Terms starting with P

7 terms in Audio

  • PCM

    Audio › Digital audio

    PCM, or pulse-code modulation, is the standard method of digital audio that samples a waveform at regular intervals and stores each sample…

  • Phantom power

    Audio › Recording

    Phantom power in audio recording is DC voltage, usually 48 V, sent through balanced microphone cables to power condenser microphones and active…

  • Phaser

    Audio › Audio effects

    A phaser is an audio effect that sweeps notches through the spectrum by mixing a signal with an all-pass filtered copy, creating…

  • Pitch shifting

    Audio › Audio effects

    Pitch shifting is an audio effect that raises or lowers the pitch of a sound by a set interval, usually without changing…

  • Podcast

    Audio › Podcasts & speech

    A podcast is a series of digital audio episodes published through an RSS feed so that listeners can subscribe and receive new…

  • Podcast hosting

    Audio › Podcasts & speech

    Podcast hosting is the service that stores podcast audio files, generates the RSS feed and delivers episodes to apps and directories worldwide.

  • Polar pattern

    Audio › Microphones

    A polar pattern describes how sensitive a microphone is to sound arriving from different directions, from omnidirectional to cardioid and figure-8.