What is "talkback"

n. 1 A system in broadcasting and recording studios that enables the director to communicate with others during performance. 2 (context by extension English) Communication from members of the public to the makers of a broadcast transmission while it is happening.

Talkback or talk back may refer to:

• Talkback (album), a 1983 album by the Canadian band the Spoons
• Talkback (band), a pop music group signed to 2101 Records
• Talkback, an alternate name for Marvel Comics superhero Chase Stein
• Talkback (recording), an audio system used in recording studios for communications between the control room and the recording area
• TalkBack Reader Response System, TalkBack system for Internet reader response
• Talk radio, radio format
• Talkback, a British television production company which merged with Thames Television in 2003 before becoming independent again in 2012
• Talkback Thames, a company resulting from the merger of Talkback Productions and Thames Television, in existence from 2003 to 2012
• Google Talkback, an accessibility service on Android (operating system)

Talkback was the third album by the Burlington, Ontario-based band Spoons. The tracks that got airplay in Canada were "Old Emotions", "The Rhythm" and "Talk Back". A video was also produced for "Old Emotions", directed by Rob Quartly. This is the first Spoons album produced by Nile Rodgers.

The album was originally released only on vinyl and cassette, but this album was newly released on CD in Canada by Ready Records on , (RR039). The CD includes the Nile Rodgers produced Singles "Tell No Lies" and "Romantic Traffic", which were recorded after the initial release of the "Talkback" album.

Talkback is a British television production company that was established as an independent production company in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

In sound recording, talkback refers to the intercom system used in recording studios and production control rooms (PCR) in television studios to enable personnel to communicate with people in the recording area or booth. While the control room can hear the person in the booth over the studio microphones, the person in the booth hears the control room over a PA, monitor speaker, in their headphones or Interruptible feedback (IFB) earpiece. Take numbers, reference data, and sometimes count-ins or remarks are also "stamped" onto recordings through talkback, similar to a clapperboard.

The audio quality of talkback systems is usually markedly lower than that of studio microphones and speakers, coming from a simple microphone (which may be omnidirectional or unidirectional) built or plugged into the audio mixer, and with its sound often compressed. Since talkback is usually edited out of master recordings, high fidelity isn't essential, and studios tend to cut budget corners when possible. Compression allows comments from around the control room to be audible.

Occasionally instructions and comments from talkback systems do appear in studio recordings, notably in records by The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Spoon, and Bob Dylan. They frequently turn up in bootleg or "sessions" records.

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