Ridiculous Ways To Describe Tone

[mellowinman]

I like my tone to be sort of a creamy yellow, with little flakes of absolutely smattered generously throughout. A good tone should remind one of a buck rampant, in a forest of thistles, resplendent upon Agnes youthfulness.

 

[AltGrendel]

Fizzy, refreshing and totally blorped.

 

[Gaolee]

Round and juicy, with chartreuse overtones and a soft bottom.

 

[mellowinman]

Round and juicy, with chartreuse overtones and a soft bottom.

So you dated her, too?

 

[Gaolee]

So you dated her, too?

I can neither confirm nor deny.

 

[the harp unstrung]

pillowy or spongy is an excellent adjective for certain basses with poor sounding B strings.

"like a fart in church" is an old one I've carried around for decades...I only break it out when appropriate, and SOOO many B strings beg me to break it out.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Yep, that's from Todd Rundgren's 1978 album "Hermit of Mink Hollow."

I always connect "The Hermit Of Mink Hollow" with "Swing To The Right"...without doubt, my two favorite Todd records...and those are just 2 from one of the most talented, and prolific, songwriters of the post-war era.

 

[Bob-I]

I like my tone to be woofy with a bit of chirp and a side of bacon.

 

[WannabeBassman]

BRB

Setting my amp to "Truffle Oil".

 

[Desirsar]

I'm good for "bright" and maybe "muddy". Maybe. I've heard just about every other term used to describe things that sounded wildly different, or different terms that usually mean very different things to describe the same sound.

Just show me the spectrum analysis or tell me what effects and settings were used.

 

[Watchootognbout]

"Chuff and Grind":A Billy Sheehan kind of tone,
"Chung-a rung-a Chung-a chung-a"As I like to say.

Listen to Greg Howe's "The Pepper Shake".

 

[Watchootognbout]

I always thought Rics were grindingly tubular...

I was reading a British bass magazine about ten years ago and someone described the sound of a Ric saying:"Oh,You like that copper pipe bass sound?"
I had to laugh out loud!
He was right!
But I still love the sound of a Ric.

 

[Rugmaster]

I'm still not sure what "boomy" means.

I usually use that term to describe too much low end in the mix.

 

[eukatheude]

This guy's reviews are awesome: http://www.metal-archives.com/users/the_navy_blue_vicar

"I’m even willing to ignore the fact that he has the most annoying accent in existence because he writes riffs that sound like 8-foot vertical concrete c**ks and has a guitar tone like a bus with marble windows, traveling at 8 miles an hour, on its side"

 

[Camaro]

Folks, we have got a live one right here on TalkBass:

I was told once by a custom amp / guitar builder in Russia that the K42Y2 capacitor "behaves" a lot better than most stock ones in a guitar, and I have previously installed those in electric guitars with a result being more "room" in the tone as well as clarity.
...
The tone got round and bouncy, steady mids and highs, smooth and deep lows and the general "3D" feel to it.
...

..."behaves" a lot better... ...more "room" in the tone... ...general "3D" feel to it....

 

[Watchootognbout]

"Chocolate covered shotput to the forehead"
That is my description of the dark,punchy low-midrange sound of the bridge pickup.

 

[ZenG]

Has that "cardboard carton amnesiac" sound with just a touch of unborn kicking baby.......

 

[Snaxster]

So you dated her, too?

Hahaha! You beat me to it.

While I'm back in this thread, here's one I just read:

"Tonally, it has a taught, burnished tone with a pop and immediacy to the notes."

It was "burnished" what got me.

 

[Watchootognbout]

Hahaha! You beat me to it.

While I'm back in this thread, here's one I just read:

"Tonally, it has a taught, burnished tone with a pop and immediacy to the notes."

It was "burnished" what got me.

The Sommeliers of Bass!!"It has a piquant yet burnished aftertone with a hint of Autumn licorice"

 

[Mechanical]

I like Round and Bright on my Jazz.

Deep and Woody on my Mustang.