Common Music/Live Sound Terms and Slang Flashcards
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1
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One-Spot
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2
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throne
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the soft little pivoting stool the drummers sit on
3
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basket
A
4
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wedge
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5
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“hot” (adj.)
A
6
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“wet” (adj.)
A
7
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“boxy” (adj.)
A
8
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“dry” (adj.)
A
9
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“dark” (adj.)
A
10
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“warm” (adj.)
A
11
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“bright” (adj.)
A
12
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“thin” (adj.)
A
13
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“tinny” (adj.)
A
14
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“crisp” (adj.)
A
15
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smile curve
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16
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“homerun” (adj.)
A
17
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ears
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in-ear monitors
18
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IEM
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19
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IFB
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20
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TB
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21
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the “head” of a cable
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22
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the “tail” of a cable
A
23
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cans
A
Headphones
24
Q
desk
A
Mixing console (common in the UK and with some oldheads)
25
Q
board
A
Mixing console
26
Q
mixer
A
Mixing console
27
Q
valve amp
A
tube amp (this is a UK/US thing)
28
Q
cycles per second
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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
29
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box
A
speaker
