NEW SOUND VOCABU-LARRY

Updated 03/14/12

As I do recording or sound reinforcement, I find situations where there just isn't a word to describe what happened. So, I coined a few. But 8 of the words are real, and 13 more are words coined by others that I adapted to sound engineering. Try to find them before consulting the answers at the end.

  1. @ack (N - Pronounced "at ack") - Deluge of email complaining about the quality of your latest CD.
  2. Alabammer (N) - A drummer who can't hit any way but hard.
  3. Alienostic (A) - Believing aliens from outer space are affecting the sound.
  4. Alzhymners Disease (N) - Choir members who can't remember the words. **
  5. Analogism (N) - The belief that analog sounds best.
  6. Antitintinabulation (S) - Unwanted sounds caused by jewelry worn by a singer.
  7. Arachnoleptic Fit (N) - The frantic dance performed just after walking through a spider web. ****
  8. Arhythmetic (N) - Counting out the sequence of a rhythm (1 uh and a 2 uh and a ...).
  9. Artchitect (N) - An architect who places the beauty he can create above the functionality of the building.
  10. Atomispuzz (S) - Opening the fader of the SMPTE sync track by mistake.
  11. Attidude (N) - The laid-back overconfidence of a novice.
  12. Audiovisualoglyphics (N) - Pictorial symbols on the buttons of a remote control for audio-visual equipment. See DRUNE
  13. Audivainue (N) - A place where vain audiences watch and listen. See VAINUE.
  14. Autoplay (A, N) - A medley of songs with a common drumbeat, such as in the "Hooked-On" series.
  15. Aww (IJ) - What you are filled with when the band is awful (or is that AWW-ful). Antonym of "awe".
  16. Backsludge (N) - A venue where the mixing console must be backstage, where the engineer can't hear the mix.
  17. Bagpipage (N) - The inability to hear any other instrument while bagpipes are being played.
  18. Balun (N) - A device, usually a transformer, which converts balanced line to unbalanced line and vice versa. *****
  19. Balundrop (N) - Loss of sound caused by a BALUN not working right with the equipment.
  20. Barghum (N) - The sticky syrup on everything in a bar, resulting from spilled beer.
  21. Bassute (N) - The new instrument created when a bassoon and a flute play the same notes octaves apart. * Usually found in children's music.
  22. Beeriad (N) - 10000 cans of beer.
  23. Bellophone (N) - A musical instrument made entirely of telephone bells.
  24. Big Band Theory (PH) - The origin of the universe, according to "The Picture Book of Relativity." *****
  25. Bioblat (N, V, IJ) - Passing gas.
  26. Bipolarism (N) - The belief that bipolar transistors sound best.
  27. Bit Cheap (A) - An effect box that is cheaper, because it does a digital synthesis of the effect.
  28. Blabiot (N) - An idiot who won't shut up.
  29. Blaritone (N) - Any acoustic instrument that is naturally played too loud.
  30. Blooium (N) - The substance that makes equipment go blooey.
  31. Boingage (S) - The effect where a spring reverb works during the song, but oscillates during speech.
  32. Boioioioioioi (S) - A theremin player scratching an itch.
  33. Boombastic (A) - Describing the power of a passing BOOMCAR to ruin a take.
  34. Boomboomph (S) - A bass line that blends into a solid drone due to live room acoustics.
  35. Boomcar (N) - An automobile with a booming THUMPER.
  36. Boxcorner (N) - The corner of the studio where you keep all of your BOXIC WASTE.
  37. Boxic waste (N) - All of the empty original manufacture's cartons you have to keep to get any warranty service.
  38. Bragsheet (N) - A newsletter telling what the band has done recently.
  39. Braticulated (A) - Worried about your equipment because children are playing nearby.
  40. Broyp (S) - A sound caused by a tape or record coming up to speed while it is playing a note.
  41. Bureauc Rat (S) - Any public official opposed to a live concert.
  42. Buy-buy Mic (PH) - The result of putting a mic in the drummer's way, or of a STANDFALL.
  43. Bubbleglup (S) - A sound caused by a dropout in a digital medium.
  44. Byorp (S) - A sound caused by a tape coming up to speed while recording a note.
  45. Cacophonics and Feud in H-minor (PH) - The awful result of MIDI FEEDBACK.
  46. Californicate (V) - 1. To behave like HOLLYWODD actors and actresses do in TV shows.
    2. To believe that the California government actually knows what it is doing.
  47. Californitritus (N) - All of those labels on equipment saying that it contains something "known to the State of California" to be harmful in some obscure way or another. Treat them as the trash they are.
