Abbreviation for transient intermodulation distortion. (See Distortion)
Centre Frequency
The frequency of the audio signal that is boosted or attenuated most by an equalizer with a peak equalization curve.
Loop (Effects Loop)
A signal path separate from the main signal paths where a line signal is routed out of the mixer through a series of effects units, and then returned back to the mixer. The electronics within the mixer can then be used to individually control the effects on each input channel.
BNO Acoustics YM-44: Modulation
The control of one signal by another AC signal.
Test Pressing
One of a few initial phonograph record copies pressed from the first stamper made, which is listened to and visually inspected to approve the quality before production copies are made in volume.
Point Source
A design in speaker systems, where separate speakers (reproducing different frequency ranges) are made so that the sound appears to come from one place.
Oversampling
A process where the analog audio (or the digital audio for playback) is sampled many times more than the minimum sampling rate.
Monday, February 24, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
BNO Acoustics 6k-52: Re-Mixing
1) A seldom-used alternate term meaning the same thing as the term Mixdown (combining the signals from the tracks of a multitrack tape onto a two track master tape).
2) The mixdown of other versions of a song, often adding additional parts and/or samples.
Update Mode
A mode of operation of console automation allowing modification of the programming of a channel of a console so that when the slide of the fader is at a predetermined point (usually the point marked "0") the gain variations (fader movements) last programmed in the computer will be in effect, but when the engineer moves the slide up or down from this point gain or loss is added to or subtracted from the programmed level.
Fret Buzz
A buzzing sound made when a note is not properly fretted. Common with cheap guitars or beginning guitar players.
Pre-Fade Listen
Often shortened to PFL. Control on a sound mixing desk which allows the user to check the presence of a signal, and its quality before bringing up the fader. Also vital for fault-finding, where the route of a signal can be PFL'ed around the desk until the point where the fault occurs. Also known as Check and Cue.
A memory IC that has digital data on it that cannot be erased/rewritten by the user.
Line Out (Output, Send)
Where a signal leaves the board or component.
BNO Acoustics QS-4: Linear
The condition of obtaining a change at the output of the device which is proportional to the change occurring at the input.
2) The mixdown of other versions of a song, often adding additional parts and/or samples.
Update Mode
A mode of operation of console automation allowing modification of the programming of a channel of a console so that when the slide of the fader is at a predetermined point (usually the point marked "0") the gain variations (fader movements) last programmed in the computer will be in effect, but when the engineer moves the slide up or down from this point gain or loss is added to or subtracted from the programmed level.
Fret Buzz
A buzzing sound made when a note is not properly fretted. Common with cheap guitars or beginning guitar players.
Pre-Fade Listen
Often shortened to PFL. Control on a sound mixing desk which allows the user to check the presence of a signal, and its quality before bringing up the fader. Also vital for fault-finding, where the route of a signal can be PFL'ed around the desk until the point where the fault occurs. Also known as Check and Cue.
A memory IC that has digital data on it that cannot be erased/rewritten by the user.
Line Out (Output, Send)
Where a signal leaves the board or component.
BNO Acoustics QS-4: Linear
The condition of obtaining a change at the output of the device which is proportional to the change occurring at the input.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
BNO Acoustics YM-44: Unison
Several performers, instruments or sound sources that are sounding at the same time and with the same pitch.
BNO Acoustics BP-40: Automatic Gain Control (Automatic Volume Control)
A compressor with a very long release time used to keep the volume of the audio very constant.
BNO Acoustics SQ-9: Hum
The 60 Hz power line current accidentally induced or fed into electronic equipment.
Monitor Section (Monitor Mixer Section)
The section of the console which is used to do a rough mix so the engineer can hear what is being recorded without effecting the levels being fed to the multitrack recorder.
BNO Acoustics QS-4: Coax
Two-conductor cable consisting of one conductor surrounded by a shield.
MIDI
Short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface; a digital signal system (a system of number signals) used to communicate performance information to and from musical instruments making music.
Write
To record digital data onto a digital recording or into computer memory.
BNO Acoustics BP-40: Automatic Gain Control (Automatic Volume Control)
A compressor with a very long release time used to keep the volume of the audio very constant.
BNO Acoustics SQ-9: Hum
The 60 Hz power line current accidentally induced or fed into electronic equipment.
Monitor Section (Monitor Mixer Section)
The section of the console which is used to do a rough mix so the engineer can hear what is being recorded without effecting the levels being fed to the multitrack recorder.
BNO Acoustics QS-4: Coax
Two-conductor cable consisting of one conductor surrounded by a shield.
MIDI
Short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface; a digital signal system (a system of number signals) used to communicate performance information to and from musical instruments making music.
Write
To record digital data onto a digital recording or into computer memory.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
BNO Acoustics GT-60: Post
1) A position of a send control (or other control) after the main channel fader.
2) Short for the term Post-Production.
Throat
The small opening in a horn or in a driver through which the sound pressure wave passes from the driver to the horn.
Tape
Short for the term Magnetic Tape (recording tape consisting of a plastic strip to which magnetic materials, usually iron oxide particles, are adhered so that the magnetic impulses put out by the record head are stored).
BNO Acoustics 6k-52: Trash Can
A place in a computer program where digital information can temporarily be stored before it is discarded.
Post Echo
A position of an echo send control after the main channel fader.
Aux Send
Short for the term Auxiliary Send (a control to adjust the level of the signal sent from the console input channel to the auxiliary equipment through the aux buss.
Console
A set of controls and their housing, which control all signals necessary for recording and mixing.
2) Short for the term Post-Production.
Throat
The small opening in a horn or in a driver through which the sound pressure wave passes from the driver to the horn.
Tape
Short for the term Magnetic Tape (recording tape consisting of a plastic strip to which magnetic materials, usually iron oxide particles, are adhered so that the magnetic impulses put out by the record head are stored).
