Brooks Cinema TZ 505 Linear

The condition of obtaining a change at the output of the device which is proportional to the change occurring at the input.

Assistant Engineer
A less elevated version of the term Second Engineer. Experienced seconds often place microphones, operate tape machines, break down equipment at the session end and keep the paperwork for the session.

Brooks GS 15 Filter
1) A device that removes signals with frequencies above or below a certain point called the cut-off frequency.
2) An equalizer section, used in this sense because filters are used with other components to give an equalizer its frequency response characteristics.
3) The action of removing signals of some frequencies and leaving the rest.
4) A mechanical device to smooth out speed variations in tape machines called a Scrape Flutter Filter- more usually called a Scrape Flutter Idler

Beat
1) The steady even pulse in music.
2) The action of two sounds or audio signals mixing together and causing regular rises &.falls in volume.

Brooks M 44 Coincident Microphones (Coincident Pair)
Two microphones whose heads are placed as lose as possible to each other so that the path length from any sound source to either microphone is for all practical purposes, the same.

Level
The amount of signal strength; the amplitude, especially the average amplitude.

Error Message
A prompt on a computer screen telling the operator that an error has occurred.

Amplitude
The extreme range of a signal. Usually measured from the average to the extreme.