| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Actuality | Sound bite, Quote from a professional or someone being Interviewed. |
| Adapter | Device that makes something adapt to something else. |
| Adobe Audition | Non-Linear audio editing software |
| Audio | electrical signals resulting from sound pressure waves being converted into electrical energy. |
| Balanced | A method of interconnecting recorders, amplifiers and other electronic gear using three-conductor cable. |
| Clip | A small piece of audio or video. Causing audio to distort. |
| Control Room | A room that controls what goes on in other rooms. |
| Cue | Telling talent to start |
| Cut | A small piece of audio or video. Telling the talent to stop |
| Dead Air | No audio (or video) going out through the transmitter. |
| Dub | Recording audio or video signals from one source to create a copy recording; making a copy. |
| Destructive Editing | Editing (such as cutting and pasting, or effects processing) that changes the original audio data. |
| Edit | Putting information together in a coherent manner either in audio or video. |
| Edit Bay | A room normally in a controlled environment where editing takes place. |
| Fader | A control which varies the gain of a channel on the console, thereby determining the level of the signal in that channel. |
| In the red | Over-modulating the inputs on an audio device. |
| Intro | The beginning of a story. |
| Level | The amount of signal strength going through a piece of audio equipment. |
| Line in/out | Specific inputs and outputs designed only to take or put out Line Level Audio (machine to machine). |
| Loose | Overly long pauses between edits. |
| Master Fader | The fader which controls the main output(s) of the Console. |
| Mic Level | The very low audio voltage level that comes out of a studio microphone. |
| Microphone | A transducer which converts sound pressure waves into electrical signals. |
| Mic. Input | An input on an audio device designed only to take the output from a microphone. |
| Monitor | In audio, to listen, Another name for a studio speaker |
| Mini-Disc Recorder | A digital record/playback system developed by Sony using a small silver disc. |
| Mixer Board/ Mixer | A device that mixes a different number of audio sources into one audio signal. |
| Mp3 | An audio format for computers that compresses audio (making the files smaller). |
| Nat. Sound | The natural sound that the microphone picks up, surrounding an event. |
| Noise | Any unwanted sound other than the signal. Examples include tape hiss, electronic noise generated by amplifier circuits, earth loop induced hum, and random hums, hiss and spurious electronic clicks and pops (e.g. from static electricity on vinyl records). |
| Nondestructive editing | don't alter a sound file or disk in any way. |
| Normalize | To leave the controls on audio equipment in a normal position. |
| On-Air | Audio or video that is going to the transmitter. |
| Out-Cue | The last part of a sentence that cues the other talent that you are done. |
| Over-Modulation | Overloading the inputs or outputs of audio devices, normally caused by volumes being to loud. |
| Pan | On a stereo console, the ability to assign a input channel to either the left, right or both output channels. |
| Phoner | Slang for a telephone interview. |
| Playback | Listening to the audio you just recorded. |
| Pots | Short for potentiometer. The device used to provide volume level setting. (Volume Control) |
| Production | Creating audio or video projects. |
| Promo | Short for promotional. |
| Proximity Effect | In directional microphones, the boost in the microphone's output for bass frequencies as the mic is moved closer to the sound source. |
| Sampling Rate | Number of samples or snapshots taken of a particular signal in a given amount of time (usually one second). |
| Script | The text of your package which you read from. |
| Segue | A transition from one story or subject to another. |
| Source | The originating point of an audio signal. In journalism the originating point of information. |
| Speaker | A device that changes electrical signals to sound which can be heard. A transducer changing the electrical audio signal into a sound pressure wave. |
| Trim Control | A device that reduces the signal strength on a console. This device is normally pre-fader and found at the top of the console. |
| Tease | Promoting an upcoming news story or event by giving the audience a little "taste" of what they are going to hear or see. |
| Telephone Interface | A device to interface an audio console with a telephone system. |
| Tight | Very short spaces between edit points. |
| Unbalanced | A method of interconnecting recorders, amplifiers and other electronic gear using two-conductor cable. |
| Volume | A common, non-technical term meaning Sound Pressure Level. |
| V. U. Meter | A device for monitoring the level of audio |
| Wave file/ .wav | A specific type of audio format developed by Microsoft for computers. |
| Wave Form | A visual representation of an audio signal. |
| Wraps | The summery of the story you just told, or the completing of a project. |
| XLR Connector | A common 3-pin connector used in balanced audio connections. |
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