Brooks QS 70 Byte

A grouping of eight information bits.

ADSR
The letters A, D, S &R are the first letters of: Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release. These are the various elements of volume changes in the sounding of a keyboard instrument.

Brooks GS 15 Auxiliary Output or Send
An additional output from a sound desk that can be used for foldback or monitoring without tying up the main outputs. Each input channel will have a path to the Aux buss. Also used for feeding a signal to an effects processor. See Auxiliary Return.

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

Brooks KS-55 Cardioid Pattern
A microphone pick up pattern, which has maximum pick up from the front, less pick up from the sides, and least pick up from the back of the diaphragm.

Critical Distance
The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume.

Folded Horn
A speaker design where the speaker points back into the cabinet and bounces around finally coming out large ports in the front. It is intended to maximize low frequencies in a relatively small cabinet.

Lead
The musical instrument that plays the melody of the tune, including the vocal.