DM- Audio Basics Quiz Pre-View

sound designers

• Creating sound effects or audible atmosphere

• Record narration

• Editing and finalizing a recorded project

• Recording audio or managing live performances

Mastering engineers

• Creating sound effects or audible atmosphere

• Record narration

• Editing and finalizing a recorded project

• Recording audio or managing live performances

Audio engineers

• Creating sound effects or audible atmosphere

• Record narration

• Editing and finalizing a recorded project

• Recording audio or managing live performances

Voiceover artists

• Creating sound effects or audible atmosphere

• Record narration

• Editing and finalizing a recorded project

• Recording audio or managing live performances

Audio engineering is NOT focused on which of the following?

• Live events

• Videos

• Art

• Music

Which of the following best describes a pick up pattern?

• The area where microphones will ‘pick up’ sound

• The zones in a studio booth properly mic’ed

• The best place on the microphone to lift it

• The amount of re-takes an artist has to do on a track

Which of the following is a true statement about dynamic microphones?

• They require phantom power

• They do not require phantom power

Which of the following best describes the pop which happens when air hits the diaphragm of a microphone?

• Exploders

• Plosives

• Charges

• Pips

Match the type of microphone with its features:

+ Create more unwanted noise

+ Produce less accurate sound

+ More rugged

+ Good for traveling

+ Handle louder sounds

• Ribbon

• Dynamic

• Condenser

• Lavalier

Match the type of microphone with its features:

+ Fragile

+  Sensitive to loud sounds

+  Capture wide range of frequencies

• Ribbon

• Dynamic

• Condenser

• Lavalier