Brooks Cinema Series 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.

Audio
Most often referring to electrical signals resulting from the sound pressure wave being converted into electrical energy.

Brooks TA 60 Impedance Matching
Having or converting the output impedance of a device so that it matches the impedance of the input it will feed.

Lift
1) To boost gain of audio at a particular band of frequencies with an equalizer.
2) An elevation device in the star trek series of TV programs.

Brooks Cinema NZ 60 Cascade
To set and interconnect two mixers so that the stereo mixing buss(es) of the first mixer feeds the stereo buss(es) of a second mixer.

Capacitance
The property of being able to oppose a change in voltage or store an electrical charge.

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

Ambience
The portion of the sound that comes from the surrounding environment rather than directly from the sound source.