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| Pro grade VS. Consumer grade sound cards? whats the difference? |
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| The A/D's and D/A's of a consumer based sound card do not have the necessary specs to allow for professional recording. |
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| What is a virtual instrument? |
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| A plug in that is implemented into your DAW |
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| Cubase SX is an example of what type of DAW? |
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| What type of DAW is ProTools HD? |
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| How is ProTools LE different from ProTools HD? |
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| ProTools LE comes bundled with various sound cards and can be used with various DigiDesign sound interfaces. ProTools HD can only be used with specific Protools HD interfaces and REQUIRE at least one controller interface to run. |
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| What is a 3rd party plug-in? |
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| A virtual instrument of effect opening through your DAW, but acquired from an outside source |
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| What are the basic plug-in types used by DAW's? |
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VST - Most Common
AU - MAC only
DX - DirectX
RTAS - Real Time Audio Suite
MAS - MOTU |
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| Reduction of a certain amplitude or frequency |
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| Which effects are typically used in the insert effect signal path? |
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| Compression, Distortion, Limiters, etc. |
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| Which effects are most commonly used in the aux effect signal path? |
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| Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Flangers |
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| AUX effects duplicate the original signal and send one copy to an effects processor to create the wet signal, and then send it to the AUX return where (depending on the position of the AUX Master knob) it is now affected by the effects processor. |
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| How do insert effects work? |
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| They are inserted directly into the existing signal flow |
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| Getting from point A to point B. The path in which a signal follows to reach its designated output |
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| Basically using knobs, faders, and controls to send a signal to where we want it to go. (Such as routing all drums to one bus) |
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| What is the functin of a Mic/Line switch? |
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| determines the incoming signal level settings. sending a line-level signal to a channel that is prepared for a mic-level input may cause distortion. doing the opposite may cause a weak signal. |
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| What are the three sections of a console? |
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| Jackfield, I/O Strip, and Master Section |
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| How does the routing matrix work? |
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| Sends signal to master channel |
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| When you keep your faders at Unity and fuck with Trim/Gain to boost the level of the signal without creating noise, which you would be doing if you just pushed up the fader. |
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| How does a compressor work? |
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| By attenuating signals that go beyond the set threshold value.[image] |
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| It is used to simulate acoustic enviornments |
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| What effect may be used to silence a recording or an instrument during very quiet sections? |
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| A noise gate would mute the signals output when it falls below a certain threshold level. |
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| How does a talk box work? |
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| A talk box is an effects pedal that sits on the floor and contains a speaker attached with an air tight connection to a plastic tube. The plastic tube is then sent to inside your mouth where the sound reflects letting your mouth be the ultimate control for the effect itself. |
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| The vocoder examines speech by finding this basic carrier wave, which is at the fundamental frequency, and measuring how its characteristics are changed over time by recording someone speaking. To recreate speech, the vocoder simply reverses the process, creating the fundamental frequency in an oscillator, then passing it through a stage that filters the frequency content based on the originally recorded series of numbers. (Re-creates the voice) |
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| Boots a signals amplitude above a devices headroom |
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| Compressor and Limiter. Whats the difference? |
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Compressor - Used to restrict dynamic range
Limiter - Compressor with a fixed output regardless of input levels |
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| Main difference between filters and EQ's? |
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| Equalizers can boost or attenuate a specific frequency so that sounds can be tailored to meet specific needs |
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| What is the difference between graphic and parametric EQ's? |
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Graphic - EQ allowing for boost/cut of fixed frequencies through sliders
Parametric - Parameters are user definable |
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| Signal is duplicated. One is slowed down, the other is kept normal causing phase cancellation. LFO is used to modify the delay times. |
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| It attempts to reproduce the sound of a large ensemble by splitting and duplicating the signal and sending one half through a time delay. Unlike the flanger, the duplicate is not sent through a feedback loop. |
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| Duplicates signal, feeds it into an all-pass filter and sends it back through feeback loop. When the wet and dry signals are combined, it creates a pulsating/throbbing sound by sending the two halves in and out of phase. |
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| How does a dynamic mic work? |
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| consists of a moving coil suspended in a magnetic field |
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| thin metal ribbon suspended in a magnetic field (FRAGILE) |
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| How do condenser mics work? |
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| Based on capacitors. Capacitance changes creates voltage changes, charged backplate with moving diaphragm (requires additional power) |
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| How do shotgun mics work? |
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| Extremely directional, length of interference tube affects directivity |
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| What type of microphone uses a reflector dish to focus sound waves? |
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| What type of microphone captures reflections off a metal plate? |
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| When the mic is in close proximity, thus boosting the bass frequencies. |
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| What is a polar pattern diagram? |
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| Visual information on the mics ability to capture sound. |
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| A screen used to prevent pops and hisses when recording vocals |
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| Whats the difference between linear and non-linear sound design? |
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| Linear deals with Film, due to the fact that it is not interactive and will not change. Non-linear deals with video games in the sense that it has triggered sounds and is interactive |
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| What is interactive sound design? |
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| Deals with video games. interactive sound design has triggered sounds and elements in music (high tension=high tension music) |
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| Purpose of implementation engine? |
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| Eliminates the necessity to know programming code or having to deal through a programmer to audition and create sounds in the game |
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| Examples of Implementation engines? |
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| Basic methods of sound playback with video games? |
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Stream audio from disc
Load and trigger from RAM
MIDI Triggering |
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| How are audio events triggered in video games? |
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| player actions, player inactions, timing/gameplay generators, random event generators, or pre-programmed events |
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| What is faster? RAM or streaming audio from a disc? |
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| What role does RAM play in a video game audio engine? |
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| The size of RAM could determine the quality of the sound or how many sounds the video game could have |
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| What device is used to assist the synchronization of the audio and video? |
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Much of the dialog recorded on a film set is unusable due to noise. What is the process of
rerecording this dialog called? |
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| ADR - Automatic Dialogue Replacement |
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| Speed correction, compensates for initial film transfer |
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Some audio engineers and sound designers like to create a chart of the sound elements in a
mix. What is this chart called? |
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| What is the purpose of spotting? |
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| Detailed viewing of film to determine necessary SFX and music |
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| Sound effects are recorded live in sync with a picture. What is this process called? |
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| Ambience of a location, creates continuity in post |
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| mixdowns of different elements (voice, effects, music) that contribute to the final mix |
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| The footage that is recorded everyday (Rushes) that are edited together to create the rough cut |
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| Dialogue stem removed-foreign dialogue added oversees |
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