to in a DTS system? |
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| What is mixed to create a printmaster? |
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| Why dont directors like to hear footsteps in the surround channels? |
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| It draws attention away from the screen |
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| What is the purpose of "The Chain"? |
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| To clean up production dialogue |
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| What is the difference between a 4+1 ambience predub and a 5 channel ambience predub? |
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| 4+!= quad and a combination of all elements in mono to be a filler, and 5 channel is mixed to feed 5 channels discretely |
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| Why should you never process more than halfway doing predubs? |
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| You don't yet know if it will work with the other elements in the mix |
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| What is the optical track and why is it there? |
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| Analogue streo L/R mix, there in case digital format drops out |
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| What is the headroom for all digital formats? |
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| Where is the audio for DTS found? |
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| Where is the audio for SDDS found on the film? |
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| On both sides, the outer edges |
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| Which decoding format uses a 4-2-4 format? |
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| Who appoints the music executive? |
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| What is the job of the Music Supervisor? |
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| Chooses all the source music to be used in the film |
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| What are some of the traits that are neccessary for a good composer? |
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| Filmic Vision, Willingness to change music many times, Crafty, Inventive, Can Communicate in Dramatic terms. |
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| Who appoints the Orchestrator? |
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| What is the Orchestrator's job? |
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| To Arrange the Composer's music for proper instrumentation, making sure parts are playable, and not technically akward |
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| What does the copyist do? |
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| Creates individual parts for each member of the orchestra according to music preparation conventions |
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| Who is the protector of the score in the final mix? |
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| A melodic Phrase or passage that accompanies the reappearance of a character, element, or situation |
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| What are the Final Cue Sheets? |
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| Documents that contain the final timings of the music |
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| What percentage of the game industry plays games on PC? |
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| What is the gtame indusrty's targeted audience? |
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| What is the music breakdown for video games? |
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40% Electronica
40% Symphonic
20% Everything else |
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| What is the dominant platform in the game industry? |
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| What is the main editing software used in the game industry? |
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| What are the technical limitations when creating a game? |
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| How much RAM does the X Box have? |
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| What platfrm uses a 4:1 compression essentially giving us 8 MB of RAM for sound? |
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| What are the three ways to play back a sound in a video game? |
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| Triggering a Sound Through RAM, Streaming From Disc, and Triggering Streams |
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| How are sounds organized? |
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| Into banks on the disc that are loaded into RAM |
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| What are two ways to save space? |
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| Use the loweest possible sample rate, time compress audio and trigger at a lower pitch |
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| What percentage of game audio is creation, and what percentage is implementation? |
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| 50% creation 50% implementation |
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| What are the two types of music for games? |
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| Why do record companies like to break artists into the gaming world? |
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| Gaurantee on units sold, Captive Audience, and repetition of songs |
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