Audio Fundamentals test 3

Input/Channel section: adjusts level of signal being sent to recorder.

Output/Monitor section: Let's you listen back to what is on the recorder.

Center/Master section: Controls the overall level of the mix so that you can send it to a master recorder.

Same as split console, but in one module instead of 2.

A circuit that lets signals go to another destination.

Allow a channel to be constantly wired to a location.

Returns

Stereo-bus, 2-Mix, Program

• # of inputs
• # of bus or group outputs
• # of program outputs

Amplifier

A level (amplitude) control. Faders are variable resisters

Fader

• Trim
• Fader

Switch

The fader level does not affect the level at which the audio signal is sent.

The fader level does affect the level at which the audio signal is sent.

Stops the flow of audio

Adjusts the amount of voltage (signal) that is going to a specific output

place where the flow goes through a patch bay (jack field)

Normalled: signals connect without using a patch cable. Also, a signal will still go to its wired destination if a patch is made to another device. 

Half-normalled: is the same except that the signal path is broken once a patch is made to another device.

isolates signals in the audio monitors without muting the multitrack or stereo outputs

• PFL and AFL are mono systems. 
• IPL is a multi-channel (stereo+) system

stands for Pre Fader Listen meaning the signal is checked before the fader and usually before any processing (EQ or Insert Point).

stands for After Fader Listen meaning the signal is checked after the fader and after any processing.

means In Place Listen. The signal is heard “in its place” in the stereo (or multi-channel) mix. IPL is checked after the pan pot.

Allows engineer/producer to talk to musicians through headphones or monitors.

Gives computer control over changes in fader and mute switch position

A time code in automation that provides a positional reference for what point in time the song is in.

Write: the console computer links control voltage changes from the fader with the time code address and converts to data for storage on the PC computer.

Read: the PC plays back the data in sync with the time code, the console computer converts the data to control voltage and sends it to the VCA.

Update: a combination of Read and Write. The Read data is sent back through the fader with changes being send back through the console computer to the PC

Automations limited to fader and mute.

Analog audio path with digital controls (faders, pots and switches).

Full automation.

Full automation. May have limited DSP controls & I/O. Most have limited or no microphone preamps and talkback.