Common Music/Live Sound Terms and Slang

Question 1

One-Spot

Question 2

throne

Answer 2

the soft little pivoting stool the drummers sit on

Question 3

basket

Question 4

wedge

Question 5

“hot” (adj.)

Question 6

“wet” (adj.)

Question 7

“boxy” (adj.)

Question 8

“dry” (adj.)

Question 9

“dark” (adj.)

Question 10

“warm” (adj.)

Question 11

“bright” (adj.)

Question 12

“thin” (adj.)

Question 13

“tinny” (adj.)

Question 14

“crisp” (adj.)

Question 15

smile curve

Question 16

“homerun” (adj.)

Question 17

ears

Answer 17

in-ear monitors

Question 18

IEM

Question 19

IFB

Question 20

TB

Question 21

the “head” of a cable

Question 22

the “tail” of a cable

Question 23

cans

Answer 23

Headphones

Question 24

desk

Answer 24

Mixing console (common in the UK and with some oldheads)

Question 25

board

Answer 25

Mixing console

Question 26

mixer

Answer 26

Mixing console

Question 27

valve amp

Answer 27

tube amp (this is a UK/US thing)

Question 28

cycles per second

Answer 28

Hertz. If you learned how to be a sound engineer from a 1970s textbook you might still call it cycles per second idk. And yes Lydia had a story about this

Question 29

box

Answer 29

speaker