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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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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. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Phasing Plug
Equalizer
Show Production Organization
FOH Signal Flow
2. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Electric Voice
Dynamic Based Processors
Types of Output Transducers
FOH Engineer
3. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Shearer Horn System
Sensurround
Lee DeForest
Clair Brothers
4. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Phasing Plug
System Limiter
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Magiae Universal
5. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Altec Lansing
Low End Problem
FOH Signal Flow
Production Manager
6. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Band Limiter
Sound Booth
Pink Noise
Gain Structure
7. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Gain Structure
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Monitor Signal Flow
8. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Splitter System Components
Monitor System
Floorwedge Coverage
ShowConsole
9. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Warren G. Harding
Building a Mix
Rack Position
House Engineer
10. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Lee DeForest
Floorwedge Coverage
Low End Problem
Magiae Universal
11. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Mass Connectors
Splitter System Components
Clair Brothers
Showco PRISM
12. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Showco PRISM
System Engineer
Line Check
Return Lines
13. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
House System
Supplemental Speaker Systems
The Who
Show Production Organization
14. 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
Emile Berliner
THX
Sensurround
15. Founded by Jim Gamble and Jim Chase in Hermosa Beach - CA in 1972; Clients included Grand Funk Railroad & Boston
Mixing Setup Considerations
MSL-4
Vocal Mic Setup
Tycobrahe
16. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Bass Trap
RAT Sound
Controlling SNR
Workbox
17. 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
Public Address
Aux/CO
MSL-4
Butt Fill
18. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Vagabond
Output Transducer
Emile Berliner
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
19. 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
Mix Position
Near-Fields
Midas Verona
RAT Sound
20. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Mix EQ
Vagabond
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
21. Converts one type of energy to another
Mid Amp Frequency Range
After Fader Listen
Transducer
Pad
22. False
High Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Near-Fields
Ernst Siemens
23. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
Phasing Plug
ShowConsole
Judy Garland
Mass Connectors
24. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Uses for Return Lines
Angle of Incidence
Drive Rack
Phasing Plug
25. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Sectorial Horn
Mix EQ
Splitter Box
Emile Berliner
26. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Auditorium
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Monitor Amp Rack
Line Check
27. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Output Transducer
Sir Oliver Lodge
Center Fill
R.G. Jones
28. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Mix Position
Sectorial Horn
Audion Tube
Apron Fill
29. Converts one type of energy to another
Transducer
Production Manager
Monitor System
FOH Signal Flow
30. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Equalizer
System Limiter
Live Mixing Issues
Audion Tube
31. P/A
Clair Brothers
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Public Address
Gain Structure
32. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Controlling SNR
Monitor Signal Flow
Auditorium
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
33. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
Return Lines
Vagabond
Sectorial Horn
34. True
Outside
After Fader Listen
Controlling SNR
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
35. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Floorwedge Coverage
Phasing Plug
Line Array
Clair Brothers
36. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Low End Problem
House System
Near-Fields
Radial Horn
37. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Meyer Sound
Splitter System Components
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Duckers
38. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Gain Structure
Monitor Amp Rack
MSL-4
39. 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
Front of the House
Sir Oliver Lodge
Center Fill
Rear Fill
40. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Distance
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Live Mixing Issues
Dr. Christian Heil
41. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Rack Position
House Engineer
Mix Position
Balloon Meadow
42. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Delay Fill
Aux/CO
Outside
43. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
After Fader Listen
Compression Driver
Return Lines
Clair Brothers
44. 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
Vagabond
Pad
Angle of Incidence
House Engineer
45. FOH
Rear Fill
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Side Fill
Front of the House
46. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Public Address
House System
Mass Connectors
47. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Delay Fill
System Limiter
Ear Trumpets
Workbox
48. 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
Hanley Sound
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Return Lines
Duckers
49. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Vocal Mic Setup
Splitter Box
Clair Brothers
Midas XL4
50. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Stereophonic Sound
Gain Structure
Stereophonic Sound
Return Lines