The Byre Recording Studio in the Highlands of Scotland

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Audio Quiz

Test your knowledge of audio here by filling in this quiz and sending it off.  Our Quiz Master (well, in reality it’s just another computer!) checks the answers daily and sends back your score together with all the correct answers.  If you get fewer than half of the answers correct, we do not send out the full list of correct answers, so that you can have another go.

 

All the questions and their answers for all parts of the quiz are based on three books: Sound and Recording (by Rumsey and McCormick), Acoustics and Psychoacoustics (by Howard and Angus) and The JBL Sound System Design Reference Manual (by John Eargle) which can be downloaded at the-byre.com download page.  

 

If you are missing the old tests that used ton have the answers emailed back to you, fear not - the new tests (links below) are mor or less th same, only now you get to interact with the answers directly.

 

The tests open up in a new window and are now a part of the new audiotalk.org website.

 

The Tape Op Test

 

The tape op section of this quiz is easy and any tape op that has had about one year on the job and has some knowledge of basic physics should be able to answer all the questions correctly. 

The Tape Op Test has been moved to here

The Tonmeister Test

 

These questions are somewhat harder and may make you scratch your head a little, but rest assured, each question has a single correct answer and is mainly very basic stuff.  (You might like to mug-up on your decibels first though!)  But like the tape op test, just have a go and have fun! 

 

The decibel questions are, in all fairness, very theoretical and bear little relationship with reality; there are no open air gigs without temperature inversion and wind, you cannot use the same speakers for an open air as you would to achieve 100dBA for a very small audience and of course, if you did stack lots of cheap speakers, they would change their directional characteristics.

 

The Tonmeister Test has been moved to here

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