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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
System Engineer
Cue System
Gain Structure
After Fader Listen
2. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
The Who
Monitor Signal Flow
Return Lines
3. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Midas XL4
Return Lines
Transducer
Production Manager
4. 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
Side Car
ShowConsole
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
5. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Cue System
Vagabond
RTA
6. 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
Crossover
The Who
Shearer Horn System
Monitor Signal Flow
7. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
After Fader Listen
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Lee DeForest
Pad
8. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Pre/Post Button
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Mix Position
Main Snake
9. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Flying Sound
Splitter System Components
Phasing Plug
Clair Brothers
10. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
After Fader Listen
Judy Garland
Hanley Sound
Greek Amphitheater
11. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
VCA
Phasing Plug
Magiae Universal
Dynamic Based Processors
12. False
Shearer Horn System
Pre/Post Button
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Return Lines
13. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Pad
Monitor System
Hanley Sound
Flying Sound
14. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
1940's P/A Systems
Hanley Sound
Rack Position
Ernst Siemens
15. 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
Types of Output Transducers
Balloon Meadow
Main Snake
16. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Distance
FOH Signal Flow
Mix Position
Sub Snakes
17. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Equalizer
Duckers
Vocal Mic Setup
Auditorium
18. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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19. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
System Limiter
Upstage
Line Check
Mix Position
20. True
Tycobrahe
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
After Fader Listen
High Amp Frequency Range
21. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Supplemental Speaker Systems
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Center Fill
Near-Fields
22. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Near-Fields
Main Snake
Cue System
Pink Noise
23. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Western Electric
The Who
Emile Berliner
24. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Sir Oliver Lodge
Electric Voice
Main Snake
25. 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
Dynamic Based Processors
Front of the House
Butt Fill
Sir Oliver Lodge
26. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Near-Fields
Center Fill
Rack Position
R.G. Jones
27. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Rack Position
Foldback
System Limiter
1st Successful Use of P/A System
28. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Duckers
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Emile Berliner
Warren G. Harding
29. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Radial Horn
MSL-4
Time Based Processors
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
30. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
VCA
Splitter Box
Rack Position
System Limiter
31. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Show Production Organization
Shearer Horn System
Line Check
Mix Position
32. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Monitor System
House Engineer
Hanley Sound
RTA
33. 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
Low Amp Frequency Range
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
FOH Signal Flow
FOH Engineer
34. 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
Gain Structure
Uses for Return Lines
Flying Sound
Foldback
35. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Floorwedge Coverage
Sub Snakes
Mix Position
Bass Trap
36. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Rigging Basket
Line Array
Equalizer
Delay Fill
37. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
Monitor Amp Rack
Audion Tube
Rigging Basket
House Engineer
38. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Emile Berliner
RTA
Drive Rack Signal Flow
39. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Magiae Universal
Dr. Christian Heil
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
40. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Emile Berliner
Production Manager
Duckers
Controlling SNR
41. True
Output Transducer
Butt Fill
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Cue System
42. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Matrix Section
Production Manager
Sectorial Horn
Rack Position
43. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Cue System
VCA
High Amp Frequency Range
Band Limiter
44. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Line Array
FOH Signal Flow
Dr. Christian Heil
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
45. False
Stereophonic Sound
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Live Mixing Issues
Pre/Post Button
46. FOH
1940's P/A Systems
Front of the House
Public Address
The Who
47. 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
AFL
Judy Garland
Line Array
Ear Trumpets
48. Converts electrical information into acoustic energy
Mix Position
Output Transducer
Western Electric
RAT Sound
49. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Compression Driver
Vocal Mic Setup
AFL
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
50. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Low End Problem
Monitor Amp Rack
Stereophonic Sound
Return Lines