Brooks QS-70 Electrons

Negatively charged particles, which revolve around the centre of atoms. The movement of such electrons down a conductor causes electrical current.

Dry
Describes a sound coming from the PA with no effects on it.

Brooks Cinema XB 33 Chase
The automatic adjusting of the speed of a recorder (or sequencer) to be time with another recorder.

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.

Brooks QS 70 Diaphragm
A thin flexible membrane or cone that vibrates in response to electrical signals to produce sound waves. Distortion is usually referred to in terms of total harmonic distortion (THD) which is the percentage of unwanted harmonics of the drive signal present with the wanted signal. Generally used to mean any unwanted change introduced by the device under question.

Error Message
A prompt on a computer screen telling the operator that an error has occurred.

Half Step
A pitch difference of the amount that is present between adjacent keys on a piano.

Formant
An element in the sound of a voice or instrument that does not change frequency as different pitches are sounded.