Brooks TM-22 Full

A quality of the sound of having all frequencies present, especially the low frequencies.

Cord (Speaker, Mic, Instrument)
Used to connect a sound system together. Each type of cord is made for a specific purpose and should not be used in place of another type of cord, not even if they look alike. Also see "cable"

Brooks RM 80 Foldback
A European term for the signal sent to the stage monitors in a live performance.

Condenser
An older term meaning the same thing as Capacitor (an electronic device which is composed of two plates separated by an insulator and can store charge) but sill in common use when referring to a microphone's active element.

Brooks Cinema Projectors Expander
A device that causes expansion of the audio signal.

Headroom
1) The level difference (in dB) between normal operating level and clipping level in an amplifier or audio device.
2) A similar level difference between normal tape operating level and the level where the distortion would be 3%.
3) The difference, in decibels, between the peak and RMS levels in program material.

Initialize
To prepare a digital storage medium (like a floppy disk) so that it will accept and store digital information bits.

Bandwidth
1) The range of frequencies over which a tape recorder, amplifier or other audio device is useful. 2) The range of frequencies affected by an equalization setting.