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  • 1. In which type of delay does the delayed signal alternate between the two channels of a stereo program?
A) Ping-pong delay
B) Doubling echo
C) Straight delay
D) Multi-tap
  • 2. What is taken from a delay buffer in a multi-tap delay?
A) Multiple taps (outputs)
B) The raw visual media
C) A single continuous loop
D) A modulated feedback signal
  • 3. What can multi-tap delays be used to create?
A) Only slapback echo
B) Audio to video synchronization
C) Tape recorder head spacing
D) Rhythmic patterns or dense, reverb-like effects
  • 4. How is doubling echo produced?
A) By alternating between two stereo channels
B) By sending only the delayed signal to distant speakers
C) By using a delay time of 60 to 250 milliseconds
D) By adding a short delay to a recorded sound
  • 5. What are the most common delay times for doubling echo?
A) Thirty to fifty milliseconds
B) 60 to 250 milliseconds
C) 3 milliseconds per meter
D) 1 millisecond per foot
  • 6. Longer delay times of a doubling echo become what kind of effect?
A) Ping-pong delay
B) Flanging
C) Reverb
D) Slapback echo
  • 7. Mixing the original and delayed sounds in a doubling echo creates an effect similar to what?
A) A dense reverb-like effect
B) Audio to video synchronization
C) Propagation of sound through the air
D) Doubletracking or unison performance
  • 8. What delay time is used by slapback echo?
A) 500 to 1000 milliseconds
B) 60 to 250 milliseconds
C) 30 to 50 milliseconds
D) 1 millisecond per meter
  • 9. How much feedback does slapback echo typically use?
A) Little or no feedback
B) Equal feedback to feed-forward ratio
C) Continuous modulation
D) Maximum feedback
  • 10. What effect is created by a slapback delay?
A) A thickening effect
B) A spatial blur effect
C) A stereo bouncing effect
D) A phase cancellation effect
  • 11. Slapback echo is characteristic of vocals on what kind of records?
A) 1970s disco records
B) Modern electronic music records
C) 1960s psychedelic records
D) 1950s rock-and-roll records
  • 12. Who produced the first Sun Records tracks featuring slapback echo for Elvis Presley?
A) Tom Dowd
B) Elvis Presley
C) Sam Phillips
D) Les Paul
  • 13. In July 1954, Sam Phillips produced the first of how many 78s and 45s for Elvis Presley on Sun Records?
A) Twenty
B) Five
C) Ten
D) Two
  • 14. How was the slapback echo effect originally produced on tape recorders?
A) By re-feeding the output signal from the playback head to its record head
B) By using 1 millisecond of delay per foot of air
C) By taking multiple taps from a delay buffer
D) By mixing the two channels of a stereo program
  • 15. What were the main controlling factors of the original slapback tape effect?
A) The physical space between heads, the speed of the tape, and the chosen volume
B) The video frame rate, time base correction, and scaling
C) The room dimensions, speaker distance, and frequency range
D) The buffer size, feedback level, and modulation depth
  • 16. Beside vocals, what instruments are sometimes used with slapback echo?
A) Solo orchestral strings
B) Brass and woodwinds
C) Drums and percussion
D) Pipe organs
  • 17. Which of the following are explicitly listed as delay-based sound effects alongside reverb?
A) Flanging and chorus effect
B) Doubletracking and unison performance
C) Multi-tap and ping-pong delay
D) Straight delay and slapback echo
  • 18. What is true about the delay time in flanging and chorus?
A) It alternates between stereo channels
B) It is between 60 and 250 milliseconds with no feedback
C) It uses 1 millisecond per foot of air
D) It is very short and usually modulated
  • 19. What causes individual echoes to blur together in reverberation?
A) Direct speaker reinforcement without mixing
B) Video scaling and framebuffers
C) Multiple delays and feedback
D) A single short delay of thirty milliseconds
  • 20. What is the purpose of reverberation?
A) Creating a thickening effect on 1950s vocals
B) Recreating the sound of an acoustic space
C) Aligning sound with visual media
D) Compensating for the propagation of sound through air
  • 21. What is straight delay used for in sound reinforcement systems?
A) To create a rhythmic ping-pong stereo effect
B) To compensate for the propagation of sound through the air
C) To blur individual echoes into a reverb-like space
D) To doubletrack vocals like 1950s rock-and-roll
  • 22. How is straight delay handled differently from audio delay effects devices?
