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Show Production Basics
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Subject
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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. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Sensurround
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Monitor Signal Flow
The Who
2. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
MSL-4
Angle of Incidence
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Transducer
3. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Side Car
Hanley Sound
Sensurround
4. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
Greek Amphitheater
Mass Connectors
Live Mixing Issues
Time Based Processors
5. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Rigging Basket
1st Successful Use of P/A System
AFL
Duckers
6. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Flying Sound
Showco PRISM
Upstage
7. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Floorwedge Coverage
Vagabond
Live Mixing Issues
Mid Amp Frequency Range
8. True
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
MSL-4
Western Electric
Magiae Universal
9. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Workbox
Sound Booth
Components of Good Mixing
Sub Snakes
10. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Band Limiter
Mixing Setup Considerations
Ernst Siemens
Matrix Section
11. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
System Limiter
Matrix Section
Phasing Plug
Pink Noise
12. 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
House Engineer
Time Based Processors
Dr. Christian Heil
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
13. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Sound Booth
1940's P/A Systems
Radial Horn
Hanley Sound
14. Founded by Jim Gamble and Jim Chase in Hermosa Beach - CA in 1972; Clients included Grand Funk Railroad & Boston
Foldback
Splitter Box
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Tycobrahe
15. Mix Coherence and Individuality of Instruments - High Level of SNR in Microphones - All Instruments Leaving Sound System at Same Time - Be Fluent in the Most Basic Reinforcement Concepts - Helping the Performer in Any Way Via Sound - Constantly Impro
Types of Output Transducers
Components of Good Mixing
Outside
Gain Structure
16. True
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Rigging Basket
17. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
System Limiter
Meyer Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
Cue System
18. FOH
High Amp Frequency Range
Front of the House
FOH Signal Flow
Supplemental Speaker Systems
19. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Sub Snakes
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Floorwedge Coverage
R.G. Jones
20. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Magiae Universal
Uses for Return Lines
Controlling SNR
Drive Rack
21. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
After Fader Listen
Dynamic Based Processors
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Duckers
22. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Aux/CO
Floorwedge Coverage
MSL-4
Monitor Signal Flow
23. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Line Array
Side Car
Western Electric
Return Lines
24. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Mix Position
Monitor Amp Rack
R.G. Jones
Gain Structure
25. 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
System Engineer
THX
Side Fill
Vagabond
26. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Bob Heil
Mass Connectors
Monitor Signal Flow
27. 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
Radial Horn
Equalizer
Showco
AFL
28. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Controlling SNR
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
House System
Return Lines
29. False
Floorwedge Coverage
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Stereophonic Sound
30. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
The Who
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Drive Rack
MSL-4
31. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Crossover
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Mix Position
Pink Noise
32. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Types of Output Transducers
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Distance
33. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Gain Structure
Dr. Christian Heil
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
34. 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
House Engineer
Distance
Sectorial Horn
Bob Heil
35. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Hanley Sound
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
FOH Engineer
Vagabond
36. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Side Car
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Sir Oliver Lodge
37. 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
FOH Signal Flow
Low Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
After Fader Listen
38. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Balloon Meadow
Distance
Vagabond
39. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Matrix
Low End Problem
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
40. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Return Lines
Live Mixing Issues
Dynamic Based Processors
41. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Tycobrahe
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Apron Fill
Vocal Mic Setup
42. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
R.G. Jones
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Sectorial Horn
Workbox
43. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Down Fill
Monitor Amp Rack
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Apron Fill
44. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Outside
Splitter System Components
Judy Garland
Show Production Organization
45. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Dr. Christian Heil
House Engineer
Stereophonic Sound
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
46. 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
Ear Trumpets
Judy Garland
THX
Splitter Box
47. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Show Production Organization
High Amp Frequency Range
Sensurround
Controlling SNR
48. 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
Judy Garland
Monitor Signal Flow
Sir Oliver Lodge
Mixing Setup Considerations
49. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Mass Connectors
Splitter System Components
System Limiter
Compression Driver
50. Line of sight to the speakers is necessary (false sense of high frequencies if not directly in front of speakers); Optimum = Center or just off center of the main floor with a good distance for imaging and where the entire system can be heard
Tycobrahe
Mix Position
Upstage
AFL