  48. Cansas (N) - A recycle bin full of cans right next to the stage, rattling along with the band.
  49. Capoid (N) - Any chord that is easier to play on a guitar if you use a capo.
  50. Celebratty (A) - Describing a well-known musician acting like a spoiled brat.
  51. Celebraty (N) - A well-known musician who acts like a spoiled brat.
  52. Celluyodel (S) - A ringing cellular phone ruining a take.
  53. Chairattle (S) - Sounds produced by folding chairs in the audience.
  54. Choosch (S) - The freight-train sound of "lawyer impact" in the Ken Nunn commercial.
  55. Chortleography (N) - The art of composing dance steps that are funny.
  56. Clack Trick (N) - The art of actually playing live to a click track.
  57. Clarinettled (A) - Bothered by too many clarinets in a high school band, because most students took clarinet.
  58. Clarinoise (S) - A clarinet squeak in the wrong register.
  59. Clomptonite (N) - What they make loud heels that go "clomp-clomp" out of.
  60. Clonette (N) - An electronic version of a plastic tonette.
  61. Cloon (S) - The sound of "lawyer impact" in the Keller and Keller commercial.
  62. Cloth-Ears (N) - Disease causing an inability to tell good sound from mediocre sound. *****
  63. Cloud (N) - A large piece of sound-absorbing material hung from the ceiling. *****
  64. Clumfert (N) - An extra step in the stairs to the stage that materializes only in the dark. *****
  65. Coasterland (N) - Over the clipping level on a digital device. Makes ruined CDs, which are used for coasters.
  66. Colorato (N) - Music performed on a piece of sound equipment with a built-in light-show device.
  67. Connecticutoff (A) - When the wire gets yanked out of the connector so it can't be fixed.
  68. Connectrated (A) - Unable to find any combination of the adaptors and cables on hand to be able connect device A to device B.
  69. Conscold (V) - Bawling out the guitar player who hooked his speaker output to your mixer and blew out a channel.
  70. Constroy (V) - To hook a speaker output to a mixer and blow out a channel.
  71. Contact Bridge (N) - A card game where people get mad and chase each other around the room. See TACKLE PINOCHLE.
  72. Cooder (N) - Pronunciation of CD-R, which is the acronym for "Compact Disc - Recordable".
  73. Cooderoo (N) - Pronunciation of CD-RW, which is the acronym for "Compact Disc - ReWriteable".
  74. Corrodium (N) - What dead batteries are made of. (See PRE-CORRODIUM.)
  75. Corrodium Warning (N) - "Do not lose this radio in closet while installing dead batteries."
  76. Cry Storm (N) - 1. A crying baby drowning out the band.
    2. A liberal politician drowning out the band.
  77. Cymbsector (N) - A cymbal pad for an electronic drumkit that is the shape of a sector (pie wedge), rather than a circle.
  78. Daw-rats! (IJ) - What you say after being unable to do an operation on a Digital Audio Workstation.
  79. Darkade (N) - A stage with very little light.
  80. Darth Faders (N) - Faders that do not fade smoothly.
  81. Deluted (A) - The state of not being able to hear a lute, because another instrument is in the room.
  82. Demen (N) - The little gremlin who hides the menus on digital equipment, so you can't find them.
  83. Demidesk (N) - Any console that does not have both pre-fader and after-fader solo functions (demi means half).
  84. Demisurround (A) - Describing an attempt to make surround sound from only two speakers.
  85. Democ Rat (A) - Any public official wanting to charge a fee for a live concert that is held on private land.
  86. Demonitorize (V) - To turn down the monitor at the console every time the performer turns it up on stage.
  87. Demonitorized Zone (N) - Any area where the sound man has complete control of the monitors.
  88. Demousify (V) - To use reverb or delay in the monitor to cause a DISLOQUATED or MOUSIFIED vocalist to sing loud.
  89. Depodiated (A) - A speaker who, when told to come up to the podium, finds there isn't one to stand on, but just a lectern.
  90. Desk-can't (N) - A state of being unable to perform the needed function on the available mixer.
  91. Digitalism (N) - The belief that digital sounds best.
  92. Dimenutated (A) - Frustrated from the delays in using a DIMENUTIVE console.
  93. Dimenutive (A) - Having few controls, but with menus to select what those controls do.
  94. DisIKable (A) - On garageband.com, any tune that is not eligible for an Instant Karma review.
  95. Dislaboration (N) - The state of musicians working against each other.
  96. Disloquated (A) - Having stage fright.
  97. Dissostrunk (S) - A sound produced by an unattended guitar falling off its stand.
  98. Dockswell (N) - When the end of the loading dock swells up against the vehicle's rear bumper as you load gear.
  99. Dongle (N) - A device attached to a computer that proves to the software that the user has purchased the software, and thus has a right to use it. Violates the law once the copyright expires. *****