A) It is not mixed back in with the original signal
B) It is modulated continuously
C) It incorporates high levels of feedback
D) It uses much shorter delay times under ten milliseconds
  • 23. Where is the delayed signal alone sent in straight delay sound reinforcement?
A) To video scaling framebuffers
B) To the left channel of a stereo program only
C) To loudspeakers distant from the stage
D) Directly back into the recording head of a tape machine
  • 24. Approximately how much straight delay is used per foot of air?
A) 3 milliseconds
B) 30 to 50 milliseconds
C) 60 to 250 milliseconds
D) 1 millisecond
  • 25. Approximately how much straight delay is used per meter of air?
A) 10 milliseconds
B) 50 milliseconds
C) 3 milliseconds
D) 1 millisecond
  • 26. What physical phenomenon allows engineers to use distant speaker systems with straight delay and maintain the illusion that sound originates from the stage?
A) Phase cancellation
B) Doppler effect
C) The Haas effect
D) Resonance
  • 27. What is a main purpose of using straight delay with additional speaker systems in a venue?
A) To synchronize audio with delayed television broadcasting
B) To achieve a thickening slapback effect for vocals
C) To deliver sufficient sound volume to the back of the venue without excessive volume near the front
D) To create a dense reverb-like acoustic space
  • 28. What is a secondary use of straight delay in audio engineering?
A) Creating doubletracking effects for instruments
B) Audio to video synchronization
C) Simulating unison performance on recordings
D) Generating rhythmic ping-pong patterns
  • 29. Why might visual media become delayed on TV or web broadcasting?
A) Excessive sound volumes near the front of a venue
B) The propagation of sound through the air
C) Time base correction, video scaling, and framebuffers
D) Physical spacing between tape recorder heads
  • 30. When visual media is delayed on TV or web broadcasting, what is adjusted to match it?
A) The tape recorder speed is increased
B) The associated audio may be delayed
C) The feedback level of the slapback echo is reduced
D) The multi-tap buffer outputs are summed
  • 31. When were digital effects pedals introduced?
A) 1984
B) 1973
C) 1954
D) 2000
  • 32. Which musical genre's early composers commonly used tape loop delay techniques?
A) Smooth jazz
B) Classical baroque
C) Musique concrète
D) Heavy metal
  • 33. Which artist used the slapback echo effect on the track 'Blue Moon of Kentucky'?
A) Chet Atkins
B) Karlheinz Stockhausen
C) Bob Marley
D) Elvis Presley
  • 34. Who made the EchoSonic amplifier?
A) Ray Butts
B) Pierre Schaeffer
C) Sam Phillips
D) Ikutaro Kakehashi
  • 35. Which guitarist famously used the EchoSonic amplifier in rock and roll?
A) Scotty Moore
B) Buddy Holly
C) Les Paul
D) Brian Setzer
  • 36. Who introduced the Roland RE-201 in 1973?
A) Ray Butts
B) Karlheinz Stockhausen
C) Sam Phillips
D) Ikutaro Kakehashi
  • 37. In which decade did Jamaican dub reggae producers use delay effects extensively?
A) The 1970s
B) The 2000s
C) The 1980s
D) The 1950s
  • 38. Which genre of electronic music was introduced to delay by dub techno producers like Basic Channel?
A) Electronic music
B) Country music
C) Musique concrète
D) Baroque classical
  • 39. In what year was Ray Butts' EchoSonic introduced?
A) 1959
B) 1974
C) 1952
D) 1958
  • 40. Which tape delay model was introduced in 1958?
A) The Roland Space Echo
B) The Echoplex
C) The EchoSonic
D) The Watkins Copicat
  • 41. Which tape delay model was introduced in 1959?
A) The Watkins Copicat
B) The EchoSonic
C) The Echoplex
D) The Roland Space Echo
  • 42. What impression is created by the way tape compresses and distorts in tape delay effects?
A) That the echoes are receding rather than just getting quieter
B) That multiple instruments are playing simultaneously
C) That the audio is being sped up infinitely
D) That the recording was made in a natural cave
  • 43. What type of recording method does the oil-can delay use?
A) Electrostatic
B) Electromagnetic
C) Magnetic tape
D) Digital
  • 44. What material is the rotating disc in an oil-can delay made of?
