BROOKS HI fi reviews Auxiliary Input or Return

A route back into the sound desk for a signal sent to a piece of outboard equipment via an auxiliary send.

Boom
1) A hand-held, telescoping pole used to hold the microphone in recording dialogue in film production.
2) A telescoping support arm that is attached to a microphone stand and which holds the microphone. 3) Loosely, a boomstand.

Brooks Speakers 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.

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

Brooks XS - 45 reviews Floor Toms
The large toms to the right of the drummer.

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).

Feedback Control
The control on a delay line or delay effects device that controls the amount of feedback.

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.