chapter 5 review - Posted on 2016-04-12 by Sarah West

1. __________ is credited as the inventor of the microphone. 
   Your Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
2. ______________ microphones use a capacitor. Voltage is created by the diaphragm changing the distance between two plates.
   Your Answer: Condenser
3. ____________ is a voltage that powers some of the components in most condenser microphones. It is usually a button that is pressed on a pre-amp or mixing console. 
   Your Answer: Phantom power
4. ____________ microphones use a corrugated piece of metal suspended in a magnetic field. Voltage is created through induction. 
   Your Answer: Ribbon
5. _______________ refers to the difference between what frequencies a performance is actually transmitting, to what the microphone is capturing. 
   Your Answer: Frequency Response
6. ___________________ invented the condenser microphone in _______. 
   Your Answer: Edward Christopher Wente, 1916
7. The popular ribbon microphones the RCA 77 and the 44 were invented by _______________. 
   Your Answer: Dr. Henry F. Olsen
8. _____________ microphones use a diaphragm attached to a moving coil that surrounds a magnet. Voltage is created through induction. 
   Your Answer: Dynamic
9. _________________ invented the transverse current carbon microphone in the early 1920s. 
   Your Answer: Georg Neumann
10. _______________is defined as the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of something, such as an object, image, sound or waveform. 
    Your Answer: Distortion
11. What polar pattern is pictured here? 
     
    Your Answer: Cardoid
12. The first microphone was called a ______________. 
    Your Answer: liquid transmitter
13. What polar pattern is pictured here? 
     
    Your Answer: Omni-Directional
14. What type of microphone circuit is pictured here? 
     
    Your Answer: Condenser