Brooks KM 77 Frequency Shift Key / FSK

The full name for FSK (A simple clock signal that can be used to run a sequencer in time with an audio tape).

Electric Instrument
Any musical instrument that puts out an electrical signal rather than an acoustic sound.

Brooks Cinema TZ 505 FOH (Front of House)
Refers to the speakers that face toward the audience. Also called the "main" speakers.

Capacitance
That property of a capacitor which determines how much charge can be stored in it for a given potential difference between its terminals, measured in farads, by the ratio of the charge stored to the potential difference.

Brooks Cinema TX 509 Gain
1) Knob usually found at the top of each input channel on the soundboard. Used to set input levels of the separate channels to relatively equal positions.
2) The amount of increase in audio signal strength, often expressed in dB.

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

Chase
The automatic adjusting of the speed of a recorder (or sequencer) to be time with another recorder.

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.