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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)






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.






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.






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






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.






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






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.






9. 10dB






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






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.






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






13. To add something to the signal path across an I/O - the stereo bus - etc.






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






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.






16. The negative electrode in an electrical circuit.






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






18. Wire that carries a signal.






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






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






21. Assigns console speakers to the studio loudspeakers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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.






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






34. 15dB to +15dB






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






36. The outputs of each individual bus located in the routing matrix of the console; Half- normalled to the Multi-Track Sends.






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






38. Second part of the console audio chain. MTR (source) ? Speakers (output source)






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






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)






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






42. Assigns console signal to the headphone amps.






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






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).






45. +4db






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






47. Measures average voltage level of signal; Relatively slow response; Displayed level depends on amplitude and duration of signal.






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.






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






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