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Show Production Basics
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Subject
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performing-arts
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Outside
Midas XL4
2. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Front of the House
1940's P/A Systems
Upstage
FOH Signal Flow
3. Time; Acoustics; Microphones & Placement; Stage Volume; Condition & Level of Gear
Live Mixing Issues
Band Limiter
VCA
House Engineer
4. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
Rigging Basket
Magiae Universal
Production Manager
Low Amp Frequency Range
5. 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
Building a Mix
Center Fill
Cue System
Dr. Christian Heil
6. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
RTA
Side Fill
Western Electric
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
7. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Pad
Center Fill
Mixing Setup Considerations
8. Splitter Box; Main Snake; Fan Outs
Splitter System Components
Rack Position
Equalizer
Upstage
9. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Duckers
Return Lines
Drive Rack
Distance
10. Electronic system that blends sounds from more than one source; First demonstrated at Constitution Hall by Bell Labs
Bob Heil
Meyer Sound
Sectorial Horn
Stereophonic Sound
11. Created the audion tube which amplified weak radio signals thus making modern electronics possible
Lee DeForest
Vocal Mic Setup
Angle of Incidence
Sensurround
12. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Low Amp Frequency Range
Shearer Horn System
Crossover
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
13. Real Time Analyzer; Wired at the CUE OUTS
RTA
Ear Trumpets
Sir Oliver Lodge
1st Successful Use of P/A System
14. P/A
Monitor Amp Rack
Line Check
Public Address
Line Array
15. Semicircular; Acts as a natural acoustic amplifier
Duckers
Pad
Greek Amphitheater
Hanley Sound
16. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Monitor Amp Rack
House Engineer
THX
Stereophonic Sound
17. Major loss in dB
Outside
Balloon Meadow
Judy Garland
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
18. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Bass Trap
Output Transducer
Sectorial Horn
Judy Garland
19. 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
1st Successful Use of P/A System
House Engineer
Monitor Signal Flow
Return Lines
20. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Components of Good Mixing
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
21. 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
Flying Sound
Line Check
Sir Oliver Lodge
House Engineer
22. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Monitor System
System Engineer
Live Mixing Issues
Gain Structure
23. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Mixing Setup Considerations
Western Electric
Side Fill
Center Fill
24. British physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy; Also improved loudspeaker with nonmagnetic spacers to keep the air gap between the inner and outer poles of a moving coil transducer
Sir Oliver Lodge
Apron Fill
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
1st Successful Use of P/A System
25. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
High Amp Frequency Range
Types of Output Transducers
Front of the House
Ernst Siemens
26. 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
Monitor Signal Flow
Sound Reinforcement Before Electricity
Building a Mix
Rear Fill
27. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
THX
Sensurround
Drive Rack
28. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
Splitter Box
Radial Horn
Sound Booth
Equalizer
29. Presidential Republican Convention (Chicago - IL)
Shearer Horn System
Tycobrahe
1st Successful Use of P/A System
Phasing Plug
30. Shop Technician --> System Technician --> System Engineer --> Band Engineer
Auditorium
Show Production Organization
Floorwedge Coverage
Midas XL4
31. Debuted with the film Earthquake (1974); Created a physical sensation from four large low-frequency horns located behind the screen
Audion Tube
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Sensurround
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
32. False
Western Electric
Public Address
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Delay Fill
33. Converts one type of energy to another
Mix EQ
Transducer
Delay Fill
Ernst Siemens
34. 1st actual device in signal flow; Attenuation device
Workbox
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Showco
Pad
35. Usualluy always RED; Numbered; Used for return signal and communication
Rack Position
Controlling SNR
Return Lines
Dynamic Based Processors
36. 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
Time Based Processors
AFL
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Delay Fill
37. Best to keep drive and effects racks separate to avoid confusion
Components of Good Mixing
Foldback
Rack Position
Butt Fill
38. False
Splitter Box
Cue System
Hanley Sound
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
39. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Foldback
Controlling SNR
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
40. 15 minutes
Sectorial Horn
Greek Amphitheater
Emile Berliner
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
41. Polar Patterns; Sensitivity of Microphones; Placement of Microphones ~ The goal is to decrease ambient noise and only amplify the desired signal
Greek Amphitheater
Near-Fields
Controlling SNR
Supplemental Speaker Systems
42. False
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43. FOH sound engineers for Woodstock; Used JBL/Altec cabinets - Crown/Macintosh amplifiers - and custom Hanley consoles
Hanley Sound
Types of Output Transducers
Workbox
Mix Position
44. False
System Engineer
Showco PRISM
Phasing Plug
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
45. System for feeding one or more separate mixes to the performers for use while recording and overdubbing; Also known as a Cue Mix ~ MONITORS
Angle of Incidence
Foldback
Public Address
Cue System
46. 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
1940's P/A Systems
Mixing Setup Considerations
System Limiter
VCA
47. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Ear Trumpets
Showco
Duckers
1940's P/A Systems
48. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
The Who
Greek Amphitheater
1940's P/A Systems
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
49. 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
Apron Fill
Angle of Incidence
Butt Fill
Vagabond
50. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Mix Position
Altec Lansing
Main Snake
Radial Horn