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chapter 14 review Posted on 2017-11-09 by Sarah West

Basic Audio Engineering - Chapter #14 Quiz

  1. In what decade was the first commercially available compressor released? 
    Your Answer: The 1950s
  2. ________________ was the designer of the first commercially-available audio compressor. 
    Your Answer: Bill Putnam
  3. Modern ____________ recording is a method of recording where signals are stored as a continual wave in or on the media, usually magnetic tape. 
    Your Answer: Analog
  4. In _______________ recording, sound signals are converted and stored as binary data. 
    Your Answer: Digital
  5. A ______________ reduces dynamic range. 
    Your Answer: Compressor
  6. A(n) _______________ increases dynamic range. 
    Your Answer: Expander
  7. The _____________ is the decibel point at which compression is initiated. 
    Your Answer: Threshold
  8. A compression ratio of 100:1 would be considered ___________. 
    Your Answer: Limiting
  9. The _____________ determines the amount of gain reduction of a compressor. 
    Your Answer: Ratio
  10. The _____________ determines how quickly compression will initiate after the threshold is breached. 
    Your Answer: Attack
  11. The ______________ determines how quickly gain reduction is reset after the signal drops back below the threshold. 
    Your Answer: Release
  12. A ___________ is used to remove sibilance. 
    Your Answer: De-Esser
  13. ___________ involves processing one signal with different settings for frequency ranges present in the signal. 
    Your Answer: Multiband Compression
  14. ____________ implies that the output of one compressor is being fed into the input of another compressor. 
    Your Answer: Serial Compression
  15. _________________ implies that a signal is being split, and one half of the split signal is compressed separately using an aux send, and is then recombined with the original signal. 
    Your Answer: Parallel Compression

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