Pro Tools: Surround Sound Quiz

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Pro Tools: Surround Sound Quiz

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Welcome to our 30 question long exam on Surround Sound, some questions will be Pro Tools specific and others will be based on general principles.

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Question 1

What does Lt/Rt stand for?

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

Question 2

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

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

Question 3

LCRS stands for:

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

Question 4

What does HRTF stand for?

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

Question 5

Why were bit reduction schemes developed for 5.1?

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

Question 6

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	Dolby Pro Logic II
C	Dolby Pro Logic
D	Quadraphonic

Question 7

SACD uses what digital binary encoding method?

A	PCM
B	LPCM
C	DSD
D	WAV

Question 8

Which movie was the first theatrical surround sound release?

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

Question 9

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

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

Question 10

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

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

Question 11

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

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

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

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

A	True
B	False

Question 14

AC-3 coding is commonly referred to as:

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

Question 15

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	20%
C	50%
D	100%

Question 16

What is Upmixing?

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

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

Explain why the LFE channel is represented by .1

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

Question 19

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

A	6
B	4
C	7
D	8

Question 20

A surround array refers to:

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

Question 21

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

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

Question 22

What is a bass management system?

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

Question 23

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

A	False
B	True

Question 24

The LFE is defined as

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

Question 25

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

A	6
B	5
C	3
D	4

Question 26

The Surround Panning Grid only appears when...

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

Question 27

What is Divergence?

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

Question 28

What is downmixing?

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