SQA Advanced Higher Music Technology Area 1 Music Technology Skills overview quiz quiz

A dynamic microphone

A ribbon microphone

A small-diaphragm condenser

A boundary microphone

The phantom power supply

The sample rate

Bleed and comb filtering between the microphones

The reverb decay time

Exactly 0 dBFS

Around minus 12 to minus 6 dBFS

As high as possible above 0 dBFS

Around minus 60 dBFS

Treble, mid and bass

Mono, stereo and surround

Attack, decay and release

Level, width and depth

Adding more reverb and rolling off the high frequencies

Raising its level and adding presence

Hard-panning it to one side

Removing all compression

To increase the sample rate of those tracks

To control and process the related tracks together on one channel

To convert MIDI into audio

To remove the need for panning

How quickly the compressor responds

The level at which compression begins

How much the signal above the threshold is reduced

The final output volume

A channel EQ

A reverb shared by several tracks

A compressor on a vocal

A distortion on a bass

To generate the raw waveform

To convert MIDI to audio

To set the tempo of the LFO

To remove or emphasise harmonics and shape the tone

Attack, decay, sustain, release

Amplitude, depth, speed, rate

Analogue, digital, sample, record

Attenuate, delay, send, return

Recorded audio waveforms

Mastering loudness data

Performance data such as note, velocity and controllers

Microphone polar patterns

A method of synthesising bass sounds

The live, performed recreation of everyday sounds in sync with the picture

A type of brick-wall limiter

A stereo microphone technique

To raise the sample rate of the video

To reduce the file size of the export

To avoid using a limiter

Because effects even a few frames off the action read as wrong and break the illusion

Bounced with headroom and no limiter on the mix bus

Already maximised to 0 dBFS with a limiter

Split back into individual tracks

Reduced to mono

It widens the stereo image

It converts the file to a higher bit depth

It raises the overall loudness while a ceiling stops peaks clipping

It separates the kick and bass frequencies