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Basic Audio Editing MCQ

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

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Correct Answer: Sound card

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2. Which bit depth uses more system resources?

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Correct Answer: 32 bit (float)

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

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Correct Answer: Half/Double

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

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Correct Answer: at the halfway point of the room.

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

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Correct Answer: 80-180 Hz

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

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Correct Answer: DB

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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:

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Correct Answer: DC offset

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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?

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Correct Answer: 32000

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9. The reverberation time of a signal is:

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Correct Answer: The amount of time required for a signal to decay by 60 dB

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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?

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Correct Answer: 8.1 GB

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

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Correct Answer: 128 kilobits per second

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

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Correct Answer: Does not affect phase

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

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Correct Answer: 100 Hz

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

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Correct Answer: Spectral

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15. Sibilance typically resides in which frequency range?

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Correct Answer: 7 - 10 KHz

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

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Correct Answer: 144

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

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Correct Answer: 16-bit resolution

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

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Correct Answer: at the halfway point of a rectangular room.

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

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Correct Answer: Peak Normalization

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

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Correct Answer: apply a HPF to all tracks where the bass information is not fundamental to the tone

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

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Correct Answer: jitter

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

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Correct Answer: 620 MB

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

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Correct Answer: Lows

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24. A single MIDI link can carry up to

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Correct Answer: 16 channels of information

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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:

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Correct Answer: Aliasing

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

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Correct Answer: Exciter

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27. A Bandpass filter:

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Correct Answer: attenuates frequencies outside of its specified range.

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

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Correct Answer: Convolution

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

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Correct Answer: Use dithering, while reducing bit resolution to 16 bits

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

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Correct Answer: Plosives

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31. Which is not a polar pattern?

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Correct Answer: Megacardioid

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

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Correct Answer: Dithering down the soundfile to 16-bit resolution

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

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Correct Answer: Apply auto-ducking to the background music track based on signal input from the voice over track

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

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Correct Answer: 10:1

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35. What is best suited to removing electrical hum?

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Correct Answer: Notch EQ

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36. What is the correct voltage on Phantom Power?

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Correct Answer: 48 V

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

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Correct Answer: FLAC

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38. Parallel Compression is achieved by:

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Correct Answer: mixing an unprocessed 'dry', or lightly compressed signal with a heavily compressed version of the same signal.

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

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Correct Answer: the width of the frequency band

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

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Correct Answer: an outboard compressor between the microphone signal and your audio interface.

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41. Comping is

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Correct Answer: editing multiple takes of a performance into a single take.

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

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Correct Answer: (all of these)

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

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Correct Answer: MACRO

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

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Correct Answer: Microphone placement

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

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Correct Answer: A zero crossing point of the sound waves

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

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Correct Answer: 24 bit and 96 kHz

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47. Who created VST?

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Correct Answer: Steinberg

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

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Correct Answer: the amount of gain reduction applied when the input exceeds the threshold. The higher the ratio, the more compression is applied.

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49. 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:

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Correct Answer: Location-recorded room tone

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50. 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:

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Correct Answer: Normalization

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

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Correct Answer: Do all of these

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52. What is the average range of human hearing?

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Correct Answer: 20Hz - 20KHz

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53. What is the purpose of a compressor?

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Correct Answer: Reduction of dynamic range

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

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Correct Answer: Arrange microphones and set other equipment levels correctly so that the sound at the beginning of the recording chain is optimum.

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

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Correct Answer: no change to the input

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

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Correct Answer: De-esser

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

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Correct Answer: 24 bit

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

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Correct Answer: Bass and Kick Drums

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

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Correct Answer: 32 bit (float)

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

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Correct Answer: A notch filter

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61. How many volts is Phantom Power?

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Correct Answer: 48

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

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Correct Answer: Digital clipping

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

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Correct Answer: High

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

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Correct Answer: Audio Restoration

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

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Correct Answer: An overlapping crossfade

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66. Which type of microphone requires phantom power?

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Correct Answer: Condenser

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

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Correct Answer: solo

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

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Correct Answer: Raises the gain of the entire track to the point where the highest peak is just below clipping

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69. What does LFO stand for?

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Correct Answer: Low Frequency Oscillator

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

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Correct Answer: Do all of these

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

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Correct Answer: 320 kbps

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

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Correct Answer: 44.1 kHz

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

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Correct Answer: 16-bit, 44.1 kHz sampling rate.

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

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Correct Answer: panning.

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

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Correct Answer: condenser microphone

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

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Correct Answer: Phase Misalignment

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

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Correct Answer: Half/Double

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

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Correct Answer: the front side of the microphone

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79. A limiter can be defined as

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Correct Answer: a compressor with a ratio that is 10:1 or higher

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80. 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?

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Correct Answer: 20 - 200 Hz

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

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Correct Answer: 140 DB

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

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Correct Answer: at ear level.

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83. 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:

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Correct Answer: Masking

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