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The Music

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by Matthew Herbert


  choke – valve to restrict air flow to a car engine

  circuit-bent drum machine – drum machine that’s been hacked or modified

  contact mic – microphone physically touching the thing it wishes to record

  crossfade – segue between two audio files

  delay – treatment of a sound that creates an artificial echo of the original

  digital distortion – corruption of a digital audio file

  downbeat – first beat of the bar

  DPA mic – manufacturer often associated with small microphones worn on TV or film sets

  EQ – short for equalisation, adjusting the tone of a sound

  frequency spectrum – see audio spectrum

  FX – synonym for special effects

  high-pass filter – filter that removes lower frequencies

  hydrophone – microphone for recording in fluids, usually water

  Hz – unit measurement for hertz, the unit measurement of frequencies

  kick drum – also known as bass drum, the largest drum in a drum set played with the foot, now associated with drum machines

  laid in – mixed within

  Lomo shotgun mic – Russian-made microphone, used to record from a distance

  loop (v.) – to repeat a section of music

  metal-plate reverb – made famous by German company, EMT, an effect that creates the impression of a room or space by passing sound through a metal plate

  mix value – control function to allow you to mix between untreated audio and the chosen effect

  omni microphone – microphone that can record in all directions at once

  overlay (v.) – to lay on top of

  pitch-shifter – change the pitch of a sound

  reverb – the effect of sound within a space

  reverb tail – end of the reverb part of a sound wave

  ribbon microphone – microphone that uses an electro-magnetic ribbon to capture sound

  room-simulation reverb – a technique to remotely simulate the sound of specific spaces

  semitone – the smallest interval in Western classical music

  shotgun microphone – microphone used to record from a distance

  sound image (page 65 stereo image, and other places) – the complete audible landscape of a recording

  sub rumble – cluster of particularly low frequencies

  tape delay – delay effect created with a tape loop

  transient (n.) – the peak of an audio wave, usually at the start

  vamp (n.) – musical phrase that loops indefinitely until the music or musicians are ready to move on to the next section

  volume ride – moving the fader to allow for amplitude changes

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