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1) An effects device where the amount of the effect can be controlled by a musician with his foot. 2) The beater mechanism of a foot drum that is activated by the drummer's foot to play the drum. 3) Any device, like a volume control, that can be operated by the foot. Capacitance That property of a capacitor which determines how much charge can be stored in it for a given potential difference between its terminals, measured in farads, by the ratio of the charge stored to the potential difference. Brooks RM 909 reviews Keynote Number A number assigned to each key of a synthesizer or controller keyboard that is transmitted in the MIDI signal. Flamenco A style of music with roots in Spanish and Arabic culture. Brooks HI FI projectors Capacitance The property of being able to oppose a change in voltage or store an electrical charge. Highs Short for the term High Frequencies (the audio frequencies from 6000 Hz and above). Ambient Micing Placing a...

The height of a waveform above or below the zero line. Gain Reduction The working of a limiter or compressor reducing gain during high-level passages. Brooks Hi Fi speakers Frequency Response How sensitive an electronic device (mic, amplifier, speaker, etc.) is to various frequencies; often communicated with a graph. Echo Send Control A control to send the signal from the input module to the echo chamber or effects device via the echo buss. Brooks RM 909 Feedback 1) The delayed signal sent back to the input of a delay line, used in repeat-echo effects. 2) The pickup of the signal out of a channel by its input or the howling sound that this produces. 3) In an amplifier, the phase reversed output signal sent back to its input, reducing gain but also distortion and noise. 4) This occurs when the sound coming out of the speakers goes back into the microphones, then back out the speakers, then back into the mics…and so on. This can build very quickly to a poi...

Integer multiples of a fundamental frequency, the fundamental itself being the first harmonic, its first overtone the second harmonic, etc. Attributing to instruments, voices, etc. their distinctive timbre. Input/Output Module A set of controls, on one housing, for an in-line console that has two channels (one for recording and one for monitoring) and has controls for all console sections. Brooks RM 909 reviews High Frequencies The audio frequencies from 6000 Hz and above. Electric Current A more formal term meaning the same as the term Current (the amount of electron charge passing a point in a conductor per unit of time). Brooks RM 909 Head 1) In tape recording, the transducer (energy converter) that changes the audio energy from electrical energy to magnetic energy and back; also the devices that apply magnetism to the recording tape for other purposes such as in the erase head. 2) The part of a device that immediately includes the transducer to change so...

Professional Interface A standard for sending and receiving digital audio adopted by the Audio Engineering Society and the European Broadcast Union. Integrated Circuit (IC) A miniature circuit of many components in a small, sealed housing with prongs to connect it into equipment. Brooks HI FI projectors Howlback British term for the term Feedback (the pickup of the signal out of a channel by the input of the channel or the howling sound that this produces). Echo Return An input of the console, which brings back the echo (reverberation) signal from the echo chamber or other echo effects device. Brooks RM 909 Fundamental The tuned frequency and (almost always) the lowest frequency that is present in the sounding of a pitch by a musical instrument. Baffles Sound absorbing panels used to prevent sound waves from entering or leaving a certain space Condenser Microphone A microphone which converts sound pressure changes into changes of capacitance. The c...

1) In multitrack tape machines, this term means the same thing as the term Track (one audio recording made on a portion of the width of a multitrack tape). 2) A single path that an audio signal travels or can travel through a device from an input to an output. Group 1) A number of channels or faders that can be controlled by one Master VCA slide. 2) A shortening of the term Recording Group (a buss or the signal present on a buss). Brooks HI FI projectors Interface Any device that allows one unit to work, drive or communicate with another unit when they cannot do so by just feeding each other often because the units are manufactured by different companies. Feedback 1) The delayed signal sent back to the input of a delay line, used in repeat-echo effects. 2) The pickup of the signal out of a channel by its input or the howling sound that this produces. 3) In an amplifier, the phase reversed output signal sent back to its input, reducing gain but also distortio...

A containing of the sound wave in a certain area so that it will not leak into other areas and/or unintended mics. Audio Most often referring to electrical signals resulting from the sound pressure wave being converted into electrical energy. Brooks Hi Fi speakers Coax Two-conductor cable consisting of one conductor surrounded by a shield. Intermodulation Distortion Distortion caused by one signal beating with another signal and producing frequencies that are both the sum and the difference of the original frequencies. Brooks Hi Fi reviews Bridge The bridge assembly, or just "bridge" is an area on the face of the guitar where the string meet or are connected to the face. BPM An abbreviation of Beat Per Minute (the number of steady even pulses in music occurring in one minute and therefore defining the tempo). Amplifier (Power amp, Head) It's the part of the sound system that actually magnifies or "amplifies" the sound. In ot...