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Show Production Basics
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1. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Types of Output Transducers
Pad
Rack Position
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
2. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Side Car
Supplemental Speaker Systems
1st Successful Use of P/A System
VCA
3. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Upstage
Low End Problem
Tycobrahe
ShowConsole
4. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Types of Output Transducers
Showco PRISM
RAT Sound
Return Lines
5. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Building a Mix
Types of Output Transducers
Warren G. Harding
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
6. From the Monitor Desk; Cover artists from speaker locations on the sides of the stage; Usually tri-amped systems; Stereo bus designed to manage these - but Mix SENDS can also be utilized
Matrix
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Side Fill
Clair Brothers
7. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Crossover
R.G. Jones
After Fader Listen
Audion Tube
8. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Matrix
Hanley Sound
Production Manager
Stereophonic Sound
9. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
Hanley Sound
Emile Berliner
Splitter System Components
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
10. When the volume over the headphones is affected by the channel fader; Generally more useful on a single channel; Common for an AUX OUT to be added to this mix so the engineer can listen to the signal being sent to that aux
Show Production Organization
Meyer Sound
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
AFL
11. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Meyer Sound
Monitor System
Pre/Post Button
Auditorium
12. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Matrix Section
Apron Fill
Sensurround
Monitor System
13. In live performance this is the reference mix that the engineer uses; In studio recording it is the mix in the artist's headphones; One of the engineer's most valuable tools; Post outboard EQ and Mix Master Faders
Shearer Horn System
Cue System
Side Car
Auditorium
14. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Pre/Post Button
Midas XL4
Balloon Meadow
Supplemental Speaker Systems
15. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
High Amp Frequency Range
Bass Trap
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Show Production Organization
16. Rusty Brutsch
High Amp Frequency Range
Equalizer
Showco
RTA
17. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Stereophonic Sound
Warren G. Harding
Sub Snakes
Compression Driver
18. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
Types of Output Transducers
Audion Tube
Magiae Universal
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
19. False
Rack Position
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Magiae Universal
Line Check
20. Founded by Jim Gamble and Jim Chase in Hermosa Beach - CA in 1972; Clients included Grand Funk Railroad & Boston
Greek Amphitheater
Foldback
Dynamic Based Processors
Tycobrahe
21. False
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22. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Side Car
Butt Fill
Gain Structure
Center Fill
23. Covers a room from a single line of speakers over the rest of the venue saving time and labor costs; Multiple speakers hung together - either vertically or horizontally - so that they can act as one huge speaker
Radial Horn
1940's P/A Systems
Line Array
Monitor Signal Flow
24. Mixing console used in course of instruction; 40 channels; 8 Subgroups; 8 AUX Sends; 4 Matrix Outputs; Input sections on right and left and master section in middle
Gain Structure
Midas Verona
Audion Tube
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
25. Works in house at live music venues to maintain audio systems; Generally entry-level positions; Most begin working monitors; May or may not get to mix for opening artists
Ernst Siemens
House Engineer
Live Mixing Issues
Sub Snakes
26. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Greek Amphitheater
Sensurround
Building a Mix
RTA
27. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Production Manager
Bass Trap
MSL-4
Western Electric
28. This button will route aux sends to group master
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Upstage
Rack Position
Aux/CO
29. 'Wrote the book' on practically all aspects of loudspeaker component and horn design; Most speaker systems today rely on this technology; Began as Western Electric
Pad
Altec Lansing
Rack Position
Meyer Sound
30. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Center Fill
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
High Amp Frequency Range
Angle of Incidence
31. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Judy Garland
Bob Heil
Bass Trap
Time Based Processors
32. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Rigging Basket
MSL-4
Mix Position
FOH Engineer
33. Converts electrical information into acoustic energy
Output Transducer
Low End Problem
Bob Heil
Bass Trap
34. False
Gain Structure
Clair Brothers
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Warren G. Harding
35. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Pad
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Pink Noise
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
36. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Time Based Processors
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Distance
Controlling SNR
37. Hired by the sound company or venue and paid salary; Set-up and maintain FOH system and often mix opening artists; Responsible for set-up - teardown - and maintenance of systems
Matrix Section
Floorwedge Coverage
Gain Structure
System Engineer
38. Can quickly change gain in response to many different detectors looking at same signal; Used in really tough situations where u want strict control over level and dynamics
Uses for Return Lines
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
VCA
Components of Good Mixing
39. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Showco
Compression Driver
The Who
Matrix
40. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Center Fill
Mix EQ
Upstage
41. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Vagabond
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Pink Noise
Judy Garland
42. Setting the levels to get the best signal transfer through a console; Always start with the stereo bus - channel and monitor faders set to 0dB (Unity Gain) then adjust preamp for initial volume
Magiae Universal
Drive Rack
Gain Structure
Mixing Setup Considerations
43. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Splitter Box
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Floorwedge Coverage
44. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated very close to the stage that will not be covered by direct sound from the FOH speaker system
Apron Fill
System Engineer
Monitor Signal Flow
Uses for Return Lines
45. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Radial Horn
1940's P/A Systems
Down Fill
Judy Garland
46. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Controlling SNR
Side Car
Meyer Sound
Emile Berliner
47. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Auditorium
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Pad
Workbox
48. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
Rear Fill
FOH Signal Flow
Vagabond
49. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Band Limiter
Crossover
System Engineer
Phasing Plug
50. Converts one type of energy to another
Public Address
Transducer
Auditorium
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
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