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| What would be a good definition for re-recording? |
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| Blending sources together to make one track |
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| What is an M&E and why is it important? |
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| Music and effects mix (Foreign Market) |
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| Where is the only place I would be most likely to find audio on digital re-recording stage? |
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| What would you find at either end of the console on a re-recording stage and why are they there? |
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| How would you explain "pinking the room" to a friend who had no studio experience? |
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| What would I find in the control room of an average re-recording stage? |
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| Recording machines, DSP Cores, converters of digital consoles and patch bay |
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| What term would describe the process of blending source material into smaller stereo sub-mixes? |
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| When you begin to create your predubs, what should you take into consideration as far as deciding what material will go where? |
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| Like sounds, Similar frequency content |
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| How many channels would panned dialogue, or general walla be sent to? |
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| How many channels is a panned foley predub? |
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| Which channel would you send all principal characters dialogue? |
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| How many channels is a small sound effects predub? |
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| Which channels would you be most likely to send your large sound effects to when creating a large sound effects predub? |
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| What is mixed to create a printmaster? |
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| DX stem, Sfx stem, Mx stem |
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| What don't directors like to hrear footsteps in the surround channels? |
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| What is the purpose of " the Chain", and what is it important? |
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| To clean production dialogue |
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| What is the optical track and why is it there? |
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| Standard 2 channels stereo mix, back up |
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| What is the headroom for digital formats? |
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| What is the audio for SDDS found on the film |
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| Which motion picture sound format uses a 4-2-4 encoding matrix, with a sub derived from crossovers? |
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| Which film sound format uses AC3 compression? |
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| Dolby SRD & Dolby Digital |
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| List 3 reasons to explain the importance of understanding psychoacoustics? |
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1) To design better sound effects
2) Audience feel more enveloped
3) 3 deminsion mixes |
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| The scientific study of human perception of sound |
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| What are the three main cues with regards to the basics of psychoacoustics? |
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| What is an attribute of auditory sensation by which sounds can be ordered on a musical scale? |
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| How many octaves does the human hearing range cover? |
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| Which octave range is known to contain, the fundamental, lower harmonics, and overtone of most sound sources? |
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| Which octave range is said to give sounds a "tinny" sound? |
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| Properly emphasized, the lower parts of which octave should be used to improve speech intelligibility? |
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| What's the difference between intensity and loudness? |
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| Intensity is a fact Loudness is perceptual |
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| what are the four static cues for human localization? |
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| Interaural time difference Intersural intensity difference Pinna response Shoulder echo |
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| Which static cue is most effecitve when frequency content is between 270Hz and 500Hz? |
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| Interaural Time Difference |
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| Which static cue is responsible for determining both azimuth and zenith, as well as whether a sound is originating in front of or behind the listener? |
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| What are the four dynamic cues for human localization? |
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| Head movement Early echo response Reverb Visual to confirm |
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| What are the three principle cues for determining or simulating distance? |
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| Amount of high frequnce content Intensity of sound source Ratio to direct reverb |
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| What term describes the crowding of wavefronts aroung a moving sound source? |
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| In terms of post production, what is the importance of understanding the cocktail party effect? |
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| You need to have multiple speaking sources |
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| If I place a fade-in on the left channel of a stereo file, and a fade out on the right channel, what have I accomplished, and what psychiacoustic phenomenon have I taken advantage of? |
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| Accomplished a pan...taken advantage of the precedence effect |
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| What is the preexisting music that is licensed to teh production company for use in the film, and exists in the scene with the characters is known as? |
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| What would you call the process of using preexisting music to give the director an idea of what the score would sound like in the scene? |
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| Who ensures that all parts are playable? |
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| Who appoints the music executive? |
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| What is the definition of "score music"? |
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| Music written specifically for the film |
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| Who chooses all of the source music that will be put on the CD soundtrack of the film? |
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| Who copies all individual parts for each member of the orchestra? |
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| Who handles all of the music business contracts? |
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