In charge of negotiating with record labels for the music that will be used in the film, in charge of selecting tracks for retail soundtrack, works for production company.

Last Frame of Action, indicates the end of a reel, important having music cross boundary between reels could cause gaps or skips, so you need to know when the reel ends.

Scoring Stage

Where would I find analog audio on a digital stage?

Where is the processing and MTRs stored on the mixing stage?

Added left inner and right inner. Surround arrays are the same as DTS

Cedar Box DNS-1000: most popular, single ended noise reduction

            Cedar Box DNS-2000: ProTools HD

            Behringer DeNoiser: removes electrical noise

            X-Hum from Waves: alternative to DeNoiser

Massenburg EQ: notches out specific sounds in the same frequency      range as the dialogue (adds life)

            Urei 565 Dip Filter: used as high or low cut filter

            Focusrite 6 Band EQ: alternative to Urei

            Brooke and Waves De-Esser

Aphex Expressor: keeps level under control and allows the use of a bit of compression

Renaissance Vox: alternative to Aphex Expressor

            All Caps, Scene Headers, Words that give indication to the mood                         

Types of cloth worn, footwear worn, surfaces needed, props

What are the four categories of vehicle recordings?

Topic-Roll-Cue: Analog

            Linear Number System: Digital

Intensity of the Source, Ratio of Direct to Reverberant sound, High Frequency Content

Audio is played back from CD-ROM which is following the printed track on film

Recording Foley, Sound Design

 How much time is budgeted for design vs. implementation?

Alpha: beginning of the game process, the game is playable with temporary graphics, exhibits story flow, buggy, providing prototype sounds and gathering assets.

Beta: most busy, the game is fully playable, filled with sounds, still buggy. Field recording is done, still designing, setting levels.mixing sound elements, delivering sound updates, checking and fixing bugs.

Q&A: quality assurance, busiest for designers and programmers, game is fully playable with all aspects and elements in place. Attending meetings, playing game, responding to bugs/fixing bugs, making fine adjustments.

Gold: double checking/final approval, game is finished, going through final checks, passed around to all departments (release candidates)

Sound Processing Unit, dedicated processor for sound, handles sound so CPU doesn’t have to

Contain sounds that will be used unilaterally across all levels in the game

Triggered Sound: something happens in the game and sound plays as a result

Triggered Stream: something happens in a level and sound or music changes as a result

Sounds are mapped to a 3-D model

What do we use to wire sounds into games?

FMOD

Original sound source, analogous visualization, sounds without visual congruence

Designed Effects Editor, Hard Effects Editor (cuts on screen conscious sounds), Backgrounds Editor 

Try a different sound (best) or take a segment of the loop causing problems and make a copy then place that copy on a separate track offset from the original and crossfade

Name for console channels, number, organized by sound effect then output

What is the definition of a perspective change?

0%

Stereo Recording for Groups

            Individual Animals in Mono 

What was the first film with sync’ed sound?