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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. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Delay Fill
Low End Problem
Workbox
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
2. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Low End Problem
Front of the House
Warren G. Harding
Midas XL4
3. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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4. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Drive Rack
Monitor Amp Rack
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Band Limiter
5. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Mix Position
Midas XL4
Outside
Types of Output Transducers
6. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Vocal Mic Setup
Magiae Universal
Public Address
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
7. 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
Return Lines
Uses for Return Lines
Controlling SNR
AFL
8. 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
Return Lines
Magiae Universal
Splitter Box
Radial Horn
9. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Foldback
Lee DeForest
Tycobrahe
Showco
10. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Sub Snakes
Monitor Amp Rack
VCA
System Engineer
11. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Rear Fill
Time Based Processors
Dynamic Based Processors
Transducer
12. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Flying Sound
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Ear Trumpets
Ernst Siemens
13. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Low End Problem
Mass Connectors
Matrix
Greek Amphitheater
14. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Low Amp Frequency Range
Lee DeForest
Ernst Siemens
RTA
15. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Sensurround
Line Array
Magiae Universal
Uses for Return Lines
16. 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
System Limiter
Gain Structure
Splitter System Components
Midas Verona
17. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Near-Fields
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Show Production Organization
Western Electric
18. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
AFL
Audion Tube
Rigging Basket
Low Amp Frequency Range
19. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Splitter Box
Main Snake
Stereophonic Sound
20. This button will route aux sends to group master
Aux/CO
Vagabond
Angle of Incidence
Types of Output Transducers
21. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Angle of Incidence
Splitter Box
MSL-4
Emile Berliner
22. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Pink Noise
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Ernst Siemens
Cue System
23. FOH
Front of the House
Flying Sound
Dynamic Based Processors
RTA
24. False
Matrix
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
VCA
Meyer Sound
25. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Pink Noise
Components of Good Mixing
Angle of Incidence
Monitor System
26. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Clair Brothers
Aux/CO
Sectorial Horn
1st Successful Use of P/A System
27. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Types of Output Transducers
Foldback
Mix Position
High Amp Frequency Range
28. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Return Lines
Monitor System
After Fader Listen
R.G. Jones
29. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Sensurround
Compression Driver
Sound Booth
Monitor System
30. 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
Ernst Siemens
Delay Fill
RTA
Mix Position
31. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Side Fill
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Show Production Organization
Rack Position
32. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Drive Rack
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Hanley Sound
Showco
33. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Lee DeForest
Pad
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Bob Heil
34. Rusty Brutsch
Bass Trap
Showco
Sir Oliver Lodge
Radial Horn
35. 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
Pad
Side Car
House Engineer
Building a Mix
36. 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: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Meyer Sound
R.G. Jones
37. 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
Shearer Horn System
Mass Connectors
Equalizer
Drive Rack
38. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Rear Fill
System Limiter
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
ShowConsole
39. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Uses for Return Lines
Types of Output Transducers
Upstage
Warren G. Harding
40. Converts one type of energy to another
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Transducer
Balloon Meadow
Emile Berliner
41. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Low End Problem
MSL-4
Band Limiter
Mid Amp Frequency Range
42. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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43. 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
After Fader Listen
Tycobrahe
System Engineer
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
44. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Balloon Meadow
Monitor Amp Rack
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Main Snake
45. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Dynamic Based Processors
Audion Tube
Monitor Signal Flow
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
46. True
After Fader Listen
Rack Position
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
47. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
VCA
Ear Trumpets
Meyer Sound
Midas XL4
48. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Front of the House
Line Array
House System
MSL-4
49. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
Down Fill
Return Lines
Mix Position
50. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Mass Connectors
Pink Noise
Magiae Universal
Duckers