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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. Debuted at the George Strait Country Music Festival in 1999
THX
ShowConsole
Balloon Meadow
Phasing Plug
2. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
Bass Trap
Butt Fill
Mix Position
3. Operates just like a dynamic loudspeaker except it has no cone; Small diaphragm couples into a flared horn
House System
Compression Driver
R.G. Jones
Mix EQ
4. Mixing console used in course of instruction; 40 channels; 8 Subgroups; 8 AUX Sends; 4 Matrix Outputs; Input sections on right and left and master section in middle
Ear Trumpets
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Splitter Box
Midas Verona
5. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Rear Fill
1940's P/A Systems
Line Array
Equalizer
6. Speakers and other audio equipment suspended in air; Provides better sight lines and allows for larger crowds by freeing up space; Reason for strict weight limits and safety requirements
Flying Sound
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
MSL-4
RTA
7. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
ShowConsole
Distance
Audion Tube
8. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Gain Structure
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
9. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Low Amp Frequency Range
Shearer Horn System
House System
10. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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11. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Splitter System Components
System Limiter
Midas XL4
12. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
Side Car
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Compression Driver
The Who
13. True
Down Fill
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Controlling SNR
Rigging Basket
14. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
VCA
Clair Brothers
Auditorium
Equalizer
15. Radial horn with vanes placed in the mouth of the horn for the stated purpose of pattern control
Components of Good Mixing
Types of Output Transducers
Shearer Horn System
Sectorial Horn
16. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Greek Amphitheater
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Equalizer
THX
17. False
Audion Tube
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Sectorial Horn
Meyer Sound
18. AFL; On the Mix OUTS the Cue or Solo Button is an example
Stereophonic Sound
Floorwedge Coverage
After Fader Listen
FOH Engineer
19. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Production Manager
Building a Mix
Workbox
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
20. FOH
Western Electric
Vocal Mic Setup
AFL
Front of the House
21. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Greek Amphitheater
Splitter Box
Angle of Incidence
Matrix
22. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Ernst Siemens
RTA
Crossover
Pad
23. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Monitor System
Angle of Incidence
Dynamic Based Processors
Low End Problem
24. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Uses for Return Lines
After Fader Listen
Equalizer
Down Fill
25. Rusty Brutsch
Low Amp Frequency Range
Showco
Return Lines
Side Car
26. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Vagabond
Workbox
Side Car
Live Mixing Issues
27. 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
Public Address
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Mix Position
Sound Booth
28. 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
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Meyer Sound
FOH Signal Flow
29. In live performance this is the reference mix that the engineer uses; In studio recording it is the mix in the artist's headphones; One of the engineer's most valuable tools; Post outboard EQ and Mix Master Faders
Return Lines
Cue System
Bob Heil
Judy Garland
30. From the FOH; Used to cover audience members located beyond the coverage of the front of house sound systems; Speaker system's signal is delayed to let the sound from FOH speaker systems catch up
Delay Fill
RTA
Altec Lansing
MSL-4
31. 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
Mix EQ
Upstage
Monitor Amp Rack
System Engineer
32. 15 minutes
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Dynamic Based Processors
Flying Sound
33. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Hanley Sound
Sound Booth
Mix EQ
Audion Tube
34. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Front of the House
Splitter System Components
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Sir Oliver Lodge
35. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Components of Good Mixing
Splitter System Components
Western Electric
Foldback
36. 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
THX
Live Mixing Issues
Midas Verona
Building a Mix
37. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
Compression Driver
Dynamic Based Processors
Workbox
Rack Position
38. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Bass Trap
Monitor System
Mix Position
Pink Noise
39. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Bob Heil
1940's P/A Systems
System Engineer
Splitter System Components
40. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
AFL
Output Transducer
Phasing Plug
Butt Fill
41. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Radial Horn
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Emile Berliner
AFL
42. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Radial Horn
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Judy Garland
Mixing Setup Considerations
43. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
Butt Fill
Pink Noise
Electric Voice
Building a Mix
44. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
AFL
Controlling SNR
Mix EQ
Midas XL4
45. 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
Line Array
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Equalizer
Uses for Return Lines
46. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Vocal Mic Setup
Low Amp Frequency Range
Mid Amp Frequency Range
High Amp Frequency Range
47. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Center Fill
Vagabond
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Time Based Processors
48. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
Sound Booth
The Who
Sir Oliver Lodge
Splitter Box
49. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Components of Good Mixing
Center Fill
RTA
Down Fill
50. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Center Fill
Time Based Processors
Showco PRISM