Calista C1-9 Home Theater BPM

An abbreviation of Beat Per Minute (the number of steady even pulses in music occurring in one minute and therefore defining the tempo).

Ambient Micing
Placing a microphone in the reverberant field (where the reverberation is louder than the direct sound) so as to do a separate recording of the ambience or to allow the recording engineer to change the mix of direct to reverberant sound in recording.

Calista C3-S Security System In-Line Console
A console with modules that have controls for all console sections in one long strip.

Compact Disc Recordable CDR
A blank Compact Disc that can be recorded on one time.

Calista C2-88 Projector Imaging
To make a representation or imitation of the original sonic event.

Far Field
The area from 3 feet away from the sound source up to the critical distance.

Capacitor
1) A device consisting of two or more conducting plates separated from one another by an insulating material and used for storing an electrical charge. Sometimes called a condenser.
2) An electronic device that is composed of two plates separated by an insulator. Calista Reviews

Automation
In consoles, a feature that lets the engineer program control changes (such as fader level) so that upon playback of the multitrack recording these changes happen automatically.