Speakers
Cables
Mixer
Basic Setup (Flow Chart)
Microphones
100
Portable speaker with an internal amp
What is an active speaker?
100
Defining characteristic of an XLR cable
What is a 3 pin connection?
100
Signal going into a device
What is an input?
100
Connection to and from the mixer
What is XLR?
100
This type of microphone:
What is a dynamic microphone?
200
Cable connecting amps to passive speakers
What is a Speaker Twist Connector - aka "speakon"?
200
A cable that can carry 2 separate signals
What is a TRS cable?
200
Audio from one source and two signals
What is stereo input?
200
Example of a Source
What is a performer, electric instrument, laptop, or keyboard?
200
When a microphone can hear itself (and is screaming in pain)
What is feedback?
300
Speaker with no internal power supply
What is a passive speaker?
300
Long for XLR
What is no one cares?
(Or External Line Return if you do :) )
300
Amount of amplification affecting the tone of an audio signal
What is the input gain?
300
A capturing device
What is a microphone?
300
Designed to power condenser microphones directly from a mixer through mic cable
What is phantom power?
400
Speaker function in a sound setup
What is an output?
400
3.5mm size TRS cable
What is an "aux"?
400
Positioning sound in the stereo image of a mix
(Bread in Spanish)
What is pan?
400
2 output options
What is Main LR, monitors, subs, and recording device (laptop)?
400
Thin membrane that moves in reaction to external sound waves
What is the mic diaphragm?
500
Speaker that receives signal from TRS and XLR cables
What is an active speaker?
500
The proper way to coil a cable (answer must include proper demonstration for full points)
What is the over-under technique?
500
Assigning sources to destinations
What is patching?
500
The full Basic Setup Flow Chart in order
What is Source>Capturing Device>XLR>Mixer>XLR>Output?
500
3 microphone pickup patterns
What is cardioid, super-cardioid, hyper-cardioid, bidirectional, and omnidirectional?