  100. Doonk (S) - A Windows attention sound produced by a PC-based console, ruining a take.
  101. Double Drick (N) - A large-area power failure, such as the one on 11/9/1965. See DRICK. *****
  102. Double Entawdry (N) - Lyrics that have two meanings, with one of them being sexually suggestive.
  103. Dratify (V) - To affirm mistakes as part of the mix.
  104. Drick (S, N) - A power failure. (From the TV series "Green Acres") *****
  105. Dricker (N) - The cause of a power failure. See DRICK.
  106. Droip (S) - The cartoon sound intended to sound like water dripping.
  107. Droot (S) - The sound of a cheap electronic imitation of an electric piano.
  108. Druffle (V) - To place a barrier around a drum kit to quiet it.
  109. Drumachinism (N) - The belief that a drum machine sounds better than a real drummer.
  110. Druma (N) - The use of drums to indicate suspense in movies and TV shows.
  111. Drump Loop (N) - The repeating sound of a drum that got away from the roadie and is rolling down a hill.
  112. Drumsy (A) - Having a tendency to constantly lose drumsticks while playing.
  113. Drune (N) - One of the little international picture symbols found on equipment that supposedly identifies the function of each control without using words. See AUDIOVISUALOGLYPHICS
  114. Dumdrum (N) - The drum section of a $25 keyboard.
  115. Dutch Cow-Tipping Music (PH) - What some critics think of polkas. *****
  116. Dynbamic Range (N) - Punctuation of a quiet section with a loud note or a drumbeat.
  117. Earbusted (N, A) - A person who has ruined his hearing with loud music. LOUDBUSTED.
  118. Earworm (N) - A song you can't get out of your head. *****
  119. Eclectic Guitar (N) - A guitar that starts to play the wrong song.
  120. Edrumism (N) - The belief that electronic drum kits sound best.
  121. Elboing (S) - A sound produced when two performers bump elbows.
  122. Elboingia (N) - A stage that is too small for the band.
  123. Elefat (N) - Any piece of sound equipment too big to fit through the venue door.
  124. Electrifool (N) - Anyone who ignores electrical safety. Examples: 1. Using 3 to 2 prong adapters.
    2. Playing electric guitar in the rain.
  125. Electrifry (V) - To destroy sound equipment by overdriving it.
  126. Ephosic (A) - Describing a person who has the expectation of having to clean dust off a phonograph stylus even when he is listening to digital music.
  127. Evianated (V) - The feeling you get onstage when you pick up your bottled water, and suddenly realize that "Evian" is "naive" spelled backwards.
  128. Excelar (N) - An Extra Large Round (XLR) connector.
  129. Faqirial (A) - A day short and a dollar late.
  130. Faqiry (N, pronounced "fakery") - One of the fake fairies that liberals postulate to exist. They provide the missing wealth needed to support the arts at pre-technology levels.
  131. Faxic Waste (N) - When ads offering tuba lessons come through the fax instead of the wanted gig orders.
  132. Feedaroundback (N) - A long, roundabout series of connections that together cause feedback.
  133. FETism (N) - The belief that field effect transistors sound best.
  134. Fillery Stuff (N) - What the lead musician asks for as a fill when he has no idea of the terms used by the musician he is asking. ***
  135. Fipplefluff (S) - The breath noises from a wind instrument.
  136. Flibbered (A) - Describing what an overactive noise gate did to the sound.
  137. Flink (S) - The sound produced by a powerful strobe light, when picked up by the sound system.
  138. Flinkafied (A) - Blinded by a strobe light.
  139. Flishpankle (S) - The unwanted sound of a cymbal falling off of its stand.
  140. Flooridah (N) - A club with no elevated stage, just a rectangle laid out on the floor for the band.
  141. Fluba (N) - The new instrument created when a tuba and a flute play the same notes octaves apart. * Usually found in children's music.
  142. Flewpart (N) - A FLYPART that can not be found after a PARTFLY occurs. See GRUMMIES.
  143. Flyable Part (N) - FLYPART that has not yet flown. See FLYPART.
  144. Flypart (N) - A part in a machine that is spring-loaded, so it flies out of place as soon as the retaining parts are removed. See FLYABLE PART, PARTFLY, FLEWPART, GRUMMIES.
  145. Foinsplat (S) - The sound of a musician knocking his theremin off of the stand.
  146. Foolower (N) - A groupie who does nothing but follow a lousy band.
  147. Francis Scott's Key (PH) - The unsingable key The Star Spangled Banner was written in.
  148. Frackify (V) - 1. To make a terrible off-key sound when your horn falls apart during a take.
    2. To blow too hard into a duck call.
  149. Fribble (S) - Sounds made by a fur costume.
  150. Frutch (S) - A sound made by something rubbing across a mic.
  151. Fubbafluwatch (N) - The thing you can't think of the name of when you need one immediately before the take. *** See SPLIDNOOG.
