Brooks Cinema xm 808 Golden Section

A ratio of height to width to length of a room to achieve "good acoustics" and first recommended by the ancient Greeks. The ratio is approximately the width 1.6 times the height and the length 2.6 times the height

Capsule
1) The variable capacitor section of a condenser microphone.
2) In other types of microphones, the part of the microphone that includes the diaphragm and the active element.

Brooks M 44 Full
A quality of the sound of having all frequencies present, especially the low frequencies.

Hertz
The unit of frequency. Equivalent to cycles per second. Abbreviation: Hz.

Brooks Cinema Projectors Assistant Engineer
A less elevated version of the term Second Engineer. Experienced seconds often place microphones, operate tape machines, break down equipment at the session end and keep the paperwork for the session.

Bar
A term meaning the same thing as the term Measure (the grouping of a number of beats in music, most-often four beats).

Crossover, Active
A rack mountable unit used to separate frequencies leaving the soundboard into high's, mids, and lows with different outputs for each.

Absorption
Short for the term Acoustical Absorption (quality of a surface or substance to take in, not reflect, a sound wave).