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Show Production Basics
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Line Check
Pre/Post Button
Line Check
Low Amp Frequency Range
2. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Near-Fields
Rack Position
Monitor System
Mass Connectors
3. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
1940's P/A Systems
Balloon Meadow
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
4. False
Building a Mix
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Greek Amphitheater
Auditorium
5. False
Drive Rack
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Bob Heil
Show Production Organization
6. Covers a room from a single line of speakers over the rest of the venue saving time and labor costs; Multiple speakers hung together - either vertically or horizontally - so that they can act as one huge speaker
Radial Horn
Line Array
Return Lines
Outside
7. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
Outside
Bass Trap
Time Based Processors
Stereophonic Sound
8. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Sub Snakes
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
System Engineer
House System
9. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Sectorial Horn
Equalizer
Mix EQ
10. Rusty Brutsch
Sub Snakes
Western Electric
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Showco
11. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Duckers
Time Based Processors
Midas XL4
Vagabond
12. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Sensurround
Bob Heil
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Mix Position
13. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Sub Snakes
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Show Production Organization
Line Check
14. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Audion Tube
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Butt Fill
Vocal Mic Setup
15. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Mix Position
Low Amp Frequency Range
Balloon Meadow
Center Fill
16. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Mass Connectors
Distance
Controlling SNR
High Amp Frequency Range
17. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Return Lines
Uses for Return Lines
Showco PRISM
Foldback
18. Works in house at live music venues to maintain audio systems; Generally entry-level positions; Most begin working monitors; May or may not get to mix for opening artists
Vocal Mic Setup
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
System Engineer
House Engineer
19. Line of sight to the speakers is necessary (false sense of high frequencies if not directly in front of speakers); Optimum = Center or just off center of the main floor with a good distance for imaging and where the entire system can be heard
Sectorial Horn
Public Address
After Fader Listen
Mix Position
20. From the Monitor Desk; Cover artists from speaker locations on the sides of the stage; Usually tri-amped systems; Stereo bus designed to manage these - but Mix SENDS can also be utilized
Gain Structure
Side Fill
Auditorium
Mix Position
21. True
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Foldback
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Cue System
22. Masks with acoustic horns in the design; High-soled shoes to help with projection; Reflective acoustic shells designed into staging; Stadium stye seating for patrons; Jars filled with different layers of ash used for sound absorption and diffusion
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
RAT Sound
Midas Verona
Types of Output Transducers
23. EQ -> Limiter -> Crossover
Drive Rack Signal Flow
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Upstage
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
24. Setting the levels to get the best signal transfer through a console; Always start with the stereo bus - channel and monitor faders set to 0dB (Unity Gain) then adjust preamp for initial volume
Center Fill
System Limiter
Crossover
Gain Structure
25. False
26. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Line Check
Flying Sound
RTA
27. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Production Manager
RAT Sound
Distance
Distance
28. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Rack Position
Distance
Production Manager
Equalizer
29. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> House Main Snake (Fanout/Console/FX Rack/ Drive Rack/Return Lines (Fanout) -> Main Snake -> Splitter -> Drive Lines -> Amp Racks -> Speaker Cabinets
Midas XL4
Mix Position
Judy Garland
FOH Signal Flow
30. Hired by the sound company or venue and paid salary; Set-up and maintain FOH system and often mix opening artists; Responsible for set-up - teardown - and maintenance of systems
Near-Fields
Foldback
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
System Engineer
31. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Components of Good Mixing
Bass Trap
Mix Position
Dr. Christian Heil
32. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Show Production Organization
Sub Snakes
Bob Heil
Audion Tube
33. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Dr. Christian Heil
Electric Voice
Pad
FOH Engineer
34. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
Matrix Section
Low Amp Frequency Range
Rigging Basket
Upstage
35. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
1st Successful Use of P/A System
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
After Fader Listen
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
36. False
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
VCA
Shearer Horn System
House System
37. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Main Snake
Sensurround
Balloon Meadow
Return Lines
38. Latin word meaning 'a place of hearing'
Splitter Box
Sir Oliver Lodge
Shearer Horn System
Auditorium
39. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Mixing Setup Considerations
Public Address
Splitter System Components
1940's P/A Systems
40. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Mix EQ
Mix Position
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Workbox
41. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
Rear Fill
House Engineer
Butt Fill
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
42. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Sensurround
Judy Garland
Mix EQ
Components of Good Mixing
43. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Front of the House
Mass Connectors
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Bass Trap
44. True
Phasing Plug
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Production Manager
Uses for Return Lines
45. Developed by George Lucas and Thomlinson Holman; Debuted with the film 'Return of the Jedi'; Proprietary electronic crossover network and rigorous audio equipment specifications and performance standards
Duckers
THX
Matrix
High Amp Frequency Range
46. Wired to the Mix Inserts which are commonly used for gates - compression - reverb - and EQ
Showco
Mix EQ
Pre/Post Button
Bob Heil
47. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
1940's P/A Systems
Rigging Basket
Pre/Post Button
48. When the volume over the headphones is affected by the channel fader; Generally more useful on a single channel; Common for an AUX OUT to be added to this mix so the engineer can listen to the signal being sent to that aux
Time Based Processors
Center Fill
AFL
Cue System
49. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Balloon Meadow
Front of the House
Midas XL4
Live Mixing Issues
50. FOH
Midas XL4
Front of the House
House Engineer
FOH Engineer