Guitar amplifier, the Glossary
A guitar amplifier (or amp) is an electronic device or system that strengthens the electrical signal from a pickup on an electric guitar, bass guitar, or acoustic guitar so that it can produce sound through one or more loudspeakers, which are typically housed in a wooden cabinet.[1]
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Acoustic guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current that periodically reverses direction and changes its magnitude continuously with time, in contrast to direct current (DC), which flows only in one direction.
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Ampeg
Ampeg ("amplified peg") is a manufacturer best known for its bass amplifiers. Guitar amplifier and Ampeg are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
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Amplifier modeling
Amplifier modeling (also known as amp modeling or amp emulation) is the process of emulating a physical amplifier such as a guitar amplifier. Guitar amplifier and amplifier modeling are instrument amplifiers.
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Audio engineer
An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.
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Audio power amplifier
An audio power amplifier (or power amp) amplifies low-power electronic audio signals, such as the signal from a radio receiver or an electric guitar pickup, to a level that is high enough for driving loudspeakers or headphones. Guitar amplifier and audio power amplifier are electric guitars.
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Balanced line
In telecommunications and professional audio, a balanced line or balanced signal pair is an electrical circuit consisting of two conductors of the same type, both of which have equal impedances along their lengths, to ground, and to other circuits.
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Band-stop filter
In signal processing, a band-stop filter or band-rejection filter is a filter that passes most frequencies unaltered, but attenuates those in a specific range to very low levels.
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Bass amplifier
A bass amplifier (also abbreviated to bass amp) is a musical instrument electronic device that uses electrical power to make lower-pitched instruments such as the bass guitar or double bass loud enough to be heard by the performers and audience. Guitar amplifier and bass amplifier are blues instruments, folk music instruments, instrument amplifiers, jazz instruments and rock music instruments.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. Guitar amplifier and bass guitar are blues instruments, folk music instruments, jazz instruments and rock music instruments.
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Bass reflex
A bass reflex system (also known as a ported, vented box or reflex port) is a type of loudspeaker enclosure that uses a port (hole) or vent cut into the cabinet and a section of tubing or pipe affixed to the port.
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Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
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Blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.
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Bob Dunn (musician)
Robert Lee Dunn (February 5, 1908 – May 27, 1971) was a pioneer Western swing steel guitarist.
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Bob Wills
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.
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CD player
A CD player is an electronic device that plays audio compact discs, which are a digital optical disc data storage format.
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Chorus (audio effect)
Chorus (or chorusing, choruser or chorused effect) is an audio effect that occurs when individual sounds with approximately the same time, and very similar pitches, converge.
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Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter who pioneered rock and roll.
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Class-D amplifier
A class-D amplifier or switching amplifier is an electronic amplifier in which the amplifying devices (transistors, usually MOSFETs) operate as electronic switches, and not as linear gain devices as in other amplifiers.
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Dave Davies
David Russell Gordon Davies (born 3 February 1947) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter.
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Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.
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DI unit
A DI unit (direct input or direct inject) is an electronic device typically used in recording studios and in sound reinforcement systems to connect a high output impedance unbalanced output signal to a low-impedance, microphone level, balanced input, usually via an XLR connector and XLR cable.
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Dick Dale
Richard Anthony Monsour (May 4, 1937 – March 16, 2019), known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist.
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Distortion (music)
Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone. Guitar amplifier and Distortion (music) are electric guitars.
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Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
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Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.
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Dynamic range compression
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.
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Effects loop
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 to the output); usually between the pre-amp and power amp stages of an amplifier circuit, although occasionally between two pre-amp stages.
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Effects unit
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 audio signal processing. Guitar amplifier and effects unit are electric guitars.
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Electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.
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Electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. Guitar amplifier and electric guitar are blues instruments, electric guitars, jazz instruments and rock music instruments.
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Electric piano
An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into electrical signals by pickups (either magnetic, electrostatic, or piezoelectric).
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Electrical impedance
In electrical engineering, impedance is the opposition to alternating current presented by the combined effect of resistance and reactance in a circuit.
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Electrolytic capacitor
An electrolytic capacitor is a polarized capacitor whose anode or positive plate is made of a metal that forms an insulating oxide layer through anodization.
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Elmore James
Elmore James (Brooks; January 27, 1918 – May 24, 1963) was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bandleader.
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EMusic
eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription.
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Equalization (audio)
Equalization, or simply EQ, in sound recording and reproduction is the process of adjusting the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal.
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Fade (audio engineering)
In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.
