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Acoustic music
Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.
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Acoustic space
Acoustic space is an acoustic environment in which sound can be heard by an observer.
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Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
"Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love" is a song by American rock band Van Halen from their 1978 debut album, Van Halen.
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Algorithm
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an unambiguous specification of how to solve a class of problems.
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Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who then recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne Staley.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.
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Ampeg SVT
The Ampeg SVT is a bass guitar amplifier made by Ampeg.
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Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
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Amplitude
The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change over a single period (such as time or spatial period).
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Analog signal
An analog signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature (variable) of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal.
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Analogue electronics
Analogue electronics (also spelled analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels.
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Attenuation
In physics, attenuation or, in some contexts, extinction is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium.
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Audio engineer
An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.
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Audio Engineering Society
Established in 1948, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) draws its membership from engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry.
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Audio feedback
Audio feedback (also known as acoustic feedback, simply as feedback, or the Larsen effect) is a special kind of positive loop gain which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input (for example, a microphone or guitar pickup) and an audio output (for example, a power amplified loudspeaker).
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Audio signal
An audio signal is a representation of sound, typically as an electrical voltage for analog signals and a binary number for digital signals.
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Audio signal processing
Audio signal processing or audio processing is the intentional alteration of audio signals often through an audio effect or effects unit.
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Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune is an audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances.
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Auto-wah
Auto-wah (also known as a "Q-wah", "T-wah", "envelope following filter", "envelope follower" or "envelope filter") is a type of wah-wah effects pedal typically used with electric guitar, bass guitar, clavinet, and electric piano etc.
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Aux-send
An aux-send (auxiliary send) is an electronic signal-routing output used on multi-channel sound mixing consoles used in recording and broadcasting settings and on PA system amplifier-mixers used in music concerts.
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Barracuda (song)
"Barracuda" is a song by the American rock band Heart.
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Bass amplifier
A bass amplifier or "bass amp" is a musical instrument electronic device that uses electrical power to make lower-pitched instruments such as the bass guitar or double bass loud enough to be heard by the performers and audience.
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Bass chorus
A Bass chorus is an electronic effect used with the electric bass.
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Bass effects
Bass effects are electronic effects units that are designed for use with an electric bass and a bass amplifier, or for an upright bass and a bass amp or PA system.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Bassline
A bassline (also known as a bass line or bass part) is the term used in many styles of music, such as jazz, blues, funk, dub and electronic, traditional music, or classical music for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played (in jazz and some forms of popular music) by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass, double bass, cello, tuba or keyboard (piano, Hammond organ, electric organ, or synthesizer).
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Big Muff
The Big Muff Pi (π), often known simply as the Big Muff, is a fuzzbox produced in New York City by the Electro-Harmonix company, along with their Russian sister company Sovtek, primarily for use with the electric guitar.
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Billy Joel
William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.
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Bitcrusher
A Bitcrusher is a lo-fi (low fidelity) digital audio effect, which produces a distortion by the reduction of the resolution or bandwidth of digital audio data.
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BJFE
BJFE Guitar Effects is a company which manufactures effects pedals for use with instruments such as an electric guitar.
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Black Man (song)
"Black Man" is a track on the 1976 Stevie Wonder album Songs in the Key of Life.
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.
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Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey.
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Boss Corporation
Boss is a manufacturer of effects pedals for electric guitar and bass guitar.
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Boss DS-1
The Boss DS-1 is a distortion pedal for guitar, manufactured by the Roland Corporation under the brand name Boss since 1978.
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Brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.
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Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998)Pareles. was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954.
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Carrier wave
In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a waveform (usually sinusoidal) that is modulated (modified) with an input signal for the purpose of conveying information.
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Chet Atkins
Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr.
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Choir
A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
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Chorus effect
In music, a chorus effect (sometimes chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches converge and are perceived as one.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.
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Clipping (audio)
Clipping is a form of waveform distortion that occurs when an amplifier is overdriven and attempts to deliver an output voltage or current beyond its maximum capability.