  152. Fusstrated (A) - Bothered by a fussy baby in the audience, fearing an all-out CRY STORM.
  153. Gabblerouser (N) - Something in the lyrics that causes the audience to start talking.
  154. Gigglepathic (N) - The portion of your music that invariably causes the audience to giggle.
  155. Giglioglers (N) - People who stand around and watch you put your drum kit together.
  156. Ging (S) - The sound made by the free ends of guitar strings stubbing against things.
  157. Glarade (N) - A stage with plenty of light on the performers, but none on the music stands.
  158. Glitchital (A) - The propensity of digital equipment to be glitched (disturbed by transients).
  159. Glup (S) - A dropout in a recording.
  160. Gluptitude (N) - The probability that a cheap tape causes dropouts.
  161. Gnarble (V) - To accidentally encrypt data with garbage for the encryption key.
  162. Goonister (N) - A musician who plays chords, instead of the part he is supposed to be playing.
  163. Goonstrument (N) - A single instrument created in the mix by all of the chord-playing instruments acting as one sound-producing entity. Combines the disadvantages of all of the individual instruments into one big disadvantage. Also is the cause of a PANODRAMA.
  164. Gooptade (N) - A stage too close to the mud-wrestling pit.
  165. Grickle (S) - 1. A sound made by a damaged mic diaphragm.
    2. A sound made by a candy bar wrapper in a performer's pocket.
  166. Gritch (S) - A sound made by a marginal connection acting up.
  167. Grummies (N) - Little parts that get lost easily.
  168. Grunkle (S) - A sound made by moving the mic stand while the mic is hot.
  169. Gubble-gubble (S) - An instance of a singer forgetting the words. See GUBFUBBLE.
  170. Gubfubble (S) - An instance of a singer forgetting the words. See GUBBLE-GUBBLE.
  171. Guiano (N) - The new instrument created when a piano and an acoustic guitar play the same chords. *
  172. Guianostified (A) - In a mixdown, the inability to separate a piano from an acoustic guitar.
  173. Guitarmophonics (S) - Awful sounds produced by a cheap guitar pickup at high gain. **
  174. Guitusi (N) - The frenzied inverted-guitar dance incited by losing the plectrum (pick) inside the guitar.
  175. Gymnoisium (N) - Any room with such live acoustics that dropping a matchbook is a major sound event.
  176. Gyrese (N) - Whirling Dervish language.
  177. Haberdashanoid (N) - A musician more worried about how his clothes look than about recording the song.
  178. Haftas (N) - Things that must be done.
  179. Hairanoid (N) - A musician more worried about how his hair looks than about recording the song.
  180. Headclomp (S) - A crash produced by an amp head getting yanked off of the speaker by the guitar cord, and falling to the stage floor.
  181. Hemidemisemidesk (N) - Any console that has no solo function at all.
  182. Hocus Bogus (PH) - Words you make up for a song when you forget the real ones.
  183. Hollywodd (N) - Any place where all morality is abandoned. Hollywood at its oddest. See CALIFORNICATE.
  184. Hoopstruck (A) - The anxiety of seeing a basketball from a nearby court heading straight for your mixing console.
  185. Hoopstrunk (A) - A basketball from a nearby court knocking over a guitar.
  186. Hot-Truck Treatment (PH) - Damage to recording media during shipment, due to overheating.
  187. Hymnastics (N) - Rewriting old hymns to modernize them.
  188. Hystericate (V) - To notice that you brought just the empty instrument case, 5 minutes before soundcheck.
  189. ICism (N - pronounced "eye-SEE-is-um") - The belief that integrated circuits sound best.
  190. IKable (A) - On garageband.com, any tune that is eligible for an Instant Karma review.
  191. Illannoyed (A) - Upset because a band member sneezes during every take.
  192. Inhornate (V) - To make noises by inhaling through your wind or brass instrument.
  193. Inkgrog (N) - A magazine in the ready room guaranteed to put any musician to sleep. Example: Business Week.
  194. Inpout (N) - A connection that can be used as either an input or an output.
  195. Insatrument (N) - An instrument that lies, malfunctions, or can't be tuned.
  196. Internixed (A) - Describing a record changer malfunction, caused by loading records in the wrong intermix sequence.
  197. Jackified (A) - After making a long cable run, discovering that the plug doesn't fit the jack at the far end.
  198. Jackinated (A) - plugging a cable into the wrong jack.
  199. Key-Signatory (PH) - Having to sign out a key to the stage lavatory.
  200. Kazician (N) - A kazoo player. (Why?)
  201. Keyboardophile (N) - Anyone who prefers to use a keyboard command over a mouse command.
  202. Kicktonator (N) - A monster kick drum patch that blows out ears.
  203. Killow (N) - A pillow stuffed inside a kick drum to deaden it.
  204. Killpressor (N) - Using a compressor to limit the kick, to avoid going into COASTERLAND.
  205. Klinkectomy (N) - Preventing ANTITINTINABULATION by removing the musician's jewelry.
  206. Knobbered (A) - The state of repeatedly adjusting the same wrong knob on the console to fix a problem.
  207. Kudzician (N) - A musician who puts such complicated improvisation into a piece that the original piece is totally lost in the improvised tangle of kudzu.
