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| What are the limiting factors of tape? |
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| Tape Noise and Distortion |
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| What determines the noise floor for analog tape? |
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| Tape Hiss. If the tape hiss is louder than the signal, the signal will be masked |
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| What happens to the tape hiss when we double the amount of tracks? |
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| At higher speeds, is tape hiss louder or quiter? |
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| What happens when we surpass the saturation level? |
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| The concealment of a low level sound by another sound which is higher in level. |
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| What is the approximate general noise floor level for tape? |
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| What are the three elements of tape? |
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| Plastic Binder, Oxides, and Glue to hold them together |
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| What is the industry standard 0 dB operating level? |
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| What is the industry standard +3dB level? |
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| What is the industry standard +6dB level? |
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| What is the industry standard +9dB level? |
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| A ten inch reel of tape is _________ft. or ___________ in. giving you ____________ min, _________ seconds of time at 30 ips. |
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| 2500; 30,000; 16 mins 40 secs. |
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| What is the advantage of using 30 ips as your tape speed? |
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| Better frequency response |
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| What is the advantage of using 15 ips as your tape speed? |
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| What is fringing? Is it preventable? |
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| Bleed from one track to another height wise; Yes with proper Alignment |
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| What is Print Thorugh? Is it preventable? |
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| Magnetic bleed to concentric layers of tape; No, only can be minimized |
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| What is crosstalk? Is it preventable? |
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| Leakage of signal information to adjacent tracks; no |
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| Why do we store tape tails out? |
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| So when Print Through inevetibly happens it will happen after the original signal |
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| What is the purpose of the Flutter Arm? |
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| To maintain tension on the tape |
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| What is the purpose of the Guide Roller? |
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| Guide the tape from one area to another |
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| How does the erase head work? |
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| Records a very high frequency very loud. |
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| What is the Synch head's primary purpose? |
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| What is the Repro Head's primary purpose? |
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| What is the purpose of the Pinch Roller? |
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| Push tape against the capistan |
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| What is the purpose of the Capistan? |
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| To tell the comparitor circuit the actual speed of the tape |
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| What does Input mode do? When is it used? |
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| Monitors what is being sent to the multitrack. When engineers are setting levels |
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| What does Synch or Sel Rep mode do? When is it used? |
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| Armed tracks will play back previously recorded material until record is pressed, then it switches to input mode. Overdubbing |
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| What does Repro mode do? When is it used? |
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| Monitoros previously recorded information from the high fidelity repro head. Mixing |
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| Removing unwanted material between two closely located spots on tape |
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| How is spot erasing accomplished? |
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| By manually moving the tape accross the erase head while active |
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| What does it mean to bounce tracks? |
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| Move audio from one track to the other, mostly combining tracks to free up space on the tape |
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| When bouncing which head should be used? |
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| What is the ideal place to move multiple tracks around on the console/tape machine? |
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| Moving information around a multitrack using a secondary storage space |
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| A term used to describe two tape machines running together but not synchronized |
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| A term used to describe two tape machines running together but not synchronized |
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| Combining several individual sections from two or more tracks to one composite track |
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| What is the most accurate way to comp? |
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| Mute Automation in the console, record all tracks in one pass |
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| What are the three basic properties of every domain on tape? |
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| Polarity, Strength, and Threshold |
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| What does the "threshold" of an analog tape particle refer to? |
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| The amount of energy needed to change the polarity of a particle. |
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| What frequencies are most succeptable to masking? |
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| What does the ZLOC button do on a Studer Tape Machine? |
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| How do you set a secondary location point on the Studer? |
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| What is the Code Channel? |
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| Track 24 where SMPTE is recorded |
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| Track 23, try to avoid recording anything there in case of SMPTE bleed |
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| What level is timecode recorded at? |
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| What two things does library wind do? |
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| FF at half normal speed, Tighter pack, more tension |
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| How do you perform a library wind? |
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| Does the Studer have an Auto Input function? |
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| What button turns the Remote Autolocator on and off? |
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| What button allows you to scrub audio on the Studer? |
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| The Left Reel is the _________ Side. |
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| The Right Reel is the __________ Side. |
