SQA Advanced Higher Music Technology Area 2 Sound Recording and the Creative Industries overview quiz quiz

Film and television sound

Civil engineering

Retail banking

Agriculture

Choosing and placing microphones during tracking

Leading the creative vision and organising the project

Applying dither to the final master

Soldering the studio cabling

Mastering

Release

Pre-production

Editing

Analysing a recording feature by feature to identify its production techniques

Listening at the loudest comfortable volume

Summarising the lyrics and mood of a song

Checking a track only on headphones

Backing vocals and overhead cymbals

Wide synth pads

Kick, snare, bass and lead vocal

Reverb returns and delays

It removes the need for a limiter

It increases the project's sample rate

It converts MIDI to audio automatically

It calibrates your tonal balance, width and loudness against a professional standard

Its pitch

Its loudness

Its stereo width

Its reverb time

The sample rate it was recorded at

The relative strengths of its harmonics above the fundamental

The bit depth of the file

The length of the reverb tail

Arranging performers on a stage

Choosing a microphone polar pattern

Keeping the level healthy at each stage of the signal flow

Setting the tempo of a track

The highest frequency that can be captured (half the sample rate)

The dynamic range of the recording

The stereo width of the mix

The loudness of the master

The highest frequency captured

The tempo of the recording

The pan position of each track

The dynamic range and the noise floor

The track plays back at the wrong tempo

High frequencies are lost and aliasing can occur

The stereo image collapses to mono

The reverb tail becomes too long

A logarithmic measure of level

A unit of frequency

A type of microphone

A digital file format

It changes the project's bit depth

It sets the sample rate of the converter

Room reflections and standing waves colour what you hear, so you may mix in the wrong direction

It determines the MIDI controller values

Raising the bit depth of the session

Acoustic treatment and correct monitor and listening positions

Using only one microphone

Increasing the limiter ceiling