Signal Flow & System Architecture

Reading a room full of equipment you did not install

Every technician eventually walks into a room full of equipment they did not install, is handed a problem nobody can explain, and has twenty minutes before doors. The ones who cope are not the ones who know the most equipment. They are the ones who can look at a rack, a stage box and a tangle of cable and see where the signal starts, where it is supposed to go, and every place it passes through on the way.

Inside: Before You Begin - The Source-Destination Model - What Travels Down the Wire - Tracing a Signal - Level Through the Chain - Conversion, Extension and Handshakes - System Architecture - Signals on a Network - Signal Flow Across Disciplines - Drawing and Reading a System - Troubleshooting & Thinking in Flow - Glossary.