This page gathers the 30 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Audio”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- active noise control noun Technology that uses microphones to detect unwanted sound waves and then generates an opposite, "anti-noise" sound wave (180 degrees out of…
- clean feed noun The setup of a mixing console or matrix mixer such that the output contains everything except a designated input; often used to prevent…
- compressor noun A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
- constructive interference noun When two or more waves overlap, and their crests or troughs align, adding together to create a single, larger wave with a greater amplitude…
- dat noun Digital Audio Tape, a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data…
- demix verb To reverse the downmixing process for (a track), recovering channels or stems.
- destructive interference noun When two waves meet and their crests and troughs cancel each other out, resulting in a smaller wave or no wave at all, occurring when they…
- discrete adj Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound.
- driver noun A device that converts an electrical signal to sound waves; the principal component of loudspeakers and headphones.
- fade in verb To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.
- fade out verb To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.
- flutter noun The distortion in a cassette recording, especially the distortion caused by variations in the speed of the magnetic tape due to sticking…
- fold down verb To downmix.
- high shelf noun A filter that gradually increases or decreases frequencies above a certain point in the frequency spectrum.
- layback noun The process of recording the final sound onto the master track.
- MC noun Initialism of moving coil, a type of phono cartridge.
- NC noun Initialism of noise control.
- power alley noun The line between two subwoofers where both are in phase.
- presence noun Synonym of room tone.
- redline verb To achieve audio levels that will cause clipping (indicated by red in an audio meter).
- scrubber noun A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
- side chain verb To use auxiliary audio input in that manner.
- soundboard noun A mixing console used to combine and blend different audio sources to a single output.
- spectral gating noun A signal processing technique used primarily for noise reduction and creative sound design; converting a signal into the frequency domain…
- supra-aural adj Pressing onto the ears, and sealing the outer ear (as opposed to being placed in the ear, or hanging onto the ear, or surrounding the ear).
- time alignment noun The process of delaying the sound emanating from one or more drivers in a loudspeaker or sound system to correct the transient response so…
- time-aligned adj Of a sound system, in which the speakers are configured correctly to eliminate timing problems, so that the sound produced by each driver…
- upmix verb To demix a downmixed track and increase the number of channels: convert mono into stereo, or stereo into surround sound, etc.
- wow noun A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
- wowless adj Free of wows.