Signal Flow

What is signal flow?

• a combination of inserts and sends.

• The path an audio signal takes from the input to the output in an audio console.

• a sum of multiple audio tracks

• the path an audio signal travels through the air.

A line signal is +50db higher than a mic signal.

• True

• False

What is a bus?

• the path an audio signal takes on a circuit board.

• something that controls the master fader of a console.

• a mixdown of several audio channels.

• a form of transportation on 4 wheels and is yellow.

What does PFL stand for?

• Pre-Fader Listen

• Prestige Football League

• Proxy Fair Learning

• Pro Fader Listening

The _______________________ switch/button will silence (or turn off) an audio signal on a channel.

• Mute

• Pan

• Gain

• none of the above.

Any signal flow chain starts at the _______________________.

• sound frequency.

• sound source.

• sound bite.

• none of the above.

What does AFL stand for?

• American Football League

• After Footage Loops

• Anti-Final Luck

• After-Fader Listen

Understanding the nature of how a signal moves through hardware and

processing chains during the recording process is very important.

• True

• False

An A/D converter does what?

• converts a digital signal to analog signal

• converts an .acc file into a .doc file.

• converts an analog signal to a digital signal

• none of the above

A D/A converter does what?

• converts an analog audio signal to a digital signal.

• converts a .docx file type into an analog file type.

• converts a digital audio signal into an analog signal.

• all of the above