reverb
English
Etymology
Clipping of reverberation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (noun) /ˈɹiːˌvɜː(ɹ)b/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (verb) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːˌvɜː(ɹ)b/, /ɹiːˈvɜː(ɹ)b/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (verb) Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Noun
reverb (uncountable)
- (audio effects) An electronic effect which simulates echoes or reverberations in the sound signal being processed.
- 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 265:
- The band is starting, something lonesome, off-key, and drowning in reverb.
Related terms
Translations
electronic effect
Verb
reverb (third-person singular simple present reverbs, present participle reverbing, simple past and past participle reverbed)
- (obsolete) To echo.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- low sounds Reverb no hollowness
- (transitive) To apply a reverb (electronic echo effect) to.
- 1988, High Fidelity - Volume 38, Issue 2, page 28:
- If the recording is misequalized, overmiked , or poorly reverbed, the C/II will expose these faults.
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English reverb.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈvɛʁ.bi/ [heˈvɛɦ.bi], /ʁɛˈvɛʁ.bi/ [hɛˈvɛɦ.bi]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ʁeˈvɛɾ.bi/ [heˈvɛɾ.bi], /ʁɛˈvɛɾ.bi/ [hɛˈvɛɾ.bi]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁeˈvɛʁ.bi/ [χeˈvɛʁ.bi], /ʁɛˈvɛʁ.bi/ [χɛˈvɛʁ.bi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁeˈvɛɻ.be/ [heˈvɛɻ.be], /ʁɛˈvɛɻ.be/ [hɛˈvɛɻ.be]
Noun
reverb m (plural reverbs)
- (audio effects) reverb (electronic effect mimicking reverberation)