Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In organ-building, a pedal stop resembling either the open or the stopped diapason, and of 16- or 32-feet tone. Also called
subbourdon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass.
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- noun music
Audible sounds below 90Hz and extending downward to the lowestfrequencies humans can hear, typically 20 Hz.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet SBTRKT's use of space rather than sub-bass shows he at least understands what was so special about early dubstep.
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SPL used modeling programs to anticipate sound absorption by the crowd and tacked on an additional channel of sub-bass frequency to the MediaMatrix system to help fill out the theatre.
Star Trek Fan Film To Boldly Go Where No Man Can Go Anymore? | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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Musical director Matt Robertson, meanwhile, orchestrates digitals and unleashes penetrating sub-bass, while eight giant flat-screen TVs play out themed visual accompaniments to each track.
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Musical director Matt Robertson, meanwhile, orchestrates digitals and unleashes penetrating sub-bass, while eight giant flat-screen TVs play out themed visual accompaniments to each track.
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You think of two guys with studio tans putting together disgusting, deep dark synth and sub-bass.
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You think of two guys with studio tans putting together disgusting, deep dark synth and sub-bass.
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Though he came over as the London-borne prince of dubstep, a club sound known for refracted rhythms and sculpted sub-bass frequencies, Mr. Blake has softened up and slowed down on stage, adapting to a new kind of digital singer-songwriter mode.
The Pop Scene: Running Down a Dubstep Dream Andy Battaglia 2011
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It's not a simple matter of preferring the songs with tunes – Story to Be Told is as disorientating and uncommercial as anything here, but there's a bracing vitality about its atonal vocal samples and sub-bass frequencies entirely absent from, say, Teqkilla's enervating din.
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If making post-grime dance music worked for MCs like Dizzee Rascal, it looks set to lead to a payday for three men surely deafened by service to sub-bass.
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Tracks such as Mr Oizo's "Flat Beat", meanwhile, introduced whumping sub-bass into chart discourse in 1999.
Tinchy Stryder; Magnetic Man – review Kitty Empire 2010
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