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Clonewheel organ
"Clonewheel organ" is a musician jargon term used to refer to an electronic musical instrument that emulates (or "clones") the sound of the electromechanical tonewheel-based organs formerly manufactured by Hammond from the 1930s to the 1970s.
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Comb filter
In signal processing, a comb filter is a filter implemented by adding a delayed version of a signal to itself, causing constructive and destructive interference.
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Come as You Are (Nirvana song)
"Come as You Are" is a song by American grunge band Nirvana, written by frontman Kurt Cobain and released as the second single from the band's second studio album Nevermind in March 1992.
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Computing
Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.
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Consonant
In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the vocal tract.
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Dave Davies
David Russell Gordon Davies (born 3 February 1947) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Death By Audio
Death By Audio was a warehouse space on the first floor of an industrial building in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
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Delay (audio effect)
Delay is an audio effect and an effects unit which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time.
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Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator
The Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator is a tremolo pedal which has been manufactured by Demeter Amplification since 1982.
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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.
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DI unit
A DI unit (direct input) is an electronic device typically used in recording studios and in sound reinforcement systems to connect a high-output impedance, line level, unbalanced output signal to a low-impedance, microphone level, balanced input, usually via an XLR connector and XLR cable.
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Diatonic and chromatic
Diatonic (διατονική) and chromatic (χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony.
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Digital data
Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is the discrete, discontinuous representation of information or works.
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Digital signal processing
Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.
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Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor (or a SIP block), with its architecture optimized for the operational needs of digital signal processing.
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Digital synthesizer
A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds.
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DigiTech Whammy
The Whammy pedal is a digital effects pedal designed for guitar and manufactured by DigiTech.
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Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur Jr. is an American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984, originally simply called Dinosaur until legal issues forced a change in name.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Distortion
Distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of something.
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Distortion (music)
Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.
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DJ mixer
A DJ mixer is a type of audio mixing console used by DJs for two different purposes: some DJs use the mixer to make seamless transitions from one song to another when they are spinning a set at a dance club.
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Donald Leslie
Donald James Leslie (April 13, 1911 – September 2, 2004) created and manufactured the Leslie speaker that refined the sound of the Hammond organ and helped popularize electronic music.
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Doppler effect
The Doppler effect (or the Doppler shift) is the change in frequency or wavelength of a wave in relation to observer who is moving relative to the wave source.
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.
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Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher of books and journals, and a unit of Duke University.
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Dunlop Cry Baby
The Dunlop Cry Baby is a popular wah-wah pedal, manufactured by Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. The name Cry Baby was from the original pedal from which it was copied, the Thomas Organ/Vox Cry Baby wah-wah, first manufactured in 1966.
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Dunlop Manufacturing
Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. is a manufacturer of musical accessories, especially effects units, based in Benicia, California, United States.
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Dynamic range
Dynamic range, abbreviated DR, DNR, or DYR is the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume.
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Dynamic range compression
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.
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Dynamics (music)
In music, the dynamics of a piece is the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.
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EBow
EBow is a brand name of Heet Sound Products, of Los Angeles, California, United States for the original type of monophonic handheld electromagnetic string driver, invented by Greg Heet in 1969, first introduced in 1976, and patented in 1978.
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Echo chamber
Echo chamber of the Dresden University of Technology Hamilton Mausoleum has a long lasting unplanned echo An echo chamber is a hollow enclosure used to produce reverberated sounds, usually for recording purposes.
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Effects unit
An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic or digital device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source.
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Egnater
Egnater is an American company that manufactures boutique guitar amplifiers.
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Electric blues
Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.
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Electric organ
An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ.
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Electric piano
An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard.
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Electro-Harmonix
Electro-Harmonix is a New York-based company that makes high-end electronic audio processors and sells rebranded vacuum tubes.
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Electronic circuit
An electronic circuit is composed of individual electronic components, such as resistors, transistors, capacitors, inductors and diodes, connected by conductive wires or traces through which electric current can flow.
