Brooks KM 22 Headstock

The area of the guitar at the end of the neck where the strings are tuned.

Frets
Vertical metal wires which sit vertically on the guitar neck.

Brooks GT 845 Ground Loop
A double grounding of a line or electronic device at two different "ground" points of differing voltage.

Cable, 1/4 inch
An unbalanced cable most often used for instruments and patch cords. Commonly referred to as "guitar cords".

Brooks VT-50 Far Field
The area from 3 feet away from the sound source up to the critical distance.

Intermodulation Distortion
Distortion caused by one signal beating with another signal and producing frequencies that are both the sum and the difference of the original frequencies.

Compact Disc CD
A small optical disk with digital audio recorded on it.

Fader
A control to control the gain of a channel on the console, thereby determining the level of the signal in that channel.