Tone

Bridgehouse

I’m going to say it. It’s annoyed me for years but I’ve held back until now.

All these debates about tone, tonewoods, how does it affect the tone etc etc

You are ALL WRONG.



You are talking about timbre

Anyway, as you were - back to buying R8’s from Peach

Bridgehouse

Just to be clear - as my comment above wasn’t a joke,

Tone is our ability to distinguish between the different frequencies in an instrument - bass, mids, treble etc. and the tone control does exactly that - rolls off the treble frequencies to change the balance of tone

Timbre is our ability to distinguish the unique characteristics of an individual instrument that allow us to tell one from another. 

thecolourbox

Do you play riffs instead of motifs or ostinati? Do you use a vibrato effect and call it that? Or tremolo for that matter.

Bridgehouse

thecolourbox said:

Do you play riffs instead of motifs or ostinati? Do you use a vibrato effect and call it that? Or tremolo for that matter.

Don’t get me started on tremolo and vibrato......

Funkfingers

Bridgehouse said:

You are ALL WRONG.

Meet the new Emp. (Same as the old Emp!)

Bridgehouse

Actually, the Wikipedia article is pretty good on this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre

Bridgehouse

Funkfingers said:

Bridgehouse said:

You are ALL WRONG.

Meet the new Emp. (Same as the old Emp!)

How very dare you.

RandallFlagg

The above looks like a mostly one way conversation...perhaps we're all "tone" deaf.

Load of old nonsense...or drivel, if I may be so bold.

Bridgehouse

RandallFlagg said:

The above looks like a mostly one way conversation...perhaps we're all "tone" deaf.

Load of old nonsense...or drivel, if I may be so bold.

Probably. After all, why bother to get the correct word to describe something we are talking about when something close will do. 

Bit like punctuation I suppose. And nobody gets upset about that

Winny_Pooh

A bit ambiguous tho, what if I came up to you and said:

"You have beautiful timbre"

Kilgore

Does that mean we should be discussing timbretimbers instead of tonewoods?

Bridgehouse

Winny_Pooh said:

A bit ambiguous tho, what if I came up to you and said:

"You have beautiful timbre"

I’d be pleased you can tell my unique sound footprint from another.. 

And I’d compliment you on your fine looking tache. 

Not sure about your (tone) knob tho.

Bridgehouse

Kilgore said:

Does that mean we should be discussing timbretimbers instead of tonewoods?

Yes! Exactly that!


Controversial as it is, I think you can tell different woods apart in instruments by their timbre. 

JerkMoans

‘Vintage mojo timbres’?

Sounds shit: it’ll never catch on  

thecolourbox

Bridgehouse said:

Winny_Pooh said:

A bit ambiguous tho, what if I came up to you and said:

"You have beautiful timbre"

I’d be pleased you can tell my unique sound footprint from another.. 

And I’d compliment you on your fine looking tache. 

Not sure about your (tone) knob tho

It's a moustache, not a tache

WezV

Bridgehouse said:

Actually, the Wikipedia article is pretty good on this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre

I think I am going to use clangtint moving forward

Bridgehouse

JerkMoans said:

‘Vintage mojo timbres’?

Sounds shit: it’ll never catch on  

“Vintage” and “mojo” are two of the reasons other instrument players laugh at guitarists already... 

Ridiculous prices for bolt on neck mass produced instruments and a word that effectively tries to put the beauty of the sound out of the hands of the player - timbre wouldn’t fit.

I vote for Old Played-in Timbre as being more suitable.

Bridgehouse

thecolourbox said:

Bridgehouse said:

Winny_Pooh said:

A bit ambiguous tho, what if I came up to you and said:

"You have beautiful timbre"

I’d be pleased you can tell my unique sound footprint from another.. 

And I’d compliment you on your fine looking tache. 

Not sure about your (tone) knob tho

It's a moustache, not a tache

Lol - shiver me timbres

Bridgehouse

WezV said:

Bridgehouse said:

Actually, the Wikipedia article is pretty good on this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbre

I think I am going to use clangtint moving forward

Wow!

JerkMoans

Bridgehouse said:

JerkMoans said:

‘Vintage mojo timbres’?

Sounds shit: it’ll never catch on  

“Vintage” and “mojo” are two of the reasons other instrument players laugh at guitarists already... 

Ridiculous prices for bolt on neck mass produced instruments and a word that effectively tries to put the beauty of the sound out of the hands of the player - timbre wouldn’t fit.

I vote for Old Played-in Timbre as being more suitable.

But do these Timbrelands Djent? 

meltedbuzzbox

Bridgehouse said:

thecolourbox said:

Do you play riffs instead of motifs or ostinati? Do you use a vibrato effect and call it that? Or tremolo for that matter.

Don’t get me started on tremolo and vibrato......

Please get started on it. It bugs the piss out of me