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Over-processed
An over-processed track suffers from what audio engineers might consider to be too much of a good thing. Any process designed to improve, repair, enhance, or otherwise advance the quality of an audio track can, if used in excess, have the reverse effect and start to diminish its overall quality.

Sync-pop
A sync-pop is a 1kHz tone that is exactly one film frame in duration, used for matching picture and sound negatives together. The sync-pop must occur exactly two seconds (or three feet) before the first frame of picture (FFOP) in a film reel. If the picture negative contains a standard Academy

Modulating Hiss
Modulating hiss refers to noise levels that noticeably rise and fall with program level. For example, a common occurrence of modulating hiss can be heard when noise levels rise around each spoken word of dialogue in a soundtrack.