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Show Production Basics
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performing-arts
Instructions:
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. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Western Electric
Warren G. Harding
Apron Fill
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
2. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Pink Noise
Delay Fill
Near-Fields
Output Transducer
3. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Electric Voice
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Production Manager
Uses for Return Lines
4. Hired by the sound company or venue and paid salary; Set-up and maintain FOH system and often mix opening artists; Responsible for set-up - teardown - and maintenance of systems
System Engineer
Auditorium
Return Lines
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
5. 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
Public Address
Down Fill
Line Array
Sir Oliver Lodge
6. 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
Side Fill
Butt Fill
Show Production Organization
Band Limiter
7. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Rigging Basket
Time Based Processors
House Engineer
RTA
8. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Line Check
Production Manager
Vocal Mic Setup
Dynamic Based Processors
9. 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
Matrix
Auditorium
THX
10. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Clair Brothers
Bass Trap
After Fader Listen
Showco
11. True
House Engineer
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Monitor Signal Flow
Butt Fill
12. True
Warren G. Harding
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Sectorial Horn
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
13. True
Rear Fill
Electric Voice
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Pink Noise
14. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Band Limiter
Crossover
House Engineer
15. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Delay Fill
Transducer
Clair Brothers
16. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Near-Fields
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Judy Garland
17. This button will route aux sends to group master
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Live Mixing Issues
Clair Brothers
Aux/CO
18. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Rigging Basket
Upstage
Angle of Incidence
Hanley Sound
19. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Low End Problem
Side Car
Western Electric
Electric Voice
20. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Controlling SNR
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
The Who
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
21. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Distance
Side Car
RAT Sound
Bass Trap
22. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
RTA
Meyer Sound
Bob Heil
1st Successful Use of P/A System
23. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Monitor Signal Flow
Midas Verona
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Pad
24. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Lee DeForest
Line Array
Phasing Plug
25. 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
Pre/Post Button
Mid Amp Frequency Range
House Engineer
Pink Noise
26. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Equalizer
Sub Snakes
Meyer Sound
Showco PRISM
27. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Bob Heil
House System
Hanley Sound
Sub Snakes
28. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Ernst Siemens
Live Mixing Issues
Band Limiter
Clair Brothers
29. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Apron Fill
Duckers
Matrix Section
30. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Duckers
Crossover
Equalizer
Auditorium
31. Mixes for the audience
Mix EQ
Warren G. Harding
Vocal Mic Setup
FOH Engineer
32. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Phasing Plug
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Rack Position
Time Based Processors
33. 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
Components of Good Mixing
Return Lines
THX
ShowConsole
34. False
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Upstage
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
35. FOH
Uses for Return Lines
Front of the House
Sub Snakes
After Fader Listen
36. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Showco PRISM
Sectorial Horn
Mass Connectors
Return Lines
37. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
System Limiter
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Monitor Amp Rack
38. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
Magiae Universal
MSL-4
Output Transducer
RTA
39. 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
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Outside
Foldback
FOH Signal Flow
40. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Line Check
Public Address
Monitor Amp Rack
Equalizer
41. When the volume over the headphones is affected by the channel fader; Generally more useful on a single channel; Common for an AUX OUT to be added to this mix so the engineer can listen to the signal being sent to that aux
Rigging Basket
Matrix Section
AFL
Production Manager
42. 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
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Monitor System
Cue System
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
43. '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
Altec Lansing
Outside
FOH Engineer
ShowConsole
44. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Low End Problem
Cue System
Side Car
Types of Output Transducers
45. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Mixing Setup Considerations
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
AFL
Butt Fill
46. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Midas Verona
Monitor System
Mix Position
Sound Booth
47. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Midas XL4
Matrix Section
Hanley Sound
Controlling SNR
48. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Sir Oliver Lodge
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Public Address
Sub Snakes
49. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Mix EQ
Western Electric
Showco
Bob Heil
50. 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
Splitter Box
Altec Lansing
Mix Position
Center Fill