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Recording Consoles
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1. +4db
Patch Points
Multi-Track Sends
Professional Line Level
Normalled
2. 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.
Multi-Track Returns
DI Box
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Mult
3. An audio signal that is mixed together and routed through a single audio channel.
Mono
Line Input Range
Bus
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
4. Signals come back from the MTR using the channel path with the option of using the monitor path to bring more signals into the mix. (Channel Path ? Stereo Bus ? 2-Track (L/R) Recorder)
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Gain Staging
Attenuation
Binaural Localization
5. The ability of two ears to localize a sound source.
Binaural Localization
Consumer Line Level
Patch Points
Oscillator
6. The negative electrode in an electrical circuit.
Cathode
Audient ASP8024
Cross Patching
Bus
7. The stereo inputs to the cue system's amplifier.
Line Input Range
Speakers Section (SLS)
Cue Amp Inputs
Tape Input Control Range
8. First and most important path of the console audio chain; Mic input (source) ? MTR (destination);
VU Meter
Auxiliary Outputs
Channel Path
Line Level Signal
9. 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.
External Source Inputs
Signal Flow
Plasma Meter
Channel Line Inputs
10. Patch point where the stereo cue mix leaves the console.
Audio Grouping
Normalled
Impedance
Cue Outputs
11. 15dB to +15dB
Cue Outputs
Tape Input Control Range
Split Console
Patch
12. Tip-Ring-Sleeve connector; Common
Gain Staging
Patch
TRS Connector
Tape Input Control Range
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.
VCA Fader
Bantam Connector
Tielines
Record Mode (Record Status)
14. Another term for Tiny Telephone (TT) connectors.
Channel Strip
Patch
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Bantam Connector
15. An exact duplicate of the Multi-Track Return that feeds the Channel Line Input - now half- normalled to the Monitor Path Inputs.
Unity Gain
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Mic Input Range
Multi-Track Returns
16. The output of the stereo bus before the master fader; Normalled to the mix insert returns.
Mix Insert Sends
Bantam Connector
Multing
Speakers Section (SLS)
17. +6dB to +60dB
Group Outputs
Fully- Normalled
Audio Grouping
Mic Input Range
18. Compressing a group of signals together with a single processor.
VCA Fader
Audio Grouping
Mic Lines
Monitor Inputs
19. 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.
Oscillator
Channel Path
Audient ASP8024
Headroom Meter
20. Measures average voltage level of signal; Relatively slow response; Displayed level depends on amplitude and duration of signal.
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Microphone Line
Volume Unit Meter (VU)
Common Mode Rejection
21. 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).
Cross Patching
Balancing Circuit
Multi-Track Returns
Reason for 2 Multi-Track Returns
22. Boosts console's line level signal to a higher level to drive the speakers.
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
Pre-Amp
Power Amplifier
Stereo
23. 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.
Half- Normalled
Multi-Track Sends
Master Section
Power Amplifier
24. Little or no active circuitry; Often the 'small' or 'short' fader on large format consoles.
Plasma Meter
Conductive Plastic Fader
Channel Line Inputs
Patchbay
25. Receives the two out of phase signals coming from the source (typically a mic) - inverts them before combining them - and 'balances' them.
External Source Inputs
Buss
Nominal Level
Balancing Circuit
26. Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.
Stereo
Plasma Meter
Channel Insert Sends
Cathode
27. Patching one end of the cable into a input so there is no signal.
Dead Patching
Pre-Amp
Attenuation
I/O Module
28. An audio connection point intended to be used for a limited time.
Professional Line Level
Plasma Meter
Consumer Line Level
Patch
29. Second part of the console audio chain. MTR (source) ? Speakers (output source)
Monitor Path
Mic Input Range
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
Bus Compression
30. Inputs that typically feed the Channel Fader; Choice location for inserting dynamics processors into the signal flow.
Cue Outputs
Channel Insert Returns
Attenuation
Fold Back Section (FB)
31. Wire that carries a signal.
Normalled
Stereo
Fold Back Section (FB)
Buss
32. The audio signal automatically flows between a vertical pair of patchbay jacks without the need for patch cables.
Signal Flow
Normalled
Monitor Inputs
Professional Line Level
33. Console that has two separate sections for the channel paths and the monitor paths.
Split Console
Record Mode (Record Status)
Cue Send
Routing Matrix
34. Patching from one I/O module to another - or from one track on the MTR to another.
Cross Patching
Consumer Line Level
Channel Insert Returns
Inline Console
35. 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)
Multi-Track Sends
Cue Send
Balancing Circuit
Record Mode (Record Status)
36. The paths - or lines - on the motherboard on which data - instructions - and electrical power move from component to component.
Channel Mic Inputs
Bus
Routing Matrix
Cue Outputs
37. 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).
Unity Gain
I/O Module
Mic Level
Inline Console
38. A cable in either row breaks the connection and the signal now flows through the cord; Signal can be MOVED to a different input.
Mix Insert Returns
Common Mode Rejection
Fully- Normalled
Bus Compression
39. To add something to the signal path across an I/O - the stereo bus - etc.
Universal Law of Patching
Patching Across
Cue Outputs
'Tiny Telephone' (TT) Connector
40. An input to the master fader; The place to patch a stereo compressor - should the need arise to compress the entire mix.
Mix Insert Returns
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
41. 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.
Mult
Mic Level
Mic Lines
Mix Outputs
42. Stereo inputs of external stereo devices to the control room section via the control room monitor source switches in the master section.
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
External Source Inputs
Monitor Inputs
I/O Module
43. The inputs to each individual track on the MTR.
Channel Insert Sends
Cue Outputs
Multi-Track Sends
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
44. 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.
Channel Line Inputs
I/O Module
Auxiliary Outputs
Multi-Track Returns
45. The power for pre- amplification in a condenser microphone - supplied by the audio console rather than a battery.
Phantom Power
Line Level Signal
I/O Module
Unity Gain
46. To patch the signal into a 'Mult' in order to split it and route it to several destinations.
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Multing
Consumer Line Level
Half- Normalled
47. 14dB to +20dB
Line Input Range
Cue Outputs
Tape Input Control Range
Group Outputs
48. Vertical panel of controls on the audio mixer (another word for the I/O Module).
XLR
Buss
Channel Strip
Multi-Track Returns
49. 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.
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Consumer Line Level
Line Input Range
Bus Compression
50. Cables that connect the control room to other rooms in the facility and back.
Half- Normalled
Inline Console
Tielines
Oscillator