  208. Lampson (U) - The unit (abbr. Ls) of speed of human speech. Normal speech is 200 millilampsons. Comes from programmer Butler Lampson. *****
  209. Lampulated (A) - Distracted by all of the flashing lights on the equipment.
  210. Lampulized (A) - Overjoyed by all of the flashing lights on the equipment.
  211. Latigid (A) - Describing the sound of digital audio, especially the part that is different from analog.
  212. LEDify (V) - To get information from all of the flashing lights on the equipment.
  213. Liquese (N) - Drunken speech or singing.
  214. Loudbusted (N, A) - A person who has ruined his hearing with loud music. EARBUSTED.
  215. Loudbuster (N) - A sound man who ruins the hearing of other people with loud music.
  216. Lousyana (N) - A state with laws that require ground loops to exist.
  217. Lumptated (A) - Trying to sing after your significant other just broke up with you.
  218. Maindrown (N) - When the main speakers drown out everyone's monitors.
  219. Malformite (N) - What defective equipment is made of.
  220. Megabucksic (A) - Extremely expensive.
  221. Megaglup (S) - 1. A break in the tape.
    2. An 18.5 minute gap in the recording. See GLUP.
  222. Menutated (A) - Adjusting a control on the wrong menu of a digital console.
  223. Meringue Noisette (N) - The fake squish sound used when a pie is thrown.
  224. Messachewsetts (N) - The venue where your equipment gets stuck to the floor, due to food and beer residue on the stage.
  225. Messaslippery (N) - The venue where you fall on the floor, due to food and beer residue on the stage.
  226. Messouri (N) - The venue where your equipment acquires a sour smell that reeks and reeks for weeks and weeks.
  227. MIDI Feedback (N) - The cacophonic mess caused by a feedback loop in MIDI connections. This causes MIDI messages to be repeated over and over. *****
  228. MIDI Logjam (N) - The backlog caused by too many MIDI messages needing to be sent at the same time. Causes notes to play late, or not at all.
  229. MIDIclog (N) - A MIDI LOGJAM.
  230. MIDIglup (N) - A MIDI note incompletely played for technical reasons, such as a MIDI LOGJAM.
  231. MIDIsounditis (N) - A disease that imparts the mistaken belief that audio can be sent over MIDI.
  232. Millinote (N) - A MIDI note incapable of being performed by any human being.
  233. Milliphone (N) - A very insensitive microphone.
  234. Mixtake (N) - A mistake made while mixing.
  235. Mondegreen (N) - A misheard word or phrase in music lyrics.***** (cf. mishearing "on the green") See GUBFUBBLE.
  236. Mondrown (N) - When the monitors drown out the main PA speakers.
  237. Monimixnix (N) - When the mixing console is required by house rules to be on stage, so the engineer can't hear the mains.
  238. Moniphone (N) - A monitor system that uses individual headphone mixes.
  239. Monistor (N) - The band member who keeps turning his monitor up too loud.
  240. Mousageddon (N) - World War III caused by one wrong mouse click.
  241. Mouse Manure (N) - The results produced by bad science.
  242. Mouse Potato (N) - Internet addict. *
  243. Moused Up (V) - Having just made a mistake with a computer mouse.
  244. Mousecar (N) - A Kia Soul (from the ad where mice are driving toasters and the Kia Soul).
  245. Mouseglup (S) - A dropout on a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) caused by moving the mouse too much.
