Brooks TM-22 Half Step

A pitch difference of the amount that is present between adjacent keys on a piano.

Capacitance
The property of being able to oppose a change in voltage or store an electrical charge.

Brooks Cinema QS - 95 Compact Disc, Read Only Memory CDROM
A Compact Disc used to store digital data, such as large programs, that can be read by a computer.

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

Brooks SS 81 Ambience
The portion of the sound that comes from the surrounding environment rather than directly from the sound source.

Input Overload
Sending too high of a signal level into a device so that the first amplifier of the device overloads.

Cut
1) One selection (one song) on a pre4ecorded music format.
2) A term with the same meaning as Mute (to turn off a channel or a signal).
3) To reduce gain of a particular band of frequencies (with an equalizer).
4) To not pass a particular band of frequencies (said of a filter)

Condenser Microphone
A microphone which converts sound pressure changes into changes of capacitance. The capacitance changes are then converted into electrical voltage variations (an audio signal).