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Show Production Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 15 minutes
Emile Berliner
Types of Output Transducers
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Mid Amp Frequency Range
2. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Mass Connectors
Show Production Organization
Stereophonic Sound
Shearer Horn System
3. True
Audion Tube
Outside
R.G. Jones
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
4. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
AFL
Bob Heil
Transducer
Monitor Signal Flow
5. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
Splitter Box
Phasing Plug
After Fader Listen
Sound Booth
6. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Butt Fill
Western Electric
Matrix
Delay Fill
7. EQ -> Limiter -> Crossover
Balloon Meadow
Side Car
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Aux/CO
8. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Judy Garland
Cue System
Line Check
9. From the Monitor Desk; Monitors that are located behind the artist and pointed downstage to cover area that cannot be covered by the floor wedges on the front line
Types of Output Transducers
Radial Horn
Butt Fill
Western Electric
10. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Center Fill
Mix EQ
Outside
Low End Problem
11. FOH
Monitor Signal Flow
Down Fill
Midas Verona
Front of the House
12. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Hanley Sound
System Engineer
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Audion Tube
13. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Main Snake
Dynamic Based Processors
System Engineer
Ear Trumpets
14. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
System Limiter
Main Snake
Ernst Siemens
Monitor Amp Rack
15. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Equalizer
Main Snake
Sound Booth
Upstage
16. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Magiae Universal
Distance
Warren G. Harding
17. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Emile Berliner
Mix EQ
Tycobrahe
Uses for Return Lines
18. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Bass Trap
Foldback
Balloon Meadow
19. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Matrix Section
Radial Horn
Equalizer
20. Splits full range audio into frequencies from high end of the spectrum to the high speakers - mids to the mid speakers and lows to the low speakers
Crossover
Bass Trap
Radial Horn
Drive Rack Signal Flow
21. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Low Amp Frequency Range
Emile Berliner
AFL
Showco
22. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Show Production Organization
VCA
1st Successful Use of P/A System
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
23. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Flying Sound
Midas XL4
System Limiter
High Amp Frequency Range
24. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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25. 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
Building a Mix
House System
Monitor Amp Rack
Line Array
26. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> House Main Snake (Fanout/Console/FX Rack/ Drive Rack/Return Lines (Fanout) -> Main Snake -> Splitter -> Drive Lines -> Amp Racks -> Speaker Cabinets
High Amp Frequency Range
FOH Engineer
ShowConsole
FOH Signal Flow
27. EQ -> Limiter -> Crossover
Magiae Universal
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Altec Lansing
Auditorium
28. British physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy; Also improved loudspeaker with nonmagnetic spacers to keep the air gap between the inner and outer poles of a moving coil transducer
Showco
Low Amp Frequency Range
The Who
Sir Oliver Lodge
29. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
System Engineer
Side Car
Monitor System
Outside
30. 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
Mix EQ
Apron Fill
AFL
System Limiter
31. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Pre/Post Button
Vagabond
Upstage
32. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Magiae Universal
Delay Fill
ShowConsole
33. From the Monitor Desk; Monitors that are located behind the artist and pointed downstage to cover area that cannot be covered by the floor wedges on the front line
Return Lines
Butt Fill
Warren G. Harding
RAT Sound
34. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
The Who
Types of Output Transducers
Audion Tube
Sectorial Horn
35. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Midas Verona
Monitor System
Output Transducer
Outside
36. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Pre/Post Button
RTA
Live Mixing Issues
Radial Horn
37. False
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Distance
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Sir Oliver Lodge
38. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Delay Fill
Return Lines
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
R.G. Jones
39. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Gain Structure
Dynamic Based Processors
Down Fill
Warren G. Harding
40. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Pad
Showco PRISM
Tycobrahe
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
41. Usually colored red and lettered; Gender reversed from the channels; Allow for sending of any signal from the console areas back to the splitter box; Final mix from the console is the first priority; Optional and must be specified; If splitter does n
Mix Position
Return Lines
The Who
AFL
42. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Altec Lansing
Sectorial Horn
Emile Berliner
Bass Trap
43. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Midas XL4
High Amp Frequency Range
Radial Horn
Components of Good Mixing
44. False
Sir Oliver Lodge
Center Fill
Bob Heil
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
45. 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
Warren G. Harding
Pre/Post Button
Gain Structure
Sub Snakes
46. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Floorwedge Coverage
Equalizer
47. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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48. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
RAT Sound
Mass Connectors
Aux/CO
49. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Angle of Incidence
Audion Tube
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Time Based Processors
50. True
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Balloon Meadow
Return Lines
Side Car