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Recording Consoles

Subject : engineering
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1. Cables that connect the control room to other rooms in the facility and back.






2. Console where all paths are contained on one board.






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. Wire that carries a signal.






7. Input to the microphone preamp; Fully normalled to prevent a microphone from being connected to two I/O's simultaneously when a cross patch is made.






8. Inputs that typically feed the Channel Fader; Choice location for inserting dynamics processors into the signal flow.






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






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






11. An input to the master fader; The place to patch a stereo compressor - should the need arise to compress the entire mix.






12. The connection from the upper row to the lower row is ALWAYS broken when a patch cord is inserted into the lower jack (or input) of the pair.






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






16. The path an audio signal takes from source to output.






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






18. 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






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






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






21. Boosts output gain of the sound recorded by a microphone to line level volume.






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






23. An audio connection point intended to be used for a limited time.






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






25. 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)






26. Mechanical metering device where a needle moves to display average level. (VU = Volume Unit)






27. The art of deciding where to place a processor in signal flow based on how that processor will be influenced by the other processors in the path.






28. An audio signal that is mixed together and routed through a single audio channel.






29. A cable in either row breaks the connection and the signal now flows through the cord; Signal can be MOVED to a different input.






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






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






32. 60 ? -40 db (roughly -50 dB)






33. 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.






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






35. The negative electrode in an electrical circuit.






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






37. Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.






38. 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.






39. Patching one end of the cable into a input so there is no signal.






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






41. 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).






42. The main stereo output of the console; Normalled to the inputs of two track recorders.






43. The positive electrode in an electrical circuit.






44. Measures the peak levels of a signal; Quick response; Often displays a peak hold.






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






46. 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.






47. 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).






48. 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


49. 14dB to +20dB






50. The paths - or lines - on the motherboard on which data - instructions - and electrical power move from component to component.