Equipment
This is the instrument which allows you to combine and mix different audio signals before sending them out to different outputs.
What is a soundboard/mixing console?
This is the name for the series of processing steps applied to an audio signal. Alt: The order of effects like EQ, amplification, and other processors.
What is signal chain?
This is the audio cueing software available exclusively available on Windows.
What is SCS / Show Cue Systems?
This person creates audio for media like film, TV, video games, and theatre.
This is the state of matter where sound travels the fastest.
What are solids?
This is an instrument used as the main audio source for the audience.
What is the PA or Mains?
This is the process of adjusting the volume to cut or boost different frequencies in an audio signal.
What is EQ / equalization?
This is the audio cueing software exclusively available on MacOS.
What is QLab?
This is the person responsible for the overall technical design and live sound mixing during a live event. Includes mic & speaker placement as well as final mix.
What is the A1 / primary audio engineer?
This was the first instrument, dating back 40,000 years ago, made out of bone.
What is a flute?
This is an instrument for converting sound waves to electrical energy which then may be amplified, recorded, or transmitted.
What is a microphone?
This is the art of creating audio elements by watching a recorded scene and making the sound effects in real time.
What is Foley?
This is what is created by using audio to indicate a sense of specific time and place to audiences.
What is ambiance?
This is the person who must assist the main audio engineer with micing the actors and pit technicians, and assists backstage during live events.
What is the A2 / audio technician?
This is the name of an audio "easter egg" with a distinct yell, often when a character falls.
What is the Wilhelm Scream?
This device converts an unbalanced signal to a balanced signal. Often used with guitars or keyboards.
What is a DI box or DI? (Direct Inject)
This is the technique that reduces the difference between the loudest and quietest parts of an audio recording by using ratio, attack, and release.
What is compression?
This is the term used to refer to where the sound engineer is situated to mix the audio for the audience, typically in the middle or back of the seating area.
This is the person responsible for preparing the audio for distribution by making the final adjustments to a recording.
What is a mastering engineer?
These musicals won Tony's for Best Sound Design of 2024. (5 possible)
What are Here Lies Love, Merrily We Roll Along, Cabaret, Hell's Kitchen, and The Outsiders.
This device ensures the proper startup and shutdown of equipment in the correct order.
What is a power sequencer/ sequencer?
This is the process of identifying and eliminating problematic frequencies within a space that are prone to audio feedback.
What is ringing out a room / tuning a room?
This is the name of an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating peaks and troughs through the spectrum.
What is a phaser?
More common in music, this person provides rental equipment to artists.
What is Backline / Backline Tech?
What is 'The Jazz Singer'?