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Electronic keyboard
An electronic keyboard or digital keyboard is an electronic musical instrument, an electronic or digital derivative of keyboard instruments.
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Electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.
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Electronic oscillator
An electronic oscillator is an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating electronic signal, often a sine wave or a square wave.
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Electronic piano
An electronic piano is a keyboard instrument designed to simulate the timbre of a piano (and sometimes a harpsichord or an organ) using analog circuitry.
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Electronic tuner
In music, an electronic tuner is a device that detects and displays the pitch of musical notes played on a musical instrument.
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Emlyn Crowther
Paul Emlyn Crowther (born 2 October 1949 in Dunedin, New Zealand) was the drummer of Split Enz from July 1974 to November 1976.
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Equalization (audio)
Equalization or equalisation is the process of adjusting the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.
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Ernie Ball
Ernie Ball (born Roland Sherwood Ball; August 30, 1930 – September 9, 2004) was an American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the development of guitar-related products.
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Eruption (instrumental)
"Eruption" is an instrumental rock guitar solo performed by Eddie Van Halen.
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Expression pedal
An expression pedal is an important control found on many musical instruments including organs, electronic keyboards and pedal steel guitar.
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Extended play
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.
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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC), commonly referred to simply as Fender, is an American manufacturer of stringed instruments and amplifiers.
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Fender Reverb Unit
The Fender Reverb Unit (6G15) was a tube, spring reverb-equipped effects unit made by Fender.
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Fender Tremolux
The Fender Tremolux was a guitar amplifier made by Fender.
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Fire (The Jimi Hendrix Experience song)
"Fire" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in early 1967.
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Flanging
Flanging is an audio effect produced by mixing two identical signals together, one signal delayed by a small and gradually changing period, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.
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Flat (music)
In music, flat or bemolle (Italian: "soft B") means "lower in pitch".
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Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.
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Frequency divider
A frequency divider, also called a clock divider or scaler or prescaler, is a circuit that takes an input signal of a frequency, f_, and generates an output signal of a frequency: f_.
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Frequency mixer
In electronics, a mixer, or frequency mixer, is a nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
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Frequency multiplier
In electronics, a frequency multiplier is an electronic circuit that generates an output signal whose output frequency is a harmonic (multiple) of its input frequency.
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Fret
A fret is a raised element on the neck of a stringed instrument.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Fuzz bass
Fuzz bass, also called "bass overdrive" or "bass distortion", is a style of playing the electric bass or modifying its signal that produces a buzzy, distorted, overdriven sound, which the name implies in an onomatopoetic fashion.
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Fuzz Face
The Fuzz Face is an effects pedal used mainly by electric guitarists and by some bass players.
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Gain (electronics)
In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a two-port circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output port by adding energy converted from some power supply to the signal.
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Gated reverb
Gated reverb is an audio processing technique that is applied to recordings of drums (or live sound reinforcement of drums in a PA system) to make the drums sound powerful and "punchy," while keeping the overall mix clean and transparent-sounding.
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George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
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Gibson
Gibson Brands, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corp.) is an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and consumer and professional electronics from Kalamazoo, Michigan and now based in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Gimme Shelter
"Gimme Shelter" is the opening track to the 1969 album Let It Bleed by the Rolling Stones.
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Goree Carter
Goree Chester Carter or Christer Carter (December 31, 1930 – December 29, 1990), known as Goree Carter, was an American singer, guitarist, drummer, songwriter and soldier.
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Gretna, Louisiana
Gretna is the second-largest city and parish seat of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Grunge
Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.
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Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices (often abbreviated as GBV) is an American indie rock band formed in 1983 in Dayton, Ohio.
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Guitar amplifier
A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the weak electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.
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Guitar pedalboard
A guitar pedalboard is a flat board or panel which serves as a container, patch bay and power supply for effects pedals for the electric guitar.
