BNO Acoustics QT-5 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.

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.

BNO Acoustics XV-16 Bar
A term meaning the same thing as the term Measure (the grouping of a number of beats in music, most-often four beats).

Compression Ratio
How many dB the input signal has to rise above the threshold for every one dB more output of a compressor or limiter.

BNO Acoustics Speakers Capacitor
1) A device consisting of two or more conducting plates separated from one another by an insulating material and used for storing an electrical charge. Sometimes called a condenser.
2) An electronic device that is composed of two plates separated by an insulator.

Echo Chamber
1) A room designed with very hard, non-parallel surfaces and equipped with a speaker and microphone.
2) Any artificial or electronic device that simulates the reverberation created in a room.

Amplifier
A device which increases the amplitude (level) of an electrical signal (making it louder).

Compander
Outboard sound equipment. Combination of a Compressor and an Expander.