Monday, May 18, 2009

New Vocab Words

Here are a few new vocab words from IST that we have to know
Stereo - Stereo is when feeding 2 or more seperate microphones to 2 or more loudspeakers through different channels.


Track- A musical composition that have vocal parts that are sung usually accompanied by musical instruments.


Channel- A channel is a seperate path in which signals can flow. This is used in Telecommunications in general.

Frequency- It describes the number of waves that are passed through a fixed place in any given amount of time.

Hertz- It is a unit of frequency of one cycle per second. It replaces the term cycle per second.

Decibel- Decibel is used to measure the sound level. It is also widely used in electronics, signals and communication.

Wav- A WAV file is a standard audio format for storing music, sound bits and other items onto your computer.

Mp3- This is a standard format for compressing a sound sequence into a very small file. It does this while still keeping the original level of sound quality.

AIFF- It stands for Audio Interchange File Format. It is used to store and transmit high quailty audio data like music.

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