Compression - Posted on 2017-04-10 by Priscilla Colon

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: Selective Compression 
    Incorrect: Correct Answer is 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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