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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. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Vocal Mic Setup
Vagabond
Midas XL4
2. 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
Low Amp Frequency Range
Vocal Mic Setup
Uses for Return Lines
3. 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
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Gain Structure
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Greek Amphitheater
4. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Near-Fields
Upstage
Rack Position
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
5. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Crossover
Ernst Siemens
Near-Fields
1940's P/A Systems
6. 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
MSL-4
Types of Output Transducers
FOH Signal Flow
Center Fill
7. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Dr. Christian Heil
Warren G. Harding
Front of the House
Mid Amp Frequency Range
8. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
MSL-4
Supplemental Speaker Systems
9. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Building a Mix
Live Mixing Issues
Sectorial Horn
Uses for Return Lines
10. True
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Rack Position
Stereophonic Sound
Mix EQ
11. 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
Matrix
Rack Position
Floorwedge Coverage
12. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Equalizer
Greek Amphitheater
Delay Fill
Bass Trap
13. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Meyer Sound
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Midas XL4
Showco
14. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Dr. Christian Heil
Rack Position
Shearer Horn System
Floorwedge Coverage
15. False
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
High Amp Frequency Range
Monitor Amp Rack
Phasing Plug
16. 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
Building a Mix
Public Address
Side Fill
Matrix
17. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Drive Rack
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Audion Tube
Matrix
18. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
System Limiter
Controlling SNR
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
ShowConsole
19. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Sensurround
System Limiter
Warren G. Harding
Rack Position
20. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Output Transducer
Altec Lansing
Midas XL4
Emile Berliner
21. True
Rack Position
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Output Transducer
22. 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
Electric Voice
Aux/CO
System Engineer
Audion Tube
23. False
Electric Voice
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
House System
Uses for Return Lines
24. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
The Who
Live Mixing Issues
House Engineer
25. 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
System Limiter
Shearer Horn System
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Stereophonic Sound
26. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Live Mixing Issues
Midas Verona
Types of Output Transducers
Line Check
27. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Mix EQ
Monitor System
Phasing Plug
Western Electric
28. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Angle of Incidence
Show Production Organization
Greek Amphitheater
Low Amp Frequency Range
29. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Line Check
Center Fill
Equalizer
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
30. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Monitor System
Monitor Amp Rack
Output Transducer
Low End Problem
31. From the FOH; Used to cover audience members located beyond the coverage of the front of house sound systems; Speaker system's signal is delayed to let the sound from FOH speaker systems catch up
Delay Fill
Clair Brothers
Line Array
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
32. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Phasing Plug
Splitter Box
Time Based Processors
Mid Amp Frequency Range
33. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Duckers
Distance
Production Manager
Low End Problem
34. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Rigging Basket
Vagabond
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Transducer
35. 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
Sir Oliver Lodge
Bob Heil
Ernst Siemens
Mid Amp Frequency Range
36. 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
Tycobrahe
Midas XL4
Return Lines
Line Array
37. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Sir Oliver Lodge
Uses for Return Lines
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Pad
38. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Vocal Mic Setup
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Workbox
39. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Distance
Components of Good Mixing
VCA
R.G. Jones
40. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
Public Address
Meyer Sound
Mixing Setup Considerations
After Fader Listen
41. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Side Car
Near-Fields
VCA
R.G. Jones
42. 15 minutes
Side Car
R.G. Jones
Shearer Horn System
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
43. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Tycobrahe
Main Snake
Sir Oliver Lodge
Mix Position
44. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Ear Trumpets
Dr. Christian Heil
Down Fill
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
45. 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
Sensurround
Components of Good Mixing
Auditorium
Cue System
46. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Compression Driver
Mix Position
Equalizer
Line Check
47. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Dynamic Based Processors
Mass Connectors
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Showco
48. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
Vagabond
Magiae Universal
Mass Connectors
Dr. Christian Heil
49. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
High Amp Frequency Range
Main Snake
THX
Center Fill
50. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Rigging Basket
Audion Tube
Uses for Return Lines
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...