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Recording Consoles

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1. A signal path specifically dedicated to sending audio signal to headphones.






2. Another term for Tiny Telephone (TT) connectors.






3. Where the global controls for the console are located; Contains master controls for mixing bus outputs - reverb send and return - master fader - and multiple other functions.






4. The outputs of each track on the multi- track tape machine; Half- normalled to the Channel Line Inputs.






5. Direct Injection Box; Used to take signals from gear and instruments that are typically unbalanced and making the necessary adjustments to connect them to consoles; Balances the signal - and corrects the impedance.






6. The in - line console used in RCO labs at Full Sail University; Short fader is the Channel Fader feeding the routing matrix and the long fader is the Monitor Fader feeding the stereo bus.






7. The line level inputs to the Channel Path; Receive signal from the Multi-Track Returns; Accessed through the board's mic/line switch - allowing line level signals to enter the I/O.






8. Patch point where the stereo cue mix leaves the console.






9. To patch the signal into a 'Mult' in order to split it and route it to several destinations.






10. Receives the two out of phase signals coming from the source (typically a mic) - inverts them before combining them - and 'balances' them.






11. Console that has two separate sections for the channel paths and the monitor paths.






12. The output of each auxiliary master - of each auxiliary (aux) bus; Used for feeding such things as artificial effects - reverberation devices and loudspeakers used for audiences.






13. Voltage Controlled Amplifier; Amplifier determines output level; Can be remotely controlled for automated mixing; Often the 'large' or 'long' fader on large format consoles.






14. A direct transfer of the audible sound to the mixing console; Microphones work as transducers and convert the audio into an electrical current.






15. 14dB to +20dB






16. The positive electrode in an electrical circuit.






17. Shifts the proportion of sound from any point left to right between two output busses and the two loudspeakers necessary for reproducing a stereo sound.






18. Boosts console's line level signal to a higher level to drive the speakers.






19. Signals are routed to the multitrack recorder (MTR) using the channel path and signals are monitored from the MTR through the monitor path. (Channel Path ? Routing Matrix ? MTR)






20. The power for pre- amplification in a condenser microphone - supplied by the audio console rather than a battery.






21. Outputs from the I/O module after the filters - equalizer - gate - and compressor; Half- normalled to the Channel insert Returns.






22. Access to the signal flow of a channel or any jack providing access to a signal.






23. Vertical panel of controls on the audio mixer (another word for the I/O Module).






24. An op- amp configuration that mathematically adds (or sums) the voltage levels found at two or more inputs.






25. 10dB






26. Signal looses strength as it travels down the channel.






27. The operating level at which an electronic signal processing device is designed to operate.






28. 'Standard' level at which the inputs and outputs of domestic and professional sound equipment operate.






29. 60 ? -40 db (roughly -50 dB)






30. Tip-Ring-Sleeve connector; Common






31. A pair of summing amplifiers that are used to create the main stereo mix.






32. The stereo inputs to the cue system's amplifier.






33. The upper return feeds the Channel Path for Mix Status (when mixing a project); The lower return feeds the monitor input during Record Status (when tracking the project).






34. The fader position where the fader does not boost or attenuate the level of the signal sent to it (found at zero on the fader).






35. First and most important path of the console audio chain; Mic input (source) ? MTR (destination);






36. The output of the stereo bus before the master fader; Normalled to the mix insert returns.






37. An exact duplicate of the Multi-Track Return that feeds the Channel Line Input - now half- normalled to the Monitor Path Inputs.






38. Compressing a group of signals together with a single processor.






39. +4db






40. A string of jacks wired in parallel so that all the jacks will see the same signal.






41. Stereo inputs of external stereo devices to the control room section via the control room monitor source switches in the master section.






42. The total amount of opposition to the flow of current.






43. The negative electrode in an electrical circuit.






44. Three- pin plug for three- conductor 'balanced' audio cables employed with high- quality microphones - mixers - and other audio equipment.






45. Patching from one I/O module to another - or from one track on the MTR to another.






46. Little or no active circuitry; Often the 'small' or 'short' fader on large format consoles.






47. Inputs to the monitor fader/monitor path; Enables the monitoring of signals being recorded as well as those already recorded.






48. Usually a PPM meter used to reference relative to 0dB for digital audio signals; Input is calibrated to a certain number of dB below the level where clipping will occur.






49. The ability of two ears to localize a sound source.






50. Buttons at the top of each I/O that assign signal to the MTR; ACN ? 'Active Combining Network'; Made up of many summing amplifiers referred to as a buss or group.