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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. Developed for the motion picture industry and used for live event production
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2. 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
Foldback
VCA
Public Address
Judy Garland
3. Processing needed to run the sound system (EQ - Limiter - Crossover)
Magiae Universal
Band Limiter
Drive Rack
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
4. Stage area to the rear of stage performers that is furthest away from the audience
Upstage
Aux/CO
Drive Rack Signal Flow
Tycobrahe
5. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Front of the House
System Limiter
Down Fill
Output Transducer
6. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Phasing Plug
Auditorium
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Bob Heil
7. 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
Low Amp Frequency Range
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Flying Sound
Butt Fill
8. 100 Hz - 1 kHz
Showco PRISM
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Uses for Return Lines
9. System for the artists; Each band member receives their own personal mix; Up to 24 individual mixes for 1 engineer to manage
Angle of Incidence
Monitor System
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Floorwedge Coverage
10. Typically contains 4 amplifiers on average (Max = 6);
Equalizer
Mixing Setup Considerations
Foldback
Monitor Amp Rack
11. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
R.G. Jones
FOH Signal Flow
Vocal Mic Setup
Flying Sound
12. Console; Assignments; VCA; Subgroups; Mutegroups; FX; Setting Up Units; Assigning AUX; Double-Checking of Dynamic Patches; EQ; Mic Placement
Mixing Setup Considerations
Show Production Organization
True or False: Sub snakes can be used as a main snake in a small system...
Duckers
13. 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
Western Electric
Side Fill
Duckers
Components of Good Mixing
14. Typically cover a small area; Many wedges placed strategically around the stage are used so artist can move around and continue to hear performance
1940's P/A Systems
FOH Engineer
House System
Floorwedge Coverage
15. 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
Tycobrahe
Controlling SNR
Band Limiter
16. Final stage of protection; Protects each frequency band from overload
Ear Trumpets
Band Limiter
Vocal Mic Setup
Line Check
17. Patched into INSERT SENDS & RETURNS
MSL-4
Dynamic Based Processors
Bob Heil
VCA
18. False
Bob Heil
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Workbox
Compression Driver
19. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Hanley Sound
Bob Heil
Ear Trumpets
Production Manager
20. True
THX
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
Shearer Horn System
Mix Position
21. Mix Coherence and Individuality of Instruments - High Level of SNR in Microphones - All Instruments Leaving Sound System at Same Time - Be Fluent in the Most Basic Reinforcement Concepts - Helping the Performer in Any Way Via Sound - Constantly Impro
Distance
Aux/CO
Components of Good Mixing
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
22. From the FOH; Can be used in addition to stereo clusters of speakers to give a stronger center channel; Generally used for lead vocals
Ernst Siemens
Ernst Siemens
Center Fill
Matrix Section
23. Used when a production dictates that a console would exceed the number of channels available in a given frame; Smaller frame that usually
Clair Brothers
Altec Lansing
Side Car
Midas Verona
24. Converts one type of energy to another
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Transducer
True or False: Monitor systems always have drive racks...
Uses for Return Lines
25. Contains fan outputs from stage - fan outs from effects - and fan outs to drive racks; Interface can stay plugged into console jacks
Workbox
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Low Amp Frequency Range
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
26. Random noise that is at equal energy at all frequencies
Pink Noise
Meyer Sound
Crossover
Mass Connectors
27. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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28. P/A
Rear Fill
Public Address
System Limiter
Showco
29. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
MSL-4
Components of Good Mixing
Balloon Meadow
Center Fill
30. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Vocal Mic Setup
Line Check
Main Snake
Types of Output Transducers
31. True
Radial Horn
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Show Production Organization
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
32. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Duckers
RAT Sound
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
Center Fill
33. 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
Duckers
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Sir Oliver Lodge
Vocal Mic Setup
34. In charge of scheduling (spaces - rehearsals - and production meetings) and coordinating stage managers for the productions
MSL-4
Production Manager
Stereophonic Sound
Bob Heil
35. True
Gain Structure
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
Magiae Universal
Crossover
36. Attempt to emulate the singer's manners and techniques as much as possible
Vagabond
Vocal Mic Setup
RTA
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
37. Large format live console for show production and sound reinforcement
Gain Structure
Midas XL4
Upstage
Floorwedge Coverage
38. The angle between an incoming wave and an imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of the new medium
Angle of Incidence
Rigging Basket
Line Check
Western Electric
39. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
Vagabond
Aux/CO
Electric Voice
The Who
40. 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
Show Production Organization
Bass Trap
Floorwedge Coverage
Delay Fill
41. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
Mixing Setup Considerations
ShowConsole
The Who
Sectorial Horn
42. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
Mixing Setup Considerations
Aux/CO
Side Car
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
43. 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
Crossover
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Side Fill
Foldback
44. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Cue System
Rack Position
Production Manager
45. Running monitors; Running house system; Communicating with the stage
Uses for Return Lines
System Limiter
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Showco PRISM
46. 1st U.S. President to have speeches publicized via loudspeaker to large crowds
Balloon Meadow
Drive Rack
Side Car
Warren G. Harding
47. Audience microphones that can be lowered during performance and brought up for clapping - hoots - etc.
Output Transducer
Monitor Amp Rack
Mass Connectors
Duckers
48. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
Time Based Processors
Butt Fill
Drive Rack Signal Flow
49. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Side Fill
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
1940's P/A Systems
50. Major loss in dB
Return Lines
Magiae Universal
Ernst Siemens
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