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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. True
Ernst Siemens
Sensurround
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Dynamic Based Processors
2. This button will route aux sends to group master
Gain Structure
Aux/CO
Splitter Box
Transducer
3. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Building a Mix
Rack Position
Emile Berliner
Radial Horn
4. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
ShowConsole
Midas XL4
Balloon Meadow
Splitter System Components
5. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Judy Garland
ShowConsole
Show Production Organization
6. 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
Building a Mix
Mix EQ
Upstage
7. 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
Line Array
Mixing Setup Considerations
Vagabond
Side Car
8. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Uses for Return Lines
Rear Fill
Low End Problem
Magiae Universal
9. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Duckers
Radial Horn
Midas Verona
Low End Problem
10. Founded by Jim Gamble and Jim Chase in Hermosa Beach - CA in 1972; Clients included Grand Funk Railroad & Boston
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Building a Mix
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Tycobrahe
11. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Phasing Plug
Western Electric
Transducer
1st Successful Use of P/A System
12. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Live Mixing Issues
Output Transducer
Center Fill
Mass Connectors
13. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Bob Heil
Phasing Plug
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Duckers
14. False
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Public Address
Types of Output Transducers
Splitter System Components
15. 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
The Who
Sir Oliver Lodge
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Balloon Meadow
16. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
ShowConsole
AFL
Compression Driver
Sectorial Horn
17. 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
Flying Sound
Angle of Incidence
Apron Fill
Audion Tube
18. 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
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Emile Berliner
Uses for Return Lines
Delay Fill
19. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
After Fader Listen
High Amp Frequency Range
20. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Main Snake
Output Transducer
Foldback
AFL
21. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Front of the House
RTA
Near-Fields
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
22. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Matrix
Tycobrahe
Dynamic Based Processors
Transducer
23. 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
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Lee DeForest
Line Array
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
24. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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25. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Angle of Incidence
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Near-Fields
Mass Connectors
26. False
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Bob Heil
Auditorium
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
27. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Meyer Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Bob Heil
28. 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
Monitor Amp Rack
Transducer
VCA
Low End Problem
29. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Gain Structure
Mix EQ
Types of Output Transducers
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
30. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Bass Trap
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Showco PRISM
Dr. Christian Heil
31. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Angle of Incidence
Sensurround
Western Electric
Monitor Signal Flow
32. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Building a Mix
Transducer
Monitor Signal Flow
Rack Position
33. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
System Engineer
Gain Structure
Western Electric
Live Mixing Issues
34. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Phasing Plug
Radial Horn
Midas XL4
House Engineer
35. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Duckers
Line Array
Band Limiter
Time Based Processors
36. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
Magiae Universal
Aux/CO
Dr. Christian Heil
Sectorial Horn
37. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Monitor Signal Flow
Sir Oliver Lodge
ShowConsole
Pre/Post Button
38. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Mix EQ
Workbox
Types of Output Transducers
Mass Connectors
39. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Dynamic Based Processors
Public Address
Distance
Upstage
40. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
House System
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Warren G. Harding
Ernst Siemens
41. EQ -> Limiter -> Crossover
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Aux/CO
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
System Engineer
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
Duckers
Front of the House
Low Amp Frequency Range
Return Lines
43. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Pink Noise
Monitor Signal Flow
Crossover
Live Mixing Issues
44. 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
Time Based Processors
Delay Fill
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Butt Fill
45. 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
Transducer
THX
Low End Problem
Hanley Sound
46. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Mix EQ
Magiae Universal
Main Snake
Return Lines
47. '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
Line Array
Altec Lansing
Tycobrahe
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
48. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Low End Problem
Time Based Processors
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Compression Driver
49. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Flying Sound
Audion Tube
Warren G. Harding
Gain Structure
50. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Hanley Sound
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Electric Voice
Bob Heil
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