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Audio Editing Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Clip | A brief recorded file, linked to a website or to an electronic message, used to relay audible information from one user to another |
| Decibel | a unit used to measure the intensity of a sound or the power level of an electrical signal by comparing it with a given level on a logarithmic scale |
| Noise | usually unwanted sound |
| Export | to save (documents, data, etc.) in a format usable by another software program |
| AUP | the editing file for audio |
| Hertz | the SI unit of frequency |
| Mixing | the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more channels |
| Podcast | a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically |
| Track | a recording of one song or piece of music |
| Effect | artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes |
| Sample Rate | the number of samples of audio carried per second, measured in Hz or kHz |
| WAV, AIFF, MP3 | files of a finished product of an audio |
| Amplify | to increase the volume of sound |
| LAME | an encoder that converts audio to the MP3 file format |
| Pitch | the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it |
| Trim | to adjust the level of the input signal as it enters the home recording sound mixer |