[pronounced tamb'r] Tone quality. Also referred to as sound quality or sound color. The classic negative definition of timbre is: the perceptual attribute of sound that allows a listener to distinguish among sounds that are otherwise equivalent with respect to pitch, loudness, and subjective duration. Contemporary research has begun to decompose the attribute into several perceptual dimensions of a temporal, spectral, or spectro-temporal nature. The tonal color of a sound, which reflects its harmonic content and envelope.
GlassWolf, how come you never advise me anymore on my threads like you used to? Did I f,u,c,k up and piss you off somewhere along the line? Anyway, could really use your advise on the treo ssi 12, etc. (Sorry to interupt this thread, by the way. )