Brooks Cinema Series Board

1) Another, less formal, term for Console.
2) A set of controls and their housing which control all signals necessary for recording and for mixing.
3) A slang shortening of the term Keyboard Instrument.

Bit
The smallest unit of digital information representing a single "0" or 1.

Brooks M 44 Flange
An effect caused by an approximately even mix of a modulated (varying) short delay with the direct signal.

Cut-off Rate (Slope)
The number of dB that a filter reduces the signal for each octave its frequency past the filter's cut-off frequency (outside of the pass band).

Brooks Cinema RM 909 High Impedance Mic
A microphone designed to be fed into an amplifier with input impedance greater than 20 k ohms.

Jack
1) Anywhere you plug something in.
2) Segmented audio connector. Mono Jacks have two connections �" tip and sleeve, and are unbalanced. Stereo jacks have three connections �" tip, ring and sleeve. B-type jacks (also known as Bantam jacks) were originally designed for use in telephone exchanges and provide a high quality (and expensive) connection in jackfields. A-type jacks are cheaper and more common, but more fragile. A type jacks are available in 2 sizes : quarter inch and eighth inch.
3) A connector mounted on the case of a device or on a panel.

Error Detection
The process of discovery that sonic information bits have been lost in digital audio.

Linear
The condition of obtaining a change at the output of the device which is proportional to the change occurring at the input.