mixing console

audio technology
Also known as: mixer, mixing desk

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use in stagecraft and design

  • interior of a Kabuki theater
    In stagecraft: Technological innovations of the 20th century

    Through the use of a playback mixing console (also called a mixer or a mixing desk), the sound operator could direct the sound for a particular cue to its appropriate location at a specific loudness level. It therefore became possible for one operator to run all of the sound cues…

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