Vallotti temperament
The circulating temperament today referred to as Vallotti temperament (or simply Vallotti, Vallotti-Barca, Vallotti-Tartini, or…
Valve audio amplifier
A valve audio amplifier (UK) or vacuum tube audio amplifier (US) is a valve amplifier used for sound reinforcement, sound recording and…
Variations for Orchestra (Carter)
Variations for Orchestra is an orchestral composition by the American composer Elliott Carter. The work was commissioned by the…
Varizone
Varizone is a fully digital public address system technology developed and produced and by Klotz Digital.
Vedic accent
The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians…
Vehicle audio
Vehicle audio, also known as car multimedia, is equipment installed in a car (automobile) or other vehicle to provide in-car entertainment…
Velocity time integral
Velocity Time Integral is a clinical Doppler ultrasound measurement of blood flow, equivalent to the area under the velocity time curve.
Ventral cochlear nucleus
In the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN), auditory nerve fibers enter the brain via the nerve root in the VCN. The ventral cochlear nucleus…
Verband Deutscher Tonmeister
The Verband Deutscher Tonmeister e.V. (VDT) is a registered association for audio industry professionals. The VDT has evolved from the…
Vertical cut recording
The vertical cut recording process is an early method of audio recording by which a stylus cuts a vertical groove into a phonograph…
Vessel Orchestra
The Vessel Orchestra is a sound-based art installation created by British artist Oliver Beer. It is the first sound-oriented installation…
Vesti la giubba
"Vesti la giubba" (Italian: [ˈvɛsti la ˈdʒubba], "Put on the costume", often referred to as "On With the Motley", from the original 1893…
Vestibular duct
The vestibular duct or scala vestibuli is a perilymph-filled cavity inside the cochlea of the inner ear that conducts sound vibrations to…
Vestibular membrane
The vestibular membrane, vestibular wall or Reissner's membrane is a membrane inside the cochlea of the inner ear. It separates the…
Vestibulocochlear dysfunction progressive familial
Vestibulocochlear dysfunction progressive familial, known also as familial progressive vestibulocochlear dysfunction is an autosomal…
Vestibulopathy
Vestibulopathies are disorders of the inner ear. They may include bilateral vestibulopathy, central vestibulopathy, post traumatic…
Vibrato unit
A vibrato unit is an electronic effects unit used to add vibrato to the sound of an electric instrument, most often an electric guitar.
Vic and Sade
Vic and Sade is an American radio program created and written by Paul Rhymer. It was regularly broadcast on radio from 1932 to 1944, then…
Victor Orthophonic Victrola
The Victor Orthophonic Victrola, released in 1925 by Victor Talking Machine Company, was the first consumer phonograph designed…
Video denoising
Video denoising is the process of removing noise from a video signal. Video denoising methods can be divided into:
Video relay service
A video relay service (VRS), also sometimes mistaken for video interpreting service (VIS), is a video telecommunication service that…
Video Single Disc
Video Single Disc (VSD) is a disc-based format that carried the same analog video information as a LaserDisc, but on a 12-centimetre (4.75…
Vinkensport
Vinkensport (Dutch for "finch sport") is a competitive animal sport in which male common chaffinches are made to compete for the highest…
Vinyl data
Vinyl data is the use of vinyl discs to store sequenced/encoded data rather than for simple analog recordings. This alternate use of the…
Vinyl rip
A vinyl rip is a version of a recording that has been transferred from a vinyl record to digital audio or other formats.
VinylDisc
The VinylDisc is a combination of a digital layer, either in CD or DVD format, and an analog layer, which is a vinyl record, developed by…
Violin acoustics
Violin acoustics is an area of study within musical acoustics concerned with how the sound of a violin is created as the result of…
Virtual hammock
Virtual hammock describes the effect of using structured sound from two isolated, stationary speakers playing into opposite ears to induce…
Virtual mixer
A Virtual Mixer is a software application that runs on a computer or other digital audio system. Providing the same functionality of a…
Virtual surround
Virtual surround is an audio system that attempts to create the perception that there are many more sources of sound than are actually…
Visceral slide
Visceral slide is a technique while using ultrasound, that if bowel moves less than 2 cm then there is probably adhesion in the bowel…
Visible Speech
Visible Speech is a system of phonetic symbols developed by British linguist Alexander Melville Bell in 1867 to represent the position of…
Visual reinforcement audiometry
Visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) is a key behavioural test for evaluating hearing in young children. First introduced by Liden and…
Vogel's Tonnetz
Vogel's Tonnetz is a graphical and mathematical representation of the scale range of just intonation, introduced by German music theorist…
Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease
Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada disease (VKH) is a multisystem disease of presumed autoimmune cause that affects melanin-pigmented tissues. The most…
Voice coil
A voice coil (consisting of a former, collar, and winding) is the coil of wire attached to the apex of a loudspeaker cone. It provides…
Voice confrontation
In psychology, voice confrontation, which is related to self-confrontation, is the phenomenon of a person not liking the sound of their…
Voice type
A voice type is a classification of the human singing voice into perceivable categories or groups. Particular human singing voices are…
Voigt pipe
The Voigt pipe is a type of loudspeaker enclosure that embodies a combination of transmission line, ported enclosure and horn…
Volley theory
Volley theory states that groups of neurons of the auditory system respond to a sound by firing action potentials slightly out of phase…
Volta Laboratory and Bureau
The Volta Laboratory (also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, the Bell Carriage House and the Bell Laboratory) and the Volta…
Vow of silence
A vow of silence is a vow taken to avoid the use of speech. Although the concept is commonly associated with monasticism, no religious…
Vowel–consonant synthesis
Vowel–consonant synthesis is a type of hybrid digital–analogue synthesis developed and employed by the early Casiotone keyboards.
Vox AC15
The Vox AC15 is the first guitar amplifier produced by the British brand Vox. Vox founder Tom Jennings wished to capitalize on the…
Vox AC30
The Vox AC30 is a guitar amplifier produced by the British manufacturer Vox. The AC30 was introduced in 1959 as a higher-wattage solution…
Vox AC50
The Vox AC50 is a guitar amplifier head and accompanying speaker cabinet manufactured by Vox. It was introduced in 1964 to meet the…
Voyager Golden Record
The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records, with one copy aboard each of the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977.
VRAS
The Variable Room Acoustics System (VRAS) is an acoustic enhancement system for controlling room acoustics electronically. Such systems…