People think that playing an instrument is the hardest part of releasing a music album. Well, they are dead wrong. Recording music and releasing it are often ignored perspectives on music creation. The following quiz will teach you the sophistication and depth of recording music and engineering the environment in which the music is created. The experts of this can use this for refreshing their knowledge. Good Luck!
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The device used to inspect the grooves on a lacquer master
It is used as the first step in vinyl mastering
A master disc from which the mother then stampers are made in
48 kHz
44.1 kHz
44.036 kHz
20 kHz
PW Code
UPC Code
Original Master
PQ Code
Index
PQ Mastered CD
Post Mastered CD
Pre Mastered CD
Post Mortum CD
12 minutes
60 minutes
100 minutes
74 minutes
Allows you to adjust the width of the stereo field
Allows you to independantly compress different frequency ranges on a single audio signal
Not often used in mastering
Does not increase (loudness)
Paragraphic eq
Multiband Shuffler
Multiband Compressor
MS Matrix (sum and difference)
Stands for 'difference-side-difference' processing
Is not used in audio
Is how digital audio is encoded for DVDs
Stands for 'direct stream digital' and is how digital audio is encoded for SACD
None of the above
Increase the peak-to-average ratio
To make a track sound punchier and clearer
To remove clicks and pops
To control the peak signals, thus allowing the overall level to be increased
None of the above
95 dB SPL
60 dB SPL
120 dB SPL
83-85 dB SPL
Whatever level feels right
Pro Tools
Red Book CDs
DVD-A
Logic
All of the above
Fast attack and slow release
Slow attack and fast release
Slow attack and slow release
Fast attack and fast release
None of the above
True
False
EQing
Compressing
Expanding
Limiting
None of the above
So that there is a consistent flow from track to track.
So the lister does not have to adjust their volume from track to track
So that one track does not sound "small" by comparison to the previous track.
All of the above
None of the above
True
False
EQ
Compressor
Monitors
Ears
True
False
True
False
Objective term used to describe SPL
Subjective term used to describe SPL
Objective term used to describe loudness
Subjective term used to describe loudness
Dynamic Range
Crest Factor
RMS
VU
True
False
"Mastering" is done at the manufacturing plant.
They not only master, but also pre-master.
Pre-mastering is just a more professional term
They are also mixing engineer's
True
False
WAV
AIF
DSD
AAC
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