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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. Vocals --> (Basic Rhythm) Kick - Snare - Hat --> Primary Instruments --> Toms - FX - etc.
House System
Building a Mix
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Workbox
2. 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
Floorwedge Coverage
Rack Position
Splitter Box
Crossover
3. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Rigging Basket
Western Electric
Vocal Mic Setup
4. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Gain Structure
Live Mixing Issues
Pad
High Amp Frequency Range
5. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Building a Mix
Sub Snakes
Matrix
House Engineer
6. Used to mount speakers for 'flying sound'; Contains a basket - shackle - stinger - chain hook - chain - motor - motor hook - spansets and truss
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Butt Fill
Crossover
Rigging Basket
7. System for the audience; Simple left/right mix down of the artist
Mixing Setup Considerations
1st Successful Use of P/A System
House System
Controlling SNR
8. Major loss in dB
Production Manager
Outside
Monitor Amp Rack
VCA
9. The oldest sound company in the world; Began by offering clients audio advertising to recover from the Wall Street crash
R.G. Jones
System Engineer
Foldback
Dynamic Based Processors
10. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Sensurround
House System
Low End Problem
Main Snake
11. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
FOH Engineer
Emile Berliner
Components of Good Mixing
12. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Uses for Return Lines
Tycobrahe
Mix Position
Ernst Siemens
13. Primary purpose is to send signal to additional sound systems
Splitter System Components
Gain Structure
Matrix
Pad
14. FOH
Near-Fields
Front of the House
Workbox
Delay Fill
15. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Balloon Meadow
Foldback
Meyer Sound
Vocal Mic Setup
16. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Stereophonic Sound
Sectorial Horn
Vocal Mic Setup
Live Mixing Issues
17. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Drive Rack
Time Based Processors
Phasing Plug
Vocal Mic Setup
18. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Pink Noise
Floorwedge Coverage
Midas Verona
Line Array
19. 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
Line Check
Mix Position
FOH Signal Flow
Return Lines
20. 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
Tycobrahe
Low Amp Frequency Range
Transducer
Line Array
21. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Upstage
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Drive Rack
R.G. Jones
22. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
Sir Oliver Lodge
Pad
Ernst Siemens
23. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Controlling SNR
System Engineer
Mixing Setup Considerations
Rear Fill
24. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
System Engineer
Showco
FOH Engineer
System Limiter
25. 15 minutes
RTA
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Clair Brothers
26. Monitors kept near the FOH engineer so proper mixing can be done during the live performance
Rigging Basket
Near-Fields
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Outside
27. False
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28. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Monitor System
Balloon Meadow
Mixing Setup Considerations
ShowConsole
29. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Sound Booth
Side Car
Return Lines
House Engineer
30. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Line Array
Return Lines
Angle of Incidence
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
31. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Live Mixing Issues
THX
Dynamic Based Processors
Mid Amp Frequency Range
32. True
The Who
Drive Rack
Meyer Sound
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
33. 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
Matrix Section
Flying Sound
MSL-4
Emile Berliner
34. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Controlling SNR
Monitor System
Ernst Siemens
Line Check
35. Mixes for the audience
FOH Engineer
Mixing Setup Considerations
Sectorial Horn
Pink Noise
36. 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
Uses for Return Lines
Ear Trumpets
VCA
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
37. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Live Mixing Issues
Angle of Incidence
Warren G. Harding
Production Manager
38. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Mix Position
Vocal Mic Setup
Bass Trap
Low Amp Frequency Range
39. Converts one type of energy to another
Sensurround
Bass Trap
Transducer
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
40. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Audion Tube
AFL
Cue System
Distance
41. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Butt Fill
Audion Tube
Foldback
Lee DeForest
42. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Mixing Setup Considerations
Aux/CO
Monitor Amp Rack
Dr. Christian Heil
43. This button will route aux sends to group master
Public Address
Radial Horn
Aux/CO
Transducer
44. Introduced the first moving coil speaker (loudspeaker) in 1874
Near-Fields
Greek Amphitheater
Ernst Siemens
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
45. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
RTA
Main Snake
Sir Oliver Lodge
The Who
46. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Building a Mix
Center Fill
Audion Tube
Sub Snakes
47. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Pad
Showco PRISM
Live Mixing Issues
48. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Emile Berliner
Dynamic Based Processors
Electric Voice
Rack Position
49. 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
Return Lines
Rear Fill
Sub Snakes
Splitter Box
50. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Delay Fill
Time Based Processors
Show Production Organization