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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. 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
Splitter Box
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Showco PRISM
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
2. 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
Warren G. Harding
Cue System
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
3. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Live Mixing Issues
Midas XL4
Radial Horn
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
4. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Pad
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Side Car
Components of Good Mixing
5. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Tycobrahe
System Limiter
Monitor Signal Flow
System Engineer
6. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
Controlling SNR
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Warren G. Harding
7. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Ernst Siemens
Uses for Return Lines
Phasing Plug
Building a Mix
8. 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
Rigging Basket
Midas XL4
FOH Signal Flow
Gain Structure
9. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Butt Fill
Audion Tube
Midas XL4
Sectorial Horn
10. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
High Amp Frequency Range
Monitor Amp Rack
Side Car
Splitter System Components
11. True
Emile Berliner
Angle of Incidence
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Mass Connectors
12. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Angle of Incidence
Greek Amphitheater
13. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Controlling SNR
Sir Oliver Lodge
Types of Output Transducers
Pad
14. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Time Based Processors
Return Lines
Show Production Organization
Low Amp Frequency Range
15. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Sir Oliver Lodge
Workbox
Hanley Sound
System Limiter
16. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Line Check
Aux/CO
Near-Fields
Matrix
17. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Greek Amphitheater
Clair Brothers
Compression Driver
Showco PRISM
18. FOH
Front of the House
The Who
Aux/CO
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
19. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Center Fill
Low End Problem
Vagabond
Dynamic Based Processors
20. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Electric Voice
Rear Fill
Audion Tube
Aux/CO
21. 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
Rear Fill
Splitter Box
Monitor Amp Rack
Floorwedge Coverage
22. False
Lee DeForest
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
23. 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
Monitor System
Line Array
Apron Fill
Bass Trap
24. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Down Fill
Show Production Organization
Mixing Setup Considerations
House System
25. True
Mid Amp Frequency Range
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Shearer Horn System
Pad
26. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Workbox
Butt Fill
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Outside
27. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Auditorium
Hanley Sound
R.G. Jones
Upstage
28. 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
Return Lines
Phasing Plug
Components of Good Mixing
Showco
29. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Stereophonic Sound
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Compression Driver
30. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Phasing Plug
Rear Fill
Main Snake
Main Snake
31. 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
Return Lines
Sensurround
Sectorial Horn
32. 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
Butt Fill
Front of the House
Mix EQ
Return Lines
33. Mixes for the audience
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Judy Garland
Equalizer
FOH Engineer
34. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Return Lines
Rack Position
MSL-4
35. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Mix Position
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Monitor System
Splitter Box
36. 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
Shearer Horn System
After Fader Listen
Components of Good Mixing
Crossover
37. 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
Mid Amp Frequency Range
THX
Rigging Basket
Sir Oliver Lodge
38. 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
RTA
Dynamic Based Processors
System Engineer
High Amp Frequency Range
39. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
MSL-4
Dr. Christian Heil
Magiae Universal
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
40. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
RTA
Foldback
MSL-4
Vagabond
41. 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
Meyer Sound
Mix Position
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Foldback
42. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
Components of Good Mixing
The Who
Show Production Organization
Matrix Section
43. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Emile Berliner
RAT Sound
Mid Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
44. From the Monitor Desk; Cover artists from speaker locations on the sides of the stage; Usually tri-amped systems; Stereo bus designed to manage these - but Mix SENDS can also be utilized
Side Fill
Uses for Return Lines
Stereophonic Sound
Meyer Sound
45. 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
Uses for Return Lines
Mass Connectors
Monitor System
AFL
46. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
Greek Amphitheater
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
47. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Compression Driver
Balloon Meadow
Main Snake
1st Successful Use of P/A System
48. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Side Fill
Mass Connectors
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Floorwedge Coverage
49. True
MSL-4
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Altec Lansing
Bass Trap
50. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Pink Noise
Ernst Siemens
Transducer