Friday, 5 April 2019

Musical Jargon Glossary

Acoustic Treatment - These are things that are designed to absorb, diffuse or reflect sound and a specific way. 

Harmonic - This is a multiple of the fundamental frequency.

Audio Frequency - sounds that the human ear can hear between 20 & 20kHz

Partials - This is the name given to harmonics and the fundamental frequency together.

RMS - This stands for Root Mean Square and is used to measure magnitude of varying levels.

Room Modes - This is acoustic resonance that happening in every room and is unique to each room. 


dB - This is how you express how loud a sound is. Boosting the signal by 6dB will double it.

Hertz - This is the unit of frequency.

Wow & Flutter - This is where mechanical imperfections cause speed variations at different frequencies. Variation at higher frequencies can be heard as distortion. 

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