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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Aux/CO
House System
Distance
2. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Distance
System Limiter
Front of the House
High Amp Frequency Range
3. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Center Fill
Magiae Universal
4. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Equalizer
Live Mixing Issues
ShowConsole
Western Electric
5. FOH
Cue System
Angle of Incidence
Front of the House
Emile Berliner
6. 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
Building a Mix
Pre/Post Button
Pad
Return Lines
7. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Mix Position
Mix EQ
Line Array
Dr. Christian Heil
8. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Sound Booth
Judy Garland
Bass Trap
Emile Berliner
9. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Mix Position
Stereophonic Sound
R.G. Jones
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
10. 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
Delay Fill
The Who
Showco PRISM
System Limiter
11. 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
Butt Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
Showco PRISM
Sub Snakes
12. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Vagabond
Cue System
Return Lines
Balloon Meadow
13. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Low Amp Frequency Range
Warren G. Harding
Outside
14. True
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Flying Sound
Midas XL4
15. 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
Components of Good Mixing
Drive Rack
Showco PRISM
1st Successful Use of P/A System
16. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Mass Connectors
Matrix Section
Balloon Meadow
Auditorium
17. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
After Fader Listen
Mix Position
Midas XL4
Tycobrahe
18. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
Warren G. Harding
Judy Garland
Splitter Box
RTA
19. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Shearer Horn System
Live Mixing Issues
Emile Berliner
Vocal Mic Setup
20. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
Output Transducer
Low Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
21. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Building a Mix
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Butt Fill
Sensurround
22. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Flying Sound
Audion Tube
System Limiter
Bob Heil
23. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
24. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Band Limiter
FOH Engineer
Mix EQ
Output Transducer
25. True
Line Check
Show Production Organization
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
26. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Production Manager
Altec Lansing
House Engineer
Bob Heil
27. '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
FOH Engineer
Altec Lansing
Meyer Sound
Drive Rack Signal Flow
28. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Meyer Sound
System Limiter
Uses for Return Lines
Low Amp Frequency Range
29. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
House System
Showco PRISM
Production Manager
Rack Position
30. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
Clair Brothers
Greek Amphitheater
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Butt Fill
31. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Splitter System Components
Show Production Organization
Vagabond
Rack Position
32. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Radial Horn
Dynamic Based Processors
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Down Fill
33. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Shearer Horn System
Butt Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
Showco PRISM
34. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Vocal Mic Setup
Warren G. Harding
Monitor Amp Rack
After Fader Listen
35. False
Rack Position
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Midas XL4
Mass Connectors
36. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Tycobrahe
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
MSL-4
THX
37. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Aux/CO
R.G. Jones
Live Mixing Issues
Return Lines
38. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Clair Brothers
Pad
RAT Sound
System Limiter
39. True
Western Electric
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
1940's P/A Systems
System Limiter
40. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Gain Structure
AFL
Side Car
Rack Position
41. This button will route aux sends to group master
Sub Snakes
Lee DeForest
Aux/CO
Monitor Signal Flow
42. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Sectorial Horn
Phasing Plug
Meyer Sound
Pink Noise
43. False
Distance
Low Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
44. Line of sight to the speakers is necessary (false sense of high frequencies if not directly in front of speakers); Optimum = Center or just off center of the main floor with a good distance for imaging and where the entire system can be heard
Equalizer
Mix Position
Mix EQ
Ear Trumpets
45. EQ -> Limiter -> Crossover
FOH Engineer
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Uses for Return Lines
46. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Western Electric
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Public Address
Side Car
47. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Building a Mix
Showco
Sectorial Horn
Monitor System
48. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
House Engineer
Delay Fill
Pad
Mix Position
49. Mixes for the audience
Live Mixing Issues
Low Amp Frequency Range
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
FOH Engineer
50. True
Midas Verona
Electric Voice
Return Lines
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...