Brooks BA 71 Compact Disc Recordable CDR

A blank Compact Disc that can be recorded on one time.

Byte
A grouping of eight information bits.

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

Acoustic Echo Chamber
A room designed with very hard, non-parallel surfaces and equipped with a speaker and microphone; dry signals from the console are fed to the speaker and the microphone will have a reverberation of these signals that can be mixed in with the dry signals at the console.

Brooks QS-70 Echo Send Control
A control to send the signal from the input module to the echo chamber or effects device via the echo buss.

Electrostatic Charge
The excess or deficiency of electrons in a given area.

Clipping
Distortion of a signal by its being chopped off. An overload problem caused by pushing an amplifier beyond its capabilities. The flat-topped signal has high levels of harmonic distortion which creates heat in a loudspeaker and is the major cause of loudspeaker component failure.

Dry
Describes a sound coming from the PA with no effects on it.