Lip dub: History and Key Facts
A lip dub is a type of music video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing (copying audio from an existing recording) to make a music video.
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Dubbing (music): History and Key Facts
In sound recording, dubbing is the transfer or copying of previously recorded audio material from one medium to another of the same or a different type.
Audio tour: History and Key Facts
An audio tour or audio guide provides a recorded spoken commentary, normally through a handheld device, to a visitor attraction such as a museum or an exhibition.
Sound Synthesis Theory: Physical Modelling: An Open Learning Guide
Physical Modelling synthesis is not confined to a particular technique, but rather represents a family of approaches to synthesis. Physical modelling systems attempt to model the propagation
Noise in music: History and Key Facts
In music, "noise" has been variously described as unpitched, indeterminate, uncontrolled, convoluted, unmelodic, loud, otherwise unmusical, or unwanted sound, or simply as sound in general.
Audio mixing (recorded music): History and Key Facts
In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of optimizing and combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.
Presence (sound recording): History and Key Facts
In filmmaking and television production, presence, also known as room tone, or simply room sound, is the "silence" recorded at a location or space when no dialogue is spoken.
Digital recording: History and Key Facts
In digital recording, an audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or chroma and luminance values for vide
Overdubbing: History and Key Facts
Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording ne
Pro Tools: History and Key Facts
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS.
Fade (audio engineering): History and Key Facts
In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.
Production sound mixer: History and Key Facts
A production sound mixer, location sound recordist, location sound engineer, or simply sound mixer is the member of a film crew or television crew responsible for recording all sound recording on
Wow and flutter measurement: History and Key Facts
Measurement of wow and flutter is carried out on audio tape machines, cassette recorders and players, and other analog recording and reproduction devices with rotary components (e.g.
Wall of Sound: History and Key Facts
The Wall of Sound is a recording approach and style of music production developed by American producer and songwriter Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in the early 1960s.
Mixing engineer: History and Key Facts
A mixing engineer (or simply mix engineer) is responsible for combining ("mixing") different sonic elements of an auditory piece into a complete rendition (also known as "final mix" or "mixdown")
Sound Synthesis Theory: Additive Synthesis: An Open Learning Guide
As previously discussed in Section 1, sine waves can be considered the building blocks of sound. In fact, it was shown in the 19th Century by the mathematician Joseph Fourier that any period
Pickup group: History and Key Facts
A pickup group is a group of professional musicians, which may be session musicians, who are hired to play for a limited time period—ranging from a single concert or sound recording session to se
Sound Synthesis Theory: Subtractive Synthesis: An Open Learning Guide
Whereas additive synthesis is the process of combining individual sinusoidal partials to construct a complex sound, subtractive synthesis is essentially the reverse of this process. By start
Sound Synthesis Theory: Introduction: An Open Learning Guide
This book covers a sub-field of Music Technology called sound synthesis. Although the tone is generally aimed at musicians and people with little prior knowledge of music systems, there may
Comparison of analog and digital recording: History and Key Facts
Sound can be recorded and stored and played using either digital or analog techniques.
Electrical network frequency analysis: History and Key Facts
Electrical network frequency (ENF) analysis is an audio forensics technique for validating audio recordings by comparing frequency changes in background mains hum in the recording with long-term
Part-talkie: History and Key Facts
A part-talkie is a sound film that includes at least some "talking sequences" or sections with audible dialogue.
Sound Synthesis Theory: Modulation Synthesis: An Open Learning Guide
When we talk about modulation from an audio synthesis point of view, we refer to a time-varying signal (the carrier) being affected in some way by another (the modulator). Modulation can be
Sound Synthesis Theory: Sound in the Time Domain: An Open Learning Guide
The metric (acoustical) definition of sound is variation in pressure waves and density caused by the propagation of the waves through a medium. Between about 25Hz, and 18kHz, human hearing s
Punch in/out: History and Key Facts
Punch in/out is an audio and video term that originated as a recording technique used on early multitrack recordings whereby a portion of the performance was recorded onto a previously recorded t
Prerelease cover version: History and Key Facts
In the music industry, a prerelease cover version is a type of cover version that arose during the "iTunes era" of the early 2010s when a cover artist released a version of a song before the orig
Rick Hall: History and Key Facts
Roe Erister "Rick" Hall (January 31, 1932 – January 2, 2018) was an American record producer, songwriter, and musician who became known as the owner of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
Audio letter: History and Key Facts
An audio letter is an audio recording sent by postal mail to a recipient.
Bedroom production: History and Key Facts
A bedroom producer is an amateur musician who creates, performs, and records their music independently using a home studio, often considered a hobbyist opposed to a professional record producer i
Taper (concert): History and Key Facts
A taper is a person who records musical events, often from standing microphones in the audience, for the benefit of the musical group's fanbase.
Turntablism: History and Key Facts
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes, and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader-equipp
Direct metal mastering: History and Key Facts
Direct metal mastering (DMM) is an analog audio disc mastering technique jointly developed by two German companies, Telefunken-Decca (Teldec) and Georg Neumann GmbH, toward the end of the 20th ce
Soundboard recording: History and Key Facts
A soundboard recording is a sound recording of a concert taken from a direct connection to the soundboard at the venue.
Sound recording copyright: History and Key Facts
A sound recording copyright is the copyright in a recorded fixation of sounds, as distinct from the underlying musical, literary (text-based), or dramatic work embodied in the recording.
Backing track: History and Key Facts
A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm
Dolby noise-reduction system: History and Key Facts
A Dolby noise-reduction system (Dolby NR) is one of a series of noise reduction systems developed by Dolby Laboratories for use in analog audio tape recording.
Guitar speaker: History and Key Facts
A guitar speaker is a loudspeaker – specifically the driver (transducer) part – designed for use in a combination guitar amplifier (in which a loudspeaker and an amplifier are installed in a wood
Vinyl rip: History and Key Facts
A vinyl rip is a version of a recording that has been transferred from a vinyl record to digital audio or other formats.
Pumping (audio): History and Key Facts
In sound recording and reproduction, and music, pumping or gain pumping is a creative misuse of compression, the "audible unnatural level changes associated primarily with the release of a compre
Flanging: History and Key Facts
Flanging is an audio effect produced by mixing two identical signals together, one signal delayed by a small and (usually) gradually changing period, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.