Glossary: Hit | Sweetwater.com

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Hit: The kind of song we all want to write. This term is used primarily in audio for video/film work. It is usually associated with a film "cut" - an abrupt change in the visual from one POV to another or from one scene to another. But a hit can be a visual "action point" within a continuous scene (from a slap to a smile to the beginning of a pan to a moment in the dialog... whatever), usually some noticeable visual or dramatic event thought to be sufficiently important to the scene to require some musical annotation. Many times it is something in the picture to be avoided musically. So in effect a hit may be anything in the picture the director or the composer deems to be important enough for the music to specifically honor or recognize in some way as the music proceeds from the beginning of the cue to the end of the cue.

Haas Effect	Half-Track	Half Damper
Half Duplex	Half Normal	Half-Power Bandwidth
Half Space	Half Step	Hammer-On
Hammer Action	Handling Noise	Handshake
Hangover	Hangover	Hang Tag
Hard Bop	Hard Drive	Hard Reset
Hardtail	Hardware Bypass	Hardwired
Harmonic	Harmonic Distortion	Harmonizer ®
Harmony	Harp Guitar	HDCD - High Definition Compatible Disc
HD DVD	HDMI	Head
Head Crash	Header	Head Gap
Headphones	Headroom	Head Shadow
Head Stack	Headstock	Heartwood
Heat Sink	Heel	Helical Scan
Helicon	Helmholz Resonator	Hemiola
Hermode Tuning	Herringbone	Heterodyne
Heterophony	Hexadecimal	Hexaphonic Pickup
HFS (& HFS+)	Hi-MD	Hi-Z
Hierarchical Menu	High Pass Filter	High Sierra
HiLoTron	Hit	HockeyStick Headstock
Hollow-Glas	Hollowbody/Semi-Hollowbody	Holophonics
Homophony	Hoopy (or Hoopie)	Horn
Hornpipe	Horseshoe Pickup	Host
Host Based	Hot Swap	House Sync
House Sync	HTDM	HTML
Hub	Hub	HUI
Hum	Humanize	Humbucker
Humbucking	HX Pro	Hygrometer
Hygrometer	Hyperacusis	Hypercardioid
Hyperlink	HyperText	Hysteresis