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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. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Cue System
Show Production Organization
Rear Fill
Balloon Meadow
2. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Lee DeForest
Output Transducer
Down Fill
Matrix
3. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
Warren G. Harding
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Butt Fill
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
4. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Auditorium
Rack Position
House System
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
5. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Workbox
Midas XL4
Mix Position
Angle of Incidence
6. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Rack Position
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Hanley Sound
MSL-4
7. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Showco PRISM
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
House Engineer
8. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Workbox
Rack Position
System Engineer
Compression Driver
9. Major loss in dB
Shearer Horn System
Mix Position
Matrix
Outside
10. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Monitor System
Return Lines
Output Transducer
Midas Verona
11. 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
Crossover
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
RTA
Cue System
12. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Upstage
Vagabond
Pad
Mix Position
13. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Splitter Box
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Mass Connectors
Sensurround
14. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Types of Output Transducers
Sound Booth
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Band Limiter
15. P/A
Distance
Public Address
R.G. Jones
Greek Amphitheater
16. 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
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Return Lines
Mix Position
Down Fill
17. 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
Upstage
Drive Rack Signal Flow
FOH Signal Flow
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
18. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Pad
THX
Sound Booth
Sectorial Horn
19. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Workbox
Midas XL4
Line Check
Supplemental Speaker Systems
20. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Flying Sound
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Mid Amp Frequency Range
21. 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
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Butt Fill
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Midas XL4
22. False
Show Production Organization
Uses for Return Lines
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
VCA
23. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Vagabond
Band Limiter
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
24. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
ShowConsole
Sub Snakes
Down Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
25. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Monitor System
Outside
Phasing Plug
THX
26. False
Hanley Sound
Bass Trap
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Compression Driver
27. FOH
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Electric Voice
Monitor Signal Flow
Front of the House
28. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Phasing Plug
Pad
Radial Horn
VCA
29. True
Showco PRISM
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
30. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
R.G. Jones
Live Mixing Issues
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Cue System
31. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Production Manager
Cue System
Ear Trumpets
Greek Amphitheater
32. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Stereophonic Sound
Supplemental Speaker Systems
FOH Signal Flow
Vocal Mic Setup
33. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Drive Rack
Angle of Incidence
Flying Sound
Ernst Siemens
34. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Stereophonic Sound
Cue System
Rack Position
Mix Position
35. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Sound Booth
Midas Verona
Show Production Organization
Clair Brothers
36. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Warren G. Harding
Pad
Electric Voice
Mass Connectors
37. Rusty Brutsch
Sound Booth
Showco
Low End Problem
Radial Horn
38. Rusty Brutsch
Showco
Ernst Siemens
Compression Driver
Judy Garland
39. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Auditorium
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Balloon Meadow
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
40. False
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Mix Position
Bob Heil
41. This button will route aux sends to group master
1940's P/A Systems
ShowConsole
Angle of Incidence
Aux/CO
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
Return Lines
Monitor Signal Flow
Pad
Uses for Return Lines
43. 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
Floorwedge Coverage
AFL
Compression Driver
44. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Sectorial Horn
Sensurround
Butt Fill
Components of Good Mixing
45. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
RTA
Ear Trumpets
Gain Structure
Sectorial Horn
46. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Delay Fill
Showco
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Emile Berliner
47. 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
Types of Output Transducers
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
House System
Altec Lansing
48. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Pad
Vocal Mic Setup
Apron Fill
Time Based Processors
49. This button will route aux sends to group master
Aux/CO
Emile Berliner
Controlling SNR
FOH Signal Flow
50. True
RTA
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Ear Trumpets
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...