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Elena Safavi
- ____________________is the distance miking technique that captures the most direct sound.
Your Answer: Close Miking - ____________________picks up more room sound than direct sound.
Your Answer: Ambient Miking - ____________________gives an engineer a supplemental recording to boost a given instrument in the mix.
Your Answer: Accent Miking - ____________________ gives sounds time to develop and captures more room sound than close miking.
Your Answer: Distant Miking - ___________________ refers to any pair of microphones spaced at any distance.
Your Answer: Spaced Pair - The ___________________ configuration uses two matched cardioid microphones the heads nearly together at 90 degree angles.
Your Answer: XY - The ___________________ is almost identical to the X-Y technique with one variation - two bi-directional mics are used at 90 degree angles.
Your Answer: Blumlein Pair - The ___________________ technique involves placing a cardioid mic facing the sound source and a bi-directional mic is placed perpendicular to the cardioid mic.
Your Answer: Mid-Side - The ___________________ configuration uses 3 cardioid microphones facing left, right and centre which are then panned to match their configuration.
Your Answer: Decca Tree - Using an ________________ Bass Guitars and Guitars can be recorded with more flavor than DI boxes.
Your Answer: Amplifier - Miking an acoustic guitar near the _________________ may result in too much low end.
Your Answer: Sound hole - _________________ mics are generally speaking the most rugged type of microphone design.
Your Answer: Dynamic - To capture the harsh smack of a snare drum a ________________ mic should be used.
Your Answer: Dynamic - To cleanly capture the detail of a hi-hat, a __________________ mic should be used.
Your Answer: Condenser - The more distant stereo pairs are from each other the ______________ their stereo image will be.
Your Answer: Wider
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