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Feedback
Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.
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Fender (company)
The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC, or simply Fender) is an American manufacturer and marketer of musical instruments and amplifiers. Guitar amplifier and Fender (company) are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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Fender Precision Bass
The Fender Precision Bass (or "P-Bass") is a model of electric bass guitar manufactured by Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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Fender Stratocaster
The Fender Stratocaster, colloquially known as the Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed between 1952 and 1954 by Leo Fender, Bill Carson, George Fullerton, and Freddie Tavares.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Gain compression
Gain compression is a reduction in differential or slope gain caused by nonlinearity of the transfer function of an amplifying device for large-signal inputs.
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Gizmodo
Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.
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Goree Carter
Goree Chester Carter or Christer Carter (December 31, 1930 – December 29, 1990), was an American singer, guitarist, drummer, and songwriter.
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Gretna, Louisiana
Gretna is the second-largest city in, and parish seat of, Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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Guitar Player
Guitar Player is an American magazine for guitarists, founded in 1967 in San Jose, California.
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Guitar Slim
Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), known as Guitar Slim, was an American guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song "The Things That I Used to Do", for Specialty Records.
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Guitar speaker
A guitar speaker is a loudspeaker – specifically the driver (transducer) part – designed for use in a combination guitar amplifier (in which a loudspeaker and an amplifier are installed in a wooden cabinet) of an electric guitar, or for use in a guitar speaker cabinet. Guitar amplifier and guitar speaker are electric guitars.
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Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Guitar amplifier and Hammond organ are blues instruments, folk music instruments, jazz instruments and rock music instruments.
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Hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.
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Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s.
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Headroom (audio signal processing)
In digital and analog audio, headroom refers to the amount by which the signal-handling capabilities of an audio system can exceed a designated nominal level.
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Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States.
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High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound.
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Idiom
An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.
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Ike Turner
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.
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Insert (effects processing)
In audio processing and sound reinforcement, an insert is an access point built into the mixing console, allowing the audio engineer to add external line level devices into the signal flow between the microphone preamplifier and the mix bus.
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Instrument amplifier
An instrument amplifier is an electronic device that converts the often barely audible or purely electronic signal of a musical instrument into a larger electronic signal to feed to a loudspeaker. Guitar amplifier and instrument amplifier are blues instruments, instrument amplifiers and rock music instruments.
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Isolation cabinet (guitar)
A guitar speaker isolation cabinet is a sound-proof enclosure that surrounds the speaker and sound-capturing microphone and prevents sound leakage into the outside environment, enabling the guitar amplifier to be turned up without excessive listening volume. Guitar amplifier and isolation cabinet (guitar) are electric guitars.
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Joe Hill Louis
Lester Hill (September 23, 1921 – August 5, 1957), known professionally as Joe Hill Louis, was an American singer, guitarist, harmonica player and one-man band.
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Johnny Burnette
John Joseph Burnette (March 25, 1934 – August 14, 1964) was an American singer and songwriter of rockabilly and pop music.
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Keyboard amplifier
A keyboard amplifier is a powered electronic amplifier and loudspeaker in a wooden speaker cabinet used for the amplification of electronic keyboard instruments. Guitar amplifier and keyboard amplifier are instrument amplifiers.
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Kustom Amplification
Kustom Amplification or Kustom Electronics is a manufacturer of guitar and bass amplifiers and PA equipment and accessories. Guitar amplifier and Kustom Amplification are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar, also known as a Hawaiian guitar, is a type of steel guitar without pedals that is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position across the performer's lap.
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Leo Fender
Clarence Leonidas Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor and founder of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation.
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Leon McAuliffe
William Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917 – August 20, 1988) was an American Western swing guitarist who was a member of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys during the 1930s.
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Leslie speaker
The Leslie speaker is a combined amplifier and loudspeaker that projects the signal from an electric or electronic instrument and modifies the sound by rotating a baffle chamber ("drum") in front of the loudspeakers. Guitar amplifier and Leslie speaker are instrument amplifiers.
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Line 6 (company)
Line 6 is a musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer, best known as a pioneer in guitar amplifier and effect modeling. Guitar amplifier and Line 6 (company) are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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Line level
Line level is the specified strength of an audio signal used to transmit analog sound between audio components such as CD and DVD players, television sets, audio amplifiers, and mixing consoles.
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Link Wray
Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr. (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist who became popular in the late 1950s.
