D A N I E L R .

A G U I N A L D O N A T I O N A L H I G H S C H O O L
Matina, Davao City
A Project Sterling Silver Accredited Public Secondary School
S C I E N C E D E P A R T M E N T
“Preparing Scientifically, Technologically and Environmentally Literate and Functional Members of Society"

Name:_____________________________________________________Section:_______________Date:___________

Unit 2 ACTIVITY # 1 Group name/number:

MODULE 1 For the Record…
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Score:______________
Objectives:
1. Identify the basic audio and video equipment at home.
2. Classify whether devices use electricity and/or magnetism when used in recording audio.
3. Start a literature search on electromagnetic induction’s role in recording technology.
Materials:
• worksheet

Procedure:
PART A.
1. List all basic audio and video equipment that you can identify at home and write it on the table below.
2. Indicate with a check mark whether the equipment/device needs electricity and/or magnetism to operate.

Table 1. Audio and Video Equipment at Home

Equipment/Device Needs Electricity Needs Magnetism

Guide Questions:
Q1. How many of the devices you identified at home need electricity to operate?

Q2. How many of the devices you identified at home need magnetism to operate?

PART B.
3.) Make a literature search on electromagnetic induction’s role in recording technology. In the table below, list also all
the equipment that you can identify in the recording technology (Radio Broadcast Studio Equipment) and Indicate with a
check mark whether the equipment/device needs electricity and/or magnetism to operate.
Table 2. Radio Broadcast Studio Equipment (Live Audio Room/Newsroom)
Equipment/Device Needs Electricity Needs Magnetism

Q3. How many of the devices you identified inside the live audio room need electricity to operate?

Q4. How many of the devices you identified inside the live audio room need magnetism to operate?

Q5. What other devices not shown in the photo may be used inside the live audio room?
PART C. My Own Home Recording Studio! For Life…

1.) You could be an aspiring singer, a music artist, a student who needs to record audio presentations or simply one
planning to have a start-up home recording studio. Use Table 3 and extend your understanding of the recording industry
by matching the devices in Column B and their respective functions in Column C with the items in Column A. Write the
letter and number for coding your answer.

Table 3. A Home Recording Studio Start-Up Equipment

A B C
Coded
Picture Device Function
Answer
Name
I. Used for playing some
digital instruments,
recording, adding effects,
and mixing different
1 ___ ___ A. headphone
sources of sound signals.

1
II. Microphones and
musical instruments are
plugged into this, which in
2 ___ ___ B. studio monitor turn is connected to the
computer.
2
III. Processor should be
reasonably fast enough to
3 ___ ___ C. audio interface record, edit, mix, store, and
master a copy of the
3 record.
IV. Converts sound into
electrical signal
D. digital audio software
4 ___ ___
(DAW)

4
V. Used for “referencing”
or for checking what the
mix would sound like on
5 ___ ___ E. computer unit
the equipment.

5
VI. Used for connecting
audio interface,
F. condenser or dynamic microphones, studio
6 ___ ___ monitors, and different
microphone
instruments
6
VII. Commonly known as
speakers but these give a
sound close enough to the
7 ___ ___ G. cables
real sound input

Guide Question:
Q6. Which devices on Table 3 are powered, entirely or partially, by electromagnetic induction (the phenomenon of a
changing magnetic or electric field’s effect on electricity or magnetism)?