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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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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. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
System Engineer
Meyer Sound
Ear Trumpets
Showco
2. 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
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Vocal Mic Setup
After Fader Listen
3. False
Judy Garland
VCA
1940's P/A Systems
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
4. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
System Limiter
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Line Check
Sub Snakes
5. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Down Fill
Line Array
Butt Fill
Low Amp Frequency Range
6. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Output Transducer
Radial Horn
Duckers
Types of Output Transducers
7. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Foldback
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
MSL-4
Mix Position
8. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Mixing Setup Considerations
Rear Fill
Mass Connectors
Monitor Signal Flow
9. Speakers and other audio equipment suspended in air; Provides better sight lines and allows for larger crowds by freeing up space; Reason for strict weight limits and safety requirements
Flying Sound
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Ear Trumpets
Radial Horn
10. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Electric Voice
1940's P/A Systems
Mix Position
Monitor System
11. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Floorwedge Coverage
Center Fill
Compression Driver
Return Lines
12. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Rack Position
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
R.G. Jones
13. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
Stereophonic Sound
Emile Berliner
VCA
Rigging Basket
14. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Warren G. Harding
Vocal Mic Setup
FOH Engineer
Mix Position
15. Up to 168 pins; Large output connectors on the end of the snake
Hanley Sound
Mass Connectors
Showco PRISM
Auditorium
16. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Bob Heil
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Distance
17. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Live Mixing Issues
RAT Sound
Sound Booth
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
18. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Magiae Universal
Electric Voice
After Fader Listen
Production Manager
19. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Cue System
Western Electric
Outside
Stereophonic Sound
20. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Warren G. Harding
Workbox
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Down Fill
21. False
Equalizer
Delay Fill
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Public Address
22. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Types of Output Transducers
Bob Heil
Mix Position
23. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
VCA
Rear Fill
Mix Position
24. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Balloon Meadow
Vocal Mic Setup
Rack Position
Sound Booth
25. 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 Car
Apron Fill
Return Lines
Live Mixing Issues
26. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Mix Position
RTA
Monitor System
27. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Components of Good Mixing
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Rear Fill
Showco
28. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Main Snake
Production Manager
Low End Problem
Judy Garland
29. 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
Apron Fill
Distance
Production Manager
ShowConsole
30. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Clair Brothers
Bass Trap
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Workbox
31. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Auditorium
The Who
Angle of Incidence
Vagabond
32. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Low End Problem
Vagabond
Pink Noise
Low Amp Frequency Range
33. Founded by Jim Gamble and Jim Chase in Hermosa Beach - CA in 1972; Clients included Grand Funk Railroad & Boston
Tycobrahe
Bob Heil
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Line Check
34. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
AFL
Splitter System Components
Building a Mix
The Who
35. Converts one type of energy to another
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Types of Output Transducers
Butt Fill
Transducer
36. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Magiae Universal
Sensurround
Warren G. Harding
After Fader Listen
37. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Judy Garland
Equalizer
Sub Snakes
38. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
1940's P/A Systems
Duckers
Stereophonic Sound
Showco PRISM
39. This button will route aux sends to group master
Aux/CO
Line Check
Vagabond
Auditorium
40. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Show Production Organization
Western Electric
Flying Sound
Supplemental Speaker Systems
41. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Outside
Hanley Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
42. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
RTA
Midas Verona
Pad
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
43. 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
Front of the House
R.G. Jones
Bass Trap
Butt Fill
44. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Sub Snakes
Matrix Section
Controlling SNR
Delay Fill
45. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
High Amp Frequency Range
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Matrix
Delay Fill
46. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Emile Berliner
Monitor Amp Rack
Public Address
Mix Position
47. True
System Engineer
Transducer
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Dynamic Based Processors
48. 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
Center Fill
1st Successful Use of P/A System
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
49. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Sensurround
Return Lines
Band Limiter
Down Fill
50. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Magiae Universal
1940's P/A Systems
Pre/Post Button