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Show Production Basics
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performing-arts
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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
Phasing Plug
Near-Fields
Balloon Meadow
Main Snake
2. Major developer of amplifiers and loudspeakers in the 1920's and 1930's
Western Electric
Low Amp Frequency Range
Near-Fields
Radial Horn
3. Microphones -> Mic Cables -> Subsnakes -> Splitter -> Monitor Fanout -> Console -> EQ Rack (Mix Inserts) -> EQ -> Console -> Mix Outs -> Amp Racks -> Multiple Monitor Wedges
Splitter Box
Monitor Signal Flow
Sir Oliver Lodge
House System
4. Rear Fill; Side Fill; Center Fill; Butt Fill; Apron Fill; Delay Fill; Down Fill
Meyer Sound
Supplemental Speaker Systems
Components of Good Mixing
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
5. Verification that all the cables for mics & amplies are connected and sending signal properly
Line Check
Shearer Horn System
Building a Mix
Center Fill
6. This button will route aux sends to group master
Main Snake
Aux/CO
Show Production Organization
System Engineer
7. Located in Windsor - England; Fleetwood Mac used 1000 watts of pure Hi-Fi power here for the first time
Balloon Meadow
FOH Signal Flow
Uses for Return Lines
Lee DeForest
8. Have two surfaces based on an exponential flare rate - and two straight walls that determine the output pattern
Gain Structure
MSL-4
Return Lines
Radial Horn
9. 20 Hz - 100 Hz
Live Mixing Issues
Low Amp Frequency Range
Down Fill
Auditorium
10. 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
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
Near-Fields
VCA
Mass Connectors
11. Early form of sound reinforcement made of various materials including silver and tortoise shell
Production Manager
Ear Trumpets
Vocal Mic Setup
Rack Position
12. large cable that hooks up to these mass connectors and carries the audio from the splitter box back to the House console area
Western Electric
Main Snake
Sensurround
Sectorial Horn
13. Hired by the artist; Negotiates salary with and mixes the artist
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14. Package tours and the Motown Era created the need for these in the 1950's
Dynamic Based Processors
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Vagabond
15. From the FOH; Used in addition or instead of an apron fill to cover audience members seated under or below the FOH speaker clusters
FOH Signal Flow
House System
Uses for Return Lines
Down Fill
16. Low frequency sound absorber used to reduce the effects of standing waves in a room
Compression Driver
Angle of Incidence
Bass Trap
Aux/CO
17. Founded in 1967 in Lititz - PA and had accounts with Elvis Presley - Elton John - Yes - Fleetwood Mac - KISS - Queen - and The Moody Blues
Mobile Reinforcement Systems
Clair Brothers
Workbox
1st Successful Use of P/A System
18. Patched into EFFECTS / AUXILIARY SENDS
True or False: Sub snakes are part of the splitter system...
Time Based Processors
Sectorial Horn
Live Mixing Issues
19. Usually located in the rear of the house or in the balcony; Houses technicians who complete any music or sound effects
True or False: It is preferred by many to have the drive rack and FX Racks separated...
Pad
System Engineer
Sound Booth
20. P/A
Public Address
Balloon Meadow
Ear Trumpets
Emile Berliner
21. A mixer within a mixer that usually controls additional speaker systems
Dynamic Based Processors
Matrix Section
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Midas Verona
22. Responsible for the line array technology boom; Developed the L-ACOUSTICS V-DOSC system in 1993
Crossover
Dr. Christian Heil
Pink Noise
Bass Trap
23. Developed first microphone; Telephone transmitter invented for Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; Patented the first flat disc gramophone
Bass Trap
Mass Connectors
Vagabond
Emile Berliner
24. Introduced the trapezoidal arrayable loudspeaker cabinet in 1980
Meyer Sound
House Engineer
True or False: Using AUX Sends any house console can be used as a monitor console...
