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_``Was that rifle shot supposed to sound like a bazooka?''_- Dan Afonso, WPI technical theatre personality, commenting on one of the author's sound effects for a production.

**Figure 6.1:**The audio equipment used to produce the sound for the 1995 WPI Masque production of Shakespeare's King Henry V. A 32-channel mixing board, a multi-track cassette deck, a computer-automated mixer/matrix, a digital sampler, and outboard effects gear were among the many pieces of equipment used for the production. Most of the audio cues were automated using a custom computer software and hardware solution designed in part by the author.

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Subsections * Introduction * Input
* Microphones
* Converting Sound to Electricity
* Directionality
* Analog Tape
* Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
* Compact Disc (CD)
* Mini-Disc (MD)
* Digital Samplers
* Computer Sound Cards * Mixing Boards * Signal Processing Equipment
* Equalizers
* Compressors and Limiters
* Noise Gates
* Effects Processors * Output
* Power Amplifiers
* Speakers
* Crossovers * Cabling and Connectors
* Line-Level
* Speaker-Level * Automation * Design
* Creating and Obtaining Effects
* Editing and Processing Effects
* Designing the Sound System
* The Input Section
* Signal Processing
* The Output Section * A Typical Audio Setup at WPI

Steve Richardson 2000-07-06

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