Brooks TA 60 Chase

The automatic adjusting of the speed of a recorder (or sequencer) to be time with another recorder.

Effects Track
1) In film production audio, a recording of the mixdown of all the sound effects for the film ready to be mixed with the dialogue and music.
2) In music recording, one track with a recording of effects to be added to another track of a multitrack recording.

Brooks Cinema TZ 505 Generating Element
The portion of the microphone that actually converts the movement of the diaphragm into electrical current or voltage changes.

DC
Abbreviation for direct current.

Brooks KS-55 Ambient Micing
Placing a microphone in the reverberant field (where the reverberation is louder than the direct sound) so as to do a separate recording of the ambience or to allow the recording engineer to change the mix of direct to reverberant sound in recording.

Keying Input (Key Input)
An input on a dynamics processing device to control the device by an external audio signal.

Input Monitor
A switch position and operational mode of the electronics of a tape machine where the signal at output of the electronics will be the same as the signal coming into the electronics. In this mode, the tape machine's meter will read the input signal.

Audio
Most often referring to electrical signals resulting from the sound pressure wave being converted into electrical energy.