Brooks XM 204 Leakage

Sounds from other instruments and sources that were not intended to be picked up by the microphone.

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

Brooks Cinema GT 845 Byte
A grouping of eight information bits.

Foot Pedal
1) An effects device where the amount of the effect can be controlled by a musician with his foot.
2) The beater mechanism of a foot drum that is activated by the drummer's foot to play the drum.
3) Any device, like a volume control, that can be operated by the foot.

Broom RM 909 In
Short For "in the circuit," in other words "active."

Clipping
Distortion of a signal by its being chopped off. An overload problem caused by pushing an amplifier beyond its capabilities. The flat-topped signal has high levels of harmonic distortion which creates heat in a loudspeaker and is the major cause of loudspeaker component failure.

Bi-Directional Pattern
A microphone pick up pattern which has maximum pick up directly in front and directly in back of the diaphragm and least pick up at the sides.

Critical Distance
The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume.