BROOKS HI fi Formant

An element in the sound of a voice or instrument that does not change frequency as different pitches are sounded.

Expander
A device that causes expansion of the audio signal.

Brooks Speakers Keyboard Controller
A device that has the standard music keys of piano but puts out MIDI signals

Alternating Current
Electric current which flows back and forth in a circuit.

Brooks Cinema GT 845 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.

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.

Echo Send
The output of a console used to send a signal to an echo chamber or delay effects device.

Boost
To increase gain, especially to increase gain at specific frequencies with an equalizer.