  246. Mousified (A) - Timidity in vocal performance.
  247. Mousemilk (V, N) - Make a big issue out of something inconsequential. *
  248. Mousetied (A) - The state of having to stay within a certain distance of the computer or DAW to work the mouse.
  249. Mousfunction (N) - A mouse misfunction.
  250. Mousion (N) - The use of a computer mouse.
  251. Mouso (N) - Mousographical error.*
  252. Mousophile (N) - Anyone who prefers to use a mouse command over a keyboard command.
  253. Mousophobe (N) - Anyone who prefers to use a keyboard command over a mouse command.
  254. Moustered (N) - Flustered by a malfunctioning mouse.
  255. Moustake (N) - A mistaken mouse click.
  256. Moustified (A) - Can't use a computer mouse.
  257. Moustrained (A) - Not enough room to use a computer mouse.
  258. Moustrated (A) - Not enough room to use a computer mouse.
  259. Moustro (N) - A person who creates a whole recording using a computer MIDI sequencer and MIDI instruments.
  260. Mucksuck (S) - The sound of your best on-stage shoes being swallowed by mud as you carry in at the venue.
  261. Mudsician (N) - A musician who makes muddy sound no matter how you adjust your equipment.
  262. Mudtana (N) - A venue that sounds like mud no matter how you adjust your equipment.
  263. Mupglup (S) - A dropout in an MP-3 file caused by the computer having too much else to do.
  264. Muppled (A) - Describes the sound of your recording after you convert it to MUPPY THREE form.
  265. Muppy Three (N) - MP-3
  266. Murphon (U) - The unit (abbr. Mu) of easiness of being ruined. Standardized scale:
  267. Murphy (V) - To mess up royally.
  268. Mutellate (V) - To mess up, muting a channel by mistake.
  269. Nanonote (N) - A MIDI note too short to be heard by any human being.
  270. Nanophone (N) - A very sensitive microphone.
  271. NIMBY (PH) - Acronym: Not In My Back Yard. *****
  272. NIMBYite (N) - Anyone who doesn't want to be disturbed by anything (such as a rock band or a pink house).
  273. Nitpecking Order (N) - The hierarchy of which band members can criticize the others.
  274. Nittiana (N) - A state with nitpicking laws about sound and/or concerts.
  275. Notique (N) - A collection of downloadable MIDI sounds.
  276. Nuttorious (A) - Describing a musician who does nutty things that ruin the session.
  277. Obsoloot (N) - Money dishonestly earned by companies who force people to buy the new product, by no longer supporting the old product.
