General Audio Editing MCQs

1. The psychoacoustic phenonmenon that occurs when, for example, a loud cymbal crash and a softer fragment of human speech appear simultaneously in a mix, resulting in reduced intelligibility of the speech, is known as:

2. Near-field speakers should be placed so that the tweeters are

3. Sounds exceeding which volume level can cause immediate hearing damage?

4. A client wants you to correct a song she recently recorded, saying the sound was too "boomy". If you were to EQ the song, in which of these frequency ranges would you concentrate to correct this?

5. A limiter can be defined as

6. A Cardioid microphone pick up patterns are most sensitive to sound produced on

7. What is the frequency relationship between two notes on a keyboard that are an octave apart?

8. Reversing polarity is used to treat what audio problem?

9. A type of microphone requiring phantom power is a:

10. Localizing a sound in within the perceived left-right stereo field requires the technique known as:

11. The standard soundfile specification for CD quality audio is:

12. The standard sample rate specification for CD quality audio is:

13. Which of the following mp3 file compression rates yields the best audio fidelity:

14. During the CD mastering stage of production, you would normally:

15. What does LFO stand for?

16. What does the NORMALIZE command do to an audio track?

17. to hear only the output of a single track in a multichannel mix, you would use

18. Which type of microphone requires phantom power?

19. The best way to join two soundfiles together so that there is a smooth transition without silence between the sounds is to use:

20. What is the name given to the process of repairing damaged or degraded audio?

21. The 'tweeter' on an audio monitor produces which part of the frequency spectrum?

22. What is the type of distortion that occurs when a digital signal is recorded too loudly?

23. How many volts is Phantom Power?

24. DAW stands for

25. To remove a single unwanted frequency from a digital audio signal, you would use:

26. Which project Bit Depth uses the most system memory?

27. Which two instruments should you keep in mono in order to add more punch and focus to a Rock/Pop mix?

28. What bit depth of digital audio file is better for Audio processing ?

29. The signal processing plug-in used to reduce excess vocal siblance is called a:

30. A 1:1 ratio setting on a compressor would yield

31. Imagine that you are a voiceover actor/actress. What is the best way to achieve professional sound quality for your vocal performance?

32. What is the purpose of a compressor?

33. What is the average range of human hearing?

34. To avoid digital clipping on a multitrack mix you would:

35. After recording a number of digital audio soundfiles, the process used to ensure that the peak amplitude of each soundfile is maximized is called a:

36. In order to create the illusion that a passage of ADR dialogue recorded dry in a studio was actually recorded on location, you would mix in a small amount of:

37. A spectrum analyzer displays ..... ?

38. When using a compressor, the ratio setting (such as 4:1 or 2:1) will control

39. Who created VST?

40. Which of the following combinations of digital recording bit resolution and sampling rate will yield the best audio quality?

41. In order to eliminate or minimize clicks between soundfile edits, you should try to place your edits on:

42. In the majority of music recording situations, what is the most critical step in the recording chain.

43. What is the name of the control feature that can manipulate multiple effect parameters simultaneously?

44. Which of the following is a widely used DAW by engineers today?

45. Comping is

46. When recording, in order to minimize distortion caused by digital clipping, and to maintain consistent signal gain, it is best to use:

47. When using a parametric equalizer, the Q setting determines

48. Parallel Compression is achieved by:

49. Which of the following is a lossless audio format?

50. What is the correct voltage on Phantom Power?

51. What is best suited to removing electrical hum?

52. When compression exceeds a ratio of _______ it is considered limiting.

53. To automatically vary the level of background music that accompanies a voice over track you would:

54. Low-level broadband noise is added to the signal of a 24-bit soundfile when:

55. Which is not a polar pattern?

56. The term for sounds resulting from the pronunciation of "P" and "B" letters in voice recording is

57. When preparing a 24 bit digital audio soundfile for audio CD production, you will need to:

58. The digital signal processing technique for creating the most realistic sounding artificial reverberation, using impulse responses recorded in actual spaces, is known as:

59. A Bandpass filter:

60. Which of the following is not a tool for manipulating dynamic range?

61. Using a sampling rate of 11 kHz when digitally recording a sound with a lot of high-frequency content can result in unwanted artifacts known as:

62. A single MIDI link can carry up to

63. When Proximity effect occurs, which frequencies appear louder?

64. Approximately how much disk storage space is required to hold a one-hour 16 bit, 44.1 kHz stereo raw soundfile?

65. Any inaccuracies of a sampling frequency into and back out of the digital domain from the analog domain is referred to as:

66. To reduce muddiness and increase bass definition when mixing a pop or rock song, it is usually a good idea to

67. To bring the loudest part of a piece of audio to a specified value, without changing its relative dynamics, you would use:

68. Upon playback In a studio environment, bass frequency response tends to be weakest

69. A digital audio soundfile with a maximum dynamic range of 96 dB is:

70. The dynamic range of a 24 bit soundfile is approximately ______dB.

71. Sibilance typically resides in which frequency range?

72. What display type shows an audio files frequency distribution and amplitude over time?

73. What is the approximate bass frequency of male speech?

74. A linear phase EQ differs from a standard EQ in that it....?

75. For an mp3 file, "128 kbps" compression stands for:

76. Approximately how much hard disk storage space is required to hold a thirty-minute, sixteen-track digital audio session recorded at 24 bit, 96 khz?

77. The reverberation time of a signal is:

78. From the choices below, what is the minimum sampling rate you need to use to record and perfectly reproduce a frequency of 14000 Hz?

79. The electrically induced artifact in a digital audio signal, whereby the mean amplitude of the signal is above zero, and which can lead to audible distortion is known as:

80. Which of these is not a measurement of loudness?

81. What is the approximate low frequency range of male speech?

82. Upon playback In a rectangular studio environment, bass frequency response tends to be weakest

83. What is the frequency relationship between two notes that are an octave apart?

84. Which bit depth uses more system resources?

85. The audio subsystem consists of the speakers and a(n) ________.