Name: __________________________________
Date: _________________________
Commercial Music Software – Quiz 1
1. Provide the appropriate names for the unlabeled areas:
White label:_________________________
Yellow label:_________________________
Match the term with its description:
2. _____ studio
a. device which allows an engineer to combine, control, and
distribute audio signals
3. _____ mixer/console
b. a person who assists an artist in creating the best possible
recording that reflects the artist's vision
4. _____ DAW
c. an acoustic space utilized to capture sound
5. _____ engineer
d. a space utilized as a critical listening environment
6. _____ producer
e. a techno-artistic interpreter who uses knowledge of acoustics
and recording technology to capture and reproduce sound
7. _____ control room
f. a computer-based platform which allows an engineer to control
many aspects of recording, mixing and editing audio
8. True or False: A microphone is a transducer because it changes the energy of electrical signals
into the energy of sound waves.
9. What is the primary operating system we are using in this classroom?
a. OS X
b. Windows
c. Unix
6. Which of the following are waveform characteristics?
a. rarefaction b. frequency c. reflection
d. release
e. amplitude
7. In its most fundamental sense, mixing audio is:
a. using a DAW to produce a high quality recorded product
b. processing live or recorded sound with various devices such as a mixer, equalizers, and
effects processors
c. the process of summing waveforms whose frequencies are within the range of human
hearing
d. really cool
BONUS:
32-bit audio has how many times the resolution/fidelity of 24-bit audio?