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Flash cards for audio definitions

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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  
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Track   an audio signal communications channel in a storage device, used in operations such as multi-track recording and sound reinforcement.  
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decibel ( dB)   The decibel ( dB) is used to measure sound level, but it is also widely used in electronics, signals and communication  
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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  
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Noise   the residual low-level sound (four major types: hiss, rumble, crackle, and hum) that is heard in quiet periods of program  
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Sample Rate   the number of samples of audio carried per second, measured in Hz or kHz (one kHz being 1 000 Hz)  
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Export   to save (documents, data, etc.) in a format usable by another software program  
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WAV,   a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs,  
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AUP   a file extension for a project file used by Audacity audio software  
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Amplify   The verb amplify means to crank up the volume  
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Hertz (Hz)   the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second  
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Lame   an encoder that converts audio to the MP3 file format  
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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  
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Pitch   the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies  
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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  
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Trim   changing the level of a signal (up or down) to more appropriately align it for a particular device  
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MP3   which are data encoding methods that use inexact approximations and partial data discarding to reduce file sizes significantly, typically by a factor  
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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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