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 HRTF stand for?

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

Question 2

What is DVD-A?

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

Question 3

The LFE is defined as

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

Question 4

What is Upmixing?

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

Question 5

What does Lt/Rt stand for?

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

Question 6

SACD uses what digital binary encoding method?

A	LPCM
B	PCM
C	WAV
D	DSD

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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

A	3
B	6
C	5
D	4

Question 9

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

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

Question 10

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	Two speakers at the rear
C	Three Speakers at the rear
D	One each at front right and front left

Question 11

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

A	4
B	6
C	7
D	8

Question 12

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	110°
C	90°
D	70°

Question 13

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

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

Question 14

Which movie was the first theatrical surround sound release?

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

Question 15

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

A	True
B	False

Question 16

AC-3 coding is commonly referred to as:

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

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

What is downmixing?

A	The process of summing mono tracks into a multichannel mix (5.1)
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 multichannel mixes (5.1) into stereo

Question 19

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

A	True
B	False

Question 20

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

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

Question 21

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

A	False
B	True

Question 22

Why were bit reduction schemes developed for 5.1?

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

Question 23

What is a bass management system?

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

Question 24

Explain why the LFE channel is represented by .1

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

Question 25

The Surround Panning Grid only appears when...

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

Question 26

A surround array refers to:

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

Question 27

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

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

Question 28

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

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

Question 29

What is Divergence?

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

Question 30

LCRS stands for:

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

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