Pro Tools: Surround Sound Quiz

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Pro Tools: Surround Sound Quiz

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Question 1

What is the difference between Dolby Digital and Dolby Pro Logic?

A	Dolby Digital is Matrixed and Pro Logic is Discrete surround
B	Dolby Digital is not available in home theater systems
C	Dolby Digital is Discrete and Pro Logic is Matrixed Surround
D	Dolby Pro Logic is not available in home theater systems

Question 2

Why were bit reduction schemes developed for 5.1?

A	Digital audio sounds better when compressed
B	You can't have lossless multichannel
C	Not enough room on available media formats to store multichannel outputs
D	To prevent buffer underruns

Question 3

Which movie was the first theatrical surround sound release?

A	North by Northwest
B	Fantasia
C	Sound of Music
D	Star Wars

Question 4

What is a bass management system?

A	A 5.1 system with two LFE channels
B	A crossover system that directs low frequency signals into the LFE
C	An LFE system which will not allow low frequencies to get to the LFE
D	A 7.1 system with two LFE channels

Question 5

The Surround Panning Grid only appears when...

A	A Mono or Stereo channel is routed to a Surround Output Path
B	Auto Write On Stop is used in connection with the I/O dialog
C	The Relative Write Mode is Enabled
D	The Relative Read Mode is Enabled

Question 6

In which speaker would you most commonly find the voices within a surround sound film mix?

A	Subwoofer
B	Rear Left
C	Center
D	Front L+R

Question 7

What is Upmixing?

A	The process of printing a surround mix
B	Creating a mono or stereo master from a Surround mix
C	The process of authoring a DVD
D	Creating a Surround mix from a mono or stereo master

Question 8

What is Divergence?

A	Avoiding the .1 channel
B	A pan control for surround panning
C	A width control for stereo panning
D	A width control for surround panning

Question 9

How does a Dipole speaker differ from a Direct Radiator speaker?

A	They are always smaller than Direct Radiator speakers
B	Feeds the same signal out of phase in two directions
C	Feeds the same signal in phase in two directions
D	Feeds the same signal out of phase in one direction

Question 10

The Dolby Digital (AC-3) surround standard utilizes how many tracks?

A	7
B	4
C	6
D	8

Question 11

Using a stereo source or an encoded two-channel source, which of the following can be used to extract five audio channels?

A	Heptaphonic
B	Quadraphonic
C	Dolby Pro Logic
D	Dolby Pro Logic II

Question 12

True or False: DVD-V (video) can contain both an AC-3 and a DTS encoded surround mix?

A	False
B	True

Question 13

LCRS stands for:

A	Left, Center, Right, Surround
B	Left, Center, Right, Service
C	Left, Center, Right, Sub
D	Left, Center, Right, System

Question 14

The LFE is defined as

A	Low Frequency Effect
B	Low Fact Effect
C	Lower Fader Equalizer
D	Left Fader Equalizer

Question 15

Signal routing choices are defined and edited in what Pro-tools dialog section?

A	I/O Set-Up Dialog
B	Strip Silence Dialog
C	Automation Configure Dialog
D	Session Set-up Dialog

Question 16

What is downmixing?

A	The process of summing multichannel mixes (5.1) into stereo
B	The process of splitting multichannel mixes (5.1) into mono stems
C	The process of summing stereo mixes into multichannel mixes (5.2)
D	The process of summing mono tracks into a multichannel mix (5.1)

Question 17

True or False: LFE and the Sub are the same thing?

A	True
B	False

Question 18

According to the ITU-775 recommendation, at which angle should the rear left and rear right speakers be placed within a 5.1 system?

A	10°
B	90°
C	70°
D	110°

Question 19

A surround array refers to:

A	The addition of extra surround speakers to fill the back end of an acoustic space
B	None of these
C	A mixing style for 5.1
D	The size of the sweet spot

Question 20

What does Lt/Rt stand for?

A	Left Trim/Right Trim
B	Left Total/Right Total
C	Left Turn/Right Turn
D	Left Track/Right Track

Question 21

What is DVD-A?

A	Digital Compact Video Standard
B	Digital Video Disc - Alternative
C	An Audio Standard for DVDs
D	An MPEG Standard for DVD

Question 22

Explain why the LFE channel is represented by .1

A	Because the LFE channel plays through a subwoofer which can be placed anywhere due to the omnidirectional properties of low frequencies - Nialist Theorem
B	Because the LFE only plays low frequencies as appropriated via channel locks
C	Because the sample rate for this channel is only a fraction of the sampling rate of the principal channels - Nyquist Theorem
D	It is borrowed from the web industry which first used an LFE and called it .1

Question 23

Front-Firing and Down-Firing are types of what?

A	Audio Coding Formats
B	Amplifiers
C	DVD's
D	Subwoofer

Question 24

AC-3 coding is commonly referred to as:

A	DTS AH
B	Dolby Digital
C	Pro Logic BJ
D	MP3

Question 25

True or False: Lossless Codecs create smaller files than Lossy Codecs?

A	True
B	False

Question 26

In a 6.1 channel DTS-ES surround, what is the right placement for the surround speakers?

A	Two speakers at the rear
B	Three Speakers at the rear
C	One each at front right and front left
D	One on each side of the listener and one at the rear

Question 27

What does HRTF stand for?

A	Helical Related Timbre Fourier
B	Head Related Timbre Function
C	Head Related Transfer Function
D	Head Reacting Transfer Fourier

Question 28

SACD uses what digital binary encoding method?

A	WAV
B	DSD
C	PCM
D	LPCM

Question 29

In the Pro Tools Surround Panner, a Center percentage of 100% will feed how much signal to the Left and Right channel?

A	0%
B	50%
C	100%
D	20%

Question 30

What is the maximum number of discrete channels Dolby Digital can produce?

A	6
B	4
C	5
D	3

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