UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Above - CORRECT ANSWER Does compression happen above or below the Threshold?
Gain Reduction - CORRECT ANSWER Threshold + Ratio =
Insert Send & Return - CORRECT ANSWER Where on the patchbay would you patch a
compressor?
threshold level - CORRECT ANSWER Compression will never meet nor exceed the
_____________________.
Ratio - CORRECT ANSWER The primary difference between a Compressor and a Limiter is
what parameter?
Release - CORRECT ANSWER Which parameter on a compressor if set too fast will create
pumping or breathing?
Nothing - CORRECT ANSWER What happens with a 1:1 ratio?
False - CORRECT ANSWER Ratio is best described as a variable parameter?
Dynamic - CORRECT ANSWER A compressor is what type of processor?
Attack - CORRECT ANSWER What controls the amount of time it takes for the compressors
gain to be reduced?
Release - CORRECT ANSWER What controls the amount of time it takes for the compressors
gain to return to its original level
, 1. [Get Input (patch and remove bypass) ]
2. [Set the Ratio]
3. [Lower the Threshold to Gain Reduction]
4. [Match Input and Output] - CORRECT ANSWER 4 steps to setting up any compressor.
Match Input and Output levels - CORRECT ANSWER What is the function of Makeup Gain?
Bill Putnam - CORRECT ANSWER Who designed the 1176 Limiting Amplifier?
NO - CORRECT ANSWER A selectable frequency EQ allows the user to choose any frequency
the user likes.
Q or bandwidth control - CORRECT ANSWER What is missing from a semi-parametric EQ?
turnover - CORRECT ANSWER On a high/low pass the filter, the frequency at which the
signal is attenuated by exactly 3dB is ______________.
notch filter - CORRECT ANSWER What type of filter is used to remove hum and discreet
frequency noises?
passive, active - CORRECT ANSWER The __________ filter was created before the
____________ filter.
slew rate - CORRECT ANSWER What controls the progression of amplification/attenuation
from the flat position?
passband - CORRECT ANSWER On a high/low pass filter, frequencies attenuated less than
3dB are in the ___________.