Surround sound test

Question 1

What is surround sound?

Answer 1

The process of taking a recording and outputting to a multi channel format.

Question 2

Standard surround sound formatting is ofter noted as

Answer 2

“X.1 ( example 5.1 6.1 7.1 etc.. ) where X represents the number of full range speakers and the “.1 ”represents the presence of an LFE channel.

Question 3

LFE =

Answer 3

Low Frequency Effect - The speaker which carries the bulk of your low end programming. Generally anything 85Hz and below

Question 4

Why go surround with your sound?

Answer 4

Immersive, envelopes the listener in sound
more engaging than stereo sound
more realistic ( esp. when it comes to surround for film ) b/c it more accurately recreates how we as humans hear
often more depth in sound

Question 5

What is Cinemascope and what was the first movie to use it

Answer 5

The new wider-screen formats ended multiple channels to fill the entire front field of the movie screen.

A wall of sound, employing four to six audio channels for a widescreen stereo effect.

Question 6

What is Quadrophonic

Answer 6

Sound uses four channels in which speakers are positioned at the four corners of the listening space

Fantasia. Walt Disney

Question 7

What is Todd AO

Answer 7

An extremely high definition widescreen film format developed in the mid 1950s

It was co-developed by Mike Todd, a Broadway producer, with American Optical Company in Rochester, New York sound format was 6.0.

Oklahoma! (1955)
Around the World in Eighty Days

Question 8

What is Dolby Stereo and who used it first

Answer 8

What is the film first to use Dolby Digital?
        BATMAN RETURNS (1992)

Question 9

IS SOUND ONLY ABOUT THE MIXDOWN?

Answer 9

Nope… the best surround mixes utilize both recording in surround and mixing in surround

Question 10

SMPTE format for surround

Answer 10

1. Left
2. Right
3. Center
4. LFE
5. LS
6. RS

Question 11

Film format for surround sound

Answer 11

1. Left
2. Center
3. Right
4. LS
5. RS
6. LFE

Question 12

What is Divergence

Answer 12

The amount of signal shared between 2 or more speakers equally

Question 13

Where would you configure your film/SMPTE

Answer 13

I/0

Question 14

In what window will all of the SESSION parameters be found in

Answer 14

the Session window

Question 15

What is the process called when a multichannel mis is reproduced in Stereo

Answer 15

Down Mixing

Question 16

Which sine wave parameters do you select to calibrate your speakers

Answer 16

-18dB Pink Noise

Question 17

7.1 Configuration is what

Answer 17

L
LC
Center
RC
R
LS
RS
LFE

Question 18

In a 6.1 configuration where will the extra speaker most likely be place

Answer 18

In the rear my deer

Question 19

Standard film format for surround sound is

Answer 19

Dolby Digital

Question 20

What types of speakers are best used for surround

Answer 20

Full Range direct firing

Question 21

When mixing in surround all of your speakers should be placed

Answer 21

Equal distance from the mix position

Question 22

What is the surround format that never took off

Answer 22

Quadriphonic

Question 23

First film to use surround

Answer 23

Fantasia