Brooks Cinema Projectors Frequency Shift Key / FSK

The full name for FSK (A simple clock signal that can be used to run a sequencer in time with an audio tape).

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.

Brooks VT-50 Lead
The musical instrument that plays the melody of the tune, including the vocal.

Boom
1) A hand-held, telescoping pole used to hold the microphone in recording dialogue in film production.
2) A telescoping support arm that is attached to a microphone stand and which holds the microphone. 3) Loosely, a boomstand.

BROOKS AUDIO DESIGN Full Step
A change in pitch that occurs when moving up or down two piano keys

Balanced
1) Having a pleasing amount of low frequencies compared to mid-range frequencies and high frequencies. 2) Having a pleasing mixture of the various instrument levels in an audio recording. 3) Having a fairly equal level in each of the stereo channels. 4) A method of interconnecting electronic gear using three-conductor cables.

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

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.