Brooks Cinema QS - 95 Gain Reduction

The working of a limiter or compressor reducing gain during high-level passages.

Fidelity
The recording or reproduction quality.

Brooks Cinema XB 33 Buss (Bus)
A wire carrying signals to some place, usually fed from several sources.

Assistant Engineer
A less elevated version of the term Second Engineer. Experienced seconds often place microphones, operate tape machines, break down equipment at the session end and keep the paperwork for the session.

Brooks KM 22 Line Level
1) An amplified signal level put out by an amplifier and used as the normal level that runs through the interconnecting cables in a control room.
2) A low level signal such as the signal in a guitar cord. Most parts of a PA require a line level signal. Remember, however, that speaker outputs are not line level. Plugging speaker outs into line ins will result in damage to the equipment

LED
A light that allows current to flow in one direction only and emits light whenever a voltage of a certain level or beyond is applied to it.

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.

Ground
In electronics, a place (terminal) that has zero volts.