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| What is the job of the sound designer? |
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| To create the sound environment for Multimedia Applications. |
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| Sound Designer for the film "Apocalypse Now" who coined the term "sound designer" |
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| What are the four components of sound design? |
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| Dialogue, SFX, Music, and Silence |
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| Where all sound is removed from a movie at a specific time to heighten the dramatic effect. |
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| What is the difference between diagetic and non-diagetic sounds? |
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| Diagetic sounds are sounds everyone (characters as well as audience) can hear, and non-diagetic sounds are sounds only the audience hears? |
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| Designed Production-specific sounds |
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| Everyday Sounds involving very little design. |
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| What is the difference between Native and Grammatical SFX? |
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| What is a Wild Track Recording? |
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| Where you leave the recorder recording to capture all the sounds on location |
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| The ambient sounds on location |
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| The art of creating SFX in real time synched to the visuals |
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| What are ambiences and backgrounds? |
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| Long drawn out sounds that act as a sonic wallpaper |
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| Stingers are random elements added to ambiences to increase the random nature of a character's world. |
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| What is the name of the special scream that has been in use since the 1950's? |
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| What are sound archetypes? |
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| Universal sounds that mean the same thing no matter where you go. |
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| What does the sound of a Lions Roar symbolize? |
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| What does the sound of a Snake's Hiss symbolize? |
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| What does the sound of a Chimp symbolize? |
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| What does the sound of a Cat's purr symbolize? |
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| What does the sound of a Donkey symbolize? |
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| How does music affect the emotion of a scene? |
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| It sets the emotional backdrop |
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| A transition between two scenes |
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| How does music represent time periods? |
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| Certian styles, themes and instrumentation of music is specific to certain time periods |
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| Musical theme that represents a character |
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| Musical theme that represents a character |
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| What is the Musical Equivalent of a character? |
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| What is the musical equivalent of location? |
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| What is the musical equivalent of conflict? |
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| What emotion do major chords represent? |
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| What emotion do Minor chords represent? |
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| What emotion do Augmented chords represent? |
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| What do Diminished chords represent? |
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| What is programatic music? |
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| Sounds that specifically help tell the story |
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| What is Anempathetic Music? |
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| Music that has nothing to do with the story |
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| What is Juxtaposition or Counterpoint? |
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| Music that is the opposite of what you would expect from the scene |
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| What is underscore music? |
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| Music used to enhance the informational or emotional impact |
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| Pre-existing music licensed for use in a movie |
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| What is incedental Music? |
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| Background music by both the audience and the characters |
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| Individual peices of music created for a scene |
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| Places where the music and the visuals are in synch |
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| A mix where the exact same information is coming out of both speakers |
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| A mix where each speaker is playing back different sounds |
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| What is the difference between stereo split and stereo interleaved? |
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| In stereo split sounds are hard panned meaning sounds either come from one speaker or the other, stereo interleaved allows sound to exist in both speakers |
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| What is quadrophonic sound? |
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| The original surround sound format using 4 channels of audio |
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| What is the name of the Surround Sound Panner used by Pink Floyd? |
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| What is the name of the Greatful Dead's Sound System? |
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| How does Concertsonics work? |
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| A copy of the mix is streamed to radios in the audience reinforcing the frequencies being masked |
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| 4 channels using a matrix allowing it to exist in 2 channels |
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| How does Dolby Stereo work? |
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| An encoding matrix "hides" the two extra channels within the two stereo channels and the decoder on the other side splits the signal back into 4 channels |
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| A method of encoding signals within a larger signal |
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| What is the difference between classical and Middle of the Band Mixing Perspectives? |
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| Classical: The music comes from the front and all the ambiences and reflections come from the back. Middle of the band: Its as if the instruments are positioned all around the listener |
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| What are the 5.1 Surround Sound formats? |
