Basic Audio Engineering - Chapter #14 Quiz - Posted on 2017-10-19 by Darrel Domanico

This chapter was tougher than I've expected. But in general, being in the studio is all about using your ears more than your eyes when you're working with plug-ins.

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