Music Recording

What are tracks?

• Something a train travels on

• Individual layers of sound in a multitrack recording

• The sliders you move to change the gain

• The overall project you are recording in Logic

What is gain?

• How much reverb is added to a track

• An audio track with no effects added

• Setting an audio source to one side

• The volume added to a track, measured in dB

A track with no effects added is

• Dry

• Wet

Which type of microphone is more fragile and requires phantom power?

• Dynamic

• Condenser

What is automation used for?

• To change certain parameters (often volume) within a track

• To move sound to one side or another for a whole track

• To automatically add reverb

• To produce a song with loops

Which effect adds echos that we can usually distinguish between?

• Reverb

• Chorus

• Delay

• Flange

Which effect adds echos that are so close together we can't distinguish them, often making it sound like we are in a tunnel/hall?

• Reverb

• Delay

• Flange

• Distortion

If you only want to hear one track during playback you turn on this setting:

• Panning

• Mute

• Solo

• Record

To put an audio source all the way to one side is doing this:

• Side panning

• Slide panning

• Soft panning

• Hard panning

The gain of the entire multitrack is called:

• Total volume

• Master

• Main

• Monitor volume