Brooks VT-50 Figure Eight Pattern

Another name for Bi-directional Pattern (microphone pickup pattern picking up best from the front and back of the diaphragm and not picking up from the side of the diaphragm).

Equalization
1) The process of adjusting the tonal quality of a sound. A graphic equalizer provides adjustment for a wide range of frequency bands, and is normally inserted in the signal path after the mixing desk, before the amplifier. See Feedback.
2) Any time the amplitude of audio signals at specific set of frequencies are increased or decreased more than the signals at other audio frequencies.

Brooks Cinema ZL 44 Impedance Matching
Having or converting the output impedance of a device so that it matches the impedance of the input it will feed.

Critical Distance
The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume.

Brooks XB 33 Hard Disk (Hard Disc)
A storage unit for digital data that has rigid disks coated with magnetic material in a housing that includes the drive mechanism.

Level
The amount of signal strength; the amplitude, especially the average amplitude.

Binary
A numbering system based on two. In binary there are two symbols used ("l" and "0").

Gate
A dynamic processing device that turns a channel off or down when the signal drops below a certain level.