"effects unit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009, Rick Snoman, Dance Music Manual: Tools, Toys and Techniques, page 69:",
          "text": "Each aux out is connected to an effects unit and the signal is then returned into the desk.",
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        "An electronic device that alters how a musical instrument or other audio source sounds."
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          "electronic",
          "electronic"
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          "device",
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          "musical instrument",
          "musical instrument"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xiàoguǒqì",
          "sense": "device that alters how a musical instrument sounds",
          "word": "效果器"
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          "sense": "device that alters how a musical instrument sounds",
          "word": "efektilaite"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "blok efféktov",
          "sense": "device that alters how a musical instrument sounds",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "блок эффе́ктов"
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      "roman": "xiàoguǒqì",
      "sense": "device that alters how a musical instrument sounds",
      "word": "效果器"
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