Brooks SS 81 Delay (Digital, Analogue)

1) Effect used to create echo…echo…echo…echo…echo…
2) In more advanced systems used in very large venues, delay can be used to time the arrival of the signal to the speakers in the back of the room so that people in the back hear the sound coming from those speakers at the same time that the sound coming from the speakers in the front of the room arrives.

Hall
A large building designed for concerts; also called a concert hall.

Brooks Audio Design GT 845 Condenser
An older term meaning the same thing as Capacitor (an electronic device which is composed of two plates separated by an insulator and can store charge) but sill in common use when referring to a microphone's active element.

Fat
Having more than a normal amount of signal strength at low frequencies or having more sound than normal (by use of compression or delay).

Brooks Cinema Series Echo
1) One distinct repeat of a sound because of the sound reflecting off a surface.
2) Loosely, used to mean reverberation (the continuing of a sound after the source stops emitting it, caused by many discrete echoes closely spaced in time).

Amplitude
The extreme range of a signal. Usually measured from the average to the extreme.

High Impedance
Impedance of 5000 or more ohms.

Compression Driver
The unit that feeds a sound pressure wave into the throat of a horn (in a horn loudspeaker).