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Please define this term? Thanks. Pt
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http://tinyurl.com/qbfg http://xush.net/mywebpages/demos/samples/neck.mp3 http://altguitarbass.com/basssounds/RK-DeanEdge4Fretless.mp3 http://altguitarbass.com/basssounds/fred-zon_lightwave.mp3 m www.xush.net – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Please define this term? Thanks. Pt
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How about trying a Google search first? http://groups.google.com/groups?q=what+is+mwah&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en J
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Please define this term? [mwah] Thanks.
On a fretted instrument, the metal fret against which the string is pressed provides a clean fixed proper boundary for the string. This gives a nice clean sustained tone at every fret. A fretless bass on the other hand just relies on your finger pressing the string against the fongerboad to adjust the length and hence the pitch. The difference is that unlike a fret which is raised and provides a nice fixed point for the end of the string, on a fretless the string comes into the fingerboard at a low angle. Therefore, at your finger the string is sort of buzzing against the fongerboad. This buzzing gives a unique sort of sound which bass players have used the descriptive term "mwah" to describe. That is because the word sort of sounds like the sound you get. That’s it. Benj — Due to SPAM innundation above address is turned off!
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well said!
http://tinyurl.com/qbfg http://xush.net/mywebpages/demos/samples/neck.mp3 http://altguitarbass.com/basssounds/RK-DeanEdge4Fretless.mp3 http://altguitarbass.com/basssounds/fred-zon_lightwave.mp3 m www.xush.net
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Please define this term? Thanks. Pt
MHAH = the opposite of TWANG
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well said!
Except for that sample of me playing Joe Sanchez’s Dean. 
Ugh!!!! Third day with a fretless… let’s go recording – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – http://tinyurl.com/qbfg http://xush.net/mywebpages/demos/samples/neck.mp3 http://altguitarbass.com/basssounds/RK-DeanEdge4Fretless.mp3 http://altguitarbass.com/basssounds/fred-zon_lightwave.mp3 m www.xush.net Please define this term? Thanks. Pt
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MHAH = the opposite of TWANG
<snort! Best definition so far! Benj — Due to SPAM innundation above address is turned off!
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Now, I don’t play a fretless but… I’m not sure that "mwah…" as I understand it is exclusive to that instrument. The MP3’s above are probably the best examples, but in an attempt to point to specific popularly known scores I would say try the chorus from U2’s "With or Without You" where it slides from G to D on the E string, and D to A on the A from the intro to "Charlie Don’t Surf" (Clash). This is all done (inexpertly in my reproduction) with regular roundwound strings on a conventional fretted instrument, but nonetheless has that er.. mwah quality that the bass uniquely can produce. Thank you, thank you, that was my misguided and ultimately futile attempt to define the indefinable. The question needed asking, though. Ian – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Please define this term? [mwah] Thanks. On a fretted instrument, the metal fret against which the string is pressed provides a clean fixed proper boundary for the string. This gives a nice clean sustained tone at every fret. A fretless bass on the other hand just relies on your finger pressing the string against the fongerboad to adjust the length and hence the pitch. The difference is that unlike a fret which is raised and provides a nice fixed point for the end of the string, on a fretless the string comes into the fingerboard at a low angle. Therefore, at your finger the string is sort of buzzing against the fongerboad. This buzzing gives a unique sort of sound which bass players have used the descriptive term "mwah" to describe. That is because the word sort of sounds like the sound you get. That’s it. Benj — Due to SPAM innundation above address is turned off!
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