Citations:phatness

Noun: "(slang, of sound) fullness, richness, body"

 * 1999, Karl Coryat, The Bass Player Book, Backbeat Books (1999), ISBN 9781617131509, unnumbered page:
 * From the straight-up intensity of “The Power of Equality” and the Meters-influenced “If You Have to Ask” to the Bootsy-drenched, polysaturated phatness of “Sir Psycho Sexy,” Flea offers an amazingly complete lexicon of funk, hip-hop, and even reggae.
 * 1999, Peter Shapiro, Drum 'n' Bass: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides (1999), ISBN 1858284333, page 210:
 * Thankfully, the Jaco Pastorius and Buddy Rich fetishes only showed up sporadically and his textures approached warmth and phatness.
 * 2001, FutureMusic, Issues 113-117, page 18:
 * Analogue-like phatness can be achieved through the final distortion stage which offers two options: screaming edge or soft fat warmth.
 * 2013, Chris Buono, The Guitarist's Guide to Line 6 Studio Tools, Cenage (2013), ISBN 9781435460447, page 196:
 * Once you experience the phatness a bass amp can inject into a signal,
 * 2013, Exquisite Corpse, or, How Not to Kill Your Neighbours, Blackfriars (2013), ISBN 9780349140124, unnumbered page:
 * He's always telling Beth about the enormity of his next gig and the extraordinary phatness of his latest beats, and to be fair he can drop a good tune.
 * 2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, Harvill Secker (2014), ISBN 9780436205736, page 237:
 * and we'd listen to the playback, agreeing like mad on its phatness, its superiority to anything contemporaneously attempted,
 * 2015, Ian Corbett, Mic It!: Microphones, Microphone Techniques, and Their Impact on the Final Mix, Focal Press (2015), ISBN 9780415823777, page 76:
 * But if a sound source is a little thin, and needs some warmth, body, or “phatness,” a tube mic could provide useful “sonic makeup.”

Noun: (slang) unknown sense

 * 1996 September 30, Backstreet, “No Diggity”, Interscope, 069495003-2:
 * Rollin’ with the phatness / You don’t even know what the half is