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Glossary Listing for E
Definitive Stage Lighting Database

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     Please browse our definitions glossary of Lighting, Audio & Production terms starting with E. It is constantly being expanded every day. If you would like to add a term to the glossary please send us an email as info@solarisnetwork.com

 

Editing Suites
An editing suite is one or more high performance servers used for all kinds of graphics manipulation from picture quality improvements, color correction and format conversion to higher or lower resolutions or different aspect ratios. Servers and storage systems as well as computing intensive image processing are at the heart of editing suite applications.     more...
    
Effects
Lighting Effects are devices that are generally used to enhance other lighting or staging devices, like foggers, lasers or pyrotechnics and can also have and effect on setting the mood during a performance like color changers.      more...
    
Ellipsoidal
Ellipsoidal is the name for a type of theatrical light, getting the name from the ellipsoidal reflector used to intensify the light of a back-loading lamp through the barrel and lens. Ellipsoidals are used for their strong, well-defined light and their versatility. Characteristics of an ellipsoidal lighting unit include: * An adjustable barrel, allowing a      more...
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Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight
ERS is an acronym standing for Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight. These are sometimes known by their brand names, especially Leko, short for Lekolite, the name given to them by their inventors, Joseph Levy and Edward Kook. ETC's Source Four has become a very popular ERS throughout the industry, and some people use the term Source Four to refer to spotlights in     more...
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Enhancers
Enhancers are outboard audio effects used to improve the clarity of the sound.     more...
    
Entire Stages
An entire stage is a complete stage that generally include platforms, stairs and sometimes roofing, ranging in size from small easy to transport stages to large staging systems.     more...
    
EQ
Equalization, or EQ, applies to any hardware or outboard effect used for the process of changing, increasing or decreasing the level or volume of a certain frequency in a sound to bring that frequencies volume in line with the other sounds. It is used in live events and audio recording in film, music, TV and radio.      more...
    
Ethernet
Ethernet (this name comes from the physical concept of ether) is a frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks (LANs). It defines wiring and signaling for the physical layer, and frame formats and protocols for the media access control (MAC)/data link layer of the OSI model. Ethernet is mostly standardized as IEEEs 802.3. It has become     more...