Quiz Review 4 Flashcards
CD’s from Conception to Manufacturing in 10 steps
- Conception- artist and producer will collaborate. Involve A & R.
- Recording
- Mixdown
- Masteror
- Quality Control
- Plant- glass mastering- a disk
- Negative Father- Plating
- Positive Mother- Plating
- Stamper- Plating
- Pressing and Moulding- Raw Plastic Disc
T or F. Sample rate reduction and bit rate reduction should be done at the same time.
F
T or F. The decibel level that begins to damage your hearing is 70.
F
T or F. A 24 bit system has a 144 Db of dynamic range.
T
T or F. When preparing a CD for Mastering always convert sample rate.
F
T or F. Dithering is done by adding noise of a level less then the least significant bit by rounding to 60.
T
In a zero point reference mix it is better to start with ________.
Most dominant
What does MS stand for?
Mid Side
The maximum audio CD length is ______.
79.38
Audio CD use the _______.
Red book standard
What is the name of the document that you give the duplicator?
the PQ list
Using one word describe dithering.
noise
For every bit that you give in a given system you ______ resolution.
Double
Give three types of processing plug ins.
Multiband compressor
Expander
D’esser
After we have processed give 3 other tasks
sequencing
spacing
fades
dithering
2 types of meters with explanation…
Peak- real time transients
VU- delayed averages
RMS- Real time averages
Phase- Give you coherency
list 3 lossie audio types
MP3
MP4
AAC
list 3 loss less
WAV
AIF
BWF
Define the term dynamic range
difference between the loudest and the softest levels
What is a disadvantage of normalization?
Quantization distortion
Raises the noise floor
