Brooks TA 60 Clip

The action of deforming a waveform during overload.

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 Cinema TZ 505 Intermodulation Distortion
Distortion caused by one signal beating with another signal and producing frequencies that are both the sum and the difference of the original frequencies.

Hall
A large building designed for concerts; also called a concert hall.

Brooks TM-22 Central Processing Unit
1) The main "brain" chip of a computer that performs the calculations and execution of instructions.
2) The main housing of a computer that contains the "brain" chip as opposed to other pieces of the computer system such as keyboards, monitors, etc.

Humbucker
Pickups that are coupled together to get a certain sound.

Crisp
Describes a good clean high midrange sound. It can be good or bad depending on the look on the face of the guy who said it.

Front Loaded
A speaker cabinet where the speaker faces out toward the front.