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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. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Time Based Processors
Duckers
Compression Driver
Vocal Mic Setup
2. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Vocal Mic Setup
Upstage
Cue System
Rigging Basket
3. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
House Engineer
Warren G. Harding
Dr. Christian Heil
Sound Booth
4. 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
Splitter Box
Near-Fields
Shearer Horn System
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
5. '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
Showco PRISM
Altec Lansing
Angle of Incidence
Side Car
6. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Vagabond
Audion Tube
Mix Position
Show Production Organization
7. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Sensurround
House System
Radial Horn
Pink Noise
8. 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
Dynamic Based Processors
Western Electric
AFL
9. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Splitter System Components
Drive Rack
Near-Fields
House System
10. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Balloon Meadow
High Amp Frequency Range
Mix EQ
House System
11. 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
Side Fill
Altec Lansing
Return Lines
Magiae Universal
12. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
VCA
ShowConsole
Rigging Basket
Cue System
13. True
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Electric Voice
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Lee DeForest
14. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Aux/CO
Side Car
Monitor System
Bass Trap
15. 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
Rear Fill
Bass Trap
Uses for Return Lines
THX
16. (1953) - 1st wireless microphone available to the public developed by Shure
Warren G. Harding
Vagabond
Warren G. Harding
Crossover
17. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Distance
Mix EQ
High Amp Frequency Range
Butt Fill
18. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Compression Driver
Dynamic Based Processors
Near-Fields
Greek Amphitheater
19. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Pad
Production Manager
Mix Position
Magiae Universal
20. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Aux/CO
Pad
Balloon Meadow
Production Manager
21. 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
Shearer Horn System
ShowConsole
Supplemental Speaker Systems
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
22. False
Line Array
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
RTA
23. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Drive Rack
High Amp Frequency Range
Electric Voice
Gain Structure
24. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Apron Fill
Stereophonic Sound
Mix EQ
Midas Verona
25. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Pre/Post Button
Mid Amp Frequency Range
FOH Engineer
Warren G. Harding
26. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Down Fill
Western Electric
Components of Good Mixing
Sub Snakes
27. 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
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Mix Position
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Apron Fill
28. 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
AFL
Pre/Post Button
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Time Based Processors
29. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Radial Horn
Types of Output Transducers
Return Lines
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
30. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Judy Garland
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Delay Fill
Shearer Horn System
31. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
RAT Sound
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Pre/Post Button
Electric Voice
32. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Low End Problem
Floorwedge Coverage
Hanley Sound
Distance
33. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
House System
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Cue System
Duckers
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
Distance
Midas XL4
Angle of Incidence
35. 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
Monitor Signal Flow
After Fader Listen
Components of Good Mixing
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
36. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Live Mixing Issues
Components of Good Mixing
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Drive Rack
37. True
Clair Brothers
Duckers
Production Manager
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
38. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Western Electric
Production Manager
Live Mixing Issues
Equalizer
39. 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
Cue System
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Tycobrahe
40. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Building a Mix
Butt Fill
Sir Oliver Lodge
Matrix
41. 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
FOH Signal Flow
Pink Noise
Auditorium
The Who
42. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Show Production Organization
Public Address
Monitor Signal Flow
Components of Good Mixing
43. 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
FOH Engineer
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Magiae Universal
Splitter Box
44. 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
Sir Oliver Lodge
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Production Manager
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
45. 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
Components of Good Mixing
Pink Noise
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Dr. Christian Heil
46. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Distance
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
FOH Engineer
Types of Output Transducers
47. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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48. 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
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Workbox
Butt Fill
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
49. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Showco
Lee DeForest
Matrix
Cue System
50. 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
Equalizer
Mix Position
Clair Brothers
Output Transducer