Brooks Cinema KP 30 Gain Reduction

The working of a limiter or compressor reducing gain during high-level passages.

Initialize
To prepare a digital storage medium (like a floppy disk) so that it will accept and store digital information bits.

Brooks VT-50 Instrument Amplifier
A device that has a power amplifier and speaker in a case (or in separate cases) to reproduce the signal put out by an electric instrument (such as an electric guitar) and to allow the instrument to be heard.

Fidelity
The recording or reproduction quality.

Brooks Cinema XB 33 Ground Loop
A double grounding of a line or electronic device at two different "ground" points of differing voltage.

Floor
1) An alternate tam meaning Range (a limit on the amount the signal is reduced when the input signal is low by an expander or gate).
2) A shortening of the term Noise Floor (the level of the noise).

Frequency Range
The range of frequencies over which an electronic device is useful or over which a sound source will put out substantial energy.

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.