Glossary of Audio & Radio Terms

This glossary is organized in alphabetical order, and the terms grouped as follows:

• acoustics - amp/ampere
• amplifier - balanced
• band-limiting filter- bus master
• condenser mic - damping factor
• DAW - distortion
• dither - efficiency
• EMI (electro-magnetic interference) - filter
• Five-point-one (5.1) surround sound - Gain
• Gate to Headroom
• Hearing range to LED (light emitting diode)
• Level to Mic (Mike)
• Mixdown to Noise-reduction system
• Non-destructive editing to Overtones
• Pan/pan pot to Pickup
• Pitch to Radio Voice
• Random access to Sampling frequency
• Saturation to SMPTE time code
• Solo to Sweet spot
• Sync to TS
• Tweeter to XLR