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List of Cambridge Companions to Music
The Cambridge Companions to Music form a book series published by Cambridge University Press.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (commonly referred to as a speaker or speaker driver) is an electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
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Loudspeaker enclosure
A loudspeaker enclosure or loudspeaker cabinet is an enclosure (often rectangular box-shaped) in which speaker drivers (e.g., loudspeakers and tweeters) and associated electronic hardware, such as crossover circuits and, in some cases, power amplifiers, are mounted.
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Medium-density fibreboard
Medium-density fibreboard (MDF) is an engineered wood product made by breaking down hardwood or softwood residuals into wood fibre, often in a defibrator, combining it with wax and a resin binder, and forming it into panels by applying high temperature and pressure.
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Microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic, or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.
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Mid-range speaker
A mid-range speaker is a loudspeaker driver that reproduces sound in the frequency range from 250 to 2000 Hz.
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Milton Brown
Milton Brown (September 8, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing.
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Movie theater
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment.
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Music festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or holiday.
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Music Man (company)
Music Man is an American guitar and bass guitar manufacturer.
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Music of Hawaii
The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop.
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Nigel Tufnel
Nigel Tufnel is a fictional character in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap.
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Nightclub
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment.
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Particle board
Particle board, also known as particleboard or chipboard, is an engineered wood product, belonging to the wood-based panels, manufactured from wood chips and a synthetic, mostly formaldehyde based resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed under a hot press, batch- or continuous- type, and produced.
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Pat Hare
Auburn "Pat" Hare (December 20, 1930 – September 26, 1980) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.
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Patch cable
A patch cable, patch cord or patch lead is an electrical or fiber-optic cable used to connect ("patch in") one electronic or optical device to another for signal routing.
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Patch panel
A patch panel is a device or unit featuring a number of jacks, usually of the same or similar type, for the use of connecting and routing circuits for monitoring, interconnecting, and testing circuits in a convenient, flexible manner.
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Paul Tutmarc
Paul Tutmarc (May 29, 1896 – September 25, 1972) was an American musician and musical instrument inventor.
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Pelican Publishing Company
Pelican Publishing Company is a book publisher based in Elmwood, Louisiana, with a New Orleans postal address.
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Phone connector (audio)
A phone connector is a family of cylindrically-shaped electrical connectors primarily for analog audio signals.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instrument amplifier to produce musical sounds through a loudspeaker in a speaker enclosure.
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Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the electric charge that accumulates in certain solid materials—such as crystals, certain ceramics, and biological matter such as bone, DNA, and various proteins—in response to applied mechanical stress.
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Plywood
Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.
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A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.
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Potentiometer
A potentiometer is a three-terminal resistor with a sliding or rotating contact that forms an adjustable voltage divider.
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Power amplifier classes
In electronics, power amplifier classes are letter symbols applied to different power amplifier types.
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Power attenuator (guitar)
A power attenuator, used with a guitar amplifier, is a type of attenuator that diverts and dissipates a portion of the amplifier's power to enable hearing the amplifiers high-volume characteristics at lower volume. Guitar amplifier and power attenuator (guitar) are electric guitars.
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Power supply
A power supply is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load.
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Powered speakers
Powered speakers, also known as self-powered speakers and active speakers, are loudspeakers that have built-in amplifiers.
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Preamplifier
A preamplifier, also known as a preamp, is an electronic amplifier that converts a weak electrical signal into an output signal strong enough to be noise-tolerant and strong enough for further processing, or for sending to a power amplifier and a loudspeaker.
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Presence (amplification)
In an amplifier, a presence control boosts the upper mid-range frequencies to make the sounds of voices and instruments with similar tonal ranges seem more "present".
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Public address system
A public address system (or PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.
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RCA connector
The RCA connector is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry audio and video signals.
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Re-amp
Re-amping is a process often used in multitrack recording in which a recorded signal is routed back out of the editing environment and run through external processing using effects units and then into a guitar amplifier and a guitar speaker cabinet or a reverb chamber.
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Record producer
A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles.
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Rectifier
A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC), which periodically reverses direction, to direct current (DC), which flows in only one direction.
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Reverb effect
A reverb effect, or reverb, is an audio effect applied to a sound signal to simulate reverberation.
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Reverberation
Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.
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Rickenbacker
Rickenbacker International Corporation is a string instrument manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. Guitar amplifier and Rickenbacker are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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Robert Palmer (American writer)
Robert Franklin Palmer Jr. (June 19, 1945 – November 20, 1997) was an American writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer.
