Brooks RM 80 Echo Send Control

A control to send the signal from the input module to the echo chamber or effects device via the echo buss.

Chip
1) A slang term with the same meaning as the term IC (a miniature circuit of many components that is in small, sealed housing with prongs to connect it into equipment).
2) The thread cut away from the master lacquer to make the groove, while disc recording.

Brooks XB 33 Electric Current
A more formal term meaning the same as the term Current (the amount of electron charge passing a point in a conductor per unit of time).

Ground Lift
A switch that breaks the connection between the ground point in one circuit and the ground point in another circuit.

Brooks Cinema NZ 60 Grouping
1) Controlling the gain of several individual channels with a Group Fader.
2) The mixing together of several individual audio signals to send a mixed signal out of the console to record a track on a multitrack tape machine.

Bar
A term meaning the same thing as the term Measure (the grouping of a number of beats in music, most-often four beats).

Clipping
Distortion of a signal by its being chopped off. An overload problem caused by pushing an amplifier beyond its capabilities. The flat-topped signal has high levels of harmonic distortion which creates heat in a loudspeaker and is the major cause of loudspeaker component failure.

Gate
A dynamic processing device that turns a channel off or down when the signal drops below a certain level.