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Guitar Slim
Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", produced by Johnny Vincent for Specialty Records.
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Guitar solo
A guitar solo is a melodic passage, instrumental section, or entire piece of music written for a classical guitar, electric guitar or an acoustic guitar.
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Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses, often abbreviated as GNR, is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1985.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.
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Harmonic
A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.
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Harmonic series (music)
A harmonic series is the sequence of sounds—pure tones, represented by sinusoidal waves—in which the frequency of each sound is an integer multiple of the fundamental, the lowest frequency.
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Harmony
In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.
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Harry DeArmond
Harold "Harry" DeArmond (January 28, 1906 – October 12, 1999) was an industrial designer of electrical components.
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Heart (band)
Heart is an American rock band that first found success in Canada and later in the United States and worldwide.
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Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom.
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High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to hi-fi or hifi) is a term used by listeners, audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound.
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Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.
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Humbucker
A humbucking pickup, humbucker, or double coil, is a type of electric guitar pickup that uses two coils to "buck the hum" (or cancel out the interference) picked up by coil pickups caused by electromagnetic interference, particularly mains hum.
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Ibanez Tube Screamer
The Ibanez Tube Screamer (TS9/TS808) is a guitar overdrive pedal, made by Ibanez.
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Ike Turner
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner, Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer.
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In the Air Tonight
"In the Air Tonight" is the debut solo single by the English singer-songwriter and drummer Phil Collins.
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Inharmonicity
In music, inharmonicity is the degree to which the frequencies of overtones (also known as partials or partial tones) depart from whole multiples of the fundamental frequency (harmonic series).
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Instrument amplifier
An instrument amplifier is an electronic device that converts the often barely audible or purely electronic signal of a musical instrument into an audible sound.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, normally silicon.
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Interval (music)
In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.
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J Mascis
Joseph Donald Mascis Jr. (born December 10, 1965) is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and main songwriter for the alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr. He has also released several albums as a solo artist and played drums and guitar on other projects.
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James Cotton
James Henry Cotton (July 1, 1935 – March 16, 2017) was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band.
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist.
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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
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Jimmy Page
James Patrick Page (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
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Joe Hill Louis
Joe Hill Louis (September 23, 1921 – August 5, 1957), born Lester Hill, was an American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band.
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Joe Walsh
Joseph Fidler Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
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Joy Division
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester.
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Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel song)
"Just the Way You Are" is a song by Billy Joel; it is the third track from his album The Stranger (1977).
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Keeley Electronics
Keeley Electronics is an American manufacturer of effect units for electric guitars.
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Keyboard amplifier
A keyboard amplifier is a powered electronic amplifier and loudspeaker in a wooden speaker cabinet used for amplification of electronic keyboard instruments.
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Kickstart My Heart
"Kickstart My Heart" is a song by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, originally released on their 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood.
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Korg
, founded as Keio Electronic Laboratories, is a Japanese multinational corporation that manufactures electronic musical instruments, audio processors and guitar pedals, recording equipment, and electronic tuners.
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Korg Kaoss Pad
The Kaoss Pad is an audio effects unit made by Korg, launched in 1999.
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Laptop
A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell" and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.
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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.
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Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.
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Leslie speaker
The Leslie speaker is a combined amplifier and loudspeaker that projects the signal from an electric or electronic instrument and modifies the sound by rotating the loudspeakers.
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Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source.
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Limiter
In electronics, a limiter is a circuit that allows signals below a specified input power or level to pass unaffected while attenuating (lowering) the peaks of stronger signals that exceed this threshold.
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Line 6 DL4
The DL4 by Line 6, introduced in 1999, is one of the first digital modeling effects units.
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Linear filter
Linear filters process time-varying input signals to produce output signals, subject to the constraint of linearity.
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Live looping
Live looping is the recording and playback of a piece of music in real-time using either dedicated hardware devices, called loopers or phrase samplers, or software running on a computer with an audio interface.
