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| What part of the ear captures sound and helps determine an object’s location? |
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| What are the three bones that act as a mechanical “lever” called? |
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| What part of the ear explains why we are sensitive to mid-range frequencies? |
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| How does aural reflex work? |
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| When loud sounds come in muscles tighten-reducing the movement of the osssicles preventing damage to choclea. |
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| What is the purpose of aural reflex?prevents |
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| prevents damage to chochlea |
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| What is the function of the cilia |
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| 9) Many people have an annoying condition known as tinnitus. Explain why these people constantly hear high pitched frequencies. |
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| hairs constantly rub toghether |
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| 10) Which listening mode explains our ability to understand conversation? |
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| 11) Which listening mode allows us to understand the meaning or context of a sound? |
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| 13) Which listening mode provides a fundamental overview of the sound? |
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| What does the Equal Loudness Curve illustrate? |
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| It shows sensitivity of our ears and what frequency they can pick up |
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| 15) What frequency range are humans mos t sensitive to? |
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| 16) What effect is most effectively reproduces sounds heard in a large cave? |
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| 17) Which effect most effectively reproduces sounds heard in a small room? |
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| Reverberation or reflections |
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| 18) Which psychoacoustic principles describes why every instrument sounds unique? |
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| 19) What does the psychoacoustic principle “temporal delay” refer to? |
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| Because ur head blocks mid range freq wich cause delay throuhg right and left ears |
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| What is a “sound shadow ” |
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| its when 2 instuments have the same intruments have the same pitch diff frequencys they canccel out . |
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| 21) When listening to music, loud frequencies may “cover up” softer sounds.Which psychoacoustic principles does this best describe? |
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| 22) Which gestalt principle explains how we are able to distinguish the melody line from the drum beat in a song? |
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| 23) Our minds associate sounds with objects. What psychoacoustic principle describes this? |
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| 24) What is a “beat frequency”? |
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| Wen u take 2 tones each different freq 80 80.005 put em together make a wave |
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| 25) Drummers often experience a phenomenon in which their heart rates begin to match the tempo of the drum beat they are playing. Which psychoacoustic principle explains why this may occur |
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| What is the “Cocktail Party Effect? |
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| the ability to follow one sound source out of many |
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| 27) Which category of musical instruments involves the striking, plucking or strumming of strings? |
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| How do idiophones make sound? |
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| 29) Which category of musical instruments involves beating, slapping, or hitting an a stretched animal skin or synthetic membrane? |
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| 30) How do electrophones produce sound? |
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| 31) What produces the sound in an aerophone? |
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| 50) The Theremin utilizes a concept called heterodyning in order to create sound. |
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| Beat frequency created through the combintation of 2 ultrasonic frequencies |
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| 51) What type of synthesizer allows the user to physically patch multiple components together in unlimited combinations in order to create unique sounds? |
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| How many notes could a monophonic synthesizer play at one time? |
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| 53) How does a synthesizer work? |
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| Through a series of sequential circuts |
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| 54) What is the “Harmonic Series”? |
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Over tones
mathematical relationship between fundamental and harmonics relationship is fixed fudamental frequency varies based on instrument
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| 57) Which of the synthesizer components is the tone generator? |
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| harmonic series oscillator |
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| 58) What are the basic analog synthesizer waveforms? |
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| sine wave square wave triangle sawtooth |
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| 59) Which of the synthesizer components is used to remove harmonics from a sound |
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| 61) What is the function of an Envelope Generator? |
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| affects the sound of a long period of time. |
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| 72) What is a quantization error? |
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| the actual amplitude values are not exact they are approximation w e call this |
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| 73) According to the Nyquist theory, what is the highest frequency that a sample rate of 96 kHz can digitize accurately? |
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| 74) According to the Nyquist theory, what sample rate is needed to accurately record a frequency of 96 kHz? |
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| 76) What is the resolution of a Red Book audio CD? |
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| 77) What is the bit depth of a DVD-Audio disc? |
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| When a violation results in sound distortion |
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| 79) High end DAWs use additional DSP cards to handle heavy processor functions such as effects. Which DAW system does this describe? |
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| 80) Which DAW system utilizes a computer’s own processing power in order to process digital effects? |
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| 81) Many long discontinued synthesizers are being reborn as software emulations for desktop and laptop computers. |
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| 84) What is a 3rd party plug-in? |
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Third Party Plug Ins
Plug Ins Developed by outside programmers manufacturers |
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| 85) What the basic plug-in formats used by DAWs? |
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