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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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1. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Distance
Rigging Basket
Apron Fill
Drive Rack
2. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Vocal Mic Setup
Dynamic Based Processors
Front of the House
Auditorium
3. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Auditorium
Lee DeForest
Judy Garland
MSL-4
4. 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
Cue System
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
RAT Sound
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
5. 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
Drive Rack
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
MSL-4
6. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Vocal Mic Setup
Aux/CO
Time Based Processors
Upstage
7. Mixes for the audience
Return Lines
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Side Fill
FOH Engineer
8. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Show Production Organization
Splitter Box
Drive Rack
Sub Snakes
9. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Showco PRISM
Types of Output Transducers
Auditorium
Workbox
10. 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
Rear Fill
Dynamic Based Processors
Mix Position
Sub Snakes
11. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
Workbox
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Mass Connectors
12. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Splitter Box
Pad
Delay Fill
Aux/CO
13. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Monitor Amp Rack
Ernst Siemens
Controlling SNR
R.G. Jones
14. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Time Based Processors
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Meyer Sound
Rack Position
15. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Auditorium
R.G. Jones
Workbox
Public Address
16. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Transducer
THX
Matrix
RAT Sound
17. 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
Duckers
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Output Transducer
18. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
System Limiter
Sectorial Horn
1940's P/A Systems
Splitter Box
19. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Rigging Basket
Judy Garland
Sir Oliver Lodge
Monitor Amp Rack
20. 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
Outside
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Vagabond
21. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Ear Trumpets
Bob Heil
Drive Rack
Mix EQ
22. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Line Check
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Compression Driver
AFL
23. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Showco
Low Amp Frequency Range
Monitor Signal Flow
Mixing Setup Considerations
24. False
Mix EQ
VCA
Aux/CO
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
25. This button will route aux sends to group master
Aux/CO
Uses for Return Lines
Types of Output Transducers
Judy Garland
26. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Ernst Siemens
Main Snake
Dr. Christian Heil
System Limiter
27. 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
System Limiter
R.G. Jones
House Engineer
Main Snake
28. False
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29. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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30. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Splitter System Components
Dr. Christian Heil
Center Fill
Line Check
31. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Clair Brothers
House System
Pink Noise
Upstage
32. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Auditorium
Aux/CO
Public Address
Uses for Return Lines
33. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Compression Driver
Stereophonic Sound
Components of Good Mixing
Return Lines
34. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Radial Horn
Stereophonic Sound
Vagabond
Down Fill
35. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Lee DeForest
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
36. Rusty Brutsch
Showco
Gain Structure
THX
Meyer Sound
37. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
House Engineer
Clair Brothers
Floorwedge Coverage
Sub Snakes
38. 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
Building a Mix
Shearer Horn System
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Apron Fill
39. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Monitor Amp Rack
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Duckers
FOH Signal Flow
40. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Down Fill
Sound Booth
Mass Connectors
Drive Rack
41. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Ernst Siemens
Matrix Section
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Phasing Plug
42. Major loss in dB
THX
Stereophonic Sound
Outside
Drive Rack
43. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Emile Berliner
R.G. Jones
Lee DeForest
House Engineer
44. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Rigging Basket
Judy Garland
Sound Booth
Vocal Mic Setup
45. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Pad
Monitor System
Line Check
Balloon Meadow
46. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Audion Tube
Return Lines
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Low End Problem
47. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Return Lines
Angle of Incidence
Center Fill
Bass Trap
48. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Pink Noise
House System
Controlling SNR
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
49. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Matrix Section
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Drive Rack
Pre/Post Button
50. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
Balloon Meadow
Mix Position
After Fader Listen
Mobile Reinforcement Systems