Brooks QS-70 AES/EBU

Professional Interface A standard for sending and receiving digital audio adopted by the Audio Engineering Society and the European Broadcast Union.

Distortion
Usually undesirable result of overloading sound equipment. Reducing the levels can remedy the situation.

Brooks GT 845 Group
1) A number of channels or faders that can be controlled by one Master VCA slide.
2) A shortening of the term Recording Group (a buss or the signal present on a buss).

In Port
A jack on a MIDI device or computer that will accept an incoming data signal.

Brooks Cinema TX 509 Isolation
A containing of the sound wave in a certain area so that it will not leak into other areas and/or unintended mics.

Horn
1) The part of the speaker that emits midrange and higher range frequencies.
2) A speaker or speaker enclosure where sound waves are put into a narrow opening (by a speaker cone or driver) and the narrow opening flairs out to a larger opening.

Ambient Field
A term with the same meaning as the term Reverberant Field (the area away from the sound source where the reverberation is louder than the direct sound).

Foldback
A European term for the signal sent to the stage monitors in a live performance.