An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through...
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Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster (category Effects units)
The Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster was an effects unit made for guitarists in the 1960s. Its function was two-fold: to increase the signal strength...
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Talk box (redirect from Voice box (effects pedal))
A talk box (also spelled talkbox and talk-box) is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency...
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vibrato unit is an electronic effects unit used to add vibrato to the sound of an electric instrument, most often an electric guitar. Vibrato units may be...
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preamp is often designed to produce overdrive or distortion effects. A stand-alone unit for use in live music and recording studio applications Part...
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(American legal terms) Chimney effect Chorus effect (audio effects) (audio engineering) (effects units) (sound recording) Christiansen effect (optical filters)...
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Audio effect (redirect from Audio effects)
performed sound for a movie or play Modification of sound produced by an effects unit Audio signal processing This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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Delay (audio effect) (redirect from Delay unit)
Analog effects units were introduced in the 1970s; digital effects pedals in 1984; and audio plug-in software in the 2000s. The first delay effects were...
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also use a microphone to speak to the audience; effects units such as reverb to create sound effects and electronic musical instruments such as drum machines...
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Auto-Tune (category Effects units)
that Auto-Tune had "revolutionized popular music", calling its use for effects "the fad that just wouldn't fade. Its use is now more entrenched than ever...
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switches often disconnect phantom power. Some active DI units also have electronic effects units. A pass-through connector is a second jack, sometimes simply...
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unit mass. The unit was named after British physicist Louis Harold Gray, a pioneer in the measurement of X-ray and radium radiation and their effects...
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Pitch shifting (category Effects units)
technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered. Effects units that raise or lower pitch by a pre-designated musical interval (transposition)...
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MXR Dyna Comp (category Effects units)
MXR Dyna Comp is an effects unit, which is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument. This effects unit is produced by the MXR...
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The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave...
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Ensoniq ASR-10 (section Effects unit)
order to create a complete song. It included a powerful and flexible effects unit, polyphonic aftertouch, an advanced MIDI sequencer, load-while-playing...
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List of distortion pedals (category Effects units)
Distortion pedals are a type of effects unit designed to add distortion to an audio signal to create a warm, gritty, or fuzzy character. Depending on the...
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Tremolo (electronic effect) (category Effects units)
including notation, see Tremolo. The first self-standing electronic tremolo effects unit may have been produced by DeArmond, in which a motor shakes a canister...
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samples, and was the first mass-produced synthesizer with built-in digital effects such as delay, reverb and chorus.: 63 In 1988, the Japanese manufacturer...
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Bass effects are electronic effects units that are designed for use with an electric bass and a bass amplifier, or for an upright bass and a bass amp or...
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Watkins Copicat (category Effects units)
Watkins Copicat is an effects unit that produces tape delay effects. One of the first commercially available tape delay units, the original Copicat model...
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one effects unit to a synthesizer part, a different effect to a guitar part, a chorused reverb effect to the lead vocals, and different effects to all...
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An effects loop is a series of audio effects units, connected between two points of a signal path (the route that a signal would travel from the input...
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Tone Bender (category Effects units)
through the Macari brothers' Musical Exchange music stores, with later units bearing the Macari's Sola Sounds brand. Notable examples of the Tone Bender...
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sound, he asked engineer Manning to call the show and find out what the effects unit was. Manning eventually convinced a reluctant show producer to reveal...
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Slicer (guitar effect) (category Effects units)
A slicer is an effects unit which is similar to a tremolo, vibrato, phaser, or autopan. It combines a modulation sequence with a noise gate or envelope...
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Sievert (redirect from Sievert (unit))
radiation dose measurement and research into the biological effects of radiation. The sievert unit is used for radiation dose quantities such as equivalent...
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Special effect (redirect from Effects animation)
assembled his own effects team (Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pederson and Wally Veevers) rather than use an in-house effects unit for 2001: A Space...
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Pitch correction (section Extreme effects)
Pitch correction is an electronic effects unit or audio software that changes the intonation (highness or lowness in pitch) of an audio signal so that...
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