  278. Octopussed (A) - Describing a tangle of cords and cube taps, all connected to one wall receptacle. See SQUIDIFIED.
  279. Oh-no-matopoea (N) - When a singer starts imitating an instrument.
  280. Overbload (N) - Too many instruments in the same musical space. Symptomatic of a GOONSTRUMENT. Causes mud.
  281. Overbyte (N) - Running out of DAW disk space, just before the end of the song.
  282. Overdrub (N) - To overwrite a fairly good overdub take with an awful one.
  283. Paino (N) - A piano that is part of either a GUIANO or a GOONSTRUMENT.
  284. Panodrama (N) - 1. The constant shifting in pan position of a GOONSTRUMENT.
    2. The shifting of many pan positions, caused by a musician turning his head while wearing a headset mic. See WANDROMIX.
  285. Pantzoop (S) - Unwanted sounds produced by corduroy pants. *****
  286. Panundrum (N) - The state of not having any place left to pan the last instrument without unbalancing the mix.
  287. Partfly (N) - One instance of what happens when you release the retaining parts holding a FLYPART.
  288. Pedapulate (N) - To manipulate something with a foot.
  289. Pencilvania (N) - Where all the writing instruments disappear to, when you need to make a change in a score.
  290. Penthym (V) - To write a rhythmic anthem.
  291. Pet Peaveyed (A) - Trying to mix a recording on a Peavey console with no AFL (after-fader-listen).
  292. Phantblock (N) - An inline device (such as an EQ) that won't pass phantom power on to the mic.
  293. Phobiac (N) - Someone afraid of everything.
  294. Pianated (A) - A keyboard player who invariably chooses piano sounds, rather than other sounds that mix in better.
  295. Pianoid (N) - A synthesized instrument that sounds similar to a piano, but obviously isn't.
  296. Pickanoid (N) - Someone who fears losing the pick (plectrum) inside the guitar.
  297. Pickybody (N) - A person who gets very upset at the tiniest annoyances.
  298. Pingle (S) - The bright sound of the upper notes of an electric piano.
  299. Pink-Sugar (V) - To buy too many of anything, because you forgot you already bought them. *****
  300. Plinky-dink (A) - The sound of a cheap keyboard.
  301. Plub (N) - A plug that won't stay in the socket.
  302. Pludge (N) - A plug that won't come out of a socket.
  303. Plunt (N) - A plug that refuses to go into the socket.
  304. Plurge (N) - A plug that needs a lot of force to get it into the socket.
  305. Plutscht (N) - A plug that falls apart when you try to do anything with it.
  306. Poit (S) - The sound of a plug coming out by itself.
  307. Poundster (N) - An ALABAMMER who pounds on the drumkit hard enough to destroy parts of it.
  308. Poutback (N) - The facial expression everyone gives you after you cause feedback.
  309. Powoffback (N) - Where a piece of equipment will allow signal to go through it backwards when its power is off.
  310. Pre-Corrodium (N) - What batteries are made of. (See CORRODIUM.)
  311. Pro-Bonehead (A) - Gets lousy musicians who play for free, rather than hiring good musicians.
  312. Produck (N) - A fake product.
  313. Pucktuated (S) - When the sounds of an air-hockey machine in the next room get on the live tape.
  314. Punktated (A) - When you can't tell the difference between digital overflows and the sound of the band.
  315. Quacktice (V) - Pretend to practice.
  316. Quadraphobia (N) - Fear of converting to surround sound.
  317. Quantated (A) - Mechanical timing of a MIDI sequence generated from sheet music.
  318. Quellophone (N) - Any instrument that puts the audience to sleep.
  319. Quid Pro Quotient (PH) - The amount each player gets after the gate is divided up.
  320. Quonk (S) - An unwanted sound made by any falling or knocked over object. *****
  321. Quudd (S) - When the sounds of mud-wrestling in the next room at the bar get on the live tape.
  322. Racktated (A) - Having one more rack mount device than there is space in your rack for.
  323. Rantify (V) - To make a decision based on the pickiest musician's ravings.
  324. Realaudiated (A) - Describes the awful changes Real Audio makes to your recordings.
  325. Realdrumism (N) - The belief that real drums sound better than electronic drum kits.
  326. Reboingage (S) - The amount of sound a spring reverb produces when overdriven or shaken up.
  327. Rectilinified (A) - Having all components parallel or perpendicular to room or stage boundaries. This increases the probability of standing waves and feedback.
  328. Relectant (A) - A singer who tends to omit the first two or three words of a verse.
  329. Remonistrate (V) - To protest loudly about the sound of the monitor.
  330. Remonsterate (V) - To protest about the loud sound coming from the club next door.
  331. Remotaggravated (A) - Upset because every piece of audio-visual gear must have a remote control to function.
  332. Remotaggregation (N) - The pile of remote controls needed to control most audio-visual equipment.
  333. Remotebattle (N) - The trouble caused when two pieces of audiovisual gear respond to each other's remote controls.
  334. Remotendency (N) - The proclivity of manufacturers to use remote controls instead of putting knobs on the equipment.
  335. Rewindatory Gap (N) - Time out while the multitrack tape rewinds.
  336. Riggafrutch! (IJ) - A perfectly clean swear word. *****
  337. Ringtonation (V) - Encoding a well-known tune into a cell phone ringtone.
  338. Ringtonitis (N) - The state of being totally sick of musical rigntones playing well-known tunes.
  339. Road Island (N) - When all of the roads leading to your next gig are closed.
  340. Rootabassa (N) - A bass player who never plays anything but the root notes of the chords of a song. **
  341. Rwath (N) - The angry feeling you get after discovering the CDRW you labored so hard on won't play in ordinary CD players.
  342. Samplitude (N) - The strength of the signal being digitally sampled.
  343. Scams (N) - A meaning-filled pronunciation of SCMS, an acronym for Serial Copy Management System.
  344. Screwb (N) - The part or piece of equipment that keeps messing up.
  345. Scridgel (V) - To wiggle or twist a fitting (such as a mic in a holder) until it is just right. *****
  346. Scroton (N) - A surface-mount power outlet box sticking up out of the floor to trip you.
  347. Scums (N) - A meaning-filled pronunciation of SCMS, an acronym for Serial Copy Management System.
  348. Sexophone (N) - A saxophone solo played in sexy scenes in movies or TV shows.
  349. Skims (N) - A meaning-filled pronunciation of SCMS, an acronym for Serial Copy Management System.
  350. Smelk (M) - The awful stink that occurs when an amp blows a transistor.
  351. Soduk (N) - The award given to the worst of anything, such as a band or a song (Kudos spelled backwards).
  352. Solo-opathy (N) - The state of forgetting the console is in SOLO, and trying to fix sounds not soloed.
  353. Soundbitten (A) - Converted into a soundbite. *****
  354. Splidnoog (N) - What you call the thing you can't remember the name of, until you remember it. See FUBBAFLUWATCH.
  355. Spootwattles (N) - Appendages, such as headset mics, earphones, eyeshades, and harmonica holders, worn by performing musicians on their heads.
  356. Spottled (A) - Blinded by flash cameras.
  357. Sprast (S) - 1. Final sound of a speaker before it blows.
    2. Sound of going over digital 0 dB and into COASTERLAND.
  358. Squaddled (S) - The feeling a victim of BAGPIPAGE gets.
  359. Squatellite Dish (N) - A large saucer shaped object that has "squatter's rights" in many backyards.
  360. Squawker (N) - A midrange driver. ***** (cf Tweeter and Woofer)
  361. Squeaker (N) - An upper-midrange driver. (cf SQUAWKER) See SQUOOKER.
  362. Squeaqualize (V) - To remove feedback with an equalizer, producing a lousy sound.
  363. Squeezophone (N) - An accordion.
  364. Squelchocracy (N) - Local government that passes noise ordinances that prevent practicing after a day at work.
  365. Squidified (A) - Surrounded by a tangle of audio and power cables. See OCTOPUSSED.
  366. Squishpond (N) - The mosh pit at an outdoor rock concert.
  367. Squit (S) - The cartoon sound added when a pie hits a face in a TV sitcom (there is very little actual sound from that action).
