reverb

American  

[ri-vurb] / rɪˈvɜrb /

verb (used with or without object)

1. to reverberate.

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reverb British  

/ ˈriːvɜːb /

noun

1. an electronic device that creates artificial acoustics

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Etymology

Origin of reverb

1595–1605; irregular < Latin reverberāre to cause to rebound

Example Sentences

On “Cherry Blue,” piano-like tones echo inside a canyon of reverb, triggering pangs of loneliness.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s up 2.4% on an as-reported, consolidated basis, or up 6.1% when excluding Reverb from the prior-year period, Etsy said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bach’s music has a circular spell quality and the pipe organ, resounding with reverb in gargantuan cathedrals, was the original synthesizer.

From Los Angeles Times

And the clattering syncopated loop that repeats through “Oblivion” is there mostly as a contrast to the wispy and diaphanous vocals, which are so thin and leavened with reverb that they threaten to float away.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it’s D’Angelo’s soaring vocals that transmute the molten instrumental throbbing into a transcendent buzz, achieved through multi-track vocal layers and a vacillation between climactic reverb roars and serene breaks.

From Salon