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| What are the 6.1 Surround Sound Formats? |
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| What Surround Sound Format is 7.1? |
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| What are the left and right main channels used for? |
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| What is the center channel used for? |
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| What are the Rear channels used for? |
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| Ambiences, Reflections, and sound effects |
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| What is the LFE commonly known as? |
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| A technology that gives us almost instantaneous access to multimedia |
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| 5 Shuns: Compression, Division, Transmission, Decompression, Reconstruction |
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| What forms of technology use streaming? |
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| Intenet, Satellite Radio, Cell Phones, DVD Movies, Video Games, On Demand Programming, GPS Locators, Video Conferencing, and Video Game Technology |
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| The processes of waiting to initialize the feed until a certain number of the packets have been recieved |
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| What is the size of an uncompressed minute of stereo audio recorded at CD quality? |
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| A Coding and Decoding algorhythm |
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| Because files are too large to stream them without some type of compression |
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| What are the two basic categories of CEDEC's? |
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| Lossy Compression and Lossless Compression |
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| How do lossy CODEC's work? |
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| By permanantly removing some of the information based on the principles of psychoacoustics |
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| How do Lossless CODEC's work? |
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| By replacing reduntant information with certain variables instead of removing information. |
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| What is the MPEG organization? |
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| Motion Picture Experts Group |
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| What do the phases of the MPEG files represent? |
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| The goal of that MPEG standard. |
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| What do the MPEG layers represent? |
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| The families of coding algorhythms |
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| What is the Minimum Audition threshold? |
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| A threshold of what frequencies people hear best. Frequencies above this threshold are cut out during the process of ripping an Mp3 |
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| The process of removing sounds that are masked or covered up by other sounds |
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| It reduces the size by encoding information thats the same only once |
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| How does the Resevoir of Bytes Work? |
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| It encodes data into unused portions of the headers and footers. Basically makes use of every bit of space |
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| What is Huffman encoding? |
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| What is the bit rate for uncompressed stereo CD Quality audio? |
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| What are the Mp3 bit rates and what are they used for? |
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| 64 Kbps: Voice recordings. 96 Kbps: Hi-fi Voice/ Lo-fi music. 128 Kbps: Music for internet distribution. 192 Kbps: Personal music archives. Higher: Audiophiles |
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| What are MPEG 2-AAC files used for? |
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| An extension of the Mp3 format developed to take advantage of higher resolution audio and surround sound |
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| What are MPEG 4 AAC files used for? |
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| Scalable Audio: The ability to deliver multiple media formats using a smaller container |
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| What is the official recording time for Red Book CD's? |
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| Do 80 minute Cd's conform to Red Book specs? |
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| What is the maximum number of tracks you can put on a Red Book CD? |
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| What is the default time gap between tracks o n a red book CD? |
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| What is the official storage space of a yellow book CD? |
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| An Enhanced CD: Allows us to burn audio and data on the same disc |
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| How is data written to a CD? |
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| Data is burned into the polycarbonite layer, and reflections when it is red back are read as ones and zeros |
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| Peaks and valleys in the surface of the disc which are read as ones and zeros |
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| How do CD-R's and CD-RW's work? |
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| Information is burned into a Organic dye between the polycarbonate and reflective layers |
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| What order is information stored on a CD? |
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| Lead in, Program Data, Lead Out |
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| What is contained in the Q subcode? |
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| Track Number, Track Time, Index Number, ISRC Codes, UPC codes |
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| What is the difference between a CD and a DVD disc? |
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| DVD's ave smaller pits and lands allowing it to hold 4.38 GB per layer instead of 650 MB total |
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| What is the actual storage size of a DVD-5 disc? |
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| How many streams of audio can a DVD play back? |
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| What are the required streams of a DVD video disc? |
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| What are the optional streams of a DVD video disc? |
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| What is the Maximum resolution of a DVD video disc? |
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| What is the Maximum resolution of a DVD audio disc? |
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| What book format is an SACD? |
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| What is the resolution of a SACD? |
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| What is the storage capacity of an SACD? |
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| What digitizing Method do SACD's use? |
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| A disc with both SACD information and CD information |
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