Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pedal stop on an organ that produces the lowest tones, having 16 or 32 feet.
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Examples
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The voice was one of a singular and indescribable quality of tone; it was heavy as the subbass of an organ, and of a velvety softness, and yet it seemed to pierce the air with a keen dividing force which is generally characteristic of voices of much less volume.
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'Minimal Dub' on the flip offers a wider percussive palette with clocking congas synched with scissoring hi-hats but the crucial source of energy is that controlled yet ferocious subbass twist, containing all the evil potential of
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'Pineapple Crush' is a choice party-maker, gazing back to '91 with genes from Hip-House and nascent UK hardcore spliced with a 2010 subbass and frisky keys.
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It feels odd to hear bass and subbass panned or with stereo delay, especially in headphones.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Windows 2010
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It just occurred to me that being not that far off actual subbass, this kind of frequency range could tie the musical note frequencies to the BPM.
Danny Ayers : Raw Blog danja 2010
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Among the most brilliant of these is 'Berns', created for Lars Siltberg's 'Candleflames Modulated' (2007), exploring frequency extremities with visceral sheets of blackened noise, near infrasonic subbass and vastly unsettling use of psychoacoustic space.
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