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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. True
Uses for Return Lines
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
MSL-4
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
2. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Mid Amp Frequency Range
1st Successful Use of P/A System
VCA
Warren G. Harding
3. 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
Components of Good Mixing
Sectorial Horn
Center Fill
FOH Signal Flow
4. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
System Engineer
Midas XL4
AFL
Matrix Section
5. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
Return Lines
Magiae Universal
Time Based Processors
Foldback
6. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Pre/Post Button
Sensurround
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
7. '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
R.G. Jones
ShowConsole
Altec Lansing
Supplemental Speaker Systems
8. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Foldback
Monitor Signal Flow
Low Amp Frequency Range
9. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Greek Amphitheater
THX
Workbox
Production Manager
10. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sub Snakes
RAT Sound
Matrix Section
Line Array
11. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Lee DeForest
Emile Berliner
Delay Fill
Down Fill
12. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Building a Mix
Gain Structure
Auditorium
Live Mixing Issues
13. False
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
The Who
Rack Position
Workbox
14. Rusty Brutsch
Showco
RTA
Delay Fill
Down Fill
15. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Floorwedge Coverage
Low Amp Frequency Range
Mid Amp Frequency Range
R.G. Jones
16. 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
Phasing Plug
Workbox
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
17. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
THX
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Lee DeForest
18. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Shearer Horn System
Floorwedge Coverage
Audion Tube
Midas XL4
19. Mix Coherence and Individuality of Instruments - High Level of SNR in Microphones - All Instruments Leaving Sound System at Same Time - Be Fluent in the Most Basic Reinforcement Concepts - Helping the Performer in Any Way Via Sound - Constantly Impro
Aux/CO
Line Check
Tycobrahe
Components of Good Mixing
20. '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
Vocal Mic Setup
Public Address
Electric Voice
Altec Lansing
21. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Monitor System
Live Mixing Issues
Rack Position
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
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
Aux/CO
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Foldback
Low End Problem
23. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Splitter Box
Compression Driver
Pink Noise
24. 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
Main Snake
Low End Problem
Delay Fill
25. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
House System
Equalizer
Dr. Christian Heil
Flying Sound
26. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rear Fill
RAT Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
27. 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
ShowConsole
Sound Booth
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Sir Oliver Lodge
28. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Matrix
Tycobrahe
Hanley Sound
Pre/Post Button
29. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Lee DeForest
AFL
Show Production Organization
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
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
VCA
Meyer Sound
ShowConsole
Duckers
31. 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
Monitor System
Delay Fill
Monitor Signal Flow
Supplemental Speaker Systems
32. 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
Compression Driver
Controlling SNR
Dr. Christian Heil
Cue System
33. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Down Fill
Judy Garland
Mixing Setup Considerations
Tycobrahe
34. True
Floorwedge Coverage
Show Production Organization
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Magiae Universal
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
Splitter Box
Outside
Tycobrahe
Floorwedge Coverage
36. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Near-Fields
Balloon Meadow
RTA
Midas XL4
37. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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38. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Low Amp Frequency Range
Ernst Siemens
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Return Lines
39. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Supplemental Speaker Systems
R.G. Jones
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Time Based Processors
40. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Pre/Post Button
Uses for Return Lines
Matrix Section
Judy Garland
41. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
House Engineer
1940's P/A Systems
Sectorial Horn
Warren G. Harding
42. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Return Lines
Rear Fill
Vagabond
43. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Rack Position
RTA
Emile Berliner
44. 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
Sir Oliver Lodge
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Main Snake
Meyer Sound
45. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Matrix
Bob Heil
Audion Tube
Stereophonic Sound
46. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Bob Heil
Midas XL4
Matrix
Sectorial Horn
47. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Low End Problem
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Side Fill
RTA
48. From the Monitor Desk; Monitors that are located behind the artist and pointed downstage to cover area that cannot be covered by the floor wedges on the front line
Band Limiter
Butt Fill
Splitter Box
Public Address
49. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Line Check
Workbox
Auditorium
Sound Booth
50. Developed by George Lucas and Thomlinson Holman; Debuted with the film 'Return of the Jedi'; Proprietary electronic crossover network and rigorous audio equipment specifications and performance standards
RTA
THX
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Outside