  368. Squooker (N) - A lower midrange driver (A SQUAWKER, when used with a SQUEAKER).
  369. Stackopilesic (A) - Of a stack of speakers more than 2 units high.
  370. Staff Infection (N) - An attempt to use sheet music with the clefs cut off by the copying machine.
  371. Standfall (N) - The event of a mic stand falling with the mic attached.
  372. Sticky-shed (PH) - A condition where old recording tape becomes sticky because its oxide binder has oozed out. *****
  373. Stirooch (S) - The sound made by a tape with STICKY-SHED coming to an abrupt halt.
  374. Stompified (A) - Bewildered by the confusing menus on an effects stomp-box.
  375. Stoogidity (A) - Describing behavior like that of the Three Stooges.
  376. Stoogification (N) - An effect of an important performance that causes performers to imitate the Three Stooges.
  377. Stoogilistics (N) - The art of getting into fights on stage like the Three Stooges.
  378. Strip Tracker (N) - Someone who doesn't understand the difference between a channel strip and a tape track.
  379. Stunkify (V) - To attempt to fix a bad take in the mix.
  380. Sudsician (N) - A musician saturated with bubble-machine effluent.
  381. Surfactor (N) - A musician who imitates the style of Jan and Dean, or the Beach Boys.
  382. Syncglup (S) - A noise or shortened note caused by a sequencer resynchronizing to a multitrack tape.
  383. Synnuzz (S) - Video sync buzz from a camcorder getting into the mix.
  384. Tackle Concerto (N) - A performance where each musician tries to outplay the others.
  385. Tackle Pinochle (N) - A card game where people get mad and chase each other around the room. ***** See CONTACT BRIDGE.
  386. Tackle Poker (N) - A card game where people get mad, chase each other, and accuse each other of cheating, after trying to play poker with a pinochle deck. See TACKLE PINOCHLE.
  387. Taxas (N) - A venue where most of the gate ends up paying local taxes.
  388. Taxic Waste (N) - Tax money spent on useless improvements to music venues.
  389. Teevium (N) - What TV programs are made of.
  390. Tennisscene (N) - The fit the club manager throws when the band shows up in shorts and tennis shoes.
  391. That synching feeling (PH) - Going into a take unsure if the multitracks will stay in sync or not.
  392. Threeality (N) - The quality of the realism of a three-dimensional display or surround sound system.
  393. Thuddify (V) - Take all the snap out of a kick by limiting it to keep the D/A from going over into COASTERLAND.
  394. Thumper (N) - A subwoofer (cf Tweeter, Squeaker, Squawker, and Woofer)
  395. Time-Signatory (PH) - Having to pay musicians by the hour, no matter how much they goof off.
  396. Toysymphonize (V) - To accidentally play the demo song on the keyboard.
  397. Tromboon (N) - The new instrument created when a trombone and a bassoon play the same notes. * *****
  398. Troubledor (N) - A musician who can't sing on key.
  399. Tubaphonated (A) - Incapable of remembering which instrument is the tuba and which is the sousaphone.
  400. Tubism (N) - The belief that tubes sound better.
  401. Turnitupitis (N) - A disease making musicians want things turned up, rather than other things turned down.
  402. Undo Pain - 1. The painful act of being forced to undo good work.
    2. Pain caused by Daylight-Stupid Time, or other government activities.
  403. Undo-redo-doo-doo (N) - The mess left by forgetting where in an undo-redo menu you are. **
  404. Undon't (V) - Do.
  405. Unempage (V, pronounced "un-em-PAZH") - To require musicians to turn off their pagers and cell phones.
  406. Unbalabuzz (S) - Noise picked up by long unbalanced cables.
  407. Unmoustrate (V) - To change from a PC based console to a real one.
  408. Vagaband (N) - A band that dresses like a motorcycle gang.
  409. Vainue (N) - A place where vain performers play. See AUDIVAINUE.
  410. Vanitize (V) - To condense a band down, until the equipment and the players will fit in one van.
  411. WAD (N) - 1. A DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) that won't do the job. (See DAW-RATS!)
    2. What you paid for the DAW system.
  412. Wandromix (N) - A mix containing the shifting of many pan positions, caused by a musician turning his head while wearing a headset mic. See PANODRAMA.
  413. Wanfryzwizzat (PH) - The theme song of the musician who hopes to strike it rich (Want fries with that?).
  414. Whackagigawatt (A) - More power than you will ever need.
  415. Windroid (N) - A Windows screen console.
  416. Woom (S) - A sudden increase in loudness.*****
  417. Xylobone (N) - A xylophone played when skeletons appear in a horror film.
  418. Yabble (S) - Yells from the audience getting on the tape.
  419. Yehudi Menuhenpecked (A) - Unable to find the correct menu to make the change in.
  420. Yellbin (N) - Where musicians go when they are angry.
  421. Yubble (V) - Transmitting data, as shown by the blinking light on the modem.
  422. Zxnrbl (N, pronounced "ZNER-ble") - A scrambling of a digital transmission or file.

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These are the 13 words coined by others, though not in the sound engineering context.

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