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Show Production Basics
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Live Mixing Issues
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Crossover
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
2. Allows use of two or more consoles; 1 House & 1 Monitor; Can be wall mounted or placed in a rack; Basically a big set of Y-cables in a box; Does not belong in FOH area
Matrix
RAT Sound
Splitter Box
Compression Driver
3. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Dr. Christian Heil
Warren G. Harding
Mass Connectors
Supplemental Speaker Systems
4. 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
Mass Connectors
Gain Structure
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
5. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
RTA
Time Based Processors
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Balloon Meadow
6. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
After Fader Listen
Side Car
Controlling SNR
7. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
Greek Amphitheater
Components of Good Mixing
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
8. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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9. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Magiae Universal
System Engineer
Dynamic Based Processors
High Amp Frequency Range
10. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Pad
Mix Position
System Limiter
Vocal Mic Setup
11. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Compression Driver
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Flying Sound
Ernst Siemens
12. Rusty Brutsch
Pre/Post Button
Showco
Time Based Processors
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
13. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Transducer
Tycobrahe
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
14. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Pre/Post Button
Sir Oliver Lodge
Clair Brothers
Live Mixing Issues
15. False
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Types of Output Transducers
MSL-4
R.G. Jones
16. Theater loudspeaker system researched and developed by MGM and Lansing Manufacturing; Covered low and high frequencies with a crossover at 500Hz; Won a Technical Achievement Academy Award
Shearer Horn System
Matrix
Gain Structure
ShowConsole
17. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Drive Rack
Band Limiter
Apron Fill
Return Lines
18. Masks with acoustic horns in the design; High-soled shoes to help with projection; Reflective acoustic shells designed into staging; Stadium stye seating for patrons; Jars filled with different layers of ash used for sound absorption and diffusion
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Splitter Box
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
1st Successful Use of P/A System
19. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Bob Heil
1940's P/A Systems
Flying Sound
Side Fill
20. False
Shearer Horn System
Time Based Processors
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Showco
21. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Ear Trumpets
Monitor Signal Flow
Midas XL4
Crossover
22. 15 minutes
Balloon Meadow
Warren G. Harding
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Midas Verona
23. Theater loudspeaker system researched and developed by MGM and Lansing Manufacturing; Covered low and high frequencies with a crossover at 500Hz; Won a Technical Achievement Academy Award
Shearer Horn System
Pad
Public Address
Splitter System Components
24. 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
Cue System
Mixing Setup Considerations
Rigging Basket
ShowConsole
25. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Pad
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Mass Connectors
26. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Lee DeForest
Stereophonic Sound
Pink Noise
House Engineer
27. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Pad
Monitor System
Ear Trumpets
Emile Berliner
28. 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
R.G. Jones
Mixing Setup Considerations
FOH Signal Flow
Tycobrahe
29. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Side Fill
1st Successful Use of P/A System
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Line Check
30. False
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
R.G. Jones
RAT Sound
Side Fill
31. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Delay Fill
MSL-4
Pink Noise
Phasing Plug
32. 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
Apron Fill
AFL
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Delay Fill
33. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
System Limiter
Emile Berliner
Balloon Meadow
Supplemental Speaker Systems
34. True
Monitor Amp Rack
Upstage
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
House Engineer
35. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Clair Brothers
Components of Good Mixing
Side Fill
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
36. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Transducer
Uses for Return Lines
Ear Trumpets
Rack Position
37. True
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Shearer Horn System
Low Amp Frequency Range
Cue System
38. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Sound Booth
Lee DeForest
Line Check
Warren G. Harding
39. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Sub Snakes
40. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
House System
Building a Mix
Time Based Processors
Low End Problem
41. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Line Array
Monitor System
Bass Trap
MSL-4
42. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Low End Problem
Types of Output Transducers
Auditorium
Duckers
43. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
MSL-4
Showco
Ernst Siemens
44. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Pad
Audion Tube
Supplemental Speaker Systems
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
45. 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
Mass Connectors
Equalizer
Warren G. Harding
House Engineer
46. Rusty Brutsch
Types of Output Transducers
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
FOH Signal Flow
Showco
47. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
Showco PRISM
Return Lines
The Who
Butt Fill
48. Developed by George Lucas and Thomlinson Holman; Debuted with the film 'Return of the Jedi'; Proprietary electronic crossover network and rigorous audio equipment specifications and performance standards
Shearer Horn System
THX
Greek Amphitheater
Balloon Meadow
49. '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
Rigging Basket
Altec Lansing
Rear Fill
Components of Good Mixing
50. Allows use of two or more consoles; 1 House & 1 Monitor; Can be wall mounted or placed in a rack; Basically a big set of Y-cables in a box; Does not belong in FOH area
Auditorium
Splitter Box
Pad
Mid Amp Frequency Range