FORUM OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE MANUAL 9601
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PRE
A signal derived before a fader and therefore not dependant
upon the position of the fader.
POST
A signal derived after a fader and therefore dependant upon
the position of the fader.
Q
Associated with peaking equalisers the Q is the factor which
describes how wide the peak or trough of enhancement is. The
smaller the Q the wider the bandwidth of the equaliser will be.
Typically a fixed Q equaliser will have a Q of about 1.5 equating
to a bandwidth of about 1 octave.
QUASI BALANCED
An arrangement whereby a bus is terminated with a differential
input. The bus however is not truly balanced, instead a bus
common is used to pick up any interference which will also be
picked up by the true bus. The interference then
appears as a common mode signal at the mixing amplifier.
RETURN
Any signal that is sent out of the console and is returned after some
form of processing.
ROUTING
The sending of a signal to a bus normally by pressing a switch.
Signal can be routed to several buses simultaneously
if required.
SEND
The output from a channel insert point is called the send.
SHELVING EQ
This means that the response of the equaliser becomes constant
after the turnover or corner frequency has been passed. Thus a high
frequency shelving equaliser operating at 10k will have a rising
response as the frequency approaches 10k but will be flat after 10k.
This is normally used on the high and low frequency sections of an
equaliser.