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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. 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
Drive Rack
Western Electric
Stereophonic Sound
Crossover
2. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Front of the House
Side Car
R.G. Jones
3. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
House System
Center Fill
Emile Berliner
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
4. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Angle of Incidence
Bob Heil
Public Address
MSL-4
5. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Splitter System Components
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Show Production Organization
MSL-4
6. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Stereophonic Sound
Monitor System
Vocal Mic Setup
7. 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
System Engineer
Equalizer
Live Mixing Issues
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
8. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Low Amp Frequency Range
Down Fill
Types of Output Transducers
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
9. P/A
Tycobrahe
Lee DeForest
Compression Driver
Public Address
10. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Midas Verona
Band Limiter
System Limiter
FOH Signal Flow
11. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
The Who
Down Fill
Mass Connectors
Public Address
12. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Mix Position
Phasing Plug
Meyer Sound
Uses for Return Lines
13. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Pre/Post Button
Matrix Section
Midas Verona
Bass Trap
14. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Emile Berliner
Mixing Setup Considerations
R.G. Jones
Return Lines
15. 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
House System
Mid Amp Frequency Range
AFL
Crossover
16. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Monitor System
Distance
17. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Showco PRISM
Controlling SNR
Workbox
Bass Trap
18. 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
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Showco PRISM
Splitter Box
Side Fill
19. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Types of Output Transducers
Cue System
System Engineer
RTA
20. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Line Check
Return Lines
Shearer Horn System
Showco PRISM
21. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Time Based Processors
Monitor Signal Flow
Near-Fields
Down Fill
22. 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
Monitor Amp Rack
Hanley Sound
Western Electric
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
23. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Drive Rack
Matrix
Uses for Return Lines
24. Rusty Brutsch
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Types of Output Transducers
Showco
RAT Sound
25. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Building a Mix
Front of the House
Showco PRISM
Auditorium
26. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Aux/CO
High Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Balloon Meadow
27. FOH
Front of the House
Pink Noise
Line Array
Phasing Plug
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
FOH Signal Flow
Balloon Meadow
RTA
Ernst Siemens
29. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Aux/CO
Side Car
Altec Lansing
Return Lines
30. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
ShowConsole
Judy Garland
Public Address
System Limiter
31. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Audion Tube
High Amp Frequency Range
Types of Output Transducers
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
32. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Dr. Christian Heil
Public Address
Equalizer
Midas XL4
33. 15 minutes
Foldback
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Dr. Christian Heil
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
34. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Pre/Post Button
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Side Car
Building a Mix
35. False
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
VCA
Low Amp Frequency Range
Monitor Signal Flow
36. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Mix Position
Sectorial Horn
Judy Garland
Floorwedge Coverage
37. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Workbox
Compression Driver
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
38. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Ernst Siemens
Line Check
Outside
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
Aux/CO
Sir Oliver Lodge
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
House System
40. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Low Amp Frequency Range
Cue System
Balloon Meadow
Distance
41. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Stereophonic Sound
ShowConsole
Phasing Plug
Pink Noise
42. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
RAT Sound
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
AFL
Duckers
43. Rusty Brutsch
Outside
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Showco
Equalizer
44. False
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Shearer Horn System
The Who
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
45. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Center Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
Western Electric
Sound Booth
46. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
MSL-4
Time Based Processors
Sir Oliver Lodge
47. True
VCA
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
48. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Controlling SNR
Phasing Plug
AFL
49. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Bob Heil
Center Fill
Angle of Incidence
50. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
Butt Fill
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Pre/Post Button