20 Questions Quiz, 17-20 Below
17. When using a cue wedge to chase away the production manager and drum roadie, which mix or channel do you turn up?
A. Drum mix.
B. Bottom snare
C. Lead guitar
D. Lead singer’s girlfriend singing backgrounds
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18. In recording situations, why are monitor engineers so touchy about getting the first (head) split?
A. It can be disconcerting when the idiots in the recording truck hit phantom power with the lead vocal at 147 dB in the sides
B. It can be disconcerting when the idiots at FOH hit phantom power with the lead vocal at 147 dB in the house and sides
C. Because we don’t trust the maintenance on the second and third dumps from the splitter – the recording jamoches are taking first split every night, so it’s a good idea to grab it from them whenever possible
D. Because it ticks off the no-talent lamebrains in the recording truck
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19. Why did everyone use that one particular brand of 1/3-octave equalizer in monitor world for several years?
A. The name sounded high-tech
B. The huge overlap, band to band, in the filter set allowed radical cuts while maintaining adequate musicality
C. Because we loved the plus 6 dB we could get out of that cute little blue line driver knob, with no noise
D. Because you could hammer the heck out of the thing and it would never crack up – the red light meant nothing
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20. Is monitor mixing a science, an art form, or a profession?
A. Yes
B. Yes
C. Yes
D. All of the above
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