Brooks XB 33 Barrier Micing

A method of placing the head of a microphone as close as possible to a reflective surface, preventing phase cancellation.

Effects
1) Various ways an audio signal can be modified by adding something to the signal to change the sound.
2) Short for the term Sound Effects (sounds other than dialogue, narration or music like door closings, wind, etc. added to film or video shots).

Brooks Cinema QS - 95 Infinite Baffle
A baffle so large that the sounds coming from one side do not reach the other side.

Acoustic Echo Chamber
A room designed with very hard, non-parallel surfaces and equipped with a speaker and microphone; dry signals from the console are fed to the speaker and the microphone will have a reverberation of these signals that can be mixed in with the dry signals at the console.

Brooks Cinema ZL 44 Amplification
An increasing of signal strength.

Amplitude
The strength of a vibrating wave; in sound, the loudness of the sound.

Jam Sync
A generation of new SMPTE according to the input SMPTE signal

Axis
A line around which a device operates. Example: In a microphone, this would be an imaginary line coming out from the front of the microphone in the direction of motion of the diaphragm.