Midterm Flashcards

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1
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Sound Engineers

A

FOH
Monitors
Assistant (AKA A2)

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2
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Volume Issues

A

Everyone is a sound operator
Different Tastes
Ownership = Opinion
Poor Acoustics

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3
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Volume Solutions:

A

Talk with Pastor and MD
Set a DB limit
Walk the room
Acoustical treatment
EQ the system to your room

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3
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Hearing Range

A

20 Hz to 20 kHz

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4
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Sine Wave

A

Basic wave with smooth rise and fall of the crest

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5
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Crest

A

Top of the wave form
(Compression portion of the wave)

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6
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Cycle

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When a source has completed one crest and one trough

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7
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Wavelength

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Distance between waves

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8
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Frequency

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The number of times the wave occurs in one second.
Measured in Kilohertz,

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9
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Amplitude

A

Strength or intensity of a sound pressure wave “Height” of wave.

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10
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Phase

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The way multiple sound waves interact in an acoustical or electrical space

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11
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How Phase interacts:

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In phase - the waves add together
Inverse - they cancel each other out
Different waves -
Make a new wave

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12
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Speaker cable

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Made of two identical wires

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13
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Line level cable

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Instrument cable;
Two conductor design, surrounded by a braided wire shield.

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14
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Microphone cable

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Three conductor design

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15
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Impedance

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The resistance to the flow of an electrical current
High impedance is a guitar cable; less wires
Low impedance is a microphone cable, more wires.

16
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Balanced/unbalanced

A

Instrument cables; unbalanced
Microphone and Speaker cables: balanced

17
Q

XLR / Microphone cable sonic properties

A

The hot and cold wires take the sound and it becomes inversed, cancelling out all the noise (including picked up noise.)
Then it gets to the end and is flipped back so the sound comes out all nice and clean.