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Location: Orlando, FL | This is a pretty interesting read. Most of these I've heard before and understand. But a couple of them make me scratch my head. Do you have a flutey or floppy sound??? http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/the-tone-garage/dictionary-of-tone-terms/ |
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Location: New Bern, NC | Sounds like a lot of subjective mumbo-jumbo. There are no formal musical terms among these words that a musicologist would recognize. LOL. However, I guess these are informal terms that some people might be able to agree on a meaning for. But a "fuzzy" sound to one person might not mean the same thing to another person. |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | MeredithI - 2013-04-10 7:35 PM
Sounds like a lot of subjective mumbo-jumbo. There are no formal musical terms among these words that a musicologist would recognize. LOL. However, I guess these are informal terms that some people might be able to agree on a meaning for. But a "fuzzy" sound to one person might not mean the same thing to another person.
Agree on the formal terms lacking. I actually read slowly for comprehension in case someone hits me with one of those which, thankfully, hasn't happened yet. A term I used to define the sound of a hand built dread I got from dwgpreacher was Heavenly. Had nothing to do with one of his vocations. That term wasn't on the list but as I recall it was for electric guitars. Actually I have nothing to worry about because I'll never own one of those again anyway. That is unless I develop a curiosity about solidbody O's. I've only had one of those, a black Preacher I picked up in a pawn shop. A few weeks after I got it a friend saw it who wanted it bad enough to offer me a decent profit so away it went. I didn't even have time to restring and play it. I was just curious about it as I'd never encountered an outright O electric guitar before! Then I discover this place and kittmann's music and the fact that I've been missing fully half of the O lifestyle. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Tone terms are hard to describe, but sometimes once you've heard the description and you hear the tone, it makes sense. I never understood piezo quack til I "experienced" it. I remember thinking, how can I fix this sound? It's so... quacky! Then it made sense.
And yes, these are mostly electric terms but acoustic guitars have their own vocabulary, warm, tight, stiff, open, thin, full, mellow, bright, dull, etc. Like the other list, I think most of us kind of get it when someone uses these terms. Subjective? Sure but you have to start somewhere. |
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Dictionary of Tone Terms
