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Recording Consoles
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1. The paths - or lines - on the motherboard on which data - instructions - and electrical power move from component to component.
Bus
Multi-Track Returns
Unity Gain
Power Amplifier
2. 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.
Multing
Multi-Track Returns
Master Section
Mult
3. Patching one end of the cable into a input so there is no signal.
Dead Patching
Cathode
Half- Normalled
Multing
4. 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.
Mix Insert Returns
Channel Mic Inputs
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Common Mode Rejection
5. The outputs of each track on the multi- track tape machine; Half- normalled to the Channel Line Inputs.
Multi-Track Returns
Mic Input Range
Multi-Track Sends
Plasma Meter
6. A set of input and output jack connectors (jacks) that allow direct connectivity between all and any of the audio signals with every piece of equipment in the room.
Monitor Inputs
Patchbay
DI Box
Master Section
7. Inputs that typically feed the Channel Fader; Choice location for inserting dynamics processors into the signal flow.
Stereo
Channel Insert Returns
Multing
Record Mode (Record Status)
8. Receives the two out of phase signals coming from the source (typically a mic) - inverts them before combining them - and 'balances' them.
Channel Mic Inputs
Phantom Power
Cue Outputs
Balancing Circuit
9. 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.
Power Amplifier
Tielines
Headroom Meter
Nominal Level
10. The inputs to each individual track on the MTR.
Microphone Line
Multi-Track Sends
Conductive Plastic Fader
Auxiliary Outputs
11. A pair of summing amplifiers that are used to create the main stereo mix.
Buss
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Anode
Stereo Bus
12. 'Standard' level at which the inputs and outputs of domestic and professional sound equipment operate.
Universal Law of Patching
Cathode
Plasma Meter
Line Level Signal
13. Wire that carries a signal.
Channel Mic Inputs
Professional Line Level
Buss
Volume Unit Meter (VU)
14. 14dB to +20dB
Pre-Amp
Line Input Range
Auxiliary Outputs
Buss
15. Bus compression refers to compression of the stereo (or multichannel) mix; Can be done with stereo units or linked mono units; The most famous bus compressor is the SSL.
Unity Gain
Bus Compression
Channel Insert Sends
Binaural Localization
16. A direct transfer of the audible sound to the mixing console; Microphones work as transducers and convert the audio into an electrical current.
Microphone Line
External Source Inputs
Patch Points
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
17. Access to the signal flow of a channel or any jack providing access to a signal.
Multi-Track Returns
Patch Points
Mult
Cue Amp Inputs
18. Console that has two separate sections for the channel paths and the monitor paths.
Mono
Split Console
Gain Staging
Patching Across
19. The stereo inputs to the cue system's amplifier.
Multi-Track Returns
Mult
Impedance
Cue Amp Inputs
20. Patching from one I/O module to another - or from one track on the MTR to another.
Bus
Cross Patching
Fully- Normalled
Auxiliary Outputs
21. First and most important path of the console audio chain; Mic input (source) ? MTR (destination);
Half- Normalled
Audient ASP8024
Channel Path
Bus
22. 10dB
Patching Across
Volume Unit Meter (VU)
Consumer Line Level
Stereo
23. To patch the signal into a 'Mult' in order to split it and route it to several destinations.
Summing Amplifiers
Line Level Signal
Tape Input Control Range
Multing
24. An op- amp configuration that mathematically adds (or sums) the voltage levels found at two or more inputs.
VU Meter
Summing Amplifiers
Universal Law of Patching
XLR
25. Cables that connect the control room to other rooms in the facility and back.
Record Mode (Record Status)
'Tiny Telephone' (TT) Connector
Tielines
Fold Back Section (FB)
26. Assigns console speakers to the studio loudspeakers.
Mic Lines
Impedance
Speakers Section (SLS)
Nominal Level
27. Tip-Ring-Sleeve connector; Common
TRS Connector
Unity Gain
Fold Back Section (FB)
Auxiliary Outputs
28. 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.
Multi-Track Returns
Tielines
Auxiliary Outputs
Audio Grouping
29. The path an audio signal takes from source to output.
Anode
Cue Amp Inputs
Signal Flow
Attenuation
30. To add something to the signal path across an I/O - the stereo bus - etc.
Stereo
Cue Outputs
Split Console
Patching Across
31. Vertical panel of controls on the audio mixer (another word for the I/O Module).
Channel Strip
Nominal Level
Attenuation
Conductive Plastic Fader
32. 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.
Binaural Localization
Gain Staging
Mix Outputs
Mix Insert Returns
33. 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.
Conductive Plastic Fader
Universal Law of Patching
Monitor Inputs
Half- Normalled
34. 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)
Tape Input Control Range
Record Mode (Record Status)
Monitor Path
Line Level Signal
35. The total amount of opposition to the flow of current.
Impedance
Audient ASP8024
Master Section
Mult
36. The operating level at which an electronic signal processing device is designed to operate.
Tielines
TRS Connector
Nominal Level
Power Amplifier
37. +6dB to +60dB
Audio Grouping
Mic Input Range
Reason for 2 Multi-Track Returns
Stereo Bus
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.
Unity Gain
Master Section
VCA Fader
Fully- Normalled
39. 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.
DI Box
Patch
Mic Level
Bantam Connector
40. Inputs to the monitor fader/monitor path; Enables the monitoring of signals being recorded as well as those already recorded.
Line Input Range
Binaural Localization
Monitor Inputs
VCA Fader
41. A string of jacks wired in parallel so that all the jacks will see the same signal.
Gain Staging
Mult
Phantom Power
XLR
42. Another term for Tiny Telephone (TT) connectors.
Group Outputs
VU Meter
Bantam Connector
'Tiny Telephone' (TT) Connector
43. The negative electrode in an electrical circuit.
Cue Outputs
Cathode
I/O Module
Channel Line Inputs
44. Boosts output gain of the sound recorded by a microphone to line level volume.
Dead Patching
Pre-Amp
Common Mode Rejection
Patch Points
45. Boosts console's line level signal to a higher level to drive the speakers.
Cue Outputs
I/O Module
Power Amplifier
Multing
46. 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.
Cue Outputs
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Channel Path
Speakers Section (SLS)
47. 60 ? -40 db (roughly -50 dB)
Mic Level
Patch
Nominal Level
Speakers Section (SLS)
48. An audio connection point intended to be used for a limited time.
Tielines
Group Outputs
Channel Strip
Patch
49. Measures average voltage level of signal; Relatively slow response; Displayed level depends on amplitude and duration of signal.
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Split Console
Volume Unit Meter (VU)
Channel Line Inputs
50. Outputs from the I/O module after the filters - equalizer - gate - and compressor; Half- normalled to the Channel insert Returns.
Channel Path
Cathode
Peak Program Meter (PPM)
Channel Insert Sends
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