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| In order for tape to remain stored as tails out, the tape reel must start and end the session on the __________ side. |
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| What are the two basic concepts of noise reduction? |
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| Elevate the signal in relation to the noise floor, and mute the audio signal prior to it being masked by the noise floor. |
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| What type of Microphone is especially good with high SPL levels? |
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| What type of Mcrophones require 48v Phantom Power? |
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| What type of mics are Figure 8 by nature? |
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| What form of Boundary Mics have a Hemispherical Pattern? |
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| In terms of micing, what is the proximity effect? |
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| The closer you get to a sound source, the more low end the mic picks up |
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| What is the critical distance? |
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| Distance Where the direct sound is equal to the reverbarant signal |
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| What is a sub cardoid polar patter? |
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| Cardiod with no rear lobe |
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| How does a dynamic mic work? |
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| Magnets moving near a coil of wire create an electric signal |
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| How do condenser mics work? |
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| Two oppositely charged plates changing distance from each other causes a capacitance |
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| What is the X-Y micing Technique? |
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| Two mics crossed at 90 degrees with the capsules directly above one another |
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| What is the A-B Micing Technique? |
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| What is the NOS Micing Technique? |
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| Two mics at 90 degrees with their capsules facing away from each other |
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| What is the ORTF Micing Technique? |
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| Two mics at 110 degrees with the capsules facing away from each other |
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| What types of mics are used in an MS array? |
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| Bi Directional and a Cardoid |
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| When micing a speaker, as you move away from the cone the sound gets ___________. |
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| When micing an acoustic guitar, which part of the guitar will give you a balanced string tone? |
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| When micing an acoustic guitar, which part of the guitar will give you wood tone subharmonics? |
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| When micing an acoustic guitar which part will give you string overtones? |
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| On the Sony, What is the difference between butt and ramp automation modes? |
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| Butt mode returns fader to previous position when let go immediately, Ramp allows the user to define how many frames that change should span over |
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| What level do we record Time Code at? |
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| What allows Pro Tools to recieve and generate Time Code? |
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| In Dynamic Processors, what does the Threshold parameter do? |
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| Sets volume at which processing takes place |
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| In Dynamic Processors, what does the Attack parameter do? |
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| How fast it goes from no compression to full compression |
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| In Dynamic Processors, what does the Release parameter do? |
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| How fast it goes from full compression to no compression |
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| In Dynamic Processors, what does the Make up gain parameter do? |
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| Sets the amount of gain added to comensate for processing |
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| In Dynamic Processors, what does the Ratio parameter do? |
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| Sets the amount of compression applied to the signal |
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| In Gates, what does the range parameter do? |
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| Sets the amount of gain reduction when gate is closed |
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| In Gates, what does the Key Listen parameter do? |
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| Allows you to listen to what is coming into the key input |
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| A gate operating in reverse |
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| In Reverbs, what does the Reverb Time parameter do? |
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| Length of time reverb lasts |
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Term
| In Reverbs, what does the Diffusion parameter do? |
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| Emulates objects that sound may be bouncing off of in an environment |
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| In Reverbs, what does the Pre Delay parameter do? |
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| Length of time before Reverb Happens |
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| In Reverbs, what does the Pre Echo parameter do? |
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| emulates the echoes of nearby boundaries (Early Reflections) |
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| In Delays, What does the delay time parameter do? |
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| The lebgth of time before the initial delay is heard |
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| In Delays, What does the Feedback parameter do? |
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| Percentage of Output routed back to the input |
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| The Reinforcing or cancelling of certain frequencies that inevetibly happens when delaying a signal |
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| How many Touch Sensitive motorized faders are oin the System 6000? |
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| Both the System 6000 and the Lexicon 960L have ________ Engines/Machines. |
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| How many usable I/O are on the Lexicon 960 L? |
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| How many usable I/O are on the System 6000? |
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| What is the formula for calculating 1/4 note delay time? |
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| Who produced Alanis Morrisette's Debut album? |
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| What medium was used for Alanis Morrisette's debut album? |
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| Who was the engineer who's first session was for the Duke Ellington Orchestra? |
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| Who was the founder of the Beach Boys who single handedly crafted the "California Sound"? |
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| who is known as the pope of pop? |
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| Who was the Beatles' Producer? |
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| Who Engineered the Beatles Albums? |
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| Who engineered Dark Side of the Moon? |
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| Who is credited with creating Heavy metal's powerhouse sound? |
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