BROOKS HI fi reviews Line Input

An input designed to take a line level signal.

Critical Distance
The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume.

Brooks GT 845 reviews Acoustic Echo Chamber
A room designed with very hard, non-parallel surfaces and equipped with a speaker and microphone; dry signals from the console are fed to the speaker and the microphone will have a reverberation of these signals that can be mixed in with the dry signals at the console.

Images
The squaring of the waveform that happens in the conversion of digital audio bits into analog signals.

Brooks Cinema XB 33 reviews Crossover, Passive
Used inside of full range speaker cabinets to separate highs, mids, and lows and send them to their respective speakers within the each cabinet. These are not as efficient as active crossovers because they require all frequencies to draw from the same source of amplification.

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

Fader
A control to control the gain of a channel on the console, thereby determining the level of the signal in that channel.

Close Micing
A technique of placing a microphone close to the sound source (within one foot) in order to pick up mainly the direct sound and to avoid picking up leakage or ambience.