A) Stainless steel
B) Carbon particles
C) Anodized aluminium
D) Conductive neoprene
  • 45. What are the particles suspended on the disc made of?
A) Neoprene
B) Copper
C) Aluminum
D) Carbon
  • 46. What transfers the charge to the high impedance disc in an oil-can delay?
A) A conductive neoprene wiper
B) A second wiper
C) An analog-to-digital converter
D) A voltage amplifier
  • 47. What reads the signal representation from the disc in an oil-can delay?
A) A conductive neoprene wiper
B) A bucket-brigade device
C) An AC signal source
D) A second wiper
  • 48. What effect is caused by the whimsical nature of the storage medium in oil-can delays?
A) Digital looping
B) Pitch scaling
C) Vibrato
D) Time stretching
  • 49. What was the name of the oil-can delay device sold by Fender?
A) DD-2
B) Memory Man
C) GA-4RE
D) Dimension IV
  • 50. Which company sold the GA-4RE oil-can delay from 1965 to 1967?
A) Gibson
B) Fender
C) Roland
D) Tel-Ray
  • 51. Under what brand did Ray Lubow sell his oil-can delay versions starting in the early sixties?
A) Eventide
B) Electro-Harmonix
C) Tel-Ray/Morley
D) Lexicon
  • 52. What was the name of Ray Lubow's early sixties oil-can product?
A) DMX 15-80
B) Memory Man
C) Ad-n-echo
D) Dimension IV
  • 53. Where was the bucket-brigade device (BBD) developed in 1969?
A) Eventide
B) Gibson
C) Philips
D) Fender
  • 54. What is the name of the notable BBD-based delay released by Electro-Harmonix in 1976?
A) Memory Man
B) Boss DM-2
C) DD-2
D) Dimension IV
  • 55. In what year was the Boss DM-2 solid-state delay released?
A) 1976
B) 1969
C) 1984
D) 1981
  • 56. Where is the digital audio passed through after being converted?
A) An oil-can assembly
B) A Leslie speaker
C) An anodized aluminium disc
D) A memory buffer
  • 57. What is one of the first rack-mounted digital delays from 1971?
A) Eventide DDL 1745
B) Roland SDE-3000
C) Lexicon PCM42
D) AMS DMX 15-80
  • 58. In what year was the AMS DMX 15-80 rack-mount digital delay released?
A) 1976
B) 1978
C) 1984
D) 1971
  • 59. What made units offer more than three seconds of delay time in the 1980s?
A) Digital memory became cheaper
B) Oil-can assemblies became smaller
C) Bucket-brigade devices improved
D) Tape delay speeds increased
  • 60. What was the maximum upgradeable delay time of the TC Electronic 2290 mentioned in the text?
A) 32 seconds
B) 3 seconds
C) 16 seconds
D) 64 seconds
  • 61. What was the name of the first digital delay offered in a pedal format in 1984?
A) Boss DD-2
B) Dimension IV
C) Boss DM-2
D) Memory Man
  • 62. What year was the Paradis Loop Delay created?
A) 1992
B) 1985
C) 1970
D) 2006
  • 63. Until what year did Gibson manufacture the Echoplex Digital Pro?
A) 2006
B) 1970
C) 1999
D) 1992
  • 64. What name did Robert Fripp dub his technology of using very long delay times for solo guitar performance?
A) Double-tracking
B) Frippertronics
C) Loop Delay
D) Haas effect
  • 65. Who was a pioneer of the Echoplex and used it on the album Stormbringer!?
A) The Edge
B) John Martyn
C) Helmut Haas
D) Robert Fripp
  • 66. In what month and year was John Martyn's album Stormbringer! released?
A) December 2006
B) January 1992
C) February 1980
D) February 1970
  • 67. What can be used to manage high levels of feedback that cause the output level to rapidly increase?
A) A BPM synchronizer
B) A limiter
C) An equalizer
D) A looper
  • 68. Short delays of how many milliseconds or less create the Haas effect?
A) 10 ms
B) 100 ms
C) 50 ms
D) 500 ms
  • 69. Which guitarist uses delay while playing arpeggios to create a sustained, synth pad-like background?
A) Helmut Haas
B) John Martyn
C) The Edge
D) Robert Fripp
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