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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 0-9

Open Back
A type of speaker cabinet where the speaker drivers are not sealed into the enclosure - there is no back, or only a partial back, to the cabinet. The sound from the speakers can emerge from both the front and the unsealed or open back of the cabinet. This broadens dispersion in the room. Open-back cabinets typically have less low-end "thump" and looser bass than closed-back or sealed cabinets. Open-back cabinets are used almost exclusively for electric guitar amplifier applications, mainly for combo amps, though there are also examples of extension speaker cabinets with open backs.

Obeche

Oberheim OB-X

Oblique Room Mode

Occlusion

Octave

Octo Bass

Odd-order Harmonic Distortion

OEM

OFC

OFC

Off-Axis

Off Line

Offset

Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)

Ohm

Ohm's Law

Okoume

OLED

OMF (OMFI)

Omnidirectional

Omni Mode

OMS

On-Axis

Onboard

One-off

One-shot Sample

Online

Op Amp

Opcode

Open

Open-back Cabinet

Open-voice Triad

Open Air

Open Back

Open Chord

Open C Tuning

Open Mic

Open Source

Open String

Open TL

Open Tuning

Open Voicing (or Spread Voicing)

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Operator

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Optical Compressor

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Oratorio

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Organ

ORTF

Orville Gibson

OS

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Ossicles

Ostinato

OS X

OTB

OTP

Out

Out

Out of Phase

Out Of The Box

Output

Output Jack

Ovangkol

Overdrive

Overdub

Over Easy

Overheads

Overload

Over(s)

Oversampling

Overshoot / Undershoot

Overtone

Overture

Overview

OXFW911

Oxide

Oxygen-free Copper

     
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