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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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1. 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
Sound Booth
System Engineer
Down Fill
Return Lines
2. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Ernst Siemens
Outside
Magiae Universal
Show Production Organization
3. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Meyer Sound
Pre/Post Button
Matrix
Ernst Siemens
4. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Vocal Mic Setup
FOH Signal Flow
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Line Check
5. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Shearer Horn System
Matrix Section
Monitor Amp Rack
Near-Fields
6. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Duckers
Meyer Sound
Uses for Return Lines
Rack Position
7. 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
AFL
Line Array
Drive Rack Signal Flow
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
8. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Greek Amphitheater
Audion Tube
Compression Driver
Cue System
9. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Workbox
Center Fill
Uses for Return Lines
Low End Problem
10. 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
Greek Amphitheater
Shearer Horn System
Sir Oliver Lodge
Angle of Incidence
11. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Monitor Signal Flow
Butt Fill
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
AFL
12. 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
Emile Berliner
Components of Good Mixing
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Return Lines
13. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Side Car
Vagabond
RAT Sound
Butt Fill
14. FOH
Shearer Horn System
Showco PRISM
Delay Fill
Front of the House
15. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
16. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
MSL-4
Monitor Amp Rack
Angle of Incidence
Splitter System Components
17. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Supplemental Speaker Systems
House System
Equalizer
Band Limiter
18. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Aux/CO
Time Based Processors
Building a Mix
Bass Trap
19. 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
After Fader Listen
Duckers
Cue System
MSL-4
20. 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
Lee DeForest
Splitter Box
Magiae Universal
After Fader Listen
21. 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
System Limiter
Stereophonic Sound
Production Manager
Return Lines
22. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Sub Snakes
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Pad
23. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Dr. Christian Heil
Showco PRISM
Matrix Section
Sensurround
24. 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
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Rear Fill
House Engineer
Sir Oliver Lodge
25. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Pad
Flying Sound
Rack Position
Emile Berliner
26. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Building a Mix
Warren G. Harding
Line Array
Return Lines
27. True
Apron Fill
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Radial Horn
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
28. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
The Who
Outside
Dr. Christian Heil
Vocal Mic Setup
29. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
R.G. Jones
Compression Driver
Line Array
Splitter System Components
30. 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
Gain Structure
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Flying Sound
FOH Signal Flow
31. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Production Manager
Mix Position
Angle of Incidence
Magiae Universal
32. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
The Who
Drive Rack
Shearer Horn System
Low End Problem
33. 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
House Engineer
THX
Bob Heil
Flying Sound
34. Rusty Brutsch
House Engineer
Side Fill
After Fader Listen
Showco
35. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Pre/Post Button
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Line Check
36. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
Aux/CO
Matrix
Show Production Organization
37. Founded by Jim Gamble and Jim Chase in Hermosa Beach - CA in 1972; Clients included Grand Funk Railroad & Boston
Time Based Processors
Judy Garland
Tycobrahe
Hanley Sound
38. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Vagabond
Monitor Amp Rack
Mix EQ
Clair Brothers
39. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Duckers
Western Electric
Electric Voice
Drive Rack
40. 15 minutes
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Distance
Types of Output Transducers
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
41. FOH
Front of the House
FOH Engineer
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
42. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
High Amp Frequency Range
Mixing Setup Considerations
Uses for Return Lines
Controlling SNR
43. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Pink Noise
Vocal Mic Setup
Electric Voice
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
44. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Ear Trumpets
Apron Fill
Bob Heil
Showco PRISM
45. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Sensurround
Rear Fill
Monitor Amp Rack
Center Fill
46. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Stereophonic Sound
Line Check
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Midas Verona
47. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Duckers
After Fader Listen
System Limiter
Dynamic Based Processors
48. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Western Electric
Altec Lansing
Near-Fields
Phasing Plug
49. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Emile Berliner
Compression Driver
Sensurround
50. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Duckers
Pink Noise
Main Snake