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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. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Pre/Post Button
Drive Rack
Western Electric
The Who
2. This button will route aux sends to group master
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
AFL
Monitor Amp Rack
Aux/CO
3. 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
Judy Garland
Aux/CO
Crossover
Greek Amphitheater
4. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Radial Horn
Audion Tube
Auditorium
Phasing Plug
5. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Mixing Setup Considerations
Electric Voice
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Floorwedge Coverage
6. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Outside
Floorwedge Coverage
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
7. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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8. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Altec Lansing
Front of the House
Angle of Incidence
Ernst Siemens
9. Converts one type of energy to another
Transducer
Meyer Sound
Matrix
1940's P/A Systems
10. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Matrix
Greek Amphitheater
Butt Fill
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
11. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Types of Output Transducers
AFL
Sensurround
Hanley Sound
12. False
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13. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
ShowConsole
Bass Trap
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
14. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Dynamic Based Processors
Pad
The Who
Tycobrahe
15. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Midas XL4
Components of Good Mixing
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Splitter System Components
16. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Band Limiter
Showco
Supplemental Speaker Systems
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
17. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Return Lines
Midas Verona
Types of Output Transducers
Front of the House
18. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Live Mixing Issues
Equalizer
House Engineer
Drive Rack
19. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Pre/Post Button
Lee DeForest
Duckers
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
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
RTA
Splitter Box
Crossover
21. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Pad
FOH Signal Flow
Outside
22. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
Bob Heil
Magiae Universal
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Building a Mix
23. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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24. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Western Electric
Showco PRISM
Sir Oliver Lodge
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
25. True
Front of the House
Public Address
Mid Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
26. 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
Audion Tube
House Engineer
Floorwedge Coverage
Shearer Horn System
27. 15 minutes
Pink Noise
Low Amp Frequency Range
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Main Snake
28. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
The Who
Band Limiter
RAT Sound
29. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Tycobrahe
Sensurround
RAT Sound
30. Converts electrical information into acoustic energy
Output Transducer
ShowConsole
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Sensurround
31. 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 Car
Live Mixing Issues
Side Fill
Distance
32. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Vocal Mic Setup
Matrix Section
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Butt Fill
33. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated very close to the stage that will not be covered by direct sound from the FOH speaker system
Rear Fill
Side Car
Apron Fill
Pad
34. FOH
Angle of Incidence
The Who
Center Fill
Front of the House
35. 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
Clair Brothers
Monitor Signal Flow
Uses for Return Lines
36. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Warren G. Harding
Shearer Horn System
House System
1940's P/A Systems
37. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Time Based Processors
Sectorial Horn
Show Production Organization
Sound Booth
38. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Rigging Basket
Sub Snakes
Monitor Amp Rack
Monitor Signal Flow
39. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Floorwedge Coverage
Midas XL4
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Balloon Meadow
40. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Matrix Section
FOH Signal Flow
Live Mixing Issues
Dr. Christian Heil
41. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Western Electric
Pink Noise
System Limiter
Show Production Organization
42. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
Butt Fill
Drive Rack
Main Snake
43. FOH
Front of the House
FOH Engineer
1940's P/A Systems
MSL-4
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
Mass Connectors
Mixing Setup Considerations
Vagabond
45. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Splitter System Components
Judy Garland
Shearer Horn System
Upstage
46. 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
House Engineer
THX
Phasing Plug
Outside
47. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Rack Position
R.G. Jones
Return Lines
THX
48. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Pad
Show Production Organization
Controlling SNR
Splitter System Components
49. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Upstage
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Matrix Section
50. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Dynamic Based Processors
Midas Verona
Workbox
Bass Trap