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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. 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
Line Check
Rack Position
Pad
Apron Fill
2. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Floorwedge Coverage
Splitter System Components
Uses for Return Lines
Rack Position
3. 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
Return Lines
Sound Booth
Drive Rack
Delay Fill
4. False
System Engineer
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Time Based Processors
Audion Tube
5. False
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7. False
Phasing Plug
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Vagabond
Center Fill
8. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Vocal Mic Setup
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Workbox
Emile Berliner
9. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
Bass Trap
Magiae Universal
Down Fill
Mid Amp Frequency Range
10. Converts electrical information into acoustic energy
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Output Transducer
Mass Connectors
Tycobrahe
11. 15 minutes
Monitor System
Matrix
Controlling SNR
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
12. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Vocal Mic Setup
System Limiter
Altec Lansing
RTA
13. This button will route aux sends to group master
Aux/CO
Altec Lansing
Mix Position
R.G. Jones
14. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Pink Noise
Radial Horn
Dr. Christian Heil
Return Lines
15. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
Workbox
RAT Sound
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Compression Driver
16. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Stereophonic Sound
Equalizer
Rack Position
R.G. Jones
17. 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
Crossover
Midas Verona
Shearer Horn System
ShowConsole
18. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Balloon Meadow
Production Manager
AFL
Dr. Christian Heil
19. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Lee DeForest
Workbox
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Duckers
20. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Side Fill
Midas Verona
Pad
Ernst Siemens
21. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Upstage
Bob Heil
Side Car
Balloon Meadow
22. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Lee DeForest
Sir Oliver Lodge
Types of Output Transducers
High Amp Frequency Range
23. 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
Low End Problem
FOH Engineer
Side Fill
Sub Snakes
24. 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
Side Fill
FOH Signal Flow
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Magiae Universal
25. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Duckers
Angle of Incidence
Components of Good Mixing
26. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
After Fader Listen
RTA
Monitor System
Components of Good Mixing
27. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Pad
Uses for Return Lines
Splitter Box
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
28. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Stereophonic Sound
Rigging Basket
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Sir Oliver Lodge
29. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Clair Brothers
Monitor Amp Rack
Bass Trap
Sub Snakes
30. Used for cleaning up the stage area; Not considered part of the snake system; Can be used as a snake for a small system
Uses for Return Lines
Radial Horn
Public Address
Sub Snakes
31. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Judy Garland
Auditorium
FOH Signal Flow
Butt Fill
32. 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 Position
After Fader Listen
Duckers
Side Car
33. Converts one type of energy to another
Transducer
Sensurround
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
House Engineer
34. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Line Array
Balloon Meadow
Monitor Amp Rack
Audion Tube
35. 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
Greek Amphitheater
After Fader Listen
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Crossover
36. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Front of the House
Low Amp Frequency Range
Main Snake
Drive Rack Signal Flow
37. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Showco PRISM
Ernst Siemens
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Matrix Section
38. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
System Limiter
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Foldback
Sensurround
39. 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
Sub Snakes
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Flying Sound
VCA
40. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Time Based Processors
Emile Berliner
Near-Fields
Radial Horn
41. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
Compression Driver
Building a Mix
High Amp Frequency Range
Floorwedge Coverage
42. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Magiae Universal
House System
MSL-4
AFL
43. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Monitor System
Pad
Components of Good Mixing
House System
44. Mixes for the audience
Building a Mix
Compression Driver
MSL-4
FOH Engineer
45. True
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Showco PRISM
Drive Rack
Sectorial Horn
46. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Audion Tube
THX
Live Mixing Issues
System Limiter
47. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Sectorial Horn
Vocal Mic Setup
Phasing Plug
Mass Connectors
48. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Workbox
Drive Rack
Mix Position
RAT Sound
49. False
Sub Snakes
Output Transducer
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Angle of Incidence
50. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Ernst Siemens
Sub Snakes
Angle of Incidence
Near-Fields