FOH Signal Flow
25. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Uses for Return Lines
MSL-4
Sound Booth
Types of Output Transducers
26. Put all instruments in the mix and fine tune later
RAT Sound
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Phasing Plug
Low End Problem
27. Electromagnetic (MOST COMMON); Piezoelectric; Electromechanical; Electrostatic; Ribbon
Mixing Setup Considerations
High Amp Frequency Range
Center Fill
Types of Output Transducers
28. Developed the first live console for the Grateful Dead after their sound engineer was detained by the FBI; Rebuilt Langevin recording console
Ernst Siemens
Return Lines
Bob Heil
Splitter System Components
29. 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
Radial Horn
Line Array
Rack Position
Uses for Return Lines
30. 1st to use a foldback monitor system at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium in 1961
Audion Tube
Delay Fill
Floorwedge Coverage
Judy Garland
31. Vacuum tube that improved and amplified weak wireless signals
Line Array
Audion Tube
The Who
Altec Lansing
32. Feedback eliminated - stage volume reduced - and 'roaming' problems decreased
Pre/Post Button
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Crossover
Mixing Setup Considerations
33. Converts electrical information into acoustic energy
FOH Signal Flow
Auditorium
When building mixes and presented with multiple requests from one Artist - one should...
Output Transducer
34. The standard in live sound reinforcement for both digital and analog shows
Bob Heil
Showco PRISM
Side Fill
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
35. Optimum = Somewhere in the middle of the floor
Magiae Universal
Clair Brothers
System Engineer
Mix Position
36. From the FOH; Covers audience members seated behind the stage
Rear Fill
Delay Fill
Monitor System
R.G. Jones
37. Could be in a bass trap or a dead zone at the mix position
Vocal Mic Setup
Building a Mix
Splitter System Components
Low End Problem
38. Founded in 1979 in Southern california and acquired accounts of Black Flag - Pearl Jam - The Cult - Beck - and Red Hot Chili Peppers
RAT Sound
Near-Fields
Gain Structure
Public Address
39. Setting the levels to get the best signal transfer through a console; Always start with the stereo bus - channel and monitor faders set to 0dB (Unity Gain) then adjust preamp for initial volume
Western Electric
Gain Structure
Showco PRISM
True or False: The primary purpose for a mix EQ is feedback reduction/elimination...
40. Held reputation as the world's loudest band in the 1970's
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Pre/Post Button
The Who
Distance
41. 1 kHz - 20 kHz
High Amp Frequency Range
Meyer Sound
Mix EQ
True or False: The monitor engineer has creative control over how each artist's mix will sound...
42. Mixes for the audience
Output Transducer
Artist's (or Band) Engineer
Drive Rack
FOH Engineer
43. False
Mid Amp Frequency Range
Line Check
True or False: The monitor system is essentially one large system...
Low End Problem
44. Improves clarity by deflecting midrange audio into the sound space and minimizing distortion producing collisions
Distance
Warren G. Harding
ShowConsole
Phasing Plug
45. Device used to compensate for undesired sound system characteristics or room acoustics
Flying Sound
Outside
Benefits of In-Ear Monitors
Equalizer
46. Hired by the sound company or venue and paid salary; Set-up and maintain FOH system and often mix opening artists; Responsible for set-up - teardown - and maintenance of systems
VCA
Average Artist Prep Time for Audio Engineers
1st Successful Use of P/A System
System Engineer
47. 1st stage of protection; Prevents damage to sound system by limiting and/or compressing overall ouput
Lee DeForest
Low End Problem
System Limiter
Equalizer
48. 1st portable public P/A system used by Knute Rockne of Notre Dame for coaching the football team from a tower
R.G. Jones
Butt Fill
Electric Voice
Drive Rack
49. Major loss in dB
Midas Verona
System Limiter
Outside
Side Fill
50. False
True or False: A splitter is not required to run 2 separate systems...
High Amp Frequency Range
RAT Sound
FOH Signal Flow