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The changes in frequency are caused by irregular tape motion during recording or playback. For example, a change in the angular velocity of the capstan, or dragging of the tape within a reel or audio cassette shell. The terms "wow and flutter" are often referred to together, flutter being a higher-rate version of wow.
Wow and flutter are particularly audible on music with oboe, string, guitar, flute, brass, or piano solo playing. While wow is perceived clearly as pitch variation, flutter can alter the sound of the music differently, making it sound ‘cracked’ or ‘ugly’.
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
"Wow" is slow speed (a few Hz) variation, caused by longer-term drift of the drive motor speed, whereas "flutter" is faster speed (a few tens of Hz) variations, usually caused by mechanical defects such as out-of-roundness of the capstan of a tape transport mechanism. The measurement is given in % and a lower number is better.
The phrase originated in the World of Warcraft community, but is also used in MOBA's. [65] FOV See field of view. FPS 1. An abbreviation for first-person shooter. 2. An abbreviation for frames per second. See frame rate. frag To kill or achieve a kill in a game against a player or non-player opponent. [66] See also gib. frame rate
Wow & Flutter is an indie rock trio from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 1997 by Cord Amato, [ 1 ] the current line-up consists of Cord, Jack Houston [ 2 ] and Ryan Matheson. Wow & Flutter was one of several performers featured on the 2003's For Jonathan , a 2003 effort with indie filmmaker Chris Bennett.
Clipping can occur within a system as processing (e.g. an all-pass filter) can change the phase relationship between spectral components of a signal in such a way as to create excessive peak outputs. The excessive peaks may become clipped even though the system can play any simple sine wave signals of the same level without clipping.
A worldwide pioneer in programs that only transmitted rock and pop music video clips was the Peruvian program Disco Club, hosted by the Peruvian musician Gerardo Manuel, which began its transmission on the Peruvian state channel (Channel 7 of Lima, Peru in free-to-air TV) in June 1978, three years before the appearance of MTV. Initially, it was ...