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RTEC

Alex Meulenbeld RTEC English 5.0Average rating 5.0 out of 5 (1 rating) 74 cards

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  1. 1What is phase?when two audio signals that are the same are heard at different times
  2. 2What are the five stages in song production?1. Bed Tracks
    2. Overdubbing
    3. Editing
    4. Mixing
    5. Mastering
  3. 3What are three ways you can use mic's to impact a mix?1. Type of mic
    2. Amount of mics used
    3. Mics location in relation to sound source
  4. 4What is the proximity effect?When you are closer to a mic you gain more low end and the further you go from the mic the more low end you lose and more room reflection you gain
  5. 5What is mixing?A balancing process to fool the listener
  6. 6What is off axis coloration?When you tilt a mic at an angle from the sound source to lower high end, the farther you tilt the more dull the sound gets
  7. 7What are the five types of cardioids1. Regular Cardioid
    2. Super Cardioid
    3. Hyper Cardioid
    4. Sub Cardioid
    5. Ultra Cardioid (shotgun)
  8. 8What are the five types of polar patterns?1. Cardioid
    2. Bi-Directional
    3. Omnidirectional
    4. Hemispherical
    5. Multi Pattern
  9. 9What is microphone leakage?Anything that comes through the mic that you do not want to
    ie. air
  10. 10What makes up a capsule?1. Backplate
    2. Diaphragm
  11. 11What is a electret mic?A mic with a constantly charged capsule (still requires power for the pre amp)
  12. 12What is a dynamic mic?A mic that requires no power and works by a moving coil moving through a magnetic field
  13. 13What is a condenser mic?A mic that requires power and is made up of a capsule and pre amp to transduce sound
  14. 14How many volts is phantom power?48 Volts
  15. 15What is a capacitor?a device capable of holding a charge
  16. 16What are the four aspects that determine capacitance power?1. Size of backplate
    2. Backplate material
    3. Distance between backplate and diaphragm
    4. What makes up the dielectric (air)
  17. 17Capacitance x voltage =Charge
  18. 18What is different about multi pattern condenser capsules?There are two of them
  19. 19What does PZM stand for?Pressure Zone Microphone
  20. 20What is the difference between stereo and mono?Mono has no stereo field and it sounds like the sound comes from one direction at all times, stereo mimics an actual listening experience and requires two speakers
  21. 21What are the three types of stereo mic techniques?1. Coincident (capsules near touching)
    2. Near-Coincident (capsules within a foot)
    3. Spaced Pair (capsules over a foot)
  22. 22What are three types of spaced pair mic techniques?1. Jecklin Disk
    2. Quasi Binaural
    3. Deca Tree (augmented spaced pair)
  23. 23What is nominal level?The level that manufacturers intended the system to work best at. The ideal spot between distortion and the noise floor
  24. 24What is the noise floor?The consoles self noise, or room sound
  25. 25What is headroom?The area below distortion and above nominal level
  26. 26What is signal to noise ratio?The signal at nominal level as compared to the noise floor
  27. 27What is gain structure?Setting the ideal nominal levels for all components in a circuit, when proper gain structure is achieved the signal will have an indiscernible amount of noise and no distortion
  28. 28What is a summing bus?Collects all audio signals prior to their arrival at an output
  29. 29What is a potentiometerA knob (level controller)
  30. 30What is a subgroupBusses that target multitrack inputs
  31. 31What is the routing matrix?Is a pan pot and switches that allows signals to be routed to any subgroup
  32. 32What is the mic signal path in a split console?1. Mic
    2. Input Strip
    3. Subgroups
    4. Multitrack
    5. Output Strip
    6. Mix Bus
    7. Amp & Speakers
  33. 33What are the two types of audio consoles1. i/o: A console that has input strips and output strips on one strip
    2. split: console where the input and output strips require two different strips
  34. 34What is panning?Used to create a sense of spatial location
  35. 35What are pan laws?the rate at which the level is tapered as a signal is panned toward or away from centre or both
  36. 36What is a direct switch?used to decide which signal will output to the multitrack
  37. 37Where do we mic instrument?an ideal patch of air nearby
