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

2. Which bit depth uses more system resources?

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

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

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

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

7. 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:

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

9. The reverberation time of a signal is:

10. 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?

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

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

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

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

15. Sibilance typically resides in which frequency range?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24. A single MIDI link can carry up to

25. 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:

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

27. A Bandpass filter:

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

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

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

31. Which is not a polar pattern?

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

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

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

35. What is best suited to removing electrical hum?

36. What is the correct voltage on Phantom Power?

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

38. Parallel Compression is achieved by:

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

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

41. Comping is

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

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

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

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

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

47. Who created VST?

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

49. A spectrum analyzer displays ..... ?

50. 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:

51. 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:

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

53. What is the average range of human hearing?

54. What is the purpose of a compressor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

62. DAW stands for

63. How many volts is Phantom Power?

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

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

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

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

68. Which type of microphone requires phantom power?

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

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

71. What does LFO stand for?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

81. A limiter can be defined as

82. 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?

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

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

85. 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: