Digital Music Production Vocab 1

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What is the process of combining two or more tracks of music or sound into one?

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Mixing

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What is a sound recording that is sampled at regular intervals and expressed in binary notation (0 and 1)?

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Digital recording

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What is the last step in audio production to “polish” the mix to make a final copy that becomes the source for all copies of the song?

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Mastering

Front

What is the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a produced work?

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Copyright

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What is recording or extracting a small piece of music or sound digitally for reuse as part of a composition or song?

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Sampling

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What is producing a different version of a musical recording by 1) altering the balance of the separate tracks or 2) adding new tracks and/or changing existing tracks to create a different mix?

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Remixing

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What is a continuous wave that changes over time? Phonographs and tape are examples of this.

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Analog recording

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What is adding sound effects to video/film after it is recorded?

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Foley

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What is recording a performance as it actually happens in real time?

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Live recording

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What is using more than one recording of music or sound at a time to create a more complex sound or song?

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Multi-tracking