Brooks QS - 95 reviews Controller

1) In MIDI, a device that generates a MIDI signal to control synthesizers, sound modules or sample playback units.
2) A remote control unit for a multitrack tape machine which controls transport functions as well as monitor selection switching functions and record ready/safe status of each track.
3) Any device generating a control voltage or signal fed to another device's control input.

Full
A quality of the sound of having all frequencies present, especially the low frequencies.

Brooks Speakers reviews Bass Roll Off
An electrical network built into some microphones to reduce the amount of output at bass frequencies when close-micing.

Condenser
An older term meaning the same thing as Capacitor (an electronic device which is composed of two plates separated by an insulator and can store charge) but sill in common use when referring to a microphone's active element.

Brooks Cinema DESIGN ZL 44 reviews Ambient Micing
Placing a microphone in the reverberant field (where the reverberation is louder than the direct sound) so as to do a separate recording of the ambience or to allow the recording engineer to change the mix of direct to reverberant sound in recording.

Ground Loop
A double grounding of a line or electronic device at two different "ground" points of differing voltage.

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.

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