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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. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Uses for Return Lines
Time Based Processors
Rack Position
Upstage
2. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Time Based Processors
Controlling SNR
Apron Fill
Show Production Organization
3. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Line Check
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
House Engineer
4. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
House Engineer
Workbox
Meyer Sound
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
5. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Line Check
Midas XL4
RAT Sound
Foldback
6. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Production Manager
Side Fill
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Stereophonic Sound
7. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Workbox
Show Production Organization
Sub Snakes
Building a Mix
8. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Dr. Christian Heil
Return Lines
Bass Trap
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
9. This button will route aux sends to group master
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Crossover
Aux/CO
Gain Structure
10. 1st recorded published work on acoustics for the purpose of understanding the propagation of sound waves written by Gaspare P. Schotto (1657).
Magiae Universal
Hanley Sound
Mix EQ
Balloon Meadow
11. 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
Judy Garland
Auditorium
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
12. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Center Fill
Phasing Plug
Duckers
Transducer
13. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
R.G. Jones
Stereophonic Sound
Hanley Sound
House Engineer
14. Converts one type of energy to another
Workbox
MSL-4
Transducer
Upstage
15. 15 minutes
Duckers
Mass Connectors
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Judy Garland
16. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
Time Based Processors
ShowConsole
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Showco PRISM
17. 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
Mix Position
Stereophonic Sound
Gain Structure
18. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Auditorium
Time Based Processors
Mix Position
19. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Splitter System Components
Pink Noise
Hanley Sound
Clair Brothers
20. True
FOH Engineer
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Mix EQ
Output Transducer
21. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Butt Fill
Vocal Mic Setup
Splitter System Components
Cue System
22. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Matrix
Sound Booth
Mixing Setup Considerations
23. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Distance
Flying Sound
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
24. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
Greek Amphitheater
Gain Structure
Radial Horn
Lee DeForest
25. P/A
Stereophonic Sound
Butt Fill
Public Address
Angle of Incidence
26. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
1st Successful Use of P/A System
FOH Engineer
Rack Position
Monitor Signal Flow
27. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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28. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Sound Booth
Equalizer
Outside
Emile Berliner
29. 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
Angle of Incidence
AFL
Matrix Section
Apron Fill
30. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Mid Amp Frequency Range
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Equalizer
Midas XL4
31. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Low End Problem
Time Based Processors
Live Mixing Issues
Types of Output Transducers
32. FOH
Monitor Amp Rack
MSL-4
Upstage
Front of the House
33. True
AFL
THX
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
34. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Audion Tube
Sound Booth
Low End Problem
Electric Voice
35. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
Meyer Sound
Duckers
Compression Driver
VCA
36. 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
Apron Fill
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Shearer Horn System
Pad
37. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Hanley Sound
Rear Fill
Upstage
Side Fill
38. Mixes for the audience
FOH Engineer
Meyer Sound
FOH Signal Flow
Line Check
39. False
Sound Booth
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Mid Amp Frequency Range
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
40. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Balloon Meadow
Workbox
Return Lines
Production Manager
41. 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
Types of Output Transducers
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Line Check
Mix Position
42. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Tycobrahe
Phasing Plug
Duckers
Low Amp Frequency Range
43. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
System Engineer
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Band Limiter
44. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Greek Amphitheater
ShowConsole
Equalizer
Transducer
45. '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
Rigging Basket
Altec Lansing
System Limiter
Front of the House
46. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Duckers
Foldback
Building a Mix
VCA
47. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
FOH Signal Flow
Sensurround
Western Electric
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
48. Meyer Sound; The first self-powered - high-level sound reinforcement loudspeaker (1240 watts)
Band Limiter
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
MSL-4
High Amp Frequency Range
49. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Uses for Return Lines
Gain Structure
Center Fill
FOH Signal Flow
50. EQ -> Limiter -> Crossover
RTA
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Components of Good Mixing
R.G. Jones