Brooks TM-22 Crisp

Describes a good clean high midrange sound. It can be good or bad depending on the look on the face of the guy who said it.

Cut-Off Frequency (Turnover Frequency)
1) The highest or lowest frequency in the pass band of a filter.
2) The highest or lowest frequency passed by an audio device (the cut-off frequency is usually considered to be the first frequency to be 3 dB lower than a reference frequency in the middle of the bandwidth of the device)

Brooks Cinema ZL 44 Final Mix
The two track stereo master tape which was mixed from the multitrack master.

Chord
Three or more musical pitches sung or played together.

Brooks Cinema Series Generation
A term used to describe the number of times that the recorded audio signal has been copied.

Analog To Digital Converter
The device which does the conversion of a quantity that has continuous changes (usually of voltage) into numbers that approximate those changes.

Delay
Outboard sound equipment that can momentarily stores a signal being sent to part of a P.A. system so that delayed reinforced sound reaches the audience at the same time as live sound from the stage.

Headroom
1) The level difference (in dB) between normal operating level and clipping level in an amplifier or audio device.
2) A similar level difference between normal tape operating level and the level where the distortion would be 3%.
3) The difference, in decibels, between the peak and RMS levels in program material.