What adjectives do you use to describe tone, good or bad?
I like my tone to be warm, full, round and clear.
I don't like fizzy, muddy or sharp.
Colours, flavours etc all count too. Have fun!
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What adjectives do you use to describe tone, good or bad?
I like my tone to be warm, full, round and clear.
I don't like fizzy, muddy or sharp.
Colours, flavours etc all count too. Have fun!
Warm, muddy, full, bell like, chimey, cheese grater, ice pick, trebly, hollow, buttery, sweet, dull, creamy.
Possibly more but that's what comes to mind.
Cutting, slicing, biting, rich, funky, hollow, bassy, trebly, distorted, overdriven, pushed, compressed, twangy, stringy, woody, chocolate, vanilla, spicy, swirling, thuddy, tinny, metallic, good, bad, WTF-were-you-thinking, resonant, reverberant, ramped-up, ramped-down, percussive, mushy, floating, airy, sparkling, fat, thin...
It's funny because a lot of the "bad" adjectives might be the perfect sound for a recording or band situation. :dontknow:
My favorite is "Chewy"... VERY, very, very few amps/pedals produce this tone... It is most associated with old Tweed combo amps that had a beautiful midrange and a "chewy" tone.. My '55 5E3 does this.
One of the tone catch phrases that drives me crazy...."it's like somebody took a blanket off of your speakers"
makes me nuts every time I hear this...I equate this with presence....just say "increased presence!!!"
my personal favorite is "thick".
My old studio partner and I always joked about labeling a piece of equipment with a "warm" knob and a "punchy" knob. It would be configured in the same way as the "artist" knob was: not connected.