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Live sound mixing
Live sound mixing is the process of electrically or digitally blending together multiple sound sources at a live event by an audio engineer using a mixing console or software.
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Livin' on a Prayer
"Livin' on a Prayer" is Bon Jovi's second chart-topping song from their third album Slippery When Wet.
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Lo-fi music
Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (or loud-speaker or speaker) is an electroacoustic transducer; which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
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Loudspeaker enclosure
A loudspeaker enclosure or loudspeaker cabinet is an enclosure (often box-shaped) in which speaker drivers (e.g., loudspeakers and tweeters) and associated electronic hardware, such as crossover circuits and, in some cases, power amplifiers, are mounted.
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Luther Perkins
Luther Monroe Perkins (January 8, 1928 – August 5, 1968) was an American country music guitarist and a member of the Tennessee Three, the backup band for singer Johnny Cash.
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Man in the Box
"Man in the Box" is a single by the American rock band Alice in Chains.
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Marshall Amplification
Marshall Amplification is an English company that designs and manufactures music amplifiers, speaker cabinets, brands personal headphones and earphones, and, having acquired Natal Drums, drums and bongos.
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Marshall ShredMaster
The Marshall ShredMaster (also known as the Shred Master) is a discontinued distortion pedal which was manufactured by Marshall Amps.
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Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe was an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California, on January 17, 1981.
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Metal
A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.
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Microphone
A microphone, colloquially nicknamed mic or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
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MIDI
MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.
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MIDI controller
A MIDI controller is any hardware or software that generates and transmits Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) data to electronic or digital MIDI-enabled devices, typically to trigger sounds and control parameters of an electronic music performance.
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Modulation
In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted.
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Morley Pedals
Morley Pedals is the name of a guitar effects pedal company, famous for manufacturing wah-wah pedals and other treadle type effects for guitar.
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Mu-Tron
Musitronics, often shortened to Mu-tron, was a manufacturer of electronic musical effects active in the 1970s.
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Mudhoney
Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band.
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Music technology (electronic and digital)
Electronic and digital music technology is the use of electronic or digital instruments, computers, electronic effects units, software or digital audio equipment by a musician, composer, sound engineer, DJ or record producer to make, perform or record music.
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Musical instrument
A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.
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Musical keyboard
A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.
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MXR
MXR was a Rochester, New York-based manufacturer of effects pedals, co-founded in 1972 by Keith Barr and Terry Sherwood and incorporated as MXR Innovations, Inc.
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MXR Distortion +
The MXR Distortion + ("Distortion Plus") is a distortion pedal originally designed in the 1970s by MXR Innovations.
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MXR Dyna Comp
The MXR Dyna Comp is an effects unit produced by the MXR company intended for use with electric guitar.
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MXR Phase 90
The MXR Phase 90 is a phaser effects pedal introduced in 1974 by MXR.
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Neil Young
Neil Percival Young, (born November 12, 1945), is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director and screenwriter.
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Nevermind
Nevermind is the second studio album by American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991.
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Niche market
A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focused.
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Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails, commonly abbreviated as NIN (stylized as NIИ), is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band formed by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.
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Noise gate
A noise gate or gate is an electronic device or software that is used to control the volume of an audio signal.
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Nonlinear filter
In signal processing, a nonlinear (or non-linear) filter is a filter whose output is not a linear function of its input.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
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Octave effect
Octave effect boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesised signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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One-man band
A one-man band is a musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical or electronic contraptions.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.
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Outboard gear
Musical "outboard equipment" or "gear" is used to alter how a musical instrument sounds.
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Overtone
An overtone is any frequency greater than the fundamental frequency of a sound.
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Paranoid (Black Sabbath song)
"Paranoid" is a song by the British rock band Black Sabbath, featured on their second album Paranoid (1970).
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Pat Hare
Auburn "Pat" Hare (December 20, 1930 – September 26, 1980) was an American Memphis electric blues guitarist and singer.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and actor.
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Pavement (band)
Pavement was an American indie rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989.
