BNO Acoustics XR-90 Impedance Matching

Having or converting the output impedance of a device so that it matches the impedance of the input it will feed.

Head Amp
British name for Preamplifier (A low-noise amplifier designed to take a low-level signal, such as the output of a tape head, and bring it up to normal line level).

BNO Acoustics LK-61 Clock Signal
The signal put out by a circuit that generates steady even pulses or steady codes used for synchronization.

Auxiliary Equipment
Effects devices separate from but working with the recording console.

BNO Acoustics TS-10 Hi-Z
An abbreviation of the term High Impedance (Impedance of 5000 or more ohms).

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

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.

Infinite Repeat
A function on some delay lines that establish enough feedback so that the repeat echo will last forever, but not so much as to cause a howling sound.