One Word 'Tone Description' of a Gibson ES-175?

[Takemitsu]

Thick, creamy, buttery

[Frank67]

Sweet

[GNAPPI]

Are you guys looking at Playboy when you come up with those descriptions? :-)

I would think it's a more flexible guitar than to pigeon hole into one word, also wouldn't it depend on who's playing it?

I mean one listen to Steve Howe's sound from a Fender 100 watt amp (which are also typically used for many other genre's especially the twin models) and you can see that the guitar can readily defy conventional norms in sound.

OK, so one word? here's mine... Flexible!

[Spook410]

Dry.

Yep. Like toast.

[StevieB]

Thanks everyone, these are even more great adjectives for the tone of the 175. However, I still haven't seen the one word (for the 175) that I saw recently here on the Forum in a thread discussing guitar tones. It just struck me when I heard the 'word' that it captured exactly how I felt it sounds but could never find the right word.

And I'm certainly not trying to 'pigeonhole' the immensely versatile and venerable ES-175 into a one word description.

Anyway, I've been searching past threads but haven't been able to find it myself so I figured I'd ask.

[life_with_a_song]

Roasty, malty. Soupy?

[StevieB]

And the word is (drum roll please) - THUNK - Thanks jzucker

[cosmic gumbo]

Thunk.

I believe Mr.B nailed it the first day you asked.

[disco~juice]

Buttery

[StevieB]

I believe Mr.B nailed it the first day you asked.

Whoa, you are correct. Apologies to Mr B - my bad. I don't know what I was 'thunking'. :-)

[Jazz_175]

THUNK

That's the perfect word.
You just have to look up Collins Dictionary to find that
thunk means : (informal) another word for thud

So you are referred to thud!
mmm....
Let's see.....
Collins says: a dull heavy sound !!!



Synonyms are : thump, crash, knock, smack, clump, wallop, clunk, clonk

[oldane]

Thunk.

And when the flatwound strings get old: "Thud". ;_)

[GuyBoden]

Overpriced

[StevieB]

overpriced

ouch!

[Franz 1997]

Overpriced

The tone is overpriced?