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AudioTerms_Hampton
Flash cards for audio definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Clip | The extra signal which is beyond the capability of the amplifier is simply cut off, resulting in a sine wave becoming a distorted square-wave-type waveform |
| Track | an audio signal communications channel in a storage device, used in operations such as multi-track recording and sound reinforcement. |
| decibel ( dB) | The decibel ( dB) is used to measure sound level, but it is also widely used in electronics, signals and communication |
| Effect | artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media |
| Noise | the residual low-level sound (four major types: hiss, rumble, crackle, and hum) that is heard in quiet periods of program |
| Sample Rate | the number of samples of audio carried per second, measured in Hz or kHz (one kHz being 1 000 Hz) |
| Export | to save (documents, data, etc.) in a format usable by another software program |
| WAV, | a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs, |
| AUP | a file extension for a project file used by Audacity audio software |
| Amplify | The verb amplify means to crank up the volume |
| Hertz (Hz) | the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second |
| Lame | an encoder that converts audio to the MP3 file format |
| Mixing | the process of blending all the individual tracks in a recording to create a version of the song that sounds as good as possible |
| Pitch | the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies |
| Podcast | a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer |
| Trim | changing the level of a signal (up or down) to more appropriately align it for a particular device |
| MP3 | which are data encoding methods that use inexact approximations and partial data discarding to reduce file sizes significantly, typically by a factor |
| AIFF, | an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices, an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression |
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GavinBlake