A Control Room is designed and built to be acoustically isolated and for . . . -
answerCritical Listening
What do we call the process where all of the individual tracks from a multitrack
recording are combined through the console and adjustments are made to the level,
tone, and spatial positioning of the sources? - answermixing
What is the process in which the mix engineer combines all of the tracks from the MTR
within the console and adjusts levels, panning, and adds effects (both time-based and
dynamic effects). - answermixing
What is the name of the recorder that is designed to record the stereo mix? -
answerMDR
What is the term for a device that will change one form of energy to another
corresponding form of energy? - answertransducer
What are three electrical level? - answermic, line, and speaker level
T/F: The three MAIN steps to the multitrack recording process are: 1) Recording 2)
Overdubbing 3) Mixing. - answertrue
What are the three main steps to the multitrack recording process? - answerrecording,
overdubbing, and mixing
The application of scientific and mathematical principles to achieve an end result. -
answerengineering
A room that is acoustically isolated from the studio and surrounding areas, and used for
critical listening. - answercontrol room
Allows the engineer to combine, control, and distribute audio signals. - answerconsole
A recorder that has three tracks or more to record to and play back from. - answerMTR
A room usually made up of one or more acoustic spaces that are designed -and tuned-
for capturing the best possible sound. - answerstudio
The most important person in the studio. - answerartist
, An additional musician used for a project, who is not normally part of the main recording
group. - answersession musician
The person in charge of the studio budget, studio booking, song arrangement, etc. -
answerproducer
The person who sets up microphones, gets proper levels to tape, makes sure
everything sounds good, and records, overdubs, and mixes the recording. -
answerengineer
The person who does whatever the chief engineer or producer needs them to do. -
answerassistant engineer
The process by which one or more sound sources are picked up by a microphone or are
recorded directly (a keyboard, for example) to one or more tracks of a multitrack
recording system. - answerrecording
The process during which one would edit, fix, add, or replace tracks. -
answeroverdubbing
The process in which the engineer would combine tracks, balance levels, do panning,
EQ, etc. - answermixing
Electrical level measured in millivolts. - answermic level
Electrical level measured as 1.23 volts. - answerline level
Electrical level measured from 1-50 volts. - answerspeaker level
What is the first octave of 550 Hz? - answer1100 Hz
What are two examples of a transducer? - answerspeaker and microphone
Which waveform characteristic deals with volume changes over time? - answerenvelope
How is frequency measured? - answerHz
What is the second harmonic of 200Hz? - answer400Hz
The brain's perception and interpretation of the vibration of a physical stimulus which
causes sound pressure waves to propagate through the air. - answersound
Repetitive variations of atmospheric pressure - answersound pressure waves
An area that has greater than normal atmospheric pressure. - answercompression
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