When people say Color, we know that's a visual term. Bass and treble have been used in music for hundreds of years and pretty much describe what they are. The manufacturer used the word Tone to describe a low pass filter to remove highs or possibly a dual filter that adds lows.
They are also understood by musicians understand the notes have tones which is a combination of pitch and frequency response. Words like Tone are understood by painters to describe the density of colors. Learning the meanings to words used in sound harder to learn because there is no formal adoption of them, many being invented by the manufacturers. They touch something hot or cold and its painful so that lesson is reinforced by feeling the difference. People understand the differences between warm and cool as temperatures. Much of it comes down to peoples education levels. We communicate with words and if those words have different meanings to different people it becomes difficult to express the things you're trying to communicate. second when you start deviating from the scientific terms your ability to communicate becomes bogged down in slang terms that can mean different things to different people. High fidelity especially is less then 100 years old. Electronic audio is a relatively new invention when you consider how long older art forms have been around. You'd have to expect that for two main reasons. Most terms used to describe audio are borrowed from older forms of art, many of which have many multiple meanings. And if you "say" something is warm sounding, you can BET, you'll convince some people just because you state it Those guys hear it and self-gratify all day long with it. And I don't even hear a substantial diff in the before/after results that I would even define as warmth. guys who post various drums, mixes, samples etc of one-pass recording through Zulu (on the Zulu thread for example) and ooh and ahhh about the warmth.well. Any more than a lot of those guys would not consider the drums "warm" on Joni Mitchell's "Car On A Hill" (and I highly dislike most JM music but define warm drums as for example, on that song) I'm fully aware that zillions of guys do not consider those sounds above "warm". I copy that process all the time with my paths and tape. Similar path to the others with a more heavy-handed comp routing as the track took shape. same thing with the intro acoustic guitar on the Jefferson Airplane version of "Triad". Warmth in that process further enhanced by the later vinyl mastering. same thing with say the first 8 seconds or so guitar of Herman's Hermits "No Milk Today" where the guitar path included a 4x comp through the console and tape machine. that I like and can recreate (knowing the path). I define warmth based on my own history of technique and likes and influences.įor example, if I'm going to create a "warm" sounding acoustic guitar, my references are either a clean warm ala the beginning of the old Peter Paul Mary track "The Great Mandella", where Phil Ramone set up the chain for it, the tapes were bounced twice through the console and tape machines for a reduction (skewing the guitar a bit and adding my definition of warmth) and then the vinyl mastering skewed the entire track up some more (as pristine as it is for the time) and that imparted an additional degree of warmth. If a word can mean gaggzillions of things, it actually means nothing.And that is the truth. You are beginning to confirm my suspicions. In the audio world, people use "warm" all the time but I feel it's quite a meaningless adjective. The client's quest for 'more warmth' usually will make you experiment and at some point you will hopefully arrive at a satisfactory result - and who cares if that THAT is 'warmer' that your starting point or not? Tubes sound euphonic at best I think, not 'warm' in the sense of thick midrange or less top end but rather a somewhat complex 'glow' that is harmonically exciting whereas sounds that lack sparkle and top end usually are 'dull'. However since we are stuck with using words, for me 'warmth' means 'glow' which iI would describe as a 'euphonic' sound. '400 Hz' is as meaningless as 'warm' because one man's warmth is another man's mud, etcīut what is the alternative? I'd rather have a client ask for 'more warmth' - however inprecise that may be - rather than say 'add 3db 380hz here' which might come across as smartass-ism. Face it, all words are meaningless when it comes to describing sound. With clients I also have to figure out what it means to them, but no one should use it to describe gear on a forum if they actually want to convey something meaningful. It pretty much is a meaningless word, especially on this forum.
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