Brooks GS 15 Ground Loop

A double grounding of a line or electronic device at two different "ground" points of differing voltage.

CPU
Abbreviation of Central Processing Unit (The main "brain" chip of a computer or the main housing of a computer that contains the "brain" chip).

Brooks VT-50 Cut
1) One selection (one song) on a pre4ecorded music format.
2) A term with the same meaning as Mute (to turn off a channel or a signal).
3) To reduce gain of a particular band of frequencies (with an equalizer).
4) To not pass a particular band of frequencies (said of a filter)

Kilo
A prefix meaning 1000.

Brooks Cinema NZ 60 Distortion
Usually undesirable result of overloading sound equipment. Reducing the levels can remedy the situation.

Howlback
British term for the term Feedback (the pickup of the signal out of a channel by the input of the channel or the howling sound that this produces).

Lead Sheet
A written chart showing the melody, lyrics and chords of a tune with full musical notation.

Head
1) In tape recording, the transducer (energy converter) that changes the audio energy from electrical energy to magnetic energy and back; also the devices that apply magnetism to the recording tape for other purposes such as in the erase head.
2) The part of a device that immediately includes the transducer to change sound or audio signals from one energy form to another.