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Recording Consoles
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1. Mechanical metering device where a needle moves to display average level. (VU = Volume Unit)
Mic Lines
VU Meter
Mix Outputs
Audient ASP8024
2. Professional patchbay connectors allowing for more jacks in a single row - typically 48 jacks per row; The tip of the connector carries the in - phase signal - the ring of the connector carries the out- of- phase (low) half of the signal - and the sl
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3. 'Standard' level at which the inputs and outputs of domestic and professional sound equipment operate.
Channel Mic Inputs
Line Level Signal
Inline Console
Patchbay
4. Where the microphone signal enters the control room; Commonly fully normalled to the Channel Mic Inputs; Could also be viewed as tielines between tracking rooms and control room.
Audient ASP8024
Cue Outputs
Conductive Plastic Fader
Mic Lines
5. Measures the peak levels of a signal; Quick response; Often displays a peak hold.
Mix Insert Returns
Microphone Line
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
Anode
6. A signal generator that produces pure tones (sine waves) at selected frequencies; Used to calibrate the console with the recorders so their meters indicate the same levels and input reference to levels on recording.
Anode
Speakers Section (SLS)
Oscillator
Unity Gain
7. A direct transfer of the audible sound to the mixing console; Microphones work as transducers and convert the audio into an electrical current.
Channel Strip
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
Microphone Line
VCA Fader
8. 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.
Mult
Attenuation
Anode
Audient ASP8024
9. 10dB
Speakers Section (SLS)
Fold Back Section (FB)
Consumer Line Level
Routing Matrix
10. The total amount of opposition to the flow of current.
Impedance
Multi-Track Sends
Mono
Anode
11. 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.
Monitor Path
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Summing Amplifiers
Patchbay
12. Takes the audio spectrum and divides it into a number of separate bands of frequencies called bandpasses. Each separate bandpass is then amplified independently in order to drive separate loudspeaker components - each of which reproduce a band of fre
Consumer Line Level
Mix Insert Returns
Line Level Signal
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
13. To add something to the signal path across an I/O - the stereo bus - etc.
Patching Across
Professional Line Level
Channel Mic Inputs
Nominal Level
14. To patch the signal into a 'Mult' in order to split it and route it to several destinations.
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
Reason for 2 Multi-Track Returns
Summing Amplifiers
Multing
15. Voltage Controlled Amplifier; Amplifier determines output level; Can be remotely controlled for automated mixing; Often the 'large' or 'long' fader on large format consoles.
Patch Points
Split Console
VCA Fader
Cathode
16. The negative electrode in an electrical circuit.
Group Outputs
Cathode
Mic Input Range
Patch Points
17. An op- amp configuration that mathematically adds (or sums) the voltage levels found at two or more inputs.
Mult
Nominal Level
Summing Amplifiers
Cue Outputs
18. Wire that carries a signal.
Universal Law of Patching
Audient ASP8024
Buss
Patching Across
19. Plugging into the upper front- panel jack does not break the connection between the upper and lower rear- panel jacks - while plugging into the lower front panel jack breaks the connection; Signal can be COPIED to a different input; Preferred in the
Gain Staging
Mic Input Range
Cue Outputs
Half- Normalled
20. Vertical panel of controls on the audio mixer (another word for the I/O Module).
Patch
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Channel Strip
Split Console
21. Assigns console speakers to the studio loudspeakers.
Channel Mic Inputs
Speakers Section (SLS)
Dead Patching
Mult
22. The stereo inputs to the cue system's amplifier.
Attenuation
Cue Amp Inputs
Consumer Line Level
Professional Line Level
23. Another term for Tiny Telephone (TT) connectors.
Bantam Connector
Channel Insert Returns
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Speakers Section (SLS)
24. The power for pre- amplification in a condenser microphone - supplied by the audio console rather than a battery.
Microphone Line
Tielines
Cross Patching
Phantom Power
25. The main stereo output of the console; Normalled to the inputs of two track recorders.
Mix Outputs
Normalled
Oscillator
Group Outputs
26. Access to the signal flow of a channel or any jack providing access to a signal.
XLR
Mic Lines
Patch Points
Speakers Section (SLS)
27. A string of jacks wired in parallel so that all the jacks will see the same signal.
Tielines
Mic Level
Mult
Mic Lines
28. Patching from one I/O module to another - or from one track on the MTR to another.
Cross Patching
Multi-Track Sends
Mic Level
I/O Module
29. Inputs that typically feed the Channel Fader; Choice location for inserting dynamics processors into the signal flow.
Universal Law of Patching
Mic Input Range
Channel Line Inputs
Channel Insert Returns
30. The output of the stereo bus before the master fader; Normalled to the mix insert returns.
VCA Fader
Bantam Connector
Mix Insert Sends
Line Level Signal
31. The ability of two ears to localize a sound source.
Auxiliary Outputs
Binaural Localization
Oscillator
Channel Insert Returns
32. Am electronic meter where signal level is displayed as a bar graph in a series of anodes and cathodes in a fluorescent gas discharge tube.
Power Amplifier
Cue Amp Inputs
Multi-Track Returns
Plasma Meter
33. Patch point where the stereo cue mix leaves the console.
Universal Law of Patching
Cue Outputs
Multi-Track Sends
Unity Gain
34. 15dB to +15dB
Line Level Signal
Universal Law of Patching
Summing Amplifiers
Tape Input Control Range
35. Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.
Split Console
Channel Path
External Source Inputs
Stereo
36. The outputs of each individual bus located in the routing matrix of the console; Half- normalled to the Multi-Track Sends.
Split Console
Monitor Inputs
Group Outputs
VU Meter
37. Console where all paths are contained on one board.
Attenuation
Plasma Meter
Inline Console
Mix Outputs
38. Second part of the console audio chain. MTR (source) ? Speakers (output source)
Monitor Path
Multi-Track Sends
Buss
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
39. The operating level at which an electronic signal processing device is designed to operate.
Nominal Level
Record Mode (Record Status)
I/O Module
Channel Insert Returns
40. 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)
Mix Outputs
Monitor Path
Record Mode (Record Status)
Mic Input Range
41. A pair of summing amplifiers that are used to create the main stereo mix.
Stereo Bus
Multing
Common Mode Rejection
Channel Path
42. Assigns console signal to the headphone amps.
Mic Level
Normalled
Pre-Amp
Fold Back Section (FB)
43. A signal path specifically dedicated to sending audio signal to headphones.
Patch
Stereo Bus
Professional Line Level
Cue Send
44. Those parts of the console that address individual signals; Adjusts the routing and level of the signals passing through it (usually a single instrument or sound source).
I/O Module
Half- Normalled
Channel Insert Returns
Patch Points
45. +4db
I/O Module
Cross Patching
Bus
Professional Line Level
46. The path an audio signal takes from source to output.
Dead Patching
Signal Flow
Group Outputs
Multi-Track Returns
47. Measures average voltage level of signal; Relatively slow response; Displayed level depends on amplitude and duration of signal.
Volume Unit Meter (VU)
Mic Level
Summing Amplifiers
'Tiny Telephone' (TT) Connector
48. 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.
Summing Amplifiers
Multing
Headroom Meter
Routing Matrix
49. Console that has two separate sections for the channel paths and the monitor paths.
Split Console
Channel Line Inputs
Attenuation
Group Outputs
50. First and most important path of the console audio chain; Mic input (source) ? MTR (destination);
Mix Insert Sends
Bantam Connector
Line Input Range
Channel Path