Audio

Audio effects

Terms

7 terms

  • Chorus

    Chorus is an audio effect that mixes a signal with slightly delayed, pitch-modulated copies of itself, making one voice or instrument sound wider and richer.

  • Delay

    Delay is an audio effect that records a signal and plays it back after a set time, creating echoes, doubling, rhythmic repeats and a sense of…

  • Distortion

    Distortion in audio effects is the deliberate nonlinear reshaping of a waveform that adds harmonics, compression and grit to a sound.

  • Flanger

    A flanger is a modulation audio effect that mixes a signal with a very short, slowly varying delayed copy, creating a sweeping comb-filter sound.

  • Phaser

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

  • Pitch shifting

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

  • Reverb

    Reverb is the dense pattern of sound reflections that follows a source in a space, recreated as an audio effect to add depth, distance and room…