SOUND REINFORCEMENT IS used to amplify the sound you hear from a stage whenever it isn’t loud enough all on its own. Usually that means the singers and orchestra for a musical, but increasingly it is used for a straight play as well. The process is somewhat complex since the acoustical sounds of the various actors and orchestral instruments must be transformed into electrical impulses, transmitted to a central location, mixed, processed, amplified, and transmitted to a set of speakers that in turn transform the electronic signal back into acoustical sound. That’s only possible because of a system of electronic devices that work together in concert to make it all happen. When sound impulses are converted to electrical ...
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