MEDIAART 2G03: In-term and Final Exam Study Guide

Practice 1

• Modes of listening: Referential reduced calibrated
• CC licenses (typical conditions)
• Project files, vs. project folders, vs. rendered files

Practice 2

• Clipping (why is it "bad"?)
• Headroom (why do we want it and how do we establish it?)
• Decibels (including dB SPL vs dBFS)
• Inverse distance law and microphone proximity

Practice 3

• Microphone constructions (especially condenser vs. dynamic)
• Microphone directionality (especially cardioid vs. omnidirectional)
• Phantom power
• Balanced signals
• Noise strategies

Practice 4

• The audible spectrum
• Equal loudness curves
• Parts of the ear (and their relationship to/effect on the audible spectrum)
• Filter types and parameters
• Reverberation (especially Schroeder vs. convolution)

Practice 5

• Nyquist theorem and frequency
• Bit depth and digital noise
• Levels during mixing
• Why normalize without intermediate files and why to minus 0.3?