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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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1. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Showco PRISM
Low End Problem
Main Snake
House System
2. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Sound Booth
Balloon Meadow
Duckers
System Engineer
3. Can quickly change gain in response to many different detectors looking at same signal; Used in really tough situations where u want strict control over level and dynamics
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
VCA
Aux/CO
4. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Crossover
Sub Snakes
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Warren G. Harding
5. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Phasing Plug
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
6. 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
Mix EQ
Midas Verona
Mix Position
Dr. Christian Heil
7. Splits full range audio into frequencies from high end of the spectrum to the high speakers - mids to the mid speakers and lows to the low speakers
Center Fill
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Crossover
Types of Output Transducers
8. False
Rear Fill
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Auditorium
The Who
9. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Drive Rack
Judy Garland
10. From the Monitor Desk; Monitors that are located behind the artist and pointed downstage to cover area that cannot be covered by the floor wedges on the front line
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Butt Fill
Sir Oliver Lodge
Crossover
11. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Sub Snakes
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Pink Noise
Side Car
12. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
MSL-4
Production Manager
Radial Horn
Showco PRISM
13. 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
Center Fill
Flying Sound
Matrix
14. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated very close to the stage that will not be covered by direct sound from the FOH speaker system
Meyer Sound
Apron Fill
Matrix Section
Sir Oliver Lodge
15. From the Monitor Desk; Monitors that are located behind the artist and pointed downstage to cover area that cannot be covered by the floor wedges on the front line
Butt Fill
Equalizer
Sensurround
Angle of Incidence
16. Used for the Pre/Post Channel Fader
Pre/Post Button
Tycobrahe
Bob Heil
1st Successful Use of P/A System
17. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Meyer Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
Line Check
Hanley Sound
18. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Types of Output Transducers
AFL
Cue System
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
19. 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
Side Car
Showco
Showco PRISM
20. Usually colored red and lettered; Gender reversed from the channels; Allow for sending of any signal from the console areas back to the splitter box; Final mix from the console is the first priority; Optional and must be specified; If splitter does n
Pre/Post Button
Return Lines
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Building a Mix
21. 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
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
After Fader Listen
Delay Fill
22. 'Wrote the book' on practically all aspects of loudspeaker component and horn design; Most speaker systems today rely on this technology; Began as Western Electric
RAT Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
Main Snake
Altec Lansing
23. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Audion Tube
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
RTA
24. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Aux/CO
Line Array
Compression Driver
Monitor Signal Flow
25. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Matrix
Gain Structure
Shearer Horn System
26. Too far away inside the sound will be diffused
Distance
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Low Amp Frequency Range
Greek Amphitheater
27. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Pre/Post Button
Main Snake
Meyer Sound
Radial Horn
28. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Sensurround
Clair Brothers
Splitter System Components
FOH Engineer
29. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
System Limiter
Line Check
Cue System
30. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Mass Connectors
Band Limiter
Duckers
1st Successful Use of P/A System
31. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
Clair Brothers
Vagabond
Flying Sound
32. True
RAT Sound
System Limiter
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Supplemental Speaker Systems
33. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Audion Tube
Pad
Midas XL4
Side Car
34. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Main Snake
Apron Fill
Near-Fields
1940's P/A Systems
35. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Public Address
Low End Problem
Rack Position
Emile Berliner
36. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Rack Position
Uses for Return Lines
Building a Mix
Western Electric
37. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Drive Rack
Band Limiter
Monitor System
Magiae Universal
38. Allows use of two or more consoles; 1 House & 1 Monitor; Can be wall mounted or placed in a rack; Basically a big set of Y-cables in a box; Does not belong in FOH area
Mix EQ
Splitter Box
Tycobrahe
Angle of Incidence
39. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
Delay Fill
Public Address
Judy Garland
40. True
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
RTA
Mass Connectors
FOH Engineer
41. 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
Equalizer
Time Based Processors
THX
1st Successful Use of P/A System
42. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Sectorial Horn
Lee DeForest
House Engineer
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
43. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Midas Verona
Building a Mix
Midas XL4
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
44. 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
Electric Voice
Transducer
THX
Workbox
45. 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
Live Mixing Issues
Delay Fill
Flying Sound
Crossover
46. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Mass Connectors
Ernst Siemens
Western Electric
Magiae Universal
47. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Meyer Sound
Rigging Basket
Angle of Incidence
ShowConsole
48. False
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49. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Vagabond
Monitor Amp Rack
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Mix EQ
50. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Gain Structure
Aux/CO