Final Review

Question 1

What are examples of non pitched sounds?

Answer 1

Radio static, snare drum

Question 2

What are examples of a period wave that does repeat?

Answer 2

Piano, guitar, our singing voice

Question 3

What is the measurement for Frequency?

Answer 3

Hertz

Question 4

What does Kilohertz mean?

Answer 4

1000 Hertz

Question 5

What do you do to make Frequency up an octave?

Answer 5

Double it.

Question 6

What does cent mean?

Answer 6

Up a half step.

Question 7

What is the measurement for amplitude?

Answer 7

Decibel

Question 8

What is the Frequency of the 7th harmonic?

Answer 8

700 Hertz

Question 9

What are examples of sound that is non harmonic?

Answer 9

Metallic instruments: gong or bell

Question 10

What does resonance do to a sound?

Answer 10

Changes the tone.

Question 11

What does resonance of a vocal track do?

Answer 11

Changes various vowel sounds.

Question 12

What are examples of resonance?

Answer 12

Solid Materials: Air enclosed, sea shell, the hollow box of a guitar, wood

Question 13

What does an Equalizer do?

Answer 13

Changes the frequency response on purpose.

Question 14

What is a flat Frequency Response?

Answer 14

What sounds comes in, comes out exactly the same.

Question 15

What causes comb filtering?

Answer 15

Two copies of the same sound arriving at two different times getting picked up twice.

Question 16

What type of Distortion do we encounter most?

Answer 16

Clipping

Question 17

How do you avoid clipping?

Answer 17

Reduce the level.

Question 18

What creates clipping?

Answer 18

Excessive levels.

Question 19

What does Distortion do?

Answer 19

It adds high frequencies and makes quieter sounds more apparent.

Question 20

Why wouldn’t you use delay on percussion and drums?

Answer 20

It would create another rhythm or echo.

Question 21

If the faster the tempo, should the reverb time be shorter or longer?

Answer 21

Shorter

Question 22

What does lots of Reverb tell us?

Answer 22

Everything sounds far away.

Question 23

What is Panning?

Answer 23

The combination of arrival time and level/volume change. It is also how things are positioned from left to right.

Question 24

How do we perceive the direction of sound by which sound is earlier?

Answer 24

Panning

Question 25

True of False? Sounds below the threshold are heard.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

What does a compressor do?

Answer 26

It reduces the volume of sounds that exceeds the threshold.

Question 27

What does the limiter do?

Answer 27

Makes sure that certain notes don't stick out.

Question 28

What is the speed of sound?

Answer 28

1140 feet per second

Question 29

How is delay created?

Answer 29

When a sound travels through the air at the speed of sound. Also when a sound reflects off a boundary creating an alternate, longer path to the listener.

Question 30

Delay is...

Answer 30

A simple repeat of the sound, when longer than 30ms can be called an "echo".

Question 31

What is Delay time?

Answer 31

Measured in milliseconds and the length of a single delay.

Question 32

What is Reverberation?

Answer 32

Many reflections blending into a smooth sound.

Question 33

What is Reverb time?

Answer 33

the amount of time it takes reverb to decay to silence. (-60

Question 34

What is Quantization?

Answer 34

``` When a signal is converted from analog to digital, the signal is converted to a series of numerical values. ```

Question 35

What is a Frequency Response?

Answer 35

``` a system's reproduction of the different frequencies in the spectrum, often quoted by its upper and lower limits ```

Question 36

What is a Harmonic?

Answer 36

``` a mode of vibration that is a whole-number multiple of the fundamental. ```

Question 37

What is a Fundamental?

Answer 37

Basic mode of vibration.

Question 38

What is a Harmonic Spectrum?

Answer 38

``` a sound which is made up of harmonic overtones following the harmonic series. (whole-number multiples of the fundamental.) ```

Question 39

What is Transient?

Answer 39

A single pulse of sound.

Question 40

What is Timbre?

Answer 40

Tone color, controlled by the wave shape.