Audio Connectors
What do cables and connectors do?
What is transmission?
What do microphones do?
What is capturing sound? (Source of input)
Whose vision is being brought to life during a production?
Who is the director?
What is sound?
What is the interpretation of vibration by our brains?
-Vibration/oscillation moving through a medium
What is the most common kind of connector in the theatre industry?
There are two kinds of tips on the Jacks, TRS and TS. T = Tip, S = Sleeve, what does the R stand for?
What is a mixer?
What is the center of the sound system that mixes different signals and controls the output to different devices?
Who do the designers make requests to in each theatre?
Who is the Technical Director? (Nick)
What is audio?
What is the electrical signal?
(Electrical signal is the converted sound that was captured by a microphone)
What is a U-Ground connector?
How many different kinds of connectors can transmit power?
What are 3 connectors? (IEC, U-Ground and PowerCon)
What does an amplifier do?
What is increasing the power level of the signals (to drive a speaker?)
Who is the Stage Manager's main contact with the stage during a show, usually operating from the wings?
(Can technically be considered part of the crew)
Who is the Assistant Stage Manager? (ASM)
What are the two names for the stimulation (sound) in our eardrums that is created by the vibration moving through the air or other mediums?
(Both names are made up of two words, the second one being energy in both cases)
What are Acoustic Energy and Sound Energy?
What do you call the blue cables that can carry internet?
(You only need to give one answer, three exist)
What are Cat 6, Ethernet or RJ45 cables?
How many audio connectors are there?
What are 5 connectors? (XLR, 1/4" and 1/8" Jacks, RCA and Speakon)
What do processors do?
What is creating effects and correcting acoustics?
Who selects the common theme or idea for a theatre's season? (Show schedule scultped to suit the idea they chose)
Who is the Artistic Director?
What are two examples of playback devices?
What is a record player, a computer, a phone or a music player?
What are the two kinds of Jack connectors?
(They are fractions)
What is a 1/4" Jack and an 1/8" Jack?
How many Network & Data, transmitters are there?
What are 2 cables? (Network cables (Cat, Ethernet and RJ45) and USB (Universal Serial Bus (5 types))
What is the difference between a passive speaker and an active/powered speaker?
What is the built in amplifier in the active/powered speaker?
What kind of people compose the Board of governors?
(Le Commitée Administratif (CA))
Who are volunteers with other jobs and some spare money?
What is a sound system and its two jobs?
What is the assembly of sound equipment to reinforce or strengthen live sound or to playback prerecorded audio?
What are the three things cables serve to transmit?
(Not all can transmit all 3 of these things)
What are Audio Signal, Network & Data and Power?