SOS Technical Glossary

[RichardT]

Sone thoughts on potential entries:

Granular synthesis
Grain
EQ (some people may not know this means equaliser)
Automation
Fade in / out
Masking (psychoacoustic)
Pre-master
Clip gain
Normalise (as in adjust level of audio)
De-click
Quantisation noise
Array (microphone)
Source-destination edit
Three point edit
Four point edit
Rectifier
Comping
Null
Streaming
Destructive (editing)
Edit list
Mixdown
Floating point
Disk image
Distributor (as in cd-baby etc)
Royalty (streaming)

[Hugh Robjohns]

Tiz a never-ending challenge!

All good ideas. Thanks Richard. I'll try and work through them.

[blinddrew]

There goes Hugh's weekend!

[Wonks]

A couple of weekends at least. He’ll have to look all those terms up first so he knows what they mean.

[zenguitar]

Bonfire - collective noun for banjos and/or bagpipes.

Andy

[RichardT]

Bonfire - collective noun for banjos and/or bagpipes.

Andy

Apparently, it's a poverty of pipers

[Martin Walker]

Surely the destruction of banjos should be banjaxed?

[forumuser840717]

Plate Reverb
Spring Reverb
(Or do some kind of grouping under 'Reverb')
Multitap Delay
Head Block
Tension Arm
Capstan
Pinch Roller
De-Gauss
Magic Eye Valve/Tube
Main types/configurations of valves
Acoustic Camera (aka Sound Camera though for me that refers to a movie film camera that records sound onto film, either with picture or separately)
Infrasonic
Ultrasonic
Cycle(s) per second
Matrix/Mat Number (as found on vinyl)
Pre-echo/Post-echo (maybe link to Print-through)
DSD
DXD
SACD
Ravenna
AES67
Cans
Cassette / Compact Cassette / Musicassette
Elcaset
R128
Elliptic/Elliptical EQ/Filter
Phased-array (Clarification that it has bog all to do with mic techniques!)
Phase aligned (in speaker marketing!)

It rained a lot today!

[Hugh Robjohns]

Well, that's November taken care of, then!

Thanks