A-Z Glossary Terms

With so many beatbox terms to remember, here are all the terms in the glossary organized in alphabetical order!

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

#

16-Beat

8-Beat

A

Alveolar

Alveolar Ridge

Alveopalatal

Amplifier

Analog

Aspirated

Attenuation Switch

Auditory Illusion

Auxiliary Channel

B

B-Girl or B-Boy

Bar (Measure)

Bass

Bass Roll-Off

Battle

Beat Pattern

Beatbox

Beatboxer

Beatboxing

Beatbusking

Bi-Directional

Bilabial

Biting

Boundary or PZ (pressure zone)

Breath Control

C

Cardioid

Channel Strip

Combination

Compression

Condenser

Cymbal

D

Dental

Differentiator

Digital

Direct Injection (DI Box)

Drum Machine

E

Effects

Ejective

Epiglottal

Equalisation (EQ)

Esh

F

Fader

Feedback

Firewire

Foldback

Forced

Frequency

Fricative

Front of House (FOH)

G

Gain

Gate

Glottal

H

Hearing Loss

Hertz (Hz)

Hi-hat

High pass filter

Human Beatboxing

Hyper Cardioid

I

Injective

Input section

Instrument

Interdental

Interface

Inward

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

J

Jack

K

Kick

Kouji

L

Labiodental

Latency

Level Up

Live Looping

Loop Station

Looper

M

Mahnie

Microphone

Middle School

Monitor

Multi Pattern

Multivocalism

N

New School

Noise

O

Old School

Omnidirectional

Oscillation

Outward

P

Palatal

Percussion

PFL (Pre Fade Listen)

Phantom Power

Pharyngeal

Phase

Phonetics

Phono (RCA)

Plosive

Pop Shield

Proximity Effect

Psychoacoustics

R

Resonant Frequency

Reverb

Rimshot

Roll

S

Scratching

Sequence

Signal to Noise Ratio

Single

Snare

Sound Effect (SFX)

Sound Wave

Standard Beatbox Notation (SBN)

Swish

T

Tongue Groove

Transducer

Transient

U

Unaspirated

Unforced

Unvoiced (Voiceless)

USB

Uvular

V

Velar

Vocal Percussion

Voiced

W

Wired

Wireless

X

XLR

Y

Z