Vocabulary and Reaction Worksheet
| Name: Cassidy McGonigle |
| Word | Dictionary Definition | Your Explanation. |
| A-B: Listening | listening with one channel, L or R, out of phase to cancel the phantom center | changing the sound so it comes out of either the left or right earphone more or less. |
| AMBIENCE: | Background noise added to a musical recording to give the impression that it was recorded live. | Adding sound effects to an existing song to make it sound different. |
| ASSIGN: | 'channel assign', to send or route an audio signal to one or more selected mixer channels.
| to give someone a job or task that is required. |
| ATTACK: | to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with. | To go after someone or something violently. |
| BALANCE: | To have all of the parts sound well together (like one huge sound) rather than a bunch of parts all jumbled together. | to make both sides of something equal. |
| BASIC TRACKS: | the initial recordings of the rhythm section that are done prior to any overdubbing. | The first tracks before you make any edits or changes to it. |
| BUS: | a path in which you can route one or more audio signals to a particular destination. | a big vehicle used to carry lots of people to the same area. |
CD-R FADER | a multiple-unit volume control used in changing gradually from one signal source to another, decreasing the volume from the first audio or visual source while increasing the volume from the second. | Towards the beginning or the end of a song the melody will start to fade to provide closure. |
| PITCH: | the degree of height or depth of a tone or of sound, depending upon the relative rapidity of the vibrations by which it is produced. | The notes that a particular song is sung in. |
| PRINT: | to reproduce (a design or pattern) by engraving on a plate or block. | To write something clearly not in script. |
