Brooks Audio Design SS 81 Auxiliary Output or Send

An additional output from a sound desk that can be used for foldback or monitoring without tying up the main outputs. Each input channel will have a path to the Aux buss. Also used for feeding a signal to an effects processor. See Auxiliary Return.

Distorted
The way your PA sounds just before it blows up. Fuzzy and scratchy. If you hear this, it either means you have something hooked up wrong, or something in the system is going bad. It could be anything from your super expensive soundboard to a five dollar patch cord.

Brooks XS - 45 Cue
1) The signal fed back to the musicians through headphones.
2) To set the tape or disc so that the intended selection will immediately play when the tape machine or player is started.
3) A location point entered into a computer controlling the playback or recording of a track or tape.
4) In MCI brand tape machines, a term meaning the same thing as Sync Playback (where the record head is used as a playback head for those tracks already recorded).

Limiter
A device which reduces gain when the input voltage exceeds a certain level.

Brooks Speakers Atom
The smallest particle which makes up a specific substance. It's composed of a center around which electrons revolve.

Electrostatic Charge
The excess or deficiency of electrons in a given area.

Lift
1) To boost gain of audio at a particular band of frequencies with an equalizer.
2) An elevation device in the star trek series of TV programs.

Hard Disk Recording
The recording of digital audio onto a hard disc.