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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. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Workbox
Front of the House
Rear Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
2. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Rack Position
Outside
Live Mixing Issues
Sensurround
3. Rusty Brutsch
Crossover
Showco
Center Fill
Mass Connectors
4. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
FOH Engineer
Low Amp Frequency Range
R.G. Jones
Rack Position
5. 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
Public Address
Matrix
Rear Fill
Sir Oliver Lodge
6. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Lee DeForest
VCA
Mix Position
Side Car
7. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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8. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Judy Garland
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Time Based Processors
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
9. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Types of Output Transducers
Time Based Processors
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Low Amp Frequency Range
10. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Front of the House
Warren G. Harding
Uses for Return Lines
Dynamic Based Processors
11. 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
Components of Good Mixing
Midas XL4
Radial Horn
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
12. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
House Engineer
ShowConsole
Output Transducer
Mixing Setup Considerations
13. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
R.G. Jones
RAT Sound
Monitor Amp Rack
14. 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
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
VCA
Warren G. Harding
Radial Horn
15. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Pad
House System
R.G. Jones
Components of Good Mixing
16. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Vocal Mic Setup
Components of Good Mixing
R.G. Jones
Production Manager
17. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
MSL-4
RAT Sound
Ear Trumpets
Stereophonic Sound
18. Converts one type of energy to another
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Transducer
Workbox
Splitter System Components
19. 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
Western Electric
Crossover
THX
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
20. 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
Controlling SNR
Splitter Box
Output Transducer
Workbox
21. False
Mix Position
Angle of Incidence
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
22. 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
Flying Sound
Drive Rack Signal Flow
House Engineer
Workbox
23. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Line Array
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Sectorial Horn
Near-Fields
24. Speakers and other audio equipment suspended in air; Provides better sight lines and allows for larger crowds by freeing up space; Reason for strict weight limits and safety requirements
Butt Fill
Matrix Section
Flying Sound
Stereophonic Sound
25. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
RTA
Matrix Section
Magiae Universal
Sir Oliver Lodge
26. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Live Mixing Issues
Matrix
Pink Noise
Balloon Meadow
27. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Dr. Christian Heil
Judy Garland
Audion Tube
Distance
28. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
Mix Position
Greek Amphitheater
Output Transducer
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
29. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
System Limiter
RTA
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Butt Fill
30. 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
Magiae Universal
FOH Signal Flow
Greek Amphitheater
31. FOH
House System
Showco PRISM
Front of the House
Production Manager
32. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Equalizer
Controlling SNR
Building a Mix
Low End Problem
33. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
Line Check
Near-Fields
Rigging Basket
ShowConsole
34. 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
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Production Manager
FOH Signal Flow
Mix Position
35. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
The Who
Mix EQ
Floorwedge Coverage
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
36. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Line Array
Bass Trap
VCA
Western Electric
37. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Lee DeForest
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
38. 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
Midas Verona
Cue System
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
AFL
39. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
Bob Heil
Rack Position
Showco
40. 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
THX
Matrix Section
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
41. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Stereophonic Sound
Pink Noise
Aux/CO
Down Fill
42. 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
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Side Car
Return Lines
1st Successful Use of P/A System
43. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
RTA
After Fader Listen
Live Mixing Issues
Greek Amphitheater
44. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Workbox
Return Lines
Output Transducer
Public Address
45. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Splitter System Components
System Engineer
Upstage
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
46. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Live Mixing Issues
Pad
Vagabond
The Who
47. False
Angle of Incidence
Drive Rack
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Balloon Meadow
48. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Low End Problem
Warren G. Harding
System Engineer
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
49. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Emile Berliner
Phasing Plug
Sectorial Horn
Magiae Universal
50. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Center Fill
RAT Sound
Mix Position
Monitor Signal Flow