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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. 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
Showco PRISM
Band Limiter
Auditorium
THX
2. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Building a Mix
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
High Amp Frequency Range
Western Electric
3. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Emile Berliner
Angle of Incidence
Cue System
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
4. 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
Dr. Christian Heil
VCA
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Production Manager
5. 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
Uses for Return Lines
Line Array
Components of Good Mixing
Sir Oliver Lodge
6. 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
AFL
Band Limiter
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
House Engineer
7. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Low Amp Frequency Range
Low End Problem
Splitter System Components
Audion Tube
8. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Ear Trumpets
Return Lines
ShowConsole
Altec Lansing
9. 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
Transducer
Flying Sound
High Amp Frequency Range
Live Mixing Issues
10. False
Splitter Box
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Matrix Section
Balloon Meadow
11. 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
Line Check
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Sir Oliver Lodge
Pre/Post Button
12. Rusty Brutsch
Western Electric
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Flying Sound
Showco
13. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Showco
Controlling SNR
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Cue System
14. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Compression Driver
Monitor Amp Rack
Pre/Post Button
Sectorial Horn
15. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Monitor System
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Workbox
Band Limiter
16. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Dynamic Based Processors
FOH Engineer
Vagabond
Mix Position
17. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Rack Position
Mixing Setup Considerations
Mix Position
Line Check
18. 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
House Engineer
System Limiter
Mass Connectors
Crossover
19. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Floorwedge Coverage
Mixing Setup Considerations
Compression Driver
Show Production Organization
20. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Types of Output Transducers
Sound Booth
Clair Brothers
21. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
RTA
Drive Rack
Live Mixing Issues
Warren G. Harding
22. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Judy Garland
AFL
Sectorial Horn
Monitor Amp Rack
23. 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
Phasing Plug
Cue System
Mix EQ
Monitor Signal Flow
24. 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
Shearer Horn System
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Midas XL4
Line Array
25. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
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...
Band Limiter
Vagabond
26. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Stereophonic Sound
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Altec Lansing
Line Check
27. False
Near-Fields
Types of Output Transducers
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
1st Successful Use of P/A System
28. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Midas Verona
THX
Stereophonic Sound
RTA
29. Mixing console used in course of instruction; 40 channels; 8 Subgroups; 8 AUX Sends; 4 Matrix Outputs; Input sections on right and left and master section in middle
Rigging Basket
Uses for Return Lines
Pad
Midas Verona
30. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Down Fill
Low End Problem
Compression Driver
Greek Amphitheater
31. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Sub Snakes
Lee DeForest
Stereophonic Sound
Upstage
32. Converts one type of energy to another
Dr. Christian Heil
Vocal Mic Setup
Transducer
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
33. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Lee DeForest
Building a Mix
34. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Altec Lansing
Components of Good Mixing
Meyer Sound
FOH Signal Flow
35. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
ShowConsole
Mix Position
Output Transducer
Lee DeForest
36. Major loss in dB
RAT Sound
Warren G. Harding
Monitor System
Outside
37. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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38. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Ernst Siemens
Production Manager
Bass Trap
Pad
39. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Side Car
Time Based Processors
Electric Voice
Midas XL4
40. 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
Ernst Siemens
Building a Mix
Crossover
Foldback
41. 15 minutes
Bob Heil
Low Amp Frequency Range
Angle of Incidence
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
42. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Crossover
Warren G. Harding
Auditorium
43. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Tycobrahe
Controlling SNR
Time Based Processors
Gain Structure
44. 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
Mix EQ
Output Transducer
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Band Limiter
45. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Rack Position
Public Address
Sound Booth
Clair Brothers
46. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Components of Good Mixing
Types of Output Transducers
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Mid Amp Frequency Range
47. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Phasing Plug
Mixing Setup Considerations
Audion Tube
Monitor Signal Flow
48. 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
Rigging Basket
Sub Snakes
FOH Signal Flow
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
49. 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
THX
Hanley Sound
Shearer Horn System
Showco
50. FOH
Equalizer
Matrix
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Front of the House