Jan 24, 2004 10:06 am and another thing, i'm going to smack the next person that pronounces the first syllable in Yamaha "yam" as in the vegatable. That vowel sound isn't even in the Japanese language
Pronunciation
Posted on Jan 24, 2004 10:03 am
Jamie Garrett
Contributor Since: Sep 09, 2002
One thing that's plagued me with learning most of what I know about sound from the internet, I have little idea of how to pronounce alot of words, especially the names of manufacturer's. For instance the German "eu" gets pronounced "oy" so Neumann gets pronounced "NOY-min" and the German e is a soft e (unless it's preceeded by an i) and "ei" is a hard i sound such as in Einstein so Sennheiser is "SAN-hy-zer". But there'e alot of other brand names I'm clueless on. Any help would be appreciated, and please, no total guesses, only fact and/or hypothesis. and also, don't be embarrased to speak up.
Behringer : I've been saying BEAR-in-jer now that i've heard it said that way in a few music shops around town. before i was saying buh-RING-er cause they boldened the ING in their logo.
Alesis : i say uh-LESS-sis, but i've heard a few people say OW-less-sis and now i'm not sure. even heard one guy say uh-LEES-ee-us.. not sure where he got that fourth syllable from.
Akai : just confirmed from a televison commercial, it's pronounced uh-KYE
Technics : This one seems totally divided everywhere I go 50/50 between tek-NEEKS and TEK-nicks ... swear to god, i've never heard such confusion over how to pronounce something. i've haerd DJs argue over this and ulitmately settle on calling them "twelves" as in Techincs 1200's!
more to come as i think of them (there's quite a few!)
just a note - i'm using caps to show accented emphasis, dashes to separate syllables, and my best attempt at phonetic spelling according to my backwoods Appalachian American drawl. hope it's not too confusing.
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Jan 24, 2004 10:06 am and another thing, i'm going to smack the next person that pronounces the first syllable in Yamaha "yam" as in the vegatable. That vowel sound isn't even in the Japanese language
Jan 24, 2004 12:36 pm I've always Beh rinj er
Alesis I alwas said Eh (like the cannadian word) les seas
akai until reading this I just called A-K-A-I
Technics is say Tech Nicks...
Jan 24, 2004 01:04 pm I wish i could help yeah dude mabye you should call up the copaneys them selfs, im sure they have a 1-800 number. in fact you could always hang up after they pick up sence they'er going to say the copanys name be for you ask them anayways.
Jan 24, 2004 01:05 pm heh, dude i've considered doing that too!
Jan 24, 2004 02:38 pm Behringer - Ber-INJ-jerr
Alesis - a lee sis
Akai - akk eye (or just plain mud)
Technics - tek nicks
Sennheiser - Senn Hi-Sir
dbX - deebeeEXXX :D (just kidding ;)
Jan 24, 2004 03:07 pm BEAR in jer
a LEE sis
a KAI
tek NEEKS
SEN hi zer
this is how i have heard it spoken in america, and how i've always said it. it seems natural to me, but of course it may all be totally wrong.
Jan 24, 2004 03:48 pm hmm, thanks jues and forty, more confusion! so uh-LEE-sis. I would have never guessed. more opinions welcome! i have a feeling there's a few more pronuciations floating around out there. and here's two more to add to the confusion:
Aphex: you'd think it would be uh-FEKS like "effects" because they make, well, effects processors, but I realize Aphex Twin aka Richard D. James gets his name from Aphex Systems LTd (at least he credits them on his albums) and everyone around here (in my town) says "AY-fix TWIN" so I'm really confused on the pronunciation of both the company AND the artist :OS
Oktava: I know jack about Russian so I always wondered if you accented the first or second syllable. Is it "AHK-ti-vuh" or "ahk-TAY-vuh"???
thanks everybody who contributes
Jan 24, 2004 05:02 pm LOL! Thanks jues.... DBX was the one I was having trouble with : )
Jan 24, 2004 06:02 pm AY fex
ok TA va ... i think. i'm not sure if that's a long a or a short a sound. i'm guessing short.
Jan 24, 2004 06:57 pm Oh man, it's always embarrassing to ask for something at a music store and pronounce it wrong... The sales guy looks at you like, "Huh?"
Now, cymbal names are the toughest of all!
I used to think that "SABIAN" was pronounced "SUH-BUY-EN"... Apparently the emphasis is such that it is pronounced "SAY-BEE-UN"
Then there's "PAISTE". I always thought that was just pronounced "PASTE"... Like cut and paste. Then I heard someone say, "PASTE-EE". I thought THAT was weird... but then I heard someone say "PUY-STEE." Now, I don't know where that comes from but it totally breaks all the rules of English pronunciation!
Zildjian I've never had a problem with.
Jan 24, 2004 08:08 pm 'ay (as in hay) FEX
OK - TA VAr
Road (for Rode)
Jan 24, 2004 09:32 pm I always wondered about Rode. I always thought it was "ROAD-EE" until just recently.
Jan 25, 2004 04:51 am jues, are you saying that the second syllable of aphex is emphasized? that seems extremely unusual!
porp, what did you determine the correct pronunciation for paiste is, after all? and how do you pronounce zildjian, because i have no clue.
Jan 25, 2004 05:42 am yeah i've heard everything from "ZILL-shen" to "ZELL-jin"
it's Turkish isn't it? not sure what language they speak over there, maybe Arabic?
and as for "ay-FEX", that's gotta be that Brit accent involved there somewhere, cause that doesn't even roll off my tongue right. hehe
feels more natural to say "uh-FEX" as in "special effects" :O)
Jan 25, 2004 07:32 am lol!
