Bass Tone Glossary

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[edit] Tone Glossary Terms

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

• Acoustic tone
• Action
• Active pickup
• Aggressive
• Air
• Articulate
• Attack

[edit] B

• Bass frequency
• Bark
• Beefy
• Bite
• Boom (boomie)
• Boxie
• Bright
• Bulge
• Burp
• Buttery
• Buzz saw distortion

[edit] C

• Capacitor
• Choke (choking)
• Chunky
• Clean
• Clear (clarity)
• Coil Tap
• Colored
• Compressed
• Creamy
• Crunch
• Cut

[edit] D

• Damping
• Dark
• Decay
• Definition
• Dirty
• Distortion
• Dry
• Dual coil pickup
• Dual sound
• Dub
• Dull
• Dummy coil
• Dynamics

[edit] E

• Edge (edgey)

[edit] F

• Fat
• Farty (farting)
• Flabby(flabby)
• Flange effect
• Focused
• Full
• Fundamental
• Funky
• Fuzz

[edit] G

• Glassy
• Grindy
• Grit
• Growl
• Grunt

[edit] H

• Harmonics
• HiFi
• Honk (honky)
• Hot
• Hum
• Humbucking pickup
• Humcanceling pickup

[edit] J

• Jazz pickup

[edit] K

[edit] L

• Loose

[edit] M

• Midrange frequency for bass
• Muddy
• Music Man pickup
• Mute
• Mwah

[edit] N

• Narrow

[edit] O

• Old school
• Open
• Out of phase
• Output
• Overtones

[edit] P

• P bass pickup
• Palming
• Parallel
• Passive pickup
• Peaked (peaky)
• Phase effect
• Piano like
• Pickup placement
• Piezo
• Pounding
• Precision bass pickup
• Present (presence)
• Punch

[edit] R

• Rawness
• Retro
• Round (rounded)

[edit] S

• Scooped
• Sensitivity
• Series
• Series/parallel
• Setup
• Single coil pickup
• Smooth
• Soapbar pickup
• Solid
• Solo
• Split coil pickup
• Splitting coils
• String rattle
• Sustain
• Sweet

[edit] T

• Timbre
• Thick
• Thin
• Throaty
• Thuddy
• Thump
• Tight
• Transparent
• Treble frequency range for bass
• Tubular

[edit] U

• Uncolored

[edit] V

• Vintage tone

[edit] W

• Warm
• Weak
• Wet
• Wide
• Wolfe (wolf) tones
• Woody