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Pedal keyboard
A pedalboard (also called a pedal keyboard, pedal clavier, or, with electronic instruments, a bass pedalboard) is a keyboard played with the feet that is usually used to produce the low-pitched bass line of a piece of music.
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Pelican Publishing Company
Pelican Publishing Company is a book publisher based in Gretna, a suburb of New Orleans.
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Pete Cornish
Pete Cornish is a British designer of electric guitar effects and other electronic musical instruments.
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Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.
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Peter Frampton
Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is a British rock musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist.
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Phase (waves)
Phase is the position of a point in time (an instant) on a waveform cycle.
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Phase shift module
A phase shift module is a microwave network module which provides a controllable phase shift of the RF signal.
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Phaser (effect)
A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum.
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.
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Pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through organ pipes selected via a keyboard.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Pitch correction
Pitch correction is an electronic effects unit or audio software that changes the intonation (highness or lowness in pitch) of an audio signal so that all pitches will be notes from the equally tempered system (i.e., like the pitches on a piano).
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Pitch shift
Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered.
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Pod (amp modeler)
Pod is a series of digital guitar amplifier modelers from Line 6.
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Potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
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Power chord
In guitar music, especially electric guitar, a power chord (also fifth chord) is a colloquial name for a chord that consists of the root note and the fifth.
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Power conditioner
A power conditioner (also known as a line conditioner or power line conditioner) is a device intended to improve the quality of the power that is delivered to electrical load equipment.
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Preamplifier
A preamplifier (preamp or "pre") is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker.
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Premier
Premier is a title for the head of government in some countries, states and sub-national governments.
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Pro Co RAT
The Pro Co "The RAT" is a guitar effects pedal produced by Pro Co Sound.
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Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.
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Public address system
A public address system (PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.
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Punk rock
Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
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Purple Haze
"Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second record single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967.
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Record producer
A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.
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Recording studio
A recording studio is a specialized facility for sound recording, mixing, and audio production of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds.
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Reel-to-reel audio tape recording
Reel-to/open-reel audio tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette.
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Reverb.com
Reverb.com is an online marketplace to buy and sell new, used, and vintage music gear.
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Reverberation
Reverberation, in psychoacoustics and acoustics, is a persistence of sound after the sound is produced.
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Rhythm guitar
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.
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Ring modulation
In electronics, ring modulation is a signal-processing function, an implementation of frequency mixing, performed by multiplying two signals, where one is typically a sine wave or another simple waveform and the other is the signal to be modulated.
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Road case
A road case, roadie case, ATA case or flight case is a shipping container specifically built to protect musical instruments, motion picture equipment, audio and lighting production equipment, properties, or other sensitive equipment when it must be moved between locations, or frequently thrown around by airport baggage-handling personnel.
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Robert Palmer (writer)
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer.
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Robert Pollard
Robert Ellsworth Pollard Jr. (born October 31, 1957) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is the leader and creative force behind indie rock group Guided by Voices.
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Robin Trower
Robin Leonard Trower (born 9 March 1945) is an English rock guitarist and vocalist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the bandleader of his own power trio known as Robin Trower.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.
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Rocky Mountain Way (song)
"Rocky Mountain Way" is a 1973 song by rock guitarist Joe Walsh and his band Barnstorm, with writing credits given to Walsh, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli, and Joe Vitale.
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Roger Linn
Roger Linn is an American designer of electronic musical instruments and equipment.
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Roger Mayer (engineer)
Roger Mayer is an electrical engineer who developed several electric guitar effects, including the Octavia, an effects pedal which reproduced the input signal one octave higher, and mixes the two sounds with some added fuzz.
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Roland Corporation
is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment and software.
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Roland RE-201
The Roland RE-201, commonly known as the Space Echo, is an audio analog delay effects unit produced by the Roland Corporation.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.
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Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark emotional ballads.
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Rumble (instrumental)
"Rumble" is an instrumental by American group Link Wray & His Ray Men.
