Glossary

EFP Electronic Field Production

ENG Electronic News Gathering

Half-cardioid a microphone with only half a cardioid polar pattern.

Integration time the duration of a tone-burst of 5 kHz sinusoidal voltage with a continuous amplitude of +9 dBu, which results in an indication of +7 dBu - which is 78% of peak value.

Supercardioid-lobar a microphone polar pattern that has supercardiod characteristics below a chosen frequency (typically 1 kHz) but lobar characteristics above this frequency.

Surround sound recording an alternative term for ambiosonic recording - a system of sound recording in three-dimensions.

Word Clock is a timing reference for digital audio devices; it supplies common timing to multiple devices so that they can be synchronized with one another. Word clock is a time base reference only, providing a measurement of the passage of time and the speed at which samples should go by. Word clock carries no address or timecode information; therefore word clock by itself is not enough to sync two devices. Some devices that use word clock include digital mixers, stand-alone hard disk recorders, computer-based digital audio workstations and computer audio cards. When doing digital transfers between two different digital devices, some devices require word clock to be sent from one to the other. Two digital audio devices, such as a 2408 and a digital mixer must be connected via word clock cables to be synchronized to the same rate of digital audio, for playback to be consistent. The combination of SMPTE (address) and word clock (rate) is a complete sync scenario. (Motu website)