  38. 38What is a frequency response chart?mics are tested for sensitivity across all frequencies in human ear range and plotted in a linear fashion
  39. 39What are off-axis Entry Ports?allows sound arrival disparity. sound hits the front of the diaphragm first, when sounds hit the back the ports allow the sound to hit the back of the diaphragm at the same time as the front of the diaphragm resulting in no sound. Allows cardioid patterns
  40. 40what are ribbon mics?thin aluminium ribbon that is electrically conductive and is placed between two magnets, sensitive to high spl
  41. 41capacitance mimics...SPL
  42. 42What is capacitance?a devices ability to hold a charge
  43. 43if capacitance goes up what goes down?velocity
  44. 44direction detection?the ability of understanding what direction the sound comes from. Done by which ear the sound hits first
  45. 45time arrival disparity?when stereo micing, sound hits the mics at different times
  46. 46Comb. Filtering?two out of phase waveforms added together resulting in frequencies lost
  47. 47What is phase tuning?the source f response by summing different arrival times
  48. 48The four functions of a DI box?1. changes high impedance to low impedance
    2. instrument to mic level
    3.balanced to unbalanced
    4. electrically isolates output device from an input device
  49. 49two types of DI boxes?passive (transformer) - both directions, no power
    active (amplifier) - dc, uni directional, needs power
  50. 50What is gain structure?setting the ideal levels (nominals) for all the components in the circuits
  51. 51I/O console is also called what?inline console
  52. 52do you have available line in puts on an I/0 console?no taken up by the multitrack
  53. 53what is the mic/line switch?allows you to choose mic or line input to channel path
  54. 54what is the rev (smart) switch?it allows for pre or post multitrack
  55. 55Constant Power Pan Law?a drop of 3db in the centre creates the impression that a sound level never changes as it panned across the image
  56. 56Constant Voltage Pan Law?a drop of 6db in the centre would show up on the meters as a constant level as the signal was panned across the stereo image
  57. 57How many channel busses does the wester have?24
  58. 58What is foldback?a mixture of previously and/or currently recorded signals supplied via headphones to the tracking musicians
  59. 59the most important mix of any tracking day is the...foldback mix
  60. 60what are the two separate mixes we make on a "tracking day"?holdback mix, monitor/CR mix
  61. 61Why do we tap the foldback signal pre linear fader?this way the linear fader and monitor path pan pot will have no impact on the foldback mix
  62. 62what is submixing?when we take the source tracks and route them to one or two (stereo) destination
  63. 63when submixing, you route the monitor path into the channel path to target the routing matrix with what 3 switch?Mic/Line Switch, Mon Switch, Dump switch
  64. 64What is patching?a manual way of routing (signal flow)
  65. 65What are patch points?location in signal path where normal signal flow may be modified via I/O jacks
  66. 66which parts of the TRS send and return the signal in the patch bay?Tip - To
    Ring - Return
  67. 67Whats the difference between patching and sending?patching is a manual routing of the signal while sending is the internal routing of a signal
  68. 68What is a Half normalled patch bay?signal flows to patch points and continues on. found on I/O, sends, returns, and mix busses.
  69. 69A half normally patch bay is also referred to as what?a Bridge-Break System
  70. 70What are the four types of patch points found on the westar?1. Bridge out, Break In
    2. Terminated Patch Points (Tie Lines)
    3. Mult
    4. Bridge In
  71. 71What is the Bridge In, Break in patch point?bridge out = doesn't interrupt normal signal flow and allows a copy of the tapped signal
    break in= injects signal into the path following the patch point, interrupts any signal previous to this point
  72. 72What is a terminated patch point?also known as a tie line, allows outboard gear to be attached to input and outputs on the patch bay
  73. 73What is a mult patch point?actually like a thru box, input one signal and three copies of the signal can be outputted
  74. 74What is a bridge in patch point?also referred to as Wild in, allows the processed signal and the original signal to be mixed at the patch point rather then breaking the signal like the break in patch points

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