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Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).
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Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.
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Scotty Moore
Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (December 27, 1931 – June 28, 2016) was an American guitarist and recording engineer.
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Scratching
Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.
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Semitone
A semitone, also called a half step or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
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Sharp (music)
In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means higher in pitch.
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Shin-ei Companion FY-2
The Shin-ei Companion FY-2 is a discontinued fuzz box which was made by the Shin-ei company in the 1970s in Japan.
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Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton song)
"Show Me the Way" is a song written by Peter Frampton, which was originally released on his 1975 album Frampton and as a single, but gained its highest popularity as a song from his 1976 live album Frampton Comes Alive!.
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Sideband
In radio communications, a sideband is a band of frequencies higher than or lower than the carrier frequency, containing power as a result of the modulation process.
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Signal
A signal as referred to in communication systems, signal processing, and electrical engineering is a function that "conveys information about the behavior or attributes of some phenomenon".
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Single coil guitar pickup
A single coil pickup is a type of magnetic transducer, or pickup, for the electric guitar and the electric bass.
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Sitar
The sitar (or; सितार, Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music.
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Slip Slidin' Away
"Slip Slidin' Away" is a 1977 song written and recorded by Paul Simon, from his compilation album Greatest Hits, Etc..
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Solid-state electronics
Solid-state electronics means semiconductor electronics; electronic equipment using semiconductor devices such as semiconductor diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits (ICs).
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Songs in the Key of Life
Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976, by Motown Records, through its division Tamla Records.
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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Sound effect
A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.
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Source direct
Source direct, also known as tone defeat or bypass, is a sound engineering term.
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Speak & Spell (album)
Speak & Spell is the debut studio album by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 5 October 1981 by Mute Records.
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Spectral glide
A spectral glide is a music-composition concept, consisting of a "modification of the vowel quality of a tone" (Erickson 1975, p. 72).
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Square wave
A square wave is a non-sinusoidal periodic waveform in which the amplitude alternates at a steady frequency between fixed minimum and maximum values, with the same duration at minimum and maximum.
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Steel-string acoustic guitar
The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the nylon-strung classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.
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Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement.
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Stomp box
A stomp box (or stompbox) is a simple percussion instrument consisting of a small wooden box placed under the foot, which is tapped or stamped on rhythmically to produce a sound similar to that of a bass drum.
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String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music.
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String section
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.
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Strymon (company)
Strymon is a brand of music electronics by Damage Control Engineering.
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Subaudible tone
For the use of subaudible tones in Two-way radio see: CTCSS A subaudible tone is a tone that is used to trigger an automated event at a radio station.
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Superfuzz Bigmuff
Superfuzz Bigmuff is the debut EP by the Seattle grunge band Mudhoney.
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Surf music
Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.
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Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation
The is a Japanese company that produces a range of musical instruments.
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Synthesizer
A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.
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T-Rex Engineering
T-Rex ApS is a manufacturer of handmade electric guitar effects pedals.
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Talk box
A talk box is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument.
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Tape loop
In music, tape loops are loops of magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound when played on a tape recorder.
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Tapping
Tapping is a guitar playing technique where a string is fretted and set into vibration as part of a single motion of being pushed onto the fretboard, as opposed to the standard technique being fretted with one hand and picked with the other.
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TC Electronic
TC Electronic is a Danish audio equipment company that designs and imports guitar effects, bass amplification, computer audio interfaces, audio plug-in software, live sound equalisers, studio and post production equipment, studio effect processors, and broadcast loudness processors and meters.
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
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The Kinks
The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
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The Police
The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.
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The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.
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The Shadows
The Shadows (originally known as The Drifters) were an English instrumental rock group, and were Cliff Richard's backing band from 1958 to 1968, having also collaborated again on numerous reunion tours.
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The Who
The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.
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They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.
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Timbre
In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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ToadWorks
ToadWorks is a guitar effect brand owned by Ryan Dunn and Doug Harrison based in Spokane, Washington.
