Glossary
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- Haas Effect
- HAL
- Half Damper
- Half Duplex
- Half Nashville Tuning
- Half Normal
- Half Note
- Half Rest
- Half Space
- Half Stack
- Half Step
- Half-cell
- Half-Power Bandwidth
- Half-power Switch
- Half-Track
- Hall Reverb
- Hammer Action
- Hammer-On
- Hamming Code
- Hammond Organ
- Hand Crossing
- Handling Noise
- Handshake
- Hang Tag
- Hangover
- Hangover
- Haptic
- Haptic Feedback
- Haptic Technology
- Hard Bop
- Hard Case
- Hard Disk
- Hard Disk Drive
- Hard Drive
- Hard Drive Crash
- Hard Reset
- Hard Shell Case
- Hardtail
- Hardware
- Hardware Abstraction Layer
- Hardware Bypass
- Hardwired
- Hardwood
- Harmonic
- Harmonic Distortion
- Harmonic Interval
- Harmonic Minor Scale
- Harmonize
- Harmonized Scale
- Harmonizer
- Harmony
- Harmony Rocket III
- Harp Guitar
- Hats
- HD
- HD
- HD DVD
- HDCD – High Definition Compatible Disc
- HDD
- HDMI
- Head
- Head (Tape)
- Head Block
- Head Crash
- Head Gap
- Head Shadow
- Head Stack
- Header
- Headphone Amp
- Headphone Amplifier
- Headphone Amplifier
- Headphone Distribution Amp
- Headphone Jack
- Headphone Mix
- Headphone Out
- Headphone Output
- Headphones
- Headroom
- Headstock
- Headstock Pitch
- Heartwood
- Heat Sink
- Heel
- Heel Block
- Helical Scan
- Helicon
- Helmholz Resonator
- Hemiola
- Hermode Tuning
- Herringbone
- Hertz
- Heterodyne
- Heterophony
- Hex Pickup
- Hexadecimal
- Hexaphonic Pickup
- HF
- HF Driver
- HFS (& HFS+)
- HH
- Hi-fi
- Hi-hat
- Hi-MD
- Hi-Z
- Hide Glue
- Hierarchical Menu
- High Definition
- High End
- High Fidelity
- High Impedance
- High Pass Filter
- High Resolution
- High Sierra
- High Strung
- High-frequency Driver
- High-Output Pickup
- Highpass
- Highs
- HiLoTron
- Hiss
- Hit
- HLS
- HockeyStick Headstock
- Hollow-Glas
- Hollowbody
- Hollowbody/Semi-Hollowbody
- Holophonics
- Homophony
- Hook-and-loop Fastener
- Hoop
- Hoopy (or Hoopie)
- Horizontal Pitch
- Horn
- Hornpipe
- Horrortone
- Horseshoe Pickup
- Host
- Host Application
- Host Based
- Host Computer
- Host CPU
- Host Software
- Hot
- Hot Shoe Mount
- Hot Swap
- Hotter
- House Sync
- House Sync
- HP
- HRM
- HSH
- HSS
- HTDM
- HTML
- HTTP Live Streaming
- Hub
- Hub
- HUI
- Hum
- Hum-canceling
- Humanize
- Humbucker
- Humbucking
- Humbucking Pickup
- Humidity
- HX Pro
- Hybrid Amp
- Hybrid Guitar Amplifier
- Hybrid Picking
- Hybrid Studio
- Hygrometer
- Hygrometer
- Hyperacusis
- Hypercardioid
- Hyperlink
- HyperText
- Hysteresis
- Hz
- Hz/V