What words do you use to describe timbre?

[Matt Bowen]

Some examples:

Growl
Thumpy
Round Sound
Bite
Punchy

What are the weirdest words you’ve heard people use to describe sound?

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

Some examples:

Growl
Thumpy
Round Sound
Bite
Punchy

What are the weirdest words you’ve heard people use to describe sound?

This could develop into an interesting thread.
I am fascinated with the whole concept of using words to describe sound.
It may have a lot to do with entertainment that influenced me during my formative years.

 

[5StringBlues]

Groin-grabbingly-good

 

[T_Bone_TL]

Who in heck is felling a tree and where is it falling with respect to my current location! The others don't tend to kill you, so they are less important.

 

[Wisebass]

What are the weirdest words you’ve heard people use to describe sound?

mmmmmmmwaaaaah ha ha ha ha!

Wise(b)ass

 

[buldog5151bass]

Who in heck is felling a tree and where is it falling with respect to my current location! The others don't tend to kill you, so they are less important.

Only when you drop/fall it backwards...

 

[T_Bone_TL]

Only when you drop/fall it backwards...

Having grown up in a pulp/paper/wood products area, trees will do their best to kill you right back, and they have far more than one trick in their bag of tricks...

 

[TuneSalad666]

Treble: Zing, edge, grind, grid, bite

Midrange: Punch, nasal

Low end: Growl, boomy, muddy

That certain fretless tone: Mwah

General adjectives related to tone character: Thin, thick, rich, lush, clear, defined, articulated, piano like, muffled, thumby, lifeless, mellow, round, aggressive, harsh

 

[Old Garage-Bander]

General proverbs related to tone character: Thin, thick, rich, lush, clear, defined, articulated, piano like, muffled, thumby, lifeless

Sounds like an ad for hair conditioner.

 

[TuneSalad666]

Sounds like an ad for hair conditioner.

Ha, ha, except for maybe thumby and piano like, yes.

I edited my post and added a few more words though, so not quite as hairy now.

Hairy I guess could be one more word to describe tone.

 

[Michedelic]

Twankrumble

 

[Fredrik E. Nilsen]

"Can you play with more elbow?" Strange, but understandable.

 

[Michedelic]

I once described the tone of the guitarist I was playing with at the time(he had a Fender Jaguar) as sounding like “Scotch”. It confused him, but it made perfect sense to me. I wasn’t drinking(at that moment).

 

[Passinwind]

What are the weirdest words you’ve heard people use to describe sound?

Buttery
Glassy
Warm
Fast
Slow
Hefty
Slam

And my favorite: Sterile
The converse must be septic, I reckon?

 

[andawun]

STANKY!!!

 

[Gaolee]

Colors, textures, tastes, and smells. They all make perfect sense to me. My wife thinks I'm nuts. An acoustic archtop guitar has lots of white in its sound and has a milky, not creamy quality. Twelve stings sound aromatic. A Thunderbird sounds like it's got a lot of shiny dark purple with a bit of electric blue around the edges. A Precision has a suede red sound. A Jazz has a murky, kinda unfortunate light brown sound with a little pale green and a slightly slimy quality, like clay mud with algae in it. It makes perfect sense.

She thinks I'm crazy.

 

[cmcbass]

I've heard people describe sounds as creamy... Seems kinda gross to me

 

[Passinwind]

Colors, textures, tastes, and smells. They all make perfect sense to me. My wife thinks I'm nuts.

Yep, I'm with your wife on this one.

 

[Stumbo]

It's got a lot of butter on it.

 

[bearhart74]

The sound that a lumberjack makes when felling a tree