Brooks RM 80 Crossover, Active

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

Instrument Out Direct
Feeding the output of an electric instrument (like an electric guitar) to the recording console or tape recorder without using a microphone.

Brooks Cinema Series Hum
The 60 Hz power line current accidentally induced or fed into electronic equipment.

Figure Eight Pattern
Another name for Bi-directional Pattern (microphone pickup pattern picking up best from the front and back of the diaphragm and not picking up from the side of the diaphragm).

Brooks XB 33 Binary
A numbering system based on two. In binary there are two symbols used ("l" and "0").

Frequency Range
The range of frequencies over which an electronic device is useful or over which a sound source will put out substantial energy.

Automation
In consoles, a feature that lets the engineer program control changes (such as fader level) so that upon playback of the multitrack recording these changes happen automatically.

Editing
1) Changing the sequence of a recording by cutting the recording tape and putting the pieces together in the new sequence with splicing tape.
2) Punching in and then punching out on one or more tracks of a multitrack tape recorder to replace previously recorded performances.
3) Changing the sequence of a digital recording's playback by computer program.