What is the typical frequency range of human hearing?
What is the normal sampling frequency for: CD-Digital Audio? Work in professional music studios? Recording human speech?
How are these frequencies related to the maximum frequency wave that can be reconstructed from a digitized wave form? What is the name of the person that this limit is named for?
What is the typical dynamic range sensitivity of human hearing (in dB)?
What is the normal bit-depth (and the resulting dynamic range sensitivity
in dB) for: CD-Digital Audio? Work in professional music studios? Recording
human speech?
What is the difference in sound between a sine wave and a sawtooth wave
that both have the same frequency?
If you could choose between 16 bit, 22 kHz or 8 bit, 44 kHz to record a
human conversation, which would you pick? Why? Please explain the tradeoff
of space, quality, frequency requirements.
What does MIDI stand for? What role does it play in music? How does it relate
to instruments? To computers? To cables/interconnections?
Why does a music studio use multiple tracks for recording instead of just
two (left, right)? How does having multiple tracks help make the final two
track recording turn out better?
What are some of the activities of the operator or engineer in a music studio
control room? Why are they done? What goes on regarding EQ, effects? What
does a compressor do when there are sudden shifts in loudness?
What is a mix? What types of mixes are required? Why?
What is meant by "automation" in a music control room? How can
it be stored? Re-used? What does it accomplish?
Why is digital editing better than the old style of analog editing done
with razors on tapes? What are the effects on quality, re-usability, accuracy?