Jargon
You can slide this on a sound board to change the volume level.
What is a fader?
This professor is the sound design mentor.
Who is Don Tindall?
Sound designer Cody Spencer won the 2024 award for this musical based on a classic book, featuring songs such as "Tula '67" and "Throwing in the Towel." It won Best Musical, too.
What is The Outsiders?
This type of speaker is best for playing frequencies below 100 Hz.
What is a subwoofer?
This professor is the Lighting and Sound Supervisor.
Who is Frank Hartley?
Sound designers Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz won the 2019 award for this smash-hit musical based on a Greek myth.
What is Hadestown?
These amplification tools come in a variety of patterns depending on your needs, such as "omni-directional," "cardioid," and "shotgun."
What are microphones?
This senior student went from mixing "Catch Me If You Can" to designing "Titanic."
Who is Joanna Albanese?
Sound designer Gareth Owen won the 2022 award for this jukebox biopic, still running in the West End.
What is MJ?
This term refers to the properties of a room that affect how sound reflects in it.
What is Acoustics?
This recent super-senior was just the Associate Sound Designer on the "Johnathan Larson Project." You might remember him in Urinetown coveralls.
Who is Tim White?
Sound designer Nevin Steinberg won the 2023 award for the revival of this Sondheim show.
What is Sweeny Todd?
This is a linguistic term for the consonants "P," "T," and "K," which can sound harsh in many microphones.
What are plosives?
This student has taken over as Head of the Sound Shop now that I (Theo) am in London.
Who is Diana Cooper?
Sound designer Scott Lehrer won the first ever Tony for Best Sound Design in 2008 with what directional Rodgers & Hammerstein musical?
What is South Pacific?