Their earlier work is noted for genre-crossing stylings, distorted, morose, and at times alien lyrics, distinctive funk bass lines, and extensive use of lo-fi recording practices ( although it would be a stretch to call the style of the music as a whole " lo-fi ", in the more traditional sense ).

SHODAN is given voice by former Tribe keyboardist and vocalist, Terri Brosius, the wife of System Shock 2 < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s sound editor, Eric Brosius, who distorted the samples to provide the distinctive SHODAN effect.

This makes the Oriya Script as the most distinctive and least distorted script among the Indic scripts.

Simonson's distinctive signature consists of his last name, distorted to resemble a Brontosaurus.

" Every 1's a Winner " featured a distinctive distorted guitar riff by Harvey Hinsley using a Marshall Time Modulator.

Some elements that persist throughout their music are resounding, jangling guitar chords, throbbing, prominent bass lines, harsh roars of electronically distorted noise, and ambivalent melodies that wander between major and minor keys, as well as Sakurai's distinctive rich baritone voice.

Native speakers of a given language usually perceive one phoneme in their language as a single distinctive sound in that language and are " both unaware of and even shocked by " the allophone variations used to pronounce single phonemes.

They became prized for their distinctive sound, however, and found life with several musical styles ( most notably bluegrass and also blues ) well after electric amplification solved the issue of inadequate guitar sound levels.

The balalaika orchestra in its full form — balalaikas, domras, gusli, bayan, kugiklas, Vladimir Shepherd's Horns, garmoshkas and several types of percussion instruments — has a distinctive sound: strangely familiar to the ear, yet decidedly not entirely Western European.

Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.

To a greater extent than classical violin playing, fiddle playing is characterized by a huge variety of ethnic or folk music traditions, each of which has its own distinctive sound.

Most felids seem to be able to purr, vibrating the muscles in their larynx to produce a distinctive buzzing sound.

The original purpose of the resonator was to produce a very loud sound ; this purpose has been largely superseded by electrical amplification, but the resonator guitar is still played because of its distinctive tone.

This is the distinctive sound normally associated with hand held or portable Geiger counters.

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s the distinctive sound of the B-3 organ ( often played through a Leslie speaker ) was widely used in blues, progressive rock bands and blues-rock groups.

However, by the 1950s, jazz musicians such as Jimmy Smith began to use the organ's distinctive sound.

Though these harmonicas produced a less distinctive ( and, to many ears, inferior ) sound than their metallic counterparts due to their plastic reeds, Magnus harmonicas, as well as several imitators, soon became commonplace, particularly among children.

Their disappearance left some distinctive sound combinations in Proto-Italic.

The distinctive howling sound of the rocket launching terrified the German troops and could be used for psychological warfare.

Though not acoustically efficient, this construction is part of the distinctive sound of the kantele.

The kantele has a distinctive bell-like sound.

All three movies will be shot in the same distinctive style, on a bare sound stage with no set and buildings marked by lines on the floor.

The sound of linear timecode is a jarring and distinctive noise and has been used as a sound-effects shorthand to imply ' telemetry ' or ' computers '.

Many users fondly remember the LEO III and enthuse about some of its quirkier features, such as having a loudspeaker connected to the central processor which enabled operators to tell whether a program was looping by the distinctive sound it made.

:* Sibilants are a type of fricative where the airflow is guided by a groove in the tongue toward the teeth, creating a high-pitched and very distinctive sound.

Along with the manner of articulation and the phonation, this gives the consonant its distinctive sound.

All attempts to identify an actual people with an unattested language depend on a sound reconstruction of that language that allows identification of cultural concepts and environmental factors which may be associated with particular cultures ( such as the use of metals, agriculture vs. pastoralism, geographically distinctive plants and animals, etc.

The sustain at the bottom end is particularly striking, and by routing the two outputs from the stereo " Rick-O-Sound " output, the brighter bridge pick up through a guitar rig and the bassier neck pickup through a bass setup, a particularly distinctive bass sound is produced.

Its distinctive sound is mainly because of its " drone strings " which provide a constant pitch similar in their sound to that of bagpipes.

Hearing is one of the most crucial means of survival in the animal world, and speech is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human development and culture.

alt = An engraved print showing a man in a distinctive naval uniform dragging two crocodiles with human heads.

The lowest note of a double bass is an E < sub > 1 </ sub > ( on standard four-string basses ) at approximately 41 Hz or a B0 ( when five strings are used ) at approximately 31 Hz, within about an octave above the lowest frequency that the average human ear can perceive as a distinctive pitch.

His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, described as " biomechanical ".

Unconventional as a draughtsman, his treatment of human form is often exaggerated and eccentric ( hence his linkage, in the art historical literature, with European Mannerism ), whilst his ornamental style — profuse, eclectic, and akin to the self-consciously " German " strain of contemporary limewood sculptors — is equally distinctive.

Such conditions produced distinctive human behaviors that are preserved in the material record, such as the Maglemosian and Azilian cultures.

Biomedicine " formulates the human body and disease in a culturally distinctive pattern ", and is a world view learnt by medical students.

It was first defined by the OED as “ he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race ”, which gives 1936 as the first recorded use.

The Macquarie Dictionary defines racism as: " the belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one ’ s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others.

Highly distinctive, the male lion is easily recognised by its mane, and its face is one of the most widely recognised animal symbols in human culture.

It is the distinctive feature of human action, that whenever we choose what we do, we imagine an action for ourselves as though we were inspecting it from the outside.

This view of the animal origins of distinctive human characteristics later received support from Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

The system, first marketed in 1994, provides full articulatory-based text-to-speech conversion using a waveguide or transmission-line analog of the human oral and nasal tracts controlled by Carré's " distinctive region model ".

Although the producers decided against depending upon a single host for Sesame Street, instead casting a group of ethnically diverse actors, they realized that a children's television program needed to have, as Lesser put it, " a variety of distinctive and reliable personalities ", both human and Muppet.

These included the constitution's most distinctive features: the symbolic role of the Emperor, the prominence of guarantees of civil and human rights, and the renunciation of war.

The most distinctive feature of Yangshao culture was the extensive use of painted pottery, especially human facial, animal, and geometric designs.

Many of Chile's distinctive animal species have been decimated as they have been pushed farther and farther into the remaining wilderness areas by human occupation of the land.

Within the social sciences, however, the usage has become more generalized to all human groups that explicitly regard themselves and are regarded by others as culturally distinctive.

The term racism was defined by the OED as " he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race ", giving 1936 as the first recorded use.

He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as " matchstick men ".

In these early exchanges and in the parallel debate over the proper understanding of Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following, some of McDowell's characteristic intellectual stances were formed: to borrow a Wittgensteinian expression, the defence of a realism without empiricism, an emphasis on the human limits of our aspiration to objectivity, the idea that meaning and mind can be directly manifested in the action, particularly linguistic action, of other people, and a distinctive disjunctive theory of perceptual experience.

This moral universalism has come to be seen as the distinctive aspect of Kant's moral philosophy and has had wide social impact in the legal and political concepts of human rights and equality.

The distinctive quality of the intellectual person is that the mental skills he or she demonstrates are not simply intelligent, they focus on thinking about the abstract, philosophical and esoteric aspects of human inquiry and the value of their thinking.

In the field, the relationship between Choughs and Apostlebirds is immediately apparent: both species are highly social, spend much of their time foraging through leaf litter with a very distinctive gait, calling to one another almost constantly, and both species respond to a human interloper by flying heavily to a nearby tree, where they wait for the disturbance to pass, often perching close together in twos and threes and allopreening.