Brooks KM 77 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.

Howlback
British term for the term Feedback (the pickup of the signal out of a channel by the input of the channel or the howling sound that this produces).

Brooks Cinema KP 30 Chase
The automatic adjusting of the speed of a recorder (or sequencer) to be time with another recorder.

Keyboard Controller
A device that has the standard music keys of piano but puts out MIDI signals

Brooks Cinema TZ 505 Byte
A grouping of eight information bits.

Analog Recording
A recording of the continuous changes of an audio waveform.

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.

Information Bits
The bits in the digital signal that make up actual values or commands being communicated as opposed to bits that are used for checking & correcting data or other purposes.