Brooks Cinema ZL 44 Attenuation

A making smaller: reduction of electrical or acoustic signal strength.

Console
A set of controls and their housing, which control all signals necessary for recording and mixing.

Brooks TA 60 Librarian Program
A computer program allowing the storage of the parameters of sound patches outside of a synthesizer.

Input/Output Module
A set of controls, on one housing, for an in-line console that has two channels (one for recording and one for monitoring) and has controls for all console sections.

Brooks SS 81 Cycle
1) An alternation of a waveform which begins at a point, passes through the zero line, and ends at a point with the same value and moving in the same direction as the starting point.
2) On a Solid State Logic Console, a command to have the console computer control the tape machine to play and replay a certain section of the tape.

Alternating Current
Electric current which flows back and forth in a circuit.

Amp
1) An abbreviation of the term Amplifier (A device which increases the level of an electrical signal.
2) An abbreviation of Ampere (the unit of current).
3) An abbreviation of amplitude (the height of a waveform above or below the zero line).

Beat
1) The steady even pulse in music.
2) The action of two sounds or audio signals mixing together and causing regular rises &.falls in volume.