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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. Mixes for the audience
FOH Engineer
Cue System
FOH Signal Flow
Audion Tube
2. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Sub Snakes
Duckers
Rear Fill
Splitter System Components
3. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Band Limiter
Output Transducer
Judy Garland
Flying Sound
4. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Altec Lansing
Controlling SNR
Compression Driver
Emile Berliner
5. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
RAT Sound
Live Mixing Issues
Drive Rack
Front of the House
6. 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
Rack Position
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Distance
7. Setting the levels to get the best signal transfer through a console; Always start with the stereo bus - channel and monitor faders set to 0dB (Unity Gain) then adjust preamp for initial volume
Audion Tube
Hanley Sound
Gain Structure
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
8. 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
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Controlling SNR
Mix Position
9. False
Audion Tube
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Output Transducer
10. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
System Limiter
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Sound Booth
11. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
Sub Snakes
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
ShowConsole
Front of the House
12. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Auditorium
Splitter System Components
Phasing Plug
Sub Snakes
13. 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
Pad
Line Check
Cue System
Sound Booth
14. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Duckers
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Altec Lansing
Rear Fill
15. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Low Amp Frequency Range
Outside
Warren G. Harding
THX
16. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Sectorial Horn
Stereophonic Sound
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Center Fill
17. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Return Lines
Aux/CO
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
ShowConsole
18. False
RAT Sound
Down Fill
Showco PRISM
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
19. 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
House Engineer
Time Based Processors
Mixing Setup Considerations
System Limiter
20. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Low Amp Frequency Range
Side Car
Pre/Post Button
R.G. Jones
21. 15 minutes
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Matrix Section
Outside
Rear Fill
22. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
Ernst Siemens
Sound Booth
Crossover
23. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Lee DeForest
Line Array
ShowConsole
Vagabond
24. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Matrix
Floorwedge Coverage
Low Amp Frequency Range
Cue System
25. 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
Mixing Setup Considerations
Band Limiter
Splitter Box
Showco
26. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Radial Horn
Show Production Organization
RTA
27. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Sub Snakes
Workbox
Vocal Mic Setup
Gain Structure
28. 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
Time Based Processors
Compression Driver
Butt Fill
Splitter Box
29. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Building a Mix
Components of Good Mixing
After Fader Listen
RAT Sound
30. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Low Amp Frequency Range
Sensurround
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Showco
31. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Output Transducer
Sub Snakes
Duckers
32. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Auditorium
Uses for Return Lines
Outside
33. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Sub Snakes
Ernst Siemens
Dynamic Based Processors
34. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Lee DeForest
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Rear Fill
35. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Shearer Horn System
Hanley Sound
Line Array
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
36. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Line Array
Pad
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Radial Horn
37. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Lee DeForest
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Live Mixing Issues
Stereophonic Sound
38. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
The Who
Equalizer
Midas XL4
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
39. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
Mix Position
Line Array
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Vagabond
40. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Front of the House
Floorwedge Coverage
Dr. Christian Heil
Angle of Incidence
41. 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
Showco PRISM
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Electric Voice
42. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
High Amp Frequency Range
THX
Tycobrahe
MSL-4
43. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Cue System
Balloon Meadow
Sectorial Horn
Return Lines
44. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Line Array
Compression Driver
Near-Fields
45. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Band Limiter
Tycobrahe
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Ernst Siemens
46. 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
Crossover
Shearer Horn System
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Building a Mix
47. Rusty Brutsch
Showco
Electric Voice
Stereophonic Sound
R.G. Jones
48. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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49. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Sir Oliver Lodge
Near-Fields
Mix EQ
Magiae Universal
50. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
VCA
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Monitor System
Center Fill