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Recording Consoles
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1. The audio signal automatically flows between a vertical pair of patchbay jacks without the need for patch cables.
Patchbay
Normalled
Signal Flow
Gain Staging
2. Signal looses strength as it travels down the channel.
Attenuation
Mix Insert Returns
Pre-Amp
XLR
3. Three- pin plug for three- conductor 'balanced' audio cables employed with high- quality microphones - mixers - and other audio equipment.
XLR
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
TRS Connector
Audio Grouping
4. 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.
Tielines
DI Box
Cue Amp Inputs
Line Level Signal
5. 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.
Channel Insert Sends
Patching Across
Bus Compression
Dead Patching
6. 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
Common Mode Rejection
Mix Insert Sends
Half- Normalled
Mic Input Range
7. The paths - or lines - on the motherboard on which data - instructions - and electrical power move from component to component.
Bus
Bantam Connector
Multing
Monitor Inputs
8. Inputs to the monitor fader/monitor path; Enables the monitoring of signals being recorded as well as those already recorded.
Attenuation
Nominal Level
Monitor Inputs
Patch
9. The outputs of each track on the multi- track tape machine; Half- normalled to the Channel Line Inputs.
Patch Points
Auxiliary Outputs
Line Input Range
Multi-Track Returns
10. 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.
'Tiny Telephone' (TT) Connector
Multi-Track Sends
Patch
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
11. Little or no active circuitry; Often the 'small' or 'short' fader on large format consoles.
Summing Amplifiers
Conductive Plastic Fader
Impedance
Common Mode Rejection
12. A string of jacks wired in parallel so that all the jacks will see the same signal.
Bantam Connector
Tape Input Control Range
Multing
Mult
13. 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.
Mic Lines
Auxiliary Outputs
Patch Points
Pre-Amp
14. Boosts console's line level signal to a higher level to drive the speakers.
Patching Across
Universal Law of Patching
Power Amplifier
Nominal Level
15. +6dB to +60dB
Mic Input Range
Multi-Track Returns
Channel Strip
Attenuation
16. The power for pre- amplification in a condenser microphone - supplied by the audio console rather than a battery.
Phantom Power
Binaural Localization
Patching Across
Dead Patching
17. 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
Bus Compression
Inline Console
Mic Lines
18. 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)
Headroom Meter
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Monitor Inputs
Channel Insert Returns
19. Vertical panel of controls on the audio mixer (another word for the I/O Module).
TRS Connector
Channel Strip
Microphone Line
Patching Across
20. An op- amp configuration that mathematically adds (or sums) the voltage levels found at two or more inputs.
VCA Fader
Summing Amplifiers
Patch Points
Mix Insert Returns
21. 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.
Universal Law of Patching
External Source Inputs
Monitor Inputs
Multi-Track Returns
22. 'Standard' level at which the inputs and outputs of domestic and professional sound equipment operate.
Mic Input Range
Line Level Signal
Half- Normalled
Patch Points
23. 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.
Plasma Meter
Routing Matrix
Summing Amplifiers
Attenuation
24. The line level inputs to the Channel Path; Receive signal from the Multi-Track Returns; Accessed through the board's mic/line switch - allowing line level signals to enter the I/O.
Gain Staging
Reason for 2 Multi-Track Returns
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
Channel Line Inputs
25. Outputs from the I/O module after the filters - equalizer - gate - and compressor; Half- normalled to the Channel insert Returns.
Channel Insert Sends
Summing Amplifiers
XLR
Split Console
26. An audio signal that is mixed together and routed through a single audio channel.
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Mono
Patchbay
Binaural Localization
27. Mechanical metering device where a needle moves to display average level. (VU = Volume Unit)
Normalled
Tielines
I/O Module
VU Meter
28. Tip-Ring-Sleeve connector; Common
Inline Console
Buss
TRS Connector
Stereo Bus
29. The inputs to each individual track on the MTR.
Split Console
Multi-Track Sends
Channel Line Inputs
Bus Compression
30. 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.
External Source Inputs
XLR
Headroom Meter
Mono
31. A cable in either row breaks the connection and the signal now flows through the cord; Signal can be MOVED to a different input.
Multi-Track Returns
Cue Amp Inputs
Fully- Normalled
Cue Send
32. Assigns console speakers to the studio loudspeakers.
Patch Points
Mix Outputs
Reason for 2 Multi-Track Returns
Speakers Section (SLS)
33. The main stereo output of the console; Normalled to the inputs of two track recorders.
Mix Outputs
Line Level Signal
Dead Patching
Unity Gain
34. Patch point where the stereo cue mix leaves the console.
Stereo
Anode
Cue Outputs
Impedance
35. Boosts output gain of the sound recorded by a microphone to line level volume.
Speakers Section (SLS)
Pre-Amp
Consumer Line Level
Channel Path
36. 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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37. The output of the stereo bus before the master fader; Normalled to the mix insert returns.
Phantom Power
Normalled
Mix Insert Sends
Tielines
38. Console where all paths are contained on one board.
Balancing Circuit
Inline Console
Impedance
Channel Mic Inputs
39. Patching from one I/O module to another - or from one track on the MTR to another.
Normalled
Split Console
Cross Patching
Mono
40. 14dB to +20dB
Mix Mode (Mix Status)
Line Input Range
Mic Level
Professional Line Level
41. 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.
Dead Patching
Mix Insert Returns
Cue Send
Audient ASP8024
42. 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.
Multi-Track Sends
Plasma Meter
Oscillator
Professional Line Level
43. The positive electrode in an electrical circuit.
Anode
Mic Lines
Channel Path
VU Meter
44. Measures average voltage level of signal; Relatively slow response; Displayed level depends on amplitude and duration of signal.
Channel Strip
Volume Unit Meter (VU)
Summing Amplifiers
Fully- Normalled
45. Compressing a group of signals together with a single processor.
Audio Grouping
Normalled
Oscillator
Line Input Range
46. The stereo inputs to the cue system's amplifier.
Channel Insert Sends
Phantom Power
Pan Pot (Panoramic Potentiometer)
Cue Amp Inputs
47. 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.
Bus Compression
I/O Module
Master Section
Signal Flow
48. 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.
Monitor Path
Bus Compression
Plasma Meter
Consumer Line Level
49. An input to the master fader; The place to patch a stereo compressor - should the need arise to compress the entire mix.
Professional Line Level
Electronic Crossover (X-Over)
Routing Matrix
Mix Insert Returns
50. Designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels.
Oscillator
Mult
Stereo
Patchbay