Thursday, March 24, 2011

Audio Terminology For The New Church Sound Guy

A Post from Behind the Mixer that will be useful for new Church Sound Guys.

Chris Huff Writes :

Audio Terminology For The New Church Sound Guy

"The [audio] info I read or hear is too geeked out for me to understand," wrote a commenter on another audio web site.  The longer any of us work in this field, the more we sling around the technical words as easily as rubber bands.  With that in mind, I pulled together a short list of the more commonplace terms that many of us use.
In no particular order, though with a slightly major bias towards an alphabetical listing...

Auxiliary (Commonly used phrases: "aux sends" and "aux returns")
Auxiliary is simply the idea of "in addition to."  Therefore, a piece of auxiliary equipment is not a primary piece of equipment like a mixer or an amp but is instead something like a reverb unit or a compressor.  The phrases "aux send" and "aux return" are usually used in reference to the audio signal of a particular channel.

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