Labiodental literally means lip-teeth. Labiodental beatbox sounds are created with the top front teeth resting on the lower lip or the bottom front teeth resting on the upper lip. An example ...

Bilabial literally means two-lipped. Bilabial beatbox sounds can be created with the two lips. An example of a bilabial sound is the Classic Kick Drum { B }.

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is an internationally recognised way of notating sounds produced by the human mouth and vocal tract. It is used by those wishing to study sound ...

A drum machine is a piece of analog or digital equipment that electronically reproduces drum sounds. Typically, a drum machine will have sounds and patterns. Early drum machines contained few ...

Whereas phonetics is the physical study of how sounds are made, psychoacoustics is the study of how the brain perceives sound. For example, what your brain interprets as sound might not ...

Phonetics is the study of how human sound is produced - particularly in language. Beatboxers use phonetics to describe non-language beatboxing sounds. In 2005, TyTe developed a phonetic approach to ...

A compressor is a dynamics-based effect that turns the loud bits of a signal down and then allows the whole signal to be turned up. It 'compresses' the dynamic range ...

A gate is a type of dynamics-based effect that allows the sound through when it goes above a certain level (threshold). Gates are useful to isolate sounds from unwanted background ...

An Auxiliary Channel on a mixer is a separate audio bus (mix) that can be used to send audio out of different outputs on a mixer. For example, an auxiliary ...