Brooks KM 77 Buss (Bus)

A wire carrying signals to some place, usually fed from several sources.

Final Mix
The two track stereo master tape which was mixed from the multitrack master.

Brooks XT 20 Foldback
A European term for the signal sent to the stage monitors in a live performance.

Electret Mic
A condenser microphone where the capacitor plates are given a charge during manufacture which they retain, therefore requiring no external power supply.

Brooks SS 81 Format
1) The number of tracks, their width, spacing and order for tape recording.
2) To prepare a digital storage medium so that it will accept and store digital information bits.

Floor Toms
The large toms to the right of the drummer.

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).

Error Concealment
Putting replacement information bits into a digital audio signal to replace lost bits when the digital recording or processing system cannot verify whether the lost bits were l's or 0's but can make a good guess by comparing the known bits that were close in position to the lost bits.