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| Who is responsible for the creative process? |
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| Who is responsible for the sales and scheduling the studio? |
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| Who is responsible for the technical end? |
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| Who is the resident engineer at a facility who knows the equipment in and out? |
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| We record the core elements during what part of production? |
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| Recording additional elements to exisiting tracks is ____. |
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| What is the most critical part of any project? |
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| Anything that converts one form of energy to another (i.e. microphone) |
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| What are the two types of microphones? |
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| a coil suspended in a magnetic field |
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| How does a dynamic microphone work? |
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| two oppositely charged plates create capacitance between them |
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| How does a condenser microphone work? |
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| What type of audio wiring is used professionally (studio work, live concerts, etc)? |
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BBO
Backing, Binder, Oxide |
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| Name the 3 components of analog tape. |
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(Maximum Level <-> Nominal Level) = Headroom
(Nominal Level <-> Noise Floor) = Signal to Noise Ratio |
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| Name the elements of the entire dynamic range. |
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| What on a console is used for adding special F/X? |
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| What section of the console do we control the overall output of the console and the entire mix? |
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| When was digital audio tape introduced? |
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| What invention brought the prices for logic-based devices within the reach of professional and consumer buyers? |
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| The ___ handles all of the business arrangements for a recording session, including transportation, airfare, hotels, studio costs, etc. |
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| ____ are the people who may write and/or perform the music that will be recorded. |
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| A&R (Artists & Repertoire) reps |
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| The ___ are the talent scouts of a record company. |
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| the process of blending all the individual sounds together |
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| the process of making changes in the mixes to prepare them for the various comsumer formats |
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| ____ are duplicated on a high-speed machine called a bin loop duplicator. |
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| ____ are created by a laser that burns a pattern of pits into a blank glass disc. |
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| The ____ is a negative vinyl impression made from the original acetate. |
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| The ____ is a positive made from the intial negative vinyl impression. |
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| The ____ is then placed on a machine where it is heated and pressed into a glob of vinyl. |
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| ____ work with club disc jockeys and radio stations by helping get specific types of music to the right people. |
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| ____ are one of the best ways to promote the music of an artist, because a new audience sees it every night. |
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| ____ are the record industry equivalent of buying commercial air time on television. |
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| ____ is the name given to audio information when it exists as electricity. |
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| The kind of transducer that converts acoustic energy to electrical energy. |
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| The kind of transducer that converts electrical energy to magnetic energy. |
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| The kind of transducer that converts magnetic energy to electrical energy. |
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| The kind of transducer that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy. |
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| The kind of transducer that coverts electrical energy to light energy. |
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| A ____ operates on the principle of a coil of wire attached to a diaphragm, which is suspended in a magnetic field. |
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| A ____ operates on the principle of two oppositely charged plates creating a capacitance, or storage of electrical energy. |
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| Power required to operate a condenser microphone is commonly called _____. |
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| ____ connectors employ three conductors. |
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| ____ recording stores a waveform that is analogous to the original waveform. |
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| The ____ is responsible for moving the tape across the heads. |
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| The ____ drives the left-hand reel of a tape machine. |
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| The ____ drives the right-hand reel of a tape machine. |
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| The ____ records an ultra-high frequency (sometimes as high as 150 kHz) on the tape. |
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| The ____ records and plays back simultaneously. This allows for overdubbing. |
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| The ____ plays back with maximum fidelity. This is the head used in the mixing phase. |
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| The ____ is a metallic dust that actually stores the signal. This metallic dust is magnetized, which allows recording to occur. |
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| The ____ is the glue that holds the oxide to the backing. |
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| The ____ is the Mylar or polyester substance to which the oxide is attached. |
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| Tape speed is measured as ____. |
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| The path that the audio takes through the console is called ____. |
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| The ____ cover most of the surface area of a console, and allow an independent audio signal from a source to be brought in. |
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| The ____ controls the audio signal we will send to the multitrack. |
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| The ____ controls the audio signal we will receive from the multitrack. |
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| The ____ adjusts the mixed audio signals' amplitude level when it leaves the console. |
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| The ____ controls the ability to choose to listen to different pairs of speakers in the control room, to double check our mix from the console. |
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| The ____ is where all the inputs and outputs to and from the control room meet and are connected together. |
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| The ____ is a path for us to send audio signal to the musicians' headphones so they can hear themselves and other artists, as well as what is already recorded. |
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| A ____ is any device that is used to alter the signal passing through it. |
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| ____ are frequency selective amplifiers that allow us to alter the frequency characteristics of a given sound. |
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| ____ control the amplitude of a signal with basically two states: Open and Closed. |
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| ____ control the amplitude range of a signal when it is too wide. |
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| ____ are devices that give the impression of different room sizes by imitating acoustic reflection. |
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| ____ are devices available that mimic phase difference, whose audible effect is described as a "swishing" or "tunneling" sound. |
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| ____ allow the creation of distinct repetitions of sounds, and provide control of the timing of the repetitions. |
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| XLR, TRS (tip Ring Sleeve), TT (Tiny Telephone) |
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| Name 3 types of balanced mic connectors. |
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| Unbalanced mics are usually use ____ connectors. |
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| Name 1 type of speaker connection used in the industry. |
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| the two formats of audio recording |
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| Which type of mic can handle high SPLs? |
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| Which type of mic has the wider freq. range? |
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| First person to be the producer on his own songs in the modern studio era. |
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| Known for his "Wall of Sound" technique (multiples of the same instrument) |
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| Once a member of the Beach Boys, he was a budding genius producer (~20yrs old) that produced "Pet Sounds" |
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| This band used the studio to shape the sound of the music. |
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| Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland" |
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| first to put the guitarist as the lead band member |
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| Which company developed the audio CD format in 1982? |
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| The names of the rollers that moved the tape across the heads |
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