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Tone Bender
Tone Bender is the name of several fuzzboxes.
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Touchpad
A touchpad or trackpad is a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor, a specialized surface that can translate the motion and position of a user's fingers to a relative position on the operating system that is made output to the screen.
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Transducer
A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.
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Transformer
A transformer is a static electrical device that transfers electrical energy between two or more circuits through electromagnetic induction.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals and electrical power.
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Transposition (music)
In music transposition refers to the process, or operation, of moving a collection of notes (pitches or pitch classes) up or down in pitch by a constant interval.
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Tremolo
In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.
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Tube sound
Tube sound (or valve sound) is the characteristic sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube-based audio amplifier.
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U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.
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Ululation
Ululation,, is a long, wavering, high-pitched vocal sound resembling a howl with a trilling quality.
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Uni-Vibe
The Uni-Vibe (or UniVibe), also known as Jax Vibra-Chorus,Harry Shapiro, Michael Heatley, Roger Mayer,, Voyageur Press is a footpedal-operated phaser or phase shifter for creating chorus and vibrato simulations for electric organ or guitar.
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Univox
Univox was a musical instrument brand of Unicord Corporation from the early 1960s, when they purchased the Amplifier Corporation of America of Westbury, New York and began to market a line of guitar amplifiers.
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Univox Super-Fuzz
For the Italian film, see Super Fuzz.
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Vacuum tube
In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.
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Valve amplifier
A valve amplifier or tube amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that uses vacuum tubes to increase the amplitude or power of a signal.
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Van Halen
Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972.
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Variable-gain amplifier
A variable-gain or voltage-controlled amplifier is an electronic amplifier that varies its gain depending on a control voltage (often abbreviated CV).
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Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.
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Vibrato systems for guitar
A vibrato system on a guitar is a mechanical device used to temporarily change the pitch of the strings.
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Vintage musical equipment
Vintage musical equipment is older music gear, including instruments, amplifiers and speakers, sound recording equipment and effects pedals.
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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Virtual Studio Technology
Virtual Studio Technology (VST) is an audio plug-in software interface that integrates software synthesizer and effects in digital audio workstations.
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Vocoder
A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation, etc.
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Voltage
Voltage, electric potential difference, electric pressure or electric tension (formally denoted or, but more often simply as V or U, for instance in the context of Ohm's or Kirchhoff's circuit laws) is the difference in electric potential between two points.
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Voltage-controlled filter
A voltage-controlled filter (VCF) is a processor, a filter whose operating characteristics (primarily cutoff frequency) can be controlled by means of a control voltage applied to control inputs.
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Vowel
A vowel is one of the two principal classes of speech sound, the other being a consonant.
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Wah-wah (music)
Wah-wah (or wa-wa) is an imitative word (or onomatopoeia) for the sound of altering the resonance of musical notes to extend expressiveness, sounding much like a human voice saying the syllable wah.
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Wah-wah pedal
A wah-wah pedal (or simply wah pedal) is a type of electric guitar effects pedal that alters the tone and frequencies of the guitar signal to create a distinctive sound, mimicking the human voice saying the onomatopoeic name "wah-wah".
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Walking on the Moon
"Walking on the Moon" is a song by English rock band The Police, released as the second single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979).
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Waveform
A waveform is the shape and form of a signal such as a wave moving in a physical medium or an abstract representation.
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Welcome to the Jungle
"Welcome to the Jungle" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut album, Appetite for Destruction (1987).
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Where the Streets Have No Name
"Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock band U2.
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Willie Johnson (guitarist)
Willie Johnson (March 4, 1923 – February 26, 1995) was an American electric blues guitarist.
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Z.Vex Effects
Z.Vex Effects is an effects pedal company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Z.Vex Fuzz Factory
The Z.Vex Fuzz Factory is a fuzz box made by the American inventor and musician Zachary Vex of the Z.Vex Effects company.
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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released in 1965.
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19-inch rack
A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules.
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References
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