Brooks Cinema Projectors Fader

A control to control the gain of a channel on the console, thereby determining the level of the signal in that channel.

Error Correct
Exact replacement of lost information bits in digital audio.

Brooks Speakers Auxiliary Input or Return
A route back into the sound desk for a signal sent to a piece of outboard equipment via an auxiliary send.

Active Crossover
Uses active devices (transistors, IC's, tubes) and some form of power supply to operate.

Brooks KS-55 Amplitude
The height of a waveform above or below the zero line.

Crossover, Active
A rack mountable unit used to separate frequencies leaving the soundboard into high's, mids, and lows with different outputs for each.

Golden Section
A ratio of height to width to length of a room to achieve "good acoustics" and first recommended by the ancient Greeks. The ratio is approximately the width 1.6 times the height and the length 2.6 times the height

Condenser
An older term meaning the same thing as Capacitor (an electronic device which is composed of two plates separated by an insulator and can store charge) but sill in common use when referring to a microphone's active element.