BNO Acoustics 6k-52: Trash Can
A place in a computer program where digital information can temporarily be stored before it is discarded.
Post Echo
A position of an echo send control after the main channel fader.
Aux Send
Short for the term Auxiliary Send (a control to adjust the level of the signal sent from the console input channel to the auxiliary equipment through the aux buss.
Console
A set of controls and their housing, which control all signals necessary for recording and mixing.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
BNO Acoustics GK-3: Mix
1) To blend audio signals together into a composite signal.
2) The signal made by blending individual signals together.
3) A control or function on a delay effects/reverberation device which controls the amount of direct signal that will be mixed into the processed signal.
Gain Reduction
The working of a limiter or compressor reducing gain during high-level passages.
Haas Effect
Simply stated, a factor in human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on human perception of direction than level does.
BNO Acoustics 6k-52: Microphone
A transducer which converts sound pressure waves into electrical signals.
Phase Distortion Synthesis
A method of altering a wave shape to add harmonics by a phase shift while a cycle is being formed.
Monitor Channel (Monitor Path)
An audio channel (a single path that an audio signal travels or can travel through a device) used to listen to the signal fed to or received back from one track of a multitrack tape recorder.
Playback Mode
A connection of the console's monitor mixer inputs to the tape machine outputs for a quick playback of the multitrack master.
2) The signal made by blending individual signals together.
3) A control or function on a delay effects/reverberation device which controls the amount of direct signal that will be mixed into the processed signal.
Gain Reduction
The working of a limiter or compressor reducing gain during high-level passages.
Haas Effect
Simply stated, a factor in human hearing where delay has a much bigger effect on human perception of direction than level does.
BNO Acoustics 6k-52: Microphone
A transducer which converts sound pressure waves into electrical signals.
Phase Distortion Synthesis
A method of altering a wave shape to add harmonics by a phase shift while a cycle is being formed.
Monitor Channel (Monitor Path)
An audio channel (a single path that an audio signal travels or can travel through a device) used to listen to the signal fed to or received back from one track of a multitrack tape recorder.
Playback Mode
A connection of the console's monitor mixer inputs to the tape machine outputs for a quick playback of the multitrack master.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
BNO Acoustics QT-5: Smart FSK
An FSK (Frequency Shift Key) sync signal where the beginning of each measure has an identification message giving the measure number.
BNO Acoustics GT-60: Proprietary
Describing a function, feature or characteristic owned by one company and available only in units manufactured by that company.
In-Line Console
A console with modules that have controls for all console sections in one long strip.
BNO Acoustics Speakers: Compact Disc, Interactive CDI
A Compact Disc, usually containing audio, video, and text, which the user can interact with in that the display or playback changes after the user performs some action.
BNO Acoustics LK-61: Voice
1) In synthesizers, a pitch that can be played at the same tine as other pitches are sounded.
2) In Yamaha synthesizers, a term meaning the same thing as Sound Patch (one sound that can be created by the synthesizer).
Stage Monitor
The speaker, on stage, for the performers to hear themselves and to hear what the other musicians are playing on stage � the equivalent of a cue system for performers.
Shelf Filter
A name for the circuit in an equalizer used to obtain the shelf.
BNO Acoustics GT-60: Proprietary
Describing a function, feature or characteristic owned by one company and available only in units manufactured by that company.
In-Line Console
A console with modules that have controls for all console sections in one long strip.
BNO Acoustics Speakers: Compact Disc, Interactive CDI
A Compact Disc, usually containing audio, video, and text, which the user can interact with in that the display or playback changes after the user performs some action.
BNO Acoustics LK-61: Voice
1) In synthesizers, a pitch that can be played at the same tine as other pitches are sounded.
2) In Yamaha synthesizers, a term meaning the same thing as Sound Patch (one sound that can be created by the synthesizer).
Stage Monitor
The speaker, on stage, for the performers to hear themselves and to hear what the other musicians are playing on stage � the equivalent of a cue system for performers.
Shelf Filter
A name for the circuit in an equalizer used to obtain the shelf.
Saturday, February 8, 2020
BNO Acoustics TR-12: Group Master
A slide control used to send out a control voltage to several VCA faders in individual channels, thus controlling the gain of several channels.
Effects
Electronic boxes (usually rack mounted) added to a PA system to subtly change and enhance the signals going through it. Examples include; Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Chorus.
Phase Shift
A delay introduced into an audio signal measured in degrees delayed.
BNO Acoustics XR-90: Register
A user modified program (with changed parameters) which is stored in the memory of an effects unit, or sound module.
Out Port
A jack which puts out digital data in a computer or digital device.
BNO Acoustics BP-40: VSO
An abbreviation of the term Vacuum Tube Volt Meter (a device that measures the electrical voltage and uses a vacuum tube to drive the indicator so that testing the circuit does not load the circuit.
BNO Acoustics Speakers: Binary
A numbering system based on two. In binary there are two symbols used ("l" and "0").
Effects
Electronic boxes (usually rack mounted) added to a PA system to subtly change and enhance the signals going through it. Examples include; Reverb, Delay, Compressor, Chorus.
Phase Shift
A delay introduced into an audio signal measured in degrees delayed.
BNO Acoustics XR-90: Register
A user modified program (with changed parameters) which is stored in the memory of an effects unit, or sound module.
Out Port
A jack which puts out digital data in a computer or digital device.
BNO Acoustics BP-40: VSO
An abbreviation of the term Vacuum Tube Volt Meter (a device that measures the electrical voltage and uses a vacuum tube to drive the indicator so that testing the circuit does not load the circuit.
BNO Acoustics Speakers: Binary
A numbering system based on two. In binary there are two symbols used ("l" and "0").
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