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Roland Jazz Chorus
Roland Jazz Chorus is the name given to a series of solid-state instrument amplifiers produced by the Roland Corporation in Japan since 1975. Guitar amplifier and Roland Jazz Chorus are instrument amplifiers.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Session musician
A session musician (also known as studio musician or backing musician) is a musician hired to perform in a recording session or a live performance.
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Solid-state electronics
Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs).
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Sound recording and reproduction
Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.
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Stomp box
A stomp box (or stompbox) is a percussion instrument consisting of a small box placed under the foot, which is tapped or stamped on rhythmically to produce a sound similar to that of a bass drum.
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Street performance
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.
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Subwoofer
A subwoofer (or sub) is a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low-pitched audio frequencies, known as bass and sub-bass, that are lower in frequency than those which can be (optimally) generated by a woofer.
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Surf music
Surf music (also known as surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.
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SWR Sound Corporation
SWR Sound Corporation was a specialist manufacturer of bass guitar amplifiers, preamps, speaker cabinets, and acoustic guitar amplifiers. Guitar amplifier and SWR Sound Corporation are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp.
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The Kinks
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
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This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap (also known as This Is Spın̈al Tap: A Rockumentary by Martin Di Bergi) is a 1984 American mockumentary comedy film co-written and directed by Rob Reiner (in his feature directorial debut).
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Timbre
In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
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Tremolo
In music, tremolo, or tremolando, is a trembling effect.
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Tube sound
Tube sound (or valve sound) is the characteristic sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube-based audio amplifier.
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Tweeter
A tweeter or treble speaker is a special type of loudspeaker (usually dome, inverse dome or horn-type) that is designed to produce high audio frequencies, typically up to 100 kHz.
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Up to eleven
"Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates an amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.
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USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.
Vacuum tube
A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America) is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied.
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Valve amplifier
A valve amplifier or tube amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that uses vacuum tubes to increase the amplitude or power of a signal.
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Vibrato unit
A vibrato unit is an electronic effects unit used to add vibrato to the sound of an electric instrument, most often an electric guitar.
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Vintage musical equipment
Vintage musical equipment is older music gear, including instruments, amplifiers and speakers, sound recording equipment and effects pedals, sought after, maintained and used by record producers, audio engineers and musicians who are interested in historical music genres. Guitar amplifier and Vintage musical equipment are instrument amplifiers.
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Vox (company)
Vox is a British musical equipment manufacturer founded in 1957 by Thomas Walter Jennings in Dartford, Kent, England. Guitar amplifier and Vox (company) are guitar amplifier manufacturers.
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Vox AC30
The Vox AC30 is a guitar amplifier manufactured by Vox. Guitar amplifier and Vox AC30 are instrument amplifiers.
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Wah-wah pedal
A wah-wah pedal, or simply wah pedal, is a type of effects pedal designed for electric guitar that alters the timbre of the input signal to create a distinctive sound, mimicking the human voice saying the onomatopoeic name "wah-wah".
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Western swing
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.
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Willie Johnson (guitarist)
Willie Johnson (March 4, 1923 – February 26, 1995) was an American electric blues guitarist.
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Woofer
A woofer or bass speaker is a technical term for a loudspeaker driver designed to produce low frequency sounds, typically from 20 Hz up to a few hundred Hz.
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XLR connector
The XLR connector is a type of electrical connector primarily used in professional audio, video, and stage lighting equipment.
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See also
Blues instruments
- Archtop guitar
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Guitar
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Harmonica
- Instrument amplifier
- Mandolin
Folk music instruments
- Accordion
- Almpfeiferl
- Banjo
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Bhankora
- Damau
- Dhol damau
- Digital accordion
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Folk instrument
- Folk instruments of Punjab
- Guitar
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Harmonica
- Mandolin
- Mashak
- Ransingha
- Tin whistle
- Tiwa musical instruments
- Viola
- Violin
- Zither
Jazz instruments
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Clarinet
- Contra-alto clarinet
- Double bass
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Flute
- French horn
- French horn in jazz
- Gibson ES-350T
- Goema
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Jazz bass
- Jazz drumming
- Jazz flute
- Jazz guitar
- Jazz piano
- Jazz trombone
- Jazz violin
- Rhythm section
- Saxophone
- Sitar in jazz
- Trombone
- Trombones
- Trumpet
- Trumpets
- Valide trombone
- Valve trombone
- Vibraphone
Rock music instruments
- Bass amplifier
- Bass guitar
- Drum kit
- Electric guitar
- Gibson ES-350T
- Guitar amplifier
- Hammond organ
- Heavy metal drumming
- Instrument amplifier
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_amplifier
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