Music Production
Music Production
30 Terms for Music Production terms
This will be a glossary about Music production concepts and tricks
- Air
- noun
- Refers to frequencies above 12 kHz. A quality that allows the song to breathe a little.
- Example: I need some air between the verse and chorus
- en: Aire
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- Arrangement
- noun
- Any adaptation of a composition to fit a medium other than that for which it was originally written
- Example: Almost all of the tracks are arrangements of music Nobuo Uematsu composed for Final Fantasy games, arranged by Kenji Ito.
- en: Arreglo
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- Automation
- Noun
- Having a DAW (Logic Pro X, Pro Tools, Ableton, etc.) automatically perform tasks over time
- Example: I used the automation of Logic for finishing the job
- en: Automatización
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- Body
- noun
- The frequency range of an instrument where it produces its richest tone, often around 800 Hz to 1 kHz.
- Example: The violins have a nice body on the chorus
- en: Cuerpo
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- Boomy
- noun
- Too much low-frequency energy.
- Example: The bass is too boomy, I don't like it
- en: Retumbante
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- Brown
- noun
- A term for the sound that Eddie Van Halen used to get from his guitar amp.
- Example: Adjust the guitar to Brown
- en: Cafe
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- Cold
- noun
- Lacking warmth. Often used as a derogatory term to describe digital recordings
- Example: Your song is cold, please modify it
- en: Frio
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- Depth
- noun
- Full-bodied sound. Often the result of enhancing frequencies just above and below the main body of the instrument.
- Example: That voice has good depth
- en: Profundidad
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- Dry
- Adjective
- An instrument without effects applied to it.
- Example: The guitar is dry right now, you want me to modify it?
- en: Seco
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- Edgy
- adjective
- An extreme of punchy, bordering on uncomfortable, depending on the music.
- Example: Those speakers sound too edgy
- en: tenso
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- Equalizer
- noun
- One of the most well-known forms of audio processing in music production.
- Example: Could you EQ this track?
- en: Ecualizador
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- Gain
- verb
- Point during an audio signal flow that the engineer can make adjustments to the level.
- Example: Add some gain to the bass, I can't hear it
- en: Ganancia
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- Grainy
- adjective
- Poor digital resolution.
- Example: You have to record again the drums, they are too grainy
- en: Granoso
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- Groove
- verb
- sense of an effect
- Example: I close my eyes to groove on the music.
- en: Sensación
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- Harsh
- adjective
- Another derogatory term for digital recordings.
- Example: I don't like your sample voice, is very harsh
- en: Duro
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- Layers
- noun
- When you combine multiple individual sounds to create a single, more complete sound.
- Example: Check the drum's layer for the HiHats
- en: Capas
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- Mix
- verb
- A process of blending individual things in a recording to come up with
- Example: Did you mix the bass with the guitar?
- en: Mezclar
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- Muddy
- adjective
- Lack of definition in a sound
- Example: Your whole song is very muddy, modify it
- en: Mugroso
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- Orange
- noun
- Get this guy out of your studio; he’s just making stuff up.
- Example: Hey, this guy is orange, yo know what does that mean
- en: Naranja
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- Panning
- Verb
- The distribution of a audio signal
- Example: You are listening the guitar on your left side because of the panning
- en: Paneo
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- Presence
- noun
- A nice balance between an instrument’s attack and its main tone.
- Example: That bass has some presence, that's fire
- en: Presencia
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- Punchy
- adjective
- A nice attack and sense of presence
- Example: That kick is very punchy
- en: Golpe
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- Reverb
- verb
- The persistence of sound after a sound is produced.
- Example: That reverb in the voice sounds sweet
- en: Reverberación
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- Round
- adjective
- Sometimes refers to sounds that have a pronounced midrange quality.
- Example: Your hihats are round in the song right?
- en: ronda
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- Saturation
- Verb
- A subtle form of distortion that adds pleasant-sounding harmonics
- Example: Your song is very saturated
- en: saturación
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- Sheet music
- noun
- music printed on unbound sheets of paper.
- Example: Could you pass me the sheet music? I want to learn the song
- en: Partitura
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- Sibilance
- noun
- Pronounced sounds.
- Example: Your song is very sibilance
- en: Pronunciado
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- Smooth
- adjective
- Smooth sounds are those that have an even level to them.
- Example: Those chords are smooth
- en: Suave
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- Warm
- adjective
- Lacking harshness or coldness.
- Example: The voice is warm, you can fix it?
- en: Calido
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- Wet
- adjective
- An instrument with effects applied to it.
- Example: that charods are wet, did you use ableton to modify it?
- en: Mojado
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