Styles and Genres
A genre commonly featuring improvisation, syncopation and walking bass lines.
What is jazz?
This effect gives the impression of a bigger room, such as a hall, cathedral or cave.
What is reverb?
What is distortion?
Instruments played exclusively on the computer, via MIDI for example.
What are virtual instruments?
The Italian word for "speed".
What is tempo?
A genre of music from the 1970s made to dance to.
What is disco?
The ability to move a sound source left, right or centre is known as this.
What is panning?
Problematic P and B sounds picked up on a recording.
What is popping and blasting?
The other name for a bidirectional polar pattern.
What is figure-of-eight?
When music is sad, scary or spooky sounding.
What is minor?
Neil Sedaka was a key innovator of this genre.
What is 60s Pop?
An effect that creates an echo.
What is delay?
What is sibilance?
What is the threshold?
When music is made up on the spot.
What is improvisation?
The pedal steel guitar is often heard in this genre.
What is country?
An effect that works by copying the sound multiple times and playing them alongside the original out of time and out of tune.
What is chorus?
Low pitch noise heard throughout a recording.
What is hum?
The (sometimes) tiny delay caused by the audio signal travelling through various equipment.
What is latency?
An accompaniment style used in Ragtime music, "boom-ching boom-ching".
What is vamp?
Melismatic singing is a feature of this genre.
An effect that causes a sound to become higher or lower.
What is pitch shift?
Low frequencies become boosted when a sound source gets closer to a directional microphone. This effect can be good or bad, depending on the circumstance.
What is the proximity effect?
Any mic placement between 10 and 30cm away from the sound source.
What is close mic'ing?
Another word for off the beat, a common feature of Reggae music.
What is syncopation?