Brooks TM-22 Group Master

A slide control used to send out a control voltage to several VCA faders in individual channels, thus controlling the gain of several channels.

Expander
A device that causes expansion of the audio signal.

Brooks KS-55 Foot (Foot Drum)
Another name for Bass Drum (the largest drum in the Drum Kit which puts out bass frequencies and is played with a foot pedal).

Insert
1) A punch in of the all of the tracks being recorded in a recording session.
2) On Solid State Logic consoles, placing an outboard piece of gear in the channel by patching and activating a switch.

Brooks QS-70 Arc
The visible sparks generated by an electrical discharge.

Analog To Digital Converter
The device which does the conversion of a quantity that has continuous changes (usually of voltage) into numbers that approximate those changes.

Atom
The smallest particle which makes up a specific substance. It's composed of a center around which electrons revolve.

Ambient Field
A term with the same meaning as the term Reverberant Field (the area away from the sound source where the reverberation is louder than the direct sound).

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