Vocab (C)

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  • Created on: 23-10-20 19:53
Cardioid
The patterns by which some microphones capture sound.

Cardioid is roughly heart shaped and picks up sound from the front and sides of the mic.
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Capacitance
The storage of an electrical charge in a capacitor.
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Capsule
The element of a microphone that responds to to the sound vibrations.
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Capture
The initial stage of recording in which the sounds are input to the recording device.
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Channels
The individual tracks of music.

Can be left and right in a stereo mix or individual instruments in a multitrack project.
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Chord Extensions
Notes in a chord that are no in the triad (7th, 9th, 13th, ect.).
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Chorus
A modulation effect that simulates multiple instruments or voices performing simultaneously by duplicating an audio signal.

This creates a 'shimmering' or 'thickening' effect.

One copy of the signal is slightly delayed and is also slightly detuned using
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Clipping
Overloading a signal so that the top of the waveform becomes squared and causes distortion.
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Coarse-Tuning
This control of the synthesiser or sampler that moves the tuning of the a note in semitones.
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Coincident Pair
A pattern for using two directional microphones simultaneously to capture the stereo image of a sound with the capsules 90 degrees apart placed as close together as possible.
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Colouration
The effect that equipment can have on the tonal characteristics of audio through its physical design and manufacture.
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Comping
The process of combining multiple takes of a recording into one master take.
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Compression (Dynamics)
A process for controlling the dynamic range of a sound.

It reduces the volume of the peaks of sound above a threshold by a pre-determined ratio.
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Compression (Data)
The process of encoding a digital audio file to take up less space.
Doing so often loses some audio information.

MP3 - 'Lossy' compressed audio files
FLAC - 'Lossless' compressed audio files
WAV - uncompressed audio
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Concert Pitch
A universal set of frequencies and pitches in which A3 (the A above middle C) is 440Hz.
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Condenser Microphone
A microphone that captures sound by measuring the changes in capacitance as the diaphragm moves.
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Convolution Reverb
A reverb that adds ambience by sampling the reverb tail of a room and calculating the response sounds within those spaces.
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Crossfade
A crossfade creates a smooth transition between audio files by fading one out whilst the other fades in.
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The storage of an electrical charge in a capacitor.

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Capacitance

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The element of a microphone that responds to to the sound vibrations.

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The initial stage of recording in which the sounds are input to the recording device.

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The individual tracks of music.

Can be left and right in a stereo mix or individual instruments in a multitrack project.

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