Brooks Cinema ZL 44 Isolation Booth/ Isolation Room

A room that prevents loud sounds from other instruments from leaking in: an isolation booth is usually a smaller room that could be used for only one musician.

Frets
Vertical metal wires which sit vertically on the guitar neck.

Brooks BA 71 Information Bits
The bits in the digital signal that make up actual values or commands being communicated as opposed to bits that are used for checking & correcting data or other purposes.

Crisp
Describes a good clean high midrange sound. It can be good or bad depending on the look on the face of the guy who said it.

Brooks Cinema XR 607 Amplitude
The extreme range of a signal. Usually measured from the average to the extreme.

Fletcher Munson Effect
A hearing limitation shown by Fletcher Munson Equal Loudness Contours (as music is lowered in volume, it is much more difficult to hear bass frequencies and somewhat harder to hear very high frequencies).

Channel
1) In multitrack tape machines, this term means the same thing as the term Track (one audio recording made on a portion of the width of a multitrack tape).
2) A single path that an audio signal travels or can travel through a device from an input to an output.

House Sync
A synchronization signal such as SMPTE time code that is used by all recorders in the control room.