I know I'm just gonna record myself saying aphex tonight (makes sense, seeing how we have all this recording stuff lying around ;) - then we'll set the record straight.
jues.
Jan 25, 2004 09:04 am Yeah, I think Aphex is pronounced "AY-FEX" like jues said. That's what I've always thought, at least, and I'm not British, either :)
I think that Paiste is pronounced "Puystee" because that's what I've heard salespeople say, but I think it's pretty weird...
I've always said and heard Zildjian as "ZILL-JEN" or "ZILL-JIN"
Jan 25, 2004 06:45 pm And Nueman is pronounced NEW-men, that one I have listened to for years that way form everyone I know who knows that mic line.
Jan 25, 2004 07:25 pm I believe you are wrong there Noize...but whatever, I really don't care that much anyway...
Jan 25, 2004 07:30 pm Ya, it could just be Americans pronouncing it that way. But Zappa even pronounced it that way, and he used them by the donzens. But then I have never been to Germany and listened to them say it. Oh well.
Jan 25, 2004 09:03 pm i guess i dont understand jues' system here. if you scroll up there, he's using a little ' on the first syllable but capitalizing the second syllable. that little ' means (accent this) to me, and caps also means (accent this).
i dunno, when i say aphex twin, i say AYYYYYY (fex) twin.
Jan 26, 2004 08:22 am jim (fxman) called Alesis and the recorded message deff said "uh-LEE-sis" so forty and jues were right on that. here's a good one:
Moog - a real common mispronunciation, alot of people including myself said Moog like the sound a cow would make. But a recent ad for the MicroMoog in Keyboard magazine stated the synth with Bob Moog's namesake rhymed with the word "vogue" (you know, like the Madonna song). Apparently it's Swiss or Swedish or something.
as for Aphex Twin, i think i'll just keep calling him Richard D. James and if i get that Aphex Systems 109 EQ i want, i think i'll just call it "that EQ" :OD
Jan 26, 2004 02:06 pm im in agreement with jues on the aphex thing.. i, too, say ay FEX.
speaking of jues.. how do you pronounce your name?
Jan 26, 2004 02:34 pm taking it up a notch, as it were...
jues.oceansized.co.uk/pronounce.mp3
enjoy.
jues.
Jan 26, 2004 02:37 pm thats how i was hearing it in my head.. but i didnt want to make an *** of myself =P
Jan 26, 2004 03:37 pm ok, i just listened and we're mostly in agreement. the difference seems to be an american-british accent thing.
Jan 26, 2004 04:22 pm Quote:
the difference seems to be an american-british accent thing.
agreed. thanks jonny!
Jan 26, 2004 05:49 pm This is a great thread.
I've always read Neumann as NEW mun, but I could buy NOY mun since I remember from some computer science class the name Von Neumann, pronounced the same way. (He was the guy who thought of the seperation of data and processing btw) ;)
Jan 28, 2004 11:00 am Vox - not the company, just the abbreviaion for vocals, is that said "vocks", or "vocals"? cause "vocks" sounds funny.
Jan 28, 2004 11:51 am Good one, Jamie...I've only read that one also, Ive never heard it pronounced. Maybe its only an abbreviation in writing, just like when we see "etc.", we say "etcetera"...er, however that's spelled.
I thought of another one, too: somebody mentioned Edirol lately, which I've never heard said out loud.
And a long-time boggler for me has been "Hartke"...I've heard Heart-KEE and Heart-k, making a painful consonant sound combining the t and k.
Jan 28, 2004 02:45 pm ive heard edirol as eye-der-all.
and for vox.. i actually pronounce it as the abreviation. one syllable. the vo sound like vogue. the x sounding kinda like six.
i use it a lot when im talking to some of my musician friends locally about their mixes.. ie. 'the vox could come up a little bit in the mix'.
Jan 28, 2004 05:23 pm Edirol is pronounced ED-er-All. That one I know from many calls to tech support at Roland and listening to their little add that names off all their goodies.
Jan 28, 2004 07:07 pm Edirol agreed with Noize on this one, i think it's ED-er-all cause that's how a film school student I know who gave me the catalog pronouced it.
Hartke I've always said HART-kh like that hard consonant sounds Tadpui said. Now I'm not so sure :O)
Noize, how do you say vox??
Jan 28, 2004 07:14 pm I have always said and heard Hartke: Heart-Key
Vox: "Voh-ks" i agree with collapse as the Vo in Vocals, as opposed to the "Vah" as in the amp company VOX
Jan 28, 2004 09:55 pm Yep Vo as in vocals. It just looks better as vox instead ov vocs.
Jan 29, 2004 11:45 am Can someone tell me if i'm pronouncing the German band Einstürzende Neubauten correctly, i've been led to believe its pronounced
"Oun-stroun-za-day-noy-bow-ten"
oun as in noun without the n
str as in straw
za rhymes with ha
day as in today
noy like neuman above
bow as in take a bow
ten just like the number 10
um, so does that sound right?
Jan 29, 2004 11:57 am me too, I have just been laughing at this conversation the whole time...
Jan 29, 2004 12:25 pm Einstürzende Neubauten
I'm from Holland
next to germany that is:P
I believe it's said as
EIN as in Einstein
sturtz as in... STURTS:D as in TURD
ende as unde said short...
and than NOY bouten as in Bow-ten but then you don't speak the W and ten not as in 10 but as tun
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