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| It's where frequencies are detected and it's one's center of balance. |
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| 2.5 kHz and above _______ off of a head. |
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| 2.5 kHz and above reflect off of a head. |
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| Explain temporary threshold shift. |
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| Acoustic: When one’s muscles clamp down on to his or her hammer, anvil, and stirrup to stop it vibrating so much due to short term loud sound. Psychoacoustic: Cotton in one's ears. |
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Acoustic: Cilia being stimulated so much that they break off or are about to break off.
Psychoacoustic: Ringing in one's ears. |
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| List four types of signal processors. |
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Spectrum (EQ/Filter)
Time (Reverb, Delay, Pitch Shift, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser)
Amplitude/Dynamics (Compressor, Limiter, Gate, Expander)
Noise (Dolby, DBX, Izotope Vinyl, Funk Logic Masterizer)
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EQs can _____ and ___.
Filters only ___. |
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EQs can boost and cut.
Filters only cut. |
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| What does the frequency response curve of a device show? |
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Linearity (line level)
Efficiency (equal to)
Deficiency (Less than)
Hyper Sensitivity (greater than)
Range of frequencies. |
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| A spectrum analyzer shows the frequency response curve in real time. |
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| List two equalization principals. |
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| List two frequency characteristics of peak dip. Explain the two. |
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| Center frequency: The highest/lowest frequency point in the middle of a peak dip. Bandwidth (Q): The range of affected frequencies from left to right of the center frequency. |
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| The narrower the bandwidth, the less frequencies affected and vise versa. |
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| Descrive a shelving characteristic. |
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| Turnover Frequency: The frequency selected on a shelving equalization where all frequencies from 20Hz or 20kHz to the selected frequency are either boosted or cut. |
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| The frequency selected on a filter is called what? |
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| Describe ground frequency hum. |
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| A notch filter: Gets rid of one specific frequency. |
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| When mixing on the board, set the kick to __ on the VU meter. |
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| When mixing on the board, set the kick to -7 on the VU meter. |
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| Equalizer - An amplifier that can boost or attenuate groups of frequencies. |
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