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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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1. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
System Limiter
Judy Garland
Near-Fields
Splitter System Components
2. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Production Manager
Sub Snakes
Gain Structure
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
3. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
Western Electric
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Line Array
ShowConsole
4. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
MSL-4
Upstage
Dr. Christian Heil
Greek Amphitheater
5. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Audion Tube
Matrix
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Public Address
6. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
After Fader Listen
Mix EQ
ShowConsole
Flying Sound
7. 15 minutes
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Bass Trap
R.G. Jones
Uses for Return Lines
8. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Rear Fill
Sensurround
Meyer Sound
Live Mixing Issues
9. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Show Production Organization
Pad
Mixing Setup Considerations
RTA
10. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Radial Horn
AFL
Compression Driver
Crossover
11. True
Band Limiter
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Sub Snakes
Auditorium
12. Converts one type of energy to another
Uses for Return Lines
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Apron Fill
Transducer
13. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
Monitor Amp Rack
Low End Problem
Auditorium
14. Converts electrical information into acoustic energy
Apron Fill
Ear Trumpets
RTA
Output Transducer
15. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Monitor Amp Rack
Matrix
Vagabond
16. True
Rear Fill
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Matrix
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
17. 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
Judy Garland
Mix Position
Return Lines
House System
18. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
House System
The Who
Uses for Return Lines
Sectorial Horn
19. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Shearer Horn System
MSL-4
Time Based Processors
AFL
20. FOH
High Amp Frequency Range
Bob Heil
Meyer Sound
Front of the House
21. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Equalizer
Clair Brothers
Low End Problem
22. Rusty Brutsch
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Showco
Center Fill
Cue System
23. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
Ernst Siemens
1940's P/A Systems
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
ShowConsole
24. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
Mix Position
RTA
Compression Driver
Time Based Processors
25. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
System Limiter
R.G. Jones
Western Electric
Balloon Meadow
26. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
MSL-4
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Floorwedge Coverage
Drive Rack Signal Flow
27. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Lee DeForest
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Radial Horn
Output Transducer
28. 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
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Hanley Sound
AFL
Splitter System Components
29. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Sensurround
Uses for Return Lines
Mixing Setup Considerations
Rear Fill
30. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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31. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Lee DeForest
House Engineer
Mass Connectors
Mix Position
32. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Rigging Basket
Matrix
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Band Limiter
33. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Sectorial Horn
Angle of Incidence
Emile Berliner
Splitter System Components
34. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Types of Output Transducers
Radial Horn
Near-Fields
Building a Mix
35. 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
Electric Voice
Splitter Box
Monitor Amp Rack
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
36. FOH
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Front of the House
Upstage
Low End Problem
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
AFL
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
FOH Engineer
Line Array
38. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Splitter System Components
Controlling SNR
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
39. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Butt Fill
Balloon Meadow
Angle of Incidence
R.G. Jones
40. 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
VCA
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Angle of Incidence
41. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Ernst Siemens
Near-Fields
Low Amp Frequency Range
Down Fill
42. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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43. 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
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Shearer Horn System
Showco
Components of Good Mixing
44. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Low Amp Frequency Range
Transducer
Near-Fields
Showco
45. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
FOH Engineer
Side Fill
Foldback
Low End Problem
46. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Return Lines
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
47. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Outside
FOH Engineer
Drive Rack
Mix Position
48. 15 minutes
Monitor System
Public Address
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Sectorial Horn
49. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Western Electric
Monitor Amp Rack
Radial Horn
Foldback
50. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Hanley Sound
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Rigging Basket
Rack Position