Early 'Hi-Fi' gave us rumble and hiss. I still have an amp with a 'rumble' filter switch. 'Rumble', of course, pertains to the *fight your amplifier would have with the speakers to get the low frequencies out of them!

Being "wet" and "gated' are other words that have their roots forever embedded in recording technology. (For those of you unfamiliar: when you add reverb to a sound the sound gets "wet", and when you limit the length in which a specific acoustic effect is applied you "gate" its length (literally shutting it off before it tapers off).

I'm gating this post befo-