0986 – The Diction-ary of Voice – F

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2023.09.13 – 0986 – The Diction-ary of Voice – F

**F

Fade (in, out, up, down, under) - to gradually adjust the volume of sound from low to high or high to low

Fader – an audio channel’s level controller

Fade to black/fade away – to decrease the volume of a sound until it cannot be heard

Falsetto - the vocal register just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave

Feedback – the loud howl-round, looped sound when a ‘live’ mic is too close to a speaker or headphones, and the sound repeats

Fluff – mistake or verbal trip “I fluffed that line, can I take it again?”

Foley - recording custom sound effects

Fricatives – the group of sounds which cause air to ‘seep’ from between the lips, such as f, h, s, v, th and sh. Ironically heard at the start of the word ‘fricative’

From the top – start a recording from, well, the start

**G

Gain – increasing the volume of sound, usually on a mic channel and usually beyond what is often necessary

Gallery – the control room outside the main studio, where a producer, director and clients may sit and work from

Garage Band - DAW software that comes for free on a Mac.

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