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Bass Tone Glossary
Nov 12, 2015
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Bass Tone Glossary
Acoustic tone
Action
Active pickup
Aggressive
Air
Articulate
Attack
Bark
Bass frequency
Beefy
Bite
Boom (boomie)
Boxie
Bright
Bulge
Burp
Buttery
Buzz saw distortion
Capacitor
Choke (choking)
Chunky
Clean
Clear (clarity)
Coil Tap
Colored
Compressed
Creamy
Crunch
Cut
Damping
Dark
Decay
Definition
Dirty
Distortion
Dry
Dual coil pickup
Dual sound
Dub
Dull
Dummy coil
Dynamics
Edge
Edgey
Farty
Fat
Flabby
Flange effect
Focused
Full
Fundamental
Funky
Fuzz
Glassy
Grindy
Grit
Growl
Grunt
Harmonics
HiFi
Honk / Honky
Hot
Hum
Humbucking pickup
Humcanceling pickup
Jazz pickup
Loose
Midrange frequency
Muddy
Music Man pickup
Mute
Mwah
Narrow
Old school
Open
Out of phase
Output
Overtones
P bass pickup
Palming
Parallel
Passive pickup
Peaked / Peaky
Phase effect
Piano like
Pickup placement
Piezo
Pillowy
Pounding
Precision bass pickup
Present / Presence
Punch
Rawness
Retro
Round
Rounded
Scooped
Sensitivity
Series
Series/Parallel
Setup
Single coil pickup
Soapbar pickup
Solid
Solo
Split coil pickup
Splitting coils
String rattle
Sustain
Sweet
Thick
Thin
Throaty
Thuddy
Thump
Tight
Timbre
Transparent
Treble frequency for bass
Tubular
Uncolored
Unity Gain
Vintage tone
Warm
Weak
Wet
Wide
Wolf tones
Wolfe tone
Woody
Bass Tone Glossary
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