Name: __________________________________ Date: _________________________
Commercial Music Software – Quiz 3
Provide the appropriate names for the unlabeled areas: a. device which allows an engineer to combine, control, and
distribute audio signals b. a person who assists an artist in creating the best possible
recording that reflects the artist's vision d. a space utilized as a critical listening environment
1. White label:_______________________
Match the term with its description:
3. _____ producer
4. _____ control room
5. _____ DAW
6. _____ engineer
2. Yellow label:_______________________ c. an acoustic space utilized to capture sound
7. _____ studio
8. _____ mixer/console e. a techno-artistic interpreter who uses knowledge of acoustics
and recording technology to capture and reproduce sound f. a computer-based platform which allows an engineer to control
many aspects of recording, mixing and editing audio
Name 2 waveform characteristics: 9.__________________ 10.__________________

11. Sketch a high-pass filter.
12. Sketch a peak filter.
13. Sketch a shelving filter.
14. The Fletcher-Munson equal loudness curves indicate that: a. The human ear perceives low mids more easily than high mids. b. The human ear perceives mid frequencies more easily than high and low frequencies. c. The human ear perceives low and high frequencies more easily than mid frequencies. d. The human ear perceives all frequencies from 20Hz-20kHz at about the same level.
15. True or False: A microphone is a transducer because it changes the energy of sound waves
into the energy of electrical signals.
16. The symbol used to represent bandwidth is: a. B b. F c. Q
17. In its most fundamental sense, mixing audio is: d. W a. processing sound with devices such as mixer, equalizers, and effects processors b. working the crossfader between two turntables c. using a DAW to produce a high quality recorded product hearing d. the process of summing waveforms whose frequencies are within the range of human
18. True of False: A noise gate filters out frequencies of instruments that were not intended to be
picked up by a particular microphone.
19. Describe the phenomenon of masking.
BONUS: What is the speed of sound in feet per second?
BONUS:
BONUS:
Pro Tools used to call its visual representation of a waveform a “region”, but now uses the word “clip”. What word does Reaper use?
The first harmonic is commonly called the _______________________.