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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. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated very close to the stage that will not be covered by direct sound from the FOH speaker system
Phasing Plug
Apron Fill
Gain Structure
Rack Position
2. True
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
VCA
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Monitor Signal Flow
3. 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
RTA
FOH Signal Flow
Vagabond
Aux/CO
4. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Butt Fill
Mix Position
Mix EQ
House System
5. 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: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
FOH Signal Flow
Rear Fill
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
6. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Radial Horn
Uses for Return Lines
Clair Brothers
1st Successful Use of P/A System
7. 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
Compression Driver
System Limiter
Sir Oliver Lodge
8. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Hanley Sound
Sensurround
THX
Building a Mix
9. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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10. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Bass Trap
VCA
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Duckers
11. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Ear Trumpets
Vagabond
Return Lines
12. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Rack Position
Phasing Plug
Mix Position
House System
13. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Showco
Near-Fields
Time Based Processors
Building a Mix
14. '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
Return Lines
Altec Lansing
Mix Position
15. 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
Dynamic Based Processors
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
VCA
16. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
After Fader Listen
Distance
Flying Sound
Lee DeForest
17. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Near-Fields
Matrix
Band Limiter
Sectorial Horn
18. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Midas Verona
Uses for Return Lines
Monitor Amp Rack
FOH Engineer
19. Major loss in dB
Drive Rack
Main Snake
Outside
Uses for Return Lines
20. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Low Amp Frequency Range
Upstage
Duckers
Gain Structure
21. From the Monitor Desk; Cover artists from speaker locations on the sides of the stage; Usually tri-amped systems; Stereo bus designed to manage these - but Mix SENDS can also be utilized
Side Fill
Line Array
Sound Booth
Splitter System Components
22. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Crossover
High Amp Frequency Range
Low End Problem
23. 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
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Tycobrahe
Delay Fill
Sub Snakes
24. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Tycobrahe
Monitor Amp Rack
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Mix Position
25. 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
System Engineer
Cue System
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
FOH Engineer
26. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Matrix Section
Greek Amphitheater
VCA
27. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Mix EQ
Outside
Splitter Box
Side Car
28. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Monitor Amp Rack
Center Fill
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Band Limiter
29. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Mix Position
RTA
Drive Rack
Return Lines
30. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Sectorial Horn
System Engineer
Rear Fill
31. Converts one type of energy to another
Transducer
Rigging Basket
Audion Tube
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
32. 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
Pink Noise
Western Electric
Ernst Siemens
33. 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
Apron Fill
Splitter Box
Bass Trap
Phasing Plug
34. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Foldback
Gain Structure
Bob Heil
RAT Sound
35. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Line Check
Sound Booth
Duckers
Return Lines
36. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Time Based Processors
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Radial Horn
37. False
Greek Amphitheater
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Sub Snakes
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
38. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
Workbox
Rigging Basket
Near-Fields
Floorwedge Coverage
39. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Mass Connectors
Balloon Meadow
Mix Position
Side Car
40. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Rigging Basket
Vagabond
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
FOH Engineer
41. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
Rigging Basket
Dynamic Based Processors
Electric Voice
The Who
42. 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
FOH Engineer
Foldback
Shearer Horn System
Front of the House
43. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
Showco
Bob Heil
Gain Structure
After Fader Listen
44. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Sensurround
House System
Return Lines
FOH Engineer
45. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Showco
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Crossover
MSL-4
46. 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
Lee DeForest
Dr. Christian Heil
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Gain Structure
47. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Stereophonic Sound
Splitter System Components
Judy Garland
Butt Fill
48. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
The Who
Pad
System Engineer
Cue System
49. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Tycobrahe
Matrix Section
Warren G. Harding
Bob Heil
50. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Sound Booth
Production Manager
Apron Fill
High Amp Frequency Range