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Show Production Basics
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performing-arts
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1. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Showco
R.G. Jones
Band Limiter
2. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
VCA
Low End Problem
Western Electric
The Who
3. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Judy Garland
Matrix Section
Workbox
Compression Driver
4. 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
Cue System
Side Car
Flying Sound
Meyer Sound
5. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Bob Heil
Rack Position
Sub Snakes
Monitor Signal Flow
6. 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
Western Electric
Return Lines
Types of Output Transducers
Mix Position
7. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Floorwedge Coverage
Vagabond
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Line Array
8. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Dynamic Based Processors
Compression Driver
Aux/CO
9. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
FOH Engineer
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Phasing Plug
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
10. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
House Engineer
Production Manager
Splitter Box
Band Limiter
11. 15 minutes
Down Fill
Sound Booth
Clair Brothers
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
12. 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
R.G. Jones
Midas XL4
Mass Connectors
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
13. False
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Equalizer
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Butt Fill
14. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Aux/CO
Mixing Setup Considerations
Apron Fill
FOH Engineer
15. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Stereophonic Sound
Matrix
Splitter System Components
Clair Brothers
16. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
RTA
Down Fill
Equalizer
17. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
After Fader Listen
Cue System
High Amp Frequency Range
Sectorial Horn
18. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Near-Fields
FOH Engineer
Distance
Drive Rack
19. Major loss in dB
Outside
Foldback
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
THX
20. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
AFL
Controlling SNR
Judy Garland
VCA
21. 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
Magiae Universal
Audion Tube
Near-Fields
House Engineer
22. 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
Center Fill
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
AFL
Production Manager
23. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Apron Fill
Outside
Splitter System Components
Greek Amphitheater
24. 'Wrote the book' on practically all aspects of loudspeaker component and horn design; Most speaker systems today rely on this technology; Began as Western Electric
Output Transducer
Altec Lansing
Front of the House
Monitor Signal Flow
25. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Clair Brothers
Line Check
Monitor System
Judy Garland
26. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
ShowConsole
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Tycobrahe
High Amp Frequency Range
27. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Phasing Plug
Sensurround
Sub Snakes
Controlling SNR
28. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Return Lines
Rack Position
FOH Engineer
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
29. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Sound Booth
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Splitter System Components
Ernst Siemens
30. Can quickly change gain in response to many different detectors looking at same signal; Used in really tough situations where u want strict control over level and dynamics
Rack Position
Stereophonic Sound
Distance
VCA
31. Mixes for the audience
Delay Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
FOH Engineer
Mix Position
32. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Line Check
Sound Booth
Midas Verona
Pink Noise
33. 'Wrote the book' on practically all aspects of loudspeaker component and horn design; Most speaker systems today rely on this technology; Began as Western Electric
The Who
Audion Tube
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Altec Lansing
34. False
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35. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
RTA
Return Lines
Sectorial Horn
MSL-4
36. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Foldback
Butt Fill
Crossover
FOH Engineer
37. 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
Compression Driver
Line Array
Return Lines
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
38. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Monitor System
Upstage
Pink Noise
39. FOH
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Front of the House
Mix EQ
Foldback
40. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Judy Garland
Radial Horn
Altec Lansing
Clair Brothers
41. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Vocal Mic Setup
Controlling SNR
Ear Trumpets
Production Manager
42. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Dr. Christian Heil
Western Electric
Apron Fill
Mix Position
43. False
Matrix
Ear Trumpets
Live Mixing Issues
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
44. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Phasing Plug
FOH Signal Flow
Center Fill
45. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Dynamic Based Processors
Bob Heil
Components of Good Mixing
46. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Monitor Amp Rack
Equalizer
Return Lines
Pre/Post Button
47. 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
MSL-4
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Mid Amp Frequency Range
48. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Uses for Return Lines
Apron Fill
Rack Position
Lee DeForest
49. Mixing console used in course of instruction; 40 channels; 8 Subgroups; 8 AUX Sends; 4 Matrix Outputs; Input sections on right and left and master section in middle
Mix EQ
Midas Verona
Equalizer
Workbox